The first movie ever filmed in CinemaScope, THE ROBE ws nominated for five Academy Awards in 1953, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Richard Burton. Burton stars as Marcellus Galilo, the Roman centurian charged with overseeing the crucifixion...
This graceful, melodramatic tale of a 19th-century Parisienne's romantic abandonment, business failure, abusive marriage, and eventual destitution, based on the novel by Emile Zola, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Stylistica...
Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt star in this dashing spy thriller set in Sweden during the First World War. Spring 1918. Madeleine Goddard (Vivien Leigh) runs an elite fashion boutique – a job that often takes her to Paris. She is also a high-ranking ...
Michael Redgrave gives the performance of his career in Anthony Asquith's adaptation of Terence Rattigan's unforgettable play. Redgrave portrays Andrew Crocker-Harris, an embittered, middle-aged school master who begins to feel his life has been a fa...
The astounding success of Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes u...
DAVID AND BATHSHEBA brings to life what is possibly the most dramatic story in the Old Testament. Gregory Peck stars as King David, a devout servant of God who is having serious marital difficulties with his wife Michal. Recently returned home from t...
Frank Burdon is a new reporter on a small-town Scottish paper. He's told to interview local politician William Gow, then left in charge of the paper overnight. He sees Gow being high-handed to a woman who can't afford to license her dog, and decides ...
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fann...
Widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of the American independent cinema, Little Fugitive is an utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood.
When a seven-year-old boy (Richie Andru...
Cecil B. DeMille directs an all-star cast in this turbulent, swashbuckling tale, set in 1840s Key West, that earned an Academy Award for Special Effects. Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward star in what Daily Variety hails as ...
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field; she dies protecting a G.I., but the Yanks think she killed him. A stre...
Sunrise is presented on an immaculately produced two-disc special edition. Though restored to full length and presented in the original 1.2:1 ratio with the complete music and effects soundtrack, the film has been taken from a print made in 1936, the...
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier (Garb...
An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift). She flees to Rome’s Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay...
"One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror," The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big game hunter with a taste for the world's most exotic prey-his houseguests, played by Fay Wray and Joel McCrea. Before making...
Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. To save her family from disgrace and hunger, a young dowerless girl gets married to a rich old man, only to turn into an unscrupulous kept woman who forgets her close ones…It was the fourth film by an accla...
Among the countless formula Westerns in which John Wayne labored between the highs of The Big Trail and Stagecoach, Randy Rides Alone is... unique. Its opening scene--a saloon in the middle of nowhere, populated in broad daylight by nothing but corps...
The music of Benny Goodman comes to life in this wonderful musical biography of the famed King of Swing. Featuring all of the outstanding songs and instrumentals made famous by the immortal clarinetist, the story follows the innovative musician from ...
In The Lucky Texan, Jerry Mason (John Wayne) and Jake Benson (George "Gabby" Hayes) strike it rich when they become partners in a gold mine, but their good fortune is short-lived when claim jumpers Joe Cole (Yakima Canutt) and Harris (Lloyd Whitlock)...
An acknowledged influence on Psycho, Henri-Georges Clouzot's horror classic is the story of a sadistic headmaster who brutalizes his fragile wife and his headstrong mistress, the two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool; when the poo...
This famous film was launched like a live spectacle by impresario Sol Hurok and was promoted as the first opera film in color. Sophia Loren stars as Aida with her singing dubbed by Renata Tebaldi. The film was a major production with top La Scala and...
Sixteen minutes or so into this adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize play, 1930 audiences got what they were waiting for when Greta Garbo made her entrance and spoke on camera for the first time in her career:" Gimme a whiskey?." Like Lon Ch...
A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary peo...
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festval, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran-...
After 10 years apart, Fred Astaire and Ginger rogers reteam in their final film pairing, cleverly written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Directed by Charles Walters. The story, per many soures, mirrors real-life creative tensions the two share...
Whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing. Bantering in the boudoir, enjoying walks with beloved dog Asta or matching each other highball for highball and clue for clue, they combined screwball romance with myst...
New York, New York, it's a wonderful town - especially when sailors Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin have a 24-hour shore leave to see the sights - and when those sights include Ann Miller, Betty Garrett and Vera-Ellen.
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Previously seen in the U.S. in a severely truncated form, Fritz Lang's elaborate superspy thriller is at last restored to its proper length. Rudolf Kleine-Rogge stars as Haghi, the head of an elaborate criminal empire, and Willy Fritsch is the underc...
John Wayne is "Duke," a good-hearted rancher from Montana who comes to San Francisco to collect a debt owed to him by Tito (Joseph Schildkraut), slick owner of a casino. He falls in love with Flaxen (Ann Dvorak), the beautiful saloon singer engaged t...
A brilliant film noir classic based on Mickey Spillane's bestseller, Kiss Me Deadly is masterfully directed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) and hailed as one of his best (Leonard Maltin). This DVD edition of Kiss Me Deadly features the fully rest...
Sir Alec Guinness became an international star with his extraordinary performance as eight different characters in this 1949 Ealing Studios classic. Dennis Price (I'm All Right Jack, Private Progress) co-stars as Edwardian gentleman Louis Mazzini who...
Academy Award winner Cary Grant (Honorary Award, 1970) is at his suave best as alick showman Jerry Flynn, a Broadway producer anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a series of costly flops. Outside his theatre one night, Flynn m...
Jacques Becker lovingly evokes the belle epoque Parisian demimonde in this classic tale of doomed romance. When gangster’s moll Marie (Simone Signoret) falls for reformed criminal Manda (Serge Reggiani), their passion incites an underworld rivalry t...
Lovely Mary Stuart - queen of Scotland and France, but only sometimes ruler of her own heart - careens through a tumultuous life doomed to end with the flash of an executioner's blade. Men flatter her, then betray her. Her people embrace her, then vi...
Sparkling with juicy dialogue and a superb case (including Edmond O’Brien in an Oscar-winning performance), this landmark film is spectacular, ingeniously-fashioned, original entertainment. With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer...
The story of a U.S. naval ship and its crew in the Pacific, 1943-1945. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. Despite personal fricti...
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale (Groucho) is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers, Joseph and Rusty Panello (Chico and Harpo), in a train station, where they steal all his money. They'...
Agreeing to track down a friend's missing brother and niece, John and Marie Ball, the Duke heads north with the law in hot pursuit after his pal Noah Beery, Jr. (The Rockford Files) is framed for murder along the way. They learn that Ball and his par...
The notorious Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin, in a truly iconic performance) is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers, Pepe is sa...
Cattlemen are being terrorized and shot by a ruthless bunch of desperadoes led by the Shadow, using a tunnel under the main street - with a phony tree stump as an exit - to carry out their dastardly deeds. Wayne is the stranger who rides into town, r...
Music's greatest legends re-enact the birth of jazz in this song-filled tribute to the town where it all began: New Orleans.
Arturo De Cordova stars as Nick, the proprietor of a Bourbon Street gambling joint, an artistic haven for black musicians...
Directed by Richard Thorpe.Featuring Johnny Weismuller,Maureen O'Sullivan,Johnny Sheffield.Cheetah.A different jungle awaits in Tarzan's New York adventure.A circus owner smuggles boy out of the jungle and all the way to New York to perform in a show...
Wrongfully convicted of murder in Baltimore, John Brant (John Wayne) breaks out of prison and heads west in this 1933 follows up to Riders of Destiny, directed by Armand Schaefer (The Hurricane Express). On the run from the law, he is befriended by B...
A shot rings out, the captain falls, and with him dies the knowledge of his unit's mission. Now a stalwart sergeant takes charge as he and his men try to escape the surrounding, unseen snipers who felled their captain. They hole up at an oasis in a l...
John Wayne hits the vengeance trail after a gang of express office bandits in this 1935 film from Robert N. Bradbury, who directed most of his many Lone Star Westerns (Texas Terror, The Trail Beyond). John Mason (Wayne) befriends Ben McClure (Reed Ho...
That was the intent, anyway. Cesare Zavattini produced the film and brought together five directors to make short films about love. The results are all good, but none of them great. They all have problems. To add to this problem, the version that I s...
In this thrilling WWII adventure, a new commanding officer is sent to tighten the discipline of a group of Navy underwater demolition experts, a.k.a. frogmen. Replacing a popular officer whom the men idolized, the new commander at first wins few frie...
Back to Bataan is a flag-waving patriotic movie that was filmed and released as WWII was drawing to a close. The story is about the Filipino people and their fight for freedom from their Japanese oppressors. This is very obvious patriotism with the J...
In this offbeat Bogart crime comedy, a ragtag group of con-men set out from a small Mediterranean port on a boat bound for the African coast. The plot twists and turns as these devious characters attempt to swindle each other and acquire uranium-rich...
Hes earthy, she's erudite. He's lumpy, she's angular. He's Tracy, she's Hepbum Together, they're spectacular.
Spencer Tracy and katharine Hepburm show what chemistry is all about in this Academy Award winner about the grand, bumpy romance between ...
This unique love story, based on a novelette by Denis Diderot and with dialogue written by Jean Cocteau, follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex - lover and a prostitute. ...
Leo and Ulrich are life long friends. Home, on leave from their military training, Leo sees the beautiful Felicitas at the railroad station. Awed by her beauty, they meet again at the ball and quietly leave together. In her room, her husband, about w...
Tolstoy's tragic love chronicle is brought to the screen with Vivien Leigh playing a married Russian woman madly in love with a military officer. The story of this illicit romance is elaborately produced and splendidly acted with Vivien Leigh stealin...
Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward, but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. Arrested by the Germans because of a murder, the German officers promise him freedom, if he is willing to collaborate ...
Updated from Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut,this non-operatic version of the familiar tale stars Cecile Aubrey in the title role.Accused of collaborating with the Nazis during WW2,Manon Lescaut is rescued by Robert Desgrieux.Safely ensconced in Paris w...
In Leipzig Williaam gives the letters of his friend Werther to a publisher. Together they read about the fate of the young man. At a ball Werther meets the young Lotte. He becomes a constant guest in the family's house and a friend of the family. His...
Poetic, absurd, erotic, visionary and scandalous, L'Âge d'or can still "provoke, baffle and delight" (The New York Times) more than seventy years after its creation. "Contriving effronteries so offhanded you can't believe you've actually seen th...
In one of his best and final roles (he appeared in only four films after this), Clark Gable plays a submarine captain without a command, having been saddled with a desk job after his previous ship was destroyed due to his overzealous pursuit of the e...