Virginia Cunningham (de havilland) appeared to have had an idyllic life - a nice home, a loving husband and prospects for a sriting career. But, something just wasn't right. Confusion, doubts about her husband's love, even violent outbursts led Virgi...
A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage.
As trapped as his captives, Mantee admits:"It tooks ...
Based on William Inge's classic play, Come Back, Little Sheba is the stirring tale of a life-weary couple who rescue hope from the ruins of the past.
Shirley Booth stars in an Academy Award winning performance as Lola, slovenly housewife to Doc D...
In Rene clair's impressibly romantic portait of the crowded tenement of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman, This witty exploration of love and human foibles, told primarily through song, captures the fla...
When a small-town idealist.(Gary Cooper).goes to New York to collect a $20 million inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist Jean Arthur, becomes theitargetiofiruthless businessmen and relatives, and finally decides to give his fortu...
Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Great Ziegfeld stars William Powell in a biopic "suggested by romances and incidents in the life of America's greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr." With admirable accuracy, the film follows...
A charming masterpiece!" - The Hollywood Reporter" Eloquent, sensitive, poignant" (The New York Times), this romantic and heartbreaking film has an "Absorbing power" (Los Angeles Times). Legendary Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca), in her firs...
James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in this award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small-town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him.
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Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Carl Dreyer's Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) is a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia. Anna, the young second wife of a well-respected but much o...
Nagasawa Masami stars as a woman working at her family's antique shop. One day, a man shows up at the store with a mysterious camera that has the power to reveal a person's future worth. 每集一个主角一个故事。一共6集,每集的主角分别是长泽まさみ、麻生...
Tsukasa's mother presented the couple a tiara, "The Smile of Venus" as an engagement gift. Tsukushi is gazing at the radiant tiara in her hotel room with Tsukasa when suddenly the window of the hotel room shatters and a dark-cloaked figure materializ...
'If you had it all to do over again, would you have married me?' Yes, guys, there is a right answer. That's something David Smith learns the hard way when bubbly better-half Ann queries him over breakfast. Also right are radiant Carole Lombard and ea...
Judy Holliday won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar(r) for her brilliant and funny role as Billie Dawn, thedumb blonde girlfriend of Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford), a corrupt millionaire junk dealer. Brock, a man with social ambitions and a willingness t...
Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town 'Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre'. All inhabiters are scoffing at Francois, the postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff under his direction nearly leads into a catastrophy...
Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blain (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this Frank Loesser (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) masterpiece, unleashing a "spectacular, song-and-dan...
An honored film. A milestone in movie acting. A landmark in the fight against censorship. Winner of four Academy Awards, an unprecedented three of them in acting categories. A Streetcar Named Desire is all of these. And now it's even more.
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Jose Ferrer has an astounding, almost unbelievable, performance as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a painter from late-1800's Paris who was crippled in his childhood by a horse that ran over his legs. He now spends his days in the raunchy restaurant/dance...
This is the film where audiences first heard the now classic Academy Award-winning song 'White Christmas.' This is the story about two talented pals, a singer and a dancer who compete for the affections of the same pretty lady. But when she dumps the...
Leo Tolstoy's literary masterpiece come to life in this epic film classic, featuring the talents of some of the greatest names from Hollywood's Golden Age. Starring Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, Henry Fonda as Pierre, and Mel Ferrer as Prince Andrei, Wa...
Orson Welles, one of the greatest American Filmmakers, revered Shakespeare's works and was determined to bring his own vision to the bard's classic on screen, though the hollywood studio resisted the idea. His Othello (1952) was a daring and Visually...
A Star is Born marked Judy Garland's return to movies after a four-year absence, director George Cukor's first musical and first color film, and a showcase for great Harold Arden/Ira Gershwin songs in state-of-the-art stereo. One of the most beloved ...
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on making her his wife. He courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco, dedicated at first, becomes a pathologically...
Witty, heartwarming and utterly charming, The Bells of St. Mary's delivers all the entertainment of its predecessor, the Academy Award winning best Picture (1944), Going My Way. Bing Crosby recreats his Oscar winning role as parish priest Father O'Ma...
Clair's first English film is an odd charmer about a matchmaking ghost. When an American woman inherits a Scottish castle and decides to move it-lock, stock and barrel-to Florida, a 200 year old ghost goes along for the ride. Written by Robert E.Sher...
Arts patron Mrs. Claypool intends to pay pompous opera star Lassparri $1,000 per performance. Hey, maybe that's why they call it grand opera! Grand comedy, too, as Groucho, Chico and Harpo cram a ship's stateroom and more than wall-to-wall gags, one-...
Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel, his eyes blazing. As he wields his brush, we see through the canvas as the artwork unfolds, erupts, dances into being before our eyes. Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of t...
Paul Czinner and Alfred Travers directed this recording of one of the popular Da ponte Mozart opera's. Mind you: for 1955 it's quite good. Some good camera work and this in spite of the limited possibilities that filming this art form unfortunately h...
Two best friends find their bond tested by the trials of postwar Italy's street crime and prison life in this neorealist classic from legendary director Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief). While shining shoes for a living and dreaming of buying a h...
Becker's tribute to the exhuberance of youth concerns a circle of friends, spearheaded by struggling filmmaker Lucien, who struggle to find true love in postwar Paris. Romantic tensions, as well as parental influences, threaten to foil Lucien's plan ...
Michael Powell and the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger created numerous other odes to the power of art and the imagination, always going against the realist strain of British cinema. Known by the name of their production company, the Archers, Powell and...
A lavish and beautifully-produced Hollywood confection of the high silent screen, this star vehicle for premier actor John Barrymore follows the adventures of peasant soldier Markov, who becomes an officer in the Imperial Russian Guard and falls in l...
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men (Elena et les hommes) stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish pri...
An exciting rediscovery from the studio vaults, The Long Night is an emotionally gripping, visually dynamic film noir, in which Henry Fonda, at the peak of his career, delivers an unforgettable performance. Presented in an intricate web of flashbacks...
Secret People is concerned with a political theme. The making of Thorold Dickinson's penultimate, and last British, film was followed closely by Lindsay Anderson, who had been a co-founder of the Oxford film magazine Sequence, and who later became a ...
There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La Strada, the film that launched them both to international stardom. Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the e...
In the first sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man, Harry Holt returns to Africa to head up a large ivory expedition. This time he brings his womanizing friend Marlin Arlington. Holt also harbors ideas about convincing Jane to return to London. When Holt and...
In this rousing celebration of love and laughter in America's heartland, each member of the Frake family is out for a different prize when they attend their state fair. Father wants a blue ribbon for his favourite pet pig. First prize, and only first...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...