Million Dollar Mermaid, starring the incomparable Esther Williams, is the story of "the incomparable Annette Kellerman," an Australian swimming champion and water ballet artist who went on to perform in New York's Hippodrome. We start off in Sidney, ...
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a...
In this conglomeration of several Ernest Hemmingway novels, writer and adventurer Harry Street (Gregory Peck) lies severely wounded and delirious at the foot of Africa's majestic, snow-covered Mount Kilimanjaro. While waiting for help to arrive, stre...
The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d’or) is a ravishing eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy who receives an exquisite golden coach, and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring commedia dell’arte company. Master director Jean Renoir’s...
Max Ophüls explores the scandalous life of dancer and courtesan Lola Montes with a bittersweet empathy that turns melodrama into a tragic melancholy masterpiece. Using the theatrical re-creation of Lola's life in a big-top pageant as a framing devic...
A "richly textured" (Leonard Maltin) and triumphant tale of an elderly woman's journey home, The Trip to Bountiful stars Geraldine Page in "the performance of a lifetime" (Variety) – and a role that won* her an Academy Award®. "Funny, adventuro...
Experience the timeless Rodgers and Hammerstein classic that looks and sounds better than ever!
From its Broadway roots to its motion picture success, Oklahoma! contains soaring melodies and joyous songs in a loving celebration of the American spi...
Harpo is a true patron of the arts, taking from the rich to help feed a group of poor actors who are struggling to open a new musical without financial backers. When he steals a tin of sardines from a classy Fifth Avenue market (hot delicacies in the...
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...
The Bicycle Thief is every man's search for dignity - is as though the sould of a man had been filmed the bicycle thief is about a man a worker, who must have a bike in order to work at his job he is desperate, pawns everything to regain his machine,...
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...
Life abounds in the 1870s Florida scrubland that's home to young Jody Baxter. There are bears to hunt, cash crops to plant, evenings of storytelling with Pa and Ma... and there are timeless lessons of love and letting go that Jody learns from Flag, t...
Ginger Rogers and Ann Miller tap in time and rat-a-tat lines. Lucille Ball braves a date with an obnoxious lumber baron. Eve Arden can't recall Hamlet but one mets so many people in the big city. And Katharine Hepburn becomes Broadway's biggest star ...
Released in 1935, George Cukor's adaption of what Dicken's claimed was his favourite of his novels is an absolute gem. Cukor has assembled a wonderful cast to tell the story of David from his chilhood to manhood and the sometimes harrowing adventures...
Shot in Antonioni's native Po Valley region near Bologna, Il Grido focuses on individuals of the common classes rather than the bourgeoisie of his later films. From this humble and unpretentious subject matter, Antonioni fashions a spellbinding motio...
Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion. ...
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he p...
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...
The crowning achievement of the German expressionist movement and one of the most notable artworks to arise from the Weimar Republic is Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's The Last Laugh. Emil Jannings stars in the bleak fable of an aging doorman whose happin...
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...
Three American women (played by Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters and Maggie McNamara) decide it's time to end their single status in romantic Italy. So they whimsically toss coins into Rome's spectacular Trevi Fountain for luck in romance. But none has t...
Fresh from the triumphant releases of Nosferatu and The Last Laugh, F. W. Murnau was given carte blanche to direct this epic fable of the supernatural. Freed from the burden of plausibility by the story's fantastic premise, Murnau summoned forth a te...
By the time you read this letter, I may be dead," reads aging bon vivant Louis Jourdan from a letter found in his tiny hotel room. With tousled hair and a tux tired from yet another night of meaningless flirtation, he's startled by these opening line...
This a review of the Laserlight DVD release of 'The Skin Game'. This is one of several early Hitchcock films that i'm sure would have been lost without trace had Hitchcock's name not appeared on the credits. In fact, Hitchcock probably wished it had ...
The story of a prince destined by the force of a ruthless father to marry a princess who can bail his Kindom out of its financial doldrums is infuriating. The princess that he does not love prompts the King to command his son to attend the University...
Tell bickering Budapest gift-shop workers Alfred and Klara that they love each other and they might call you crazy. No lovers can compare to the romantic, secret pen pals each knows only as Dear Friend. What Alfred and Klara don't know, or course, is...
Bernadette Soubirous (Jones) is a sickly 140year-old girl who sees a vision of a "beautiful lady", and never suffers from her illness again. Moreover, a fountain suddenly materializes near her vision that seems to heal visitors who bathe in it.
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ohnny Depp plays Gilbert and Juliette Lewis is the girl who turns his life around in this flawless blend of comedy and drama that includes Leonardo DiCaprio's stunning, Oscar-nominated performance as Gilbert's mentally impaired younger brother. Newco...
An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome-but married-Italian man while vacationing in Venice. Katharine Hepburn's sensitive portrayal of the lonely heroine and Jack Hildyard's glorious Te...
Staring:Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente Minnelli and an ace creative team conjure sheer screen magic, one of the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Films. Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and loves even more an alluri...
The story concerns one widow, Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald), a beautiful young woman who owns 52% of the small kingdom of Marshovia. Sonia lives a life consisting of black dresses, black shoes, black corsets and black veils...even a black dog. Sonia dec...
With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, as the young maiden wh...
A soaring musical drama that explores one man's rise to fame as a concert vocalist and subsequent exploration of his African roots. Paul Robeson stars as John Zinga, a British-born stevedore who is discovered by an influential impresario and becomes ...
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...
One of the most unusual romances ever filmed, Portrait Of Jennie is the picture of sumptuous perfection. Starring Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane) and Oscar winner Jennifer Jones (A Farewell To Arms) in a "sensitive, appealing performance" (The Hollywood...
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...
'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...