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New Jack City
(1991) [R]

Nino Brown is an American success story, an entrepreneur who's found the ultimate cash crop: crack. Nino thinks he's untouchable but he's wrong: a handful of street-smart cops are determined to bring him down. New Jack City is a gangster movie for the '90s, a hard-hitting tale with "a gritty...  More

Play Misty For Me
(1971) [M]

Clint Eastwood made his directorial debut with this contemporary thriller about psychotic obsession. Eastwood also takes the lead in the starring role as Dave Garver, a popular radio disc jockey who repeatedly receives on-air phone requests from a sexy female fan to "play Misty for me". When the...  More

Veronika Voss (The BRD Trilogy)
(1982) [M]

An ominous and lurid melodrama, Veronika Voss is constructed as a complex compendium of film styles and filmic references, not spelled out in anthological form, but integrated with the dramatic content. A hauntingly original work.  More

The Boat (Das Boot)
(1981) [M]

Widely considered to be director Wolfgang Petersen's best film and one of the finest German films ever made, DAS BOOT is stunningly realistic in its portrayal of the cramped conditions aboard a German submarine.  More

Billy Bathgate
(1991) [M]

Hungry for a taste of the good life, street-wise New York teenager Billy Bathgate joins a gang of fiery 1930's mobster Dutch Schultz. Billy is seduced by the power, money and glamour of crime and quickly rises up through the ranks. But when he falls for Drew Preston, Dutch's sultry, strong-willed...  More

Papillon
(1973) [M]

They called him Papillon, meaning "butterfly." If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island. Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J....  More

Frankie And Johnny (1991)
(1991) [M]

Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer light up the screen in this captivating romantic comedy. Pfeiffer plays Frankie, a waitress at a N.Y.C. coffee shop. After a series of hurtful relationships, the last thing Frankie's looking for is a new man...until he comes looking for her. Pacino is an outgoing...  More

Camelot (1967)
(1967) [G]

The legend of King Arthur has enchanted generation after generation. His pure, perfect kingdom was shattered because of the tragic passion between Queen Guenevere and the Round Table's bravest knight Lancelot. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe shaped that saga into the 1960 musical Camelot....  More

A Town Like Alice
(1956) [G]

Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna star in this award-winning adaptation of Nevil Shute’s moving novel. Jean, a prisoner in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, meets a captive Australian, Joe, and the two form a mutually affectionate relationship. He tells her of his home town and how he hopes to...  More

Excalibur
(1981) [M]

The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table receives its most impressive screen treatment in Excalibur, from visionary moviemaker John Boorman. All the elements of Sir Thomas Malory's classic Le Morte D'Arthur are here: Arthur removing the sword Excalibur from the stone; the...  More