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Sunset Boulevard
(1950) [PG]

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging 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, director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the...  More

Night And The City
(1992) [MA]

Harry Fabian (Robert De Niro) is an unsatisfied, small-time lawyer in New York City; but he has a dream. Helen (Jessica Lange) is equally disgruntled. Their meeting sparks an impulsive shot at the big time, as Harry battles to fulfill his new, all consuming dream of becoming a boxing promoter....  More

Mildred Pierce
(1945) [PG]

The kind of woman most men want-but shouldn't have! A Mother's Love Leads To Murder - And An Oscar! What Veda wants, her mother - Mildred Pierce - provides. Even if Mildred must end her middle-class marriage, climb atop the male-dominated business world and marry a wealthy man she doesn't love....  More

Bullets Or Ballots
(1936) [PG]

A police detective fakes his dismissal from the force so that he can infiltrate the underworld of racketeering.  More

In A Lonely Place
(1950) [PG]

In director Nicholas Ray's haunting noir In A Lonely Place, Humphrey Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a screenwriter who is faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy best-seller. He enlists hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson to tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is...  More

While The City Sleeps
(1956) [PG]

The playboy son of a television and newspaper tycoon who inherits all on his father's death, decides to appoint his father's successor. The person who discovers the identity of the Lipstick Killer, who is terrorising the streets of New York will run the news empire.  More

Shock Corridor
(1963) [MA]

Young and ambitious newspaper reporter Johnny Barrett will pay any price for success. Sometimes, the price can be too high... With the help of his editor and a leading psychologist, Johnny feigns insanity inorder to get into an asylum where a brutal murder is witnessed by three patients. With the...  More

The Asphalt Jungle
(1950) [PG]

You have a lot of time to think when you're locked away seven years. So criminal mastermind Doc conceives what he believes is the perfect heist. As in The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, director John Huston explores the feverish grab for the big score and how it unravels in...  More

The Spiral Staircase
(1945) [PG]

This superb Hitchcockian thriller shocked critics and audiences on its initial release. With a superb performance from the cast (Dorothy McGuire in particular), a wonderful eerie gothic mansion and a chilling atmosphere of fear and suspense, it is easy to see why the film stands out as one of the...  More

Scarlet Street
(1945) [PG]

Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his...  More