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Heat And Dust
(1983) [M]

The passion, violence, mystery and beauty of India are rapturously evoked in Merchant Ivory Productions' acclaimed Heat And Dust, based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist. Blending east with west, and moving effortlessly between the vibrant world of...  More

The Go-Between
(1970) [PG]

Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a...  More

The African Queen
(1951) [G]

Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Aunt - the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called The African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn...  More

Pathfinder
(1987) [M]

Norwegian director Nils Gaup used the landscape of Finland as his backdrop in Pathfinder. The story is set in 10th-century Lapland. Teen-aged Mikkel Gaup, after watching his family being slaughtered by the bloodthirsty Tchude tribe, takes refuge in a small, peaceful village. He tries to warn the...  More

Pelle The Conqueror
(1988) [M]

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture, this epic drama about human resilience stars the hypnotic Max Von Sydow as a poor, but never downtrodden widower who emigrates with his young son, Pelle, from the economically depressed Sweden to Denmark at the turn of the century. His...  More

Legend Of The Suram Fortress / Colour Of Pomegranates
(1968) [PG]

Legend Of The Suram Fortress: Directors Sergei Paradzhanov and Dodo Abashidze resurrected an old Soviet Georgian folktale as the basis for their film The Legend of Suram Fortress. The fortress in question is forever under construction, and forever collapsing before the last brick can be laid. The...  More

Edward And Mrs Simpson (2 tape set)
(1991) [PG]

7x50min episodes (2 tapes). While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furore in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his...  More

The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex
(1939) [G]

Director Michael Curtiz's period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) and the man who would be King of England, Robert Devereux (Errol Flynn), the Earl of Essex. Ever the victor on the battlefield, Devereux returns to London after defeating Spanish forces at...  More

The Black Tent
(1956) [PG]

During the British retreat, David Holland (Anthony Steel) takes shelter with a Bedouin tribe and marries the sheik's daughter (Anna-Maria Sandri).  More

King Lear (1971)
(1971) [PG]

The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entire kingdom to them. Paul Scofeld is an ancient, imposing shell of...  More