The Birth Of A Nation
(1915) [M]

D.W. Griffith's spectacular silent masterpiece is available for the first time on DVD. The most successful silent film ever, The Birth of a Nation remains America's most controversial cinematic landmark.  More

Little Murders
(1971) [M]

Alan Arkin made his directorial debut with this bitingly funny black comedy. Meet the Newquists - a family in a typical American city where riots, muggings and sniper attacks are a way of life. It turns out, though, that violence is great for daughter Patsy's (Marcia Rodd) love life! A feisty...  More

21 Hours at Munich
(1976) [M]

September 5 1972. The darkest day in sports history. Some 900 million sports fans tune in to watch the Olympics on TV. Instead they see the most shocking scenes unfold... Academy Award winner William Holden (Best Actor 1953 Stalag 17) and Academy Award nominee Shirley Knight (Best Supporting...  More

The Old Man And The Sea
(1958) [PG]

Based on the classic, Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The story of an aging, life-long fisherman attempting to find himself, and hopefully a fish, on a fishing trip in the gulf waters off Cuba. After spending most of his life alone, and losing his only...  More

The Long Hot Summer
(1958) [PG]

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and...  More

Equus
(1977) [R]

Sidney Lumet's Oscar-nominated adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play erupts on the screen with the same power and passion as the stage original. Richard Burton gives one of his best performances ever in this elegant and provocative tale of myth and madness. What would drive Alan...  More

Bonnie And Clyde
(1967) [M]

Adrift in the depression-era Southwest, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker embark on life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure - and each other. Soon we start to love them too. But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow. Bonnie and Clyde turns...  More

In The Heat Of The Night
(1967) [M]

While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime - and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however,...  More

Supervixens
(1975) [R]

Geared for the times, Russ Meyer's Supervixens wields the double-bladed axe of satire... cutting and hacking its way to the very bone of society... laying bare and exposing, with great candour, the frailties, weaknesses and strengths of its citizens. A picture born to entertainment, shocking...  More

Johnny Guitar
(1954) [PG]

When the railroad finally comes to a frontier boomtown, so does trouble. Enterprising business woman Joan Crawford not only controls the nearby profitable gambling, she's been busy buying up enough property to make her the most powerful person in town. Arch-rival Mercedes McCambridge sets out to...  More

Tom Horn
(1980) [M]

The saga of Tom Horn - a real-life "enforcer" of Old West days - held a particular fascination for another legend. Hollywood icon Steve McQueen starred in and executive-produced what would be his next-to-last movie, a gritty, exciting recreation of Horn's latter-day career in a...  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

House of Bamboo
(1955) [M]

In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Down-at-heal ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from the States, apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate. But Eddie isn't quite what he seems as...  More

The Man Who Never Was
(1956) [PG]

British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift it's forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion of a plan for England to invade Greece a dead body is to be procured, allowed to be found with secret papers on him by Spanish...  More

The Young Philadelphians
(1959) [PG]

Up and coming, young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to...  More

Psycho
(1960) [M]

Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of the macabre stars Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates, whose "old dark house" and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quiet evening. No one knows that better than Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), the ill fated traveller whose journey ends in the...  More

The Towering Inferno
(1974) [PG]

Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) is an architect who has just returned from a long vacation to find the work on his new skyscraper nearly completed. He goes to its Opening Party concerned he's found that his wiring specifications have not been followed. The party goes on, despite the building's wiring...  More

Magnum Force
(1973) [R]

Underworld figures are being murdered all over San Francisco. One by one, criminals who have eluded prosecution are getting the justice they deserve, justice you'd think Detective Harry Callahan might approve of with a tight-lipped smile. But if you think so, you've misjudged Harry - and so have...  More

Robin And The 7 Hoods
(1964) [G]

Robin And The 7 Hoods mirthfully gives the Robin Hood legend a Depression-era, mobtown Chicago setting. There, North Side boss Robbo (Frank Sinatra) hopes to get a leg up in his power struggle with rival racketeer Guy Gisborne (Peter Falk). Robbo sets himselfup as a latter-day Robin Hood with...  More

Frantic
(1988) [M]

Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes while the couple is visiting Paris. To recover her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops and triplicate-form bureaucrats. Ultimately - and reluctantly - he must try a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more...  More

The Misfits
(1961) [PG]

This is the tragic and magnificent last film of two of the greatest film stars of all time. Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift star in this symbolic contemporary western, specially written for Marilyn by her then-husband, playwright Arthur Miller, about a group of drifters in...  More

Cruising
(1980) [R]

The controversial story of an under-cover cop who enters the gay scene of Manhattan to search for a psychotic killer.

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Operation Pacific
(1951) [G]

Dedicated Navy man Duke Gifford (John Wayne) has a tough time trying to take command of a US submarine following the death of his commanding officer. For one thing, Duke feels guilty over the events that led to the captain's death. Add the fact that his ex-wife (Patricia Neil) is aboard serving...  More

King Rat
(1965) [PG]

George Segal became a star with his performance in this epic WWII drama based on the best-selling novel by James Clavell. The movie chronicles the scams of a streetwise GI held in a Japanese prison camp. Under the harrowing camp conditions, he rises to a position of power over his military and...  More

Operation Crossbow
(1965) [PG]

This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of the second world war. Even though the Nazis were in retreat these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. The film includes references to Hannah Reich, who in...  More

The Left Handed Gun
(1958) [M]

William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef, Billy decides to avenge the death by...  More

Breakfast At Tiffany's
(1961) [PG]

The names Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly have become synonymous since this dazzling romantic comedy was translated to the screen from Truman Capote's best-selling Novella. Holly is a deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. George Peppard plays...  More

The Long Long Trailer
(1954) [G]

Nicky and Tacy are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels--a trailer. After the two are hitched, they hitch up their trailer and begin their honeymoon. The humor comes from several disastrous adventures the...  More

Freaks
(1932) [PG]

Inspired by childhood recollections of running away with the circus and befriending the sideshow freaks, Tod Browning's vision of sideshow life is both bizarre and disturbing. On its release in 1932 Freaks was greeted with revulsion and disgust by critics and public alike, losing $164,000 dollars...  More

The Children's Hour (The Loudest Whisper)
(1961) [MA]

A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student, accuses the two young women who run the school of having a lesbian relationship.  More