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A Man Escaped
(1956) [G]

Based on a true story, 'A Man Escaped' is set in a Nazi prison in France in 1943. Fontaine is a Resistance fighter sentenced to death, and the film reconstructs his escape plan. Director Bresson won the Best Director award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. French dialogue  More

Scenes From A Marriage (Theatrical version)
(1973) [M]

Marianne and Johan always seemed like the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Shot in intense, intimate close-ups by master cinematographer Sven Nykvist, the film chronicles ten years of...  More

Jedda (The Chauvel Collection)
(1955) [G]

On a lonely cattle station in the Northern territory, Sara McMann (Betty Suttor) adopts an orphaned aboriginal baby in place of her own baby who has died the day before. Sara names the baby Jedda (Ngarla Kunoth) after a wild bird, and raises her as a white child, forbidding her to have contact...  More

Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage)
(1959) [M]

When a beautiful girl (Edith Scab) is horribly disfigured in a car accident, her brilliant physician father (Pierre Brasseur), the driver of the vehicle, vows to reconstruct her face. Is it out of love for his blemished Christiane? Is it guilt? Or is the diabolical Dr. Genessier making a...  More

Les Diaboliques
(1955) [M]

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques is a brilliant suspense film that set a standard rarely reached by contemporary movies. A blueprint for Psycho among many others, it has many imitators but few peers. Both frightening and intoxicating in equal measure this film stands the test of time and...  More

No Love For Johnnie
(1961) [PG]

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of...  More

Paths Of Glory
(1957) [PG]

Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas, in one of his greatest performances): take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal...  More

Elmer Gantry
(1960) [PG]

Featuring Burt Lancaster in a brilliant, Best Actor Oscar-winning performance, Elmer Gantry is an unforgettable screen drama by writer/director Richard Brooks (In Cold Blood, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof). Handsome, opportunistic, immoral. Travelling salesman Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) is all this and...  More

Les Enfants Terribles
(1950) [PG]

In this compelling tale of incestuous obsession, teenage brother and sister Paul and Elisabeth create an intense, private world in their untidy shared single room. When outsiders intrude into their world however, the scene is set for tragedy. A hauntingly atmospheric film of Jean Cocteau's...  More

Rififi
(1955) [PG]

In Jules Dassin's classic noir Rififi, Jean Servais plays Tony le Stephanois, a master thief with a battered face and a tubercular cough, souvenirs of a recent stint in the pen. The aging Tony is reluctant to return to a life of crime, but when he realises his girlfriend has thrown him over for a...  More