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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune - a wealthy but naive snake enthusiast - and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their p...
One of the most famous short films ever made, The Red Balloon is a childhood fantasy with appeal for viewers of every age. It is the story of Pascal, a lonely French boy who befriends a wondrous red balloon which follows him everywhere--to school and...
Ernest Hemingway's tragic wartime romance comes to vivid life in this classic 1932 film starring Oscar winners Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes and co-starring Adolphe Menjou.
The cataclysm of WWI sets the stage for an impassioned story of star-crosse...
This true masterpiece of cinema, beautifully restored, was made in the silent days of Hollywood, but the lack of audible dialogue does not hold this back from being appreciated today. This multi-part story shows Intolerance in four different times in...
When a beautiful hard-boiled black-mailer is murdered in her swank apartment there are any number of men who might have done it. There's Martin Blair (Dan Duryea) the drunken husband she's dumped; there's shady nightclub owner Marko (Peter Lorre); an...
Set in 17th century Japan, two clans need firearms to win the war, so someone is sent to Spain to obtain five thousand muskets.
在十七世纪时,日本的幕府将军梅亚达航行到西斯牙买武器增强其东军武力。这并非是个顺利的航行,因为梅亚达被卷入西斯牙国王菲�...
The movie that brought together Bogart and Bacall. Help the Free French? Not world-weary gun-runner Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren-in-distress named Marie asks, "Anybody got a match?" That red-hot match is...
The Phelps Department Store is about to be sold by its new part owner, Tommy Rogers with the permission of Martha Phelps, the dowager co-owner. The current manager doesn't want this as the irregularities in the books will show up. When an attempt is ...
Karen, a young woman from the baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prisoners camp. But the life in Antonio's village, Stromboli, threatened by the vulcano, is a tough one and Karen can not get used to it.
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Clutching her corsage of violets and in a dress she hopes no one will notice she wore to last year's dance, Alice Adams is ready for South Renford's biggest evening of the year-and to pose as something she longs to be: one of the town's social elite....
From the acclaimed director of The Taste Of Cherry (Winner Palm D'or at Cannes) comes Abbas Kiarostami's latest masterpiece THE WIND WILL CARRY US.
A filmmaker from Tehran travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local rit...
Johnny Case (Cary Grant), a free-thinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams ' Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire ' and she's agreed to marry him! But when Johnny plans a holiday for t...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers headline Swing Time, the romantic spirit-lifter buoyed by a sublime Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields score, nimble direction by Academy Award-winner George Stevens, and the leads' effortless (after 350 hours of rehearsing!) d...