5 Fingers
(1952) [PG]

Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious and extremely efficient valet for the British ambassador tires of being a servant and forms a plan to promote himself to rich gentleman of leisure. His employer has many secret documents; he will photograph them, and with the...  More

A Time to Love and a Time to Die
(1958) [PG]

Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die is set in the devastating ruin of burnt-out Germany during the dying days of World War Two. Amid this tumult and desolation is Private Ernst Graeber (John Gavin) who, having...  More

Madame X
(1966) [M]

Lana Turner's performance is brilliant going from loving bride and mother to a woman so down on her luck that when confronted with the chance that her son may discover what has become of her she resorts to murder , therefore protecting the only thing she has any love left for. The supporting cast...  More

Portrait in Black
(1960) [M]

Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn are lovers who murder Lana's cruel, but wealthy husband, played by Lloyd Nolan.

San Francisco cargo shipping czar, Matthew Cabot (Lloyd Nolan) is bedridden and slowly dying as his beautiful and ultra-glamorous wife Sheila (Lana Turner) becomes more and...  More

The Quiet American (1958)
(1958) [PG]

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Graham Greene, a love triangle brews amidst a growing political tempest in this brilliantly intellectual film in which nothing is quite as it seems.

In 1952 Saigon is caught between the corrupt colonial powers and the Communist uprising. An...  More

City That Never Sleeps
(1953) [PG]

Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny...  More

Island in the Sun
(1957) [M]

Set on the tropical island of Santa Marta in the Carribean during colonial British rule. It focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black male with political aspirations. He finds himself confused on returning home when his romantic liaison with a white female tends to conflict...  More

The Bicycle Thief (Ladri Di Biciclette)
(1948) [PG]

An Italian worker during the great depression finds work putting up posters. On his first day his bike is stolen and his chance to bring his family out of poverty is in jeopardy. He takes his son and some friends through the city in search of the bicycle that means economic survival to him.  More

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
(1939) [G]

James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in this award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him.  More

Rashomon
(1950) [M]

A woodcutter experiences a horrific series of events - an ambush, rape and murder. In the telling of the tale however, each of the four participants give different views of what actually happened - is any of them telling the truth? Kurosawa's masterful film plays on the subjective nature of truth...  More

Heaven Knows Mr. Allison
(1957) [PG]

While hiding from a Japanese military offensive on a desolate Pacific island, a Marine sergeant (Mitchum) and his only fellow survivor, an Irish Roman Catholic novitiate on a humanitarian mission (Kerr), search for food, engage in philosophical sparring, avoid sexual tension, and struggle to...  More

Dark Victory
(1939) [G]

Critic Pauline Kael called this shamelessly enjoyable, vintage Bette Davis weepie a "kitsch classic," and time hasn't diminished its ability to give the tear ducts a good flushing. Davis plays a swinging socialite, living the fast life of booze, smokes, and--with the help of Humphrey Bogart as...  More

He Walked By Night
(1948) [PG]

A burglar becomes a cold-blooded cop killer and is hunted down on the streets of Los Angeles. The men in blue manage to track their suspect down into the bowels of the city--the labyrinth sewer system. Noir veteran Anthony Mann, though uncredited, co-directed the film. Well-done and supposedly an...  More

Scenes From a Marriage: Original 5hr Swedish TV mini-series (2 Disc Set)
(1974) [M]

Originally conceived as a six-part miniseries for Swedish television, Scenes From a Marriage is presented here for the first time in its original form. Marianne (Liv Ullman) and Johan (Erland Josephson) always seemed like the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another...  More

Gone With The Wind-Special Edition: Part 1, The Restored Movie (Discs 1 & 2 of 4 disc disc Set)
(1939) [PG]

David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winner Gone with the Wind is the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking, Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight said. And in Maltin's view, it looks better than it has in years. This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive...  More

The Sound Barrier / Hobson's Choice
(1953) [PG]

Hobson's Choice: Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a tyrannical, drunken widowed bootmaker responsible for the wellbeing of his three unruly daughters. His rule is challenged by eldest daughter Maggie (Brenda de Banzie) who marries his star bootmaker and sets up a rival shop. But will...  More

The Ugly American
(1963) [G]

Marlon Brando stars in this volatile political thriller based on the best selling book. As a compassionate American in Southeast Asia during the Cold War Brando turns in a tour-de-force performance as he tries to keep the country's democratic and Communist forces from explosive confrontation.  More

Conversation Piece
(1974) [MA]

Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend and forced to rent to them an apartment on upper floor of his palazzo. From this point his quiet...  More

Tokyo Joe
(1949) [PG]

Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.

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The Rose
(1979) [M]

In an Oscar-nominated performance, Bette Midler portrays a rock star whose success is laced with so much booze, drugs and hard living it eventually causes her downfall. Trapped in a self-created hell, Rose begs her manager (Alan Bates) for time off from her concert tour. When he refuses, she...  More

The Idiot
(1951) [PG]

Based on Dostoyevky's The Idiot, Akira Kurosawa faithfully translates his favourite author's tale of love and murder to the snowy northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Kameda-a mentally fragile innocent incapable of dishonesty-meets Akama (Toshiro Mifune) on his return home from an asylum. They...  More

Cinema Paradiso
(1989) [PG]

Salvatore, a successful film director, returns to his native Sicilian village for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo. He was the projectionist at the local Cinema Paradiso where Salvatore spent the happiest times of his childhood and developed his love of film. To the fatherless young boy...  More

Fellini's 8 1/2 (2 disc set)
(1962) [M]

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1963, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 is a dazzling mix of past and present, fantasy and reality containing all the stylistic elements and thematic obsessions that have characterised Fellini's films throughout his distinguished career. Starring...  More

L'Avventura (2 Disc Set)
(1959) [PG]

When L'Avventura premiered alongside La Dolce Vita at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize, it ignited a storm of controversy that sparked the international career of the great Michelangelo Antonioni - he went on to direct some of the most influential art films of the 60s and 70s...  More

La Terra Trema
(1948) [G]

A haunting account of the tough life led by Sicilian fishermen and of their struggle against exploitation by unscrupulous businessmen. The film was awarded Special Prize at the 1948 Venice Film Festival. Italian and Sicilian dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Ossessione
(1942) [PG]

A restless wife, Giovanna, meets Gino, a rough and handsome vagabond. Their passions affair leads to the murder of Giovanna's boorish husband. Can a strong and sensual affair survive the guilt? Adapted from James M. Cain's classic novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, Ossessione is a dark and...  More

Umberto D
(1952) [PG]

The story of an old retired office worker whose lonely, impoverished life becomes unbearable to the point where something has to give. Italian dialogue with subtitles.  More

Miracle In Milan
(1950) [G]

Vittorio DeSica's follow-up to The Bicycle Thief documents the lives of the poverty-stricken in post-war Italy. Francesco Golisano is Good Toto, an orphan boy who begins living with a cluster of beggars. His organizational efforts bring some structure to the colony and engenders a sense of faint...  More

Nosferatu (1922)
(1922) [PG]

Nosferatu is the original Dracula movie and still, after eighty years, the scariest. When Bram Stoker's widow refused to grant Murnau the rights to Dracula, Murnau and his screenwriter Henrik Galeen simply changed the characters' names and went ahead with the film, creating one of the great...  More

The Blue Angel
(1930) [PG]

The film that made Marlene Dietrich a star is an icon of Weimar cinema. Filmed simultaneously in German and English, Directors Suite presents both versions in their original, different forms. Dietrich stars as cabaret star Lola Lola, the resident attraction at The Blue Angel. When the upright,...  More