Among the most exciting of MGM swashbucklers, Richard Thorpe's 1952 Ivanhoe stars Robert Taylor as the medieval hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel. Returning to England from the Third Crusades, Ivanhoe is steadfast in his determination to raise the ran...
Mission accomplished! Errol Flynn, who brought boyish bravado to The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dodge City, Gentlemen Jim and other screen yarns, turns in a mature, acclaimed performance as the leader of a paratrooper patrol stranded in Burma. It's "o...
When a carefree playboy (John Payne) joins the Marine Corps, he tests the skill and patience of the tough veteran sergeant (Randolph Scott) who tries to whip him into a real Marine. But, as his training proceeds, the recruit's cocky selfishness is re...
Just as Roberto Benigni found himself on the receiving end of some finger-wagging for making a comedy set during the Holocaust, so the great Ernst Lubitsch caught some heat for this extraordinary 1942 satire set behind enemy lines during World War II...
Something of a cult item among British war movies (and brilliantly spoofed a few years back by a lager ad), The Dam Busters turns a minor World War II incident into a saga of heroic stiff-upper-lippery in the classic British style. A bombing raid is ...
This epic Western won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture. Heartthrob Richard Dix plays Yancey Cravat (yes, really, that's his name) a frontiersman, newspaper editor, and former gunslinger who's studly enough to fill in as preacher or lawyer shou...
Roger Livesey brilliantly prtys a British officer, Clive Candy, through the rtials and tribulations of three wars, three loves and a lifelong friendship across enemy line.
During the Boer War, Candy is sent to Berlin to trap a German spy. there he...
There is a category of film that Hollywood cannot, from time to time, resist making--that of the historical costume drama. Director Richard Thorpe took THE PRISONER OF ZENDA novel by Anthony Hope, updated and colorized the superior 1937 version with ...
The Naked Jungle is a surprisingly likeable movie. From the title, one either believes it's an erotic film or a comedy, both of which it is neither. The film is actually a mixture of romance and adventure, along with some doses of action and suspense...
The USS Reluctant carries cargo along World War II's forgotten Pacific seaways. Beyond the horizon, the real war passes its sir-crazy crew by. Mister Roberts, directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, is the classic story of men fighting to survive not...
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an ageing silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards,...
Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputi...
Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He plays Lt. Bud Wilozek, one of a group of veterans recovering in the paraplegic ward of a hospital in his hometown...
Douglas Fairbanks spared no expense for what may be the most lavish fantasy movie ever made. Inspired by the flying-carpet effects of Fritz Lang's somber but spectacular Der Müde Tod, Fairbanks (ever the canny businessman) bought the American rights...
Ernest Hemingway’s gripping short story “The Killers” has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film noir style and l...
A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. Sydney Greenstreet, Mary As...
Acclaimed as "Europe's first post-war masterpiece" (The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers), and winner of the Best Picture award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, Roberto Rossellini's Open City (Roma, Città Aperta) stars the incompara...
The story took place in 80 ages 19th century, A stagecoach with passengers went across Arracksan's plain. It went to Rotsbao, on the way, it experienced layer a lot of difficulty to cross, It finally got to destination, There were impressive looking ...
Alfred Hitchcock’s exciting 1942 wartime thriller stars Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant’s fire-bombing by a Nazi agent. During the deadly explosion, Kane’s best friend is killed and he,...
The first of Alfred Hitchcock's World War II features, Foreign Correspondent was completed in 1940, as the European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Its titular hero, Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), is an American crime reporter d...
The Public Enemy showcases James Cagney's powerful 1931 breakthrough performance as Powers--but only because production chief Darryl F. Zanuck made a late casting change. When shooting began, Cagney has a secondary role but Zanuck quickly recognized ...
Delmer Davies's Destination Tokyo is very enjoyable WWII submarine action drama about a covert naval operation to scope out information for the aerial bombing of a primary Japanese naval yard. Starring a very charming Cary Grant as the sympathetic co...
One of the very first prison escape movies, Grand Illusion is hoiled as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars Jean Gobin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp, and Erich ...
Academy Award® winner Humphrey Bogart (Best Actor, The African Queen, 1951) stars as Dixon Steele, a down-on-his-luck studio scribe who reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Stee...
The legendary Rita Hayworth sizzles with sensuality and magnetism as she sings "Put the Blame on Mame" and delivers a dazzling performance as the enticing temptress Gilda. In the story of Gilda, Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) goes to work for Ballin Mun...
Young Robert Wagner undergoes a dangerous rite of passage in this undersea adventure that depicts the steadfast virtues of familial loyalty. Set in the Gulf of Mexico off the West Coast of Florida, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef chronicles the life of spon...
Nick Condon (James Cagney) is the brash managing editor of Tokyo's English language newspaper when it breaks the startling news that Japan is planning to conquer China. After the double-murder of his ace reporter (Wallace Ford) and the reporter's wif...
Winner of 8 Academy Awards including 1953 Best Picture
It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to re...
During World War 2; a group of G.I. 's are thrown together in the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17. For the most part; they spend their time scheming ways to help each other escape. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt; it bec...
Richard Burton stars in this exciting film about the courageous men who beld off notorious German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, despite being hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941, and all that stands between Rommel and the Suez Canal is the fortres...
One of the greatest artistic and technical achievements of the German silent cinema, Fritz Lang's monumental "Die Nibelungen" is a passionate retelling of Nordic legend, invested with all the resources of the colossal Ufa Studios. Scripted by Lang's ...
Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land -rich Texans love,swagger,connive and clash in a saga of family strife,racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. It's also one of the m...
Charlton Heston brings a muscular, physical and moral presence to the role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, a bold escape from an embattled slave galley, vengeance against his t...
Gil Carter (Henry Fonda) and Art Croft (Henry Morgan) ride into a town frustrated by the prevalence of cattle rustlers. Suddenly, word comes that a popular rancher has been murdered, which puts the already enraged town over the edge. When the spitefu...
The life of Joe, an anonymous assassin, takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe, a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Ko...
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him...
An old woman's disappearance during a train ride leads baffled young woman into a dizzying web of intrigue. Delicious mystery-comedy; Hitchcock at his best, with a witty script by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and wonderful contribution by Naunto...
One of Hitchcock's most discussed films. Retired police detective Stewart, who has a fear of heights, is hired by old school chum in San Francisco to keep an eye on his wife (Novak), eventually falls in love with his quarry and that's just the beginn...
They were the terror of the sky, a small daring band of American mercenaries who soared into battle in defence of China's freedom. They were aces, adventurers and heroes, America's hottest fighter pilots - THE FLYING TIGERS! Possessing unmatched sk...
Directed by Richard Thorpe. Featuring Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Cheetah. "Civilized" folks clash over gold, a metal not worth a coconut to the
Ape Man. Jane and Boy are kidnapped bu an evil gang intent upon using thei...
Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1914 novel, this film marked the beginning of the famous Tarzan series starring Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weismuller, who would go on to play the Ape Man in 11 subsequent films and remains the physical embodimen...
Stanley Kubrick's second feature film, Killer's Kiss, made the world take notice. The young moviemaker won acclaim for this dazzling film noir about a struggling New York boxer (Jamie Smith) whose life is imperiled when he protects a nightclub dancer...
Jerry Kincade manages the area's water supply and is forcing the ranchers to sign a contract to secure expenmsive water rates. Sinning Sandy Saunders, a government agent, plots against Kincade to overthrow the contract and impress Fay Denton......
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Fa belongs to North of city in Casablanca Morocco,Hotel named Like is a luxurious night club,The boss is a American in the hotel,One night,Wekdo Lasdo and his wife named Lersha were trailedby Naziism,They come to the hotel,They hear of Like can make ...
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, make...
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he h...
Burt Lancaster plays the title role in this caution-to-the-winds adventure comdey filled to the top-mast with devilish derring-do and hearty goofiness. Possessed of keen acrobatic agility from his pre-acting circus days, Lancaster embodies all The Cr...
On the pavements of the London theater district the buskers earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that young pickpocket Libby also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patr...
Film noir, a classic film style of the'40s and'50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and m...
Roaring '20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything - the looks, the viles, the smokey jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin "The Gimp" Snyder who, even as he propelled her career, Afflicted her.
Laced with Doris Day's vibrant p...
A guitar-picking good ol'boy. A clean-cut all-American. A Navajo. A bookworm. A lumberjack. A slum kid. All enter Marine boot camp to be trained, hardened, ready to answer their country's Battle Cry. Scripted by Leon M' Uris from his own novel, direc...
With Richard III, Laurence Olivier - as director, producer and star - transf gures Shakespeare's great historical drama into a mesmerizing vision of machiavellian villainy. Olivier's performance, viewed as the greatest of his career, charges Richard ...
Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month. As each sets out on their objective they...
Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into a landmark Western offering an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays an ex-Confederate soldier seeking his ...
Academy Award® winner Humphrey Bogart stars in one of his most memorable performances as Eddie Willis, a sportswriter who joins forces with a corrupt boxing promoter named Benko (Rod Steiger). Together, they scheme to deceive Toro Moreno (Mike L...