Captain January
(1936) [G]

Shirley lives with a lighthouse keeper (Kibbee) who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer (Haden) decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.  More

A Place In The Sun
(1951) [G]

Director George Steven's stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's 'An American Tragedy' garnered six Academy Awards (including Best Director and Best Screenplay) and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift stars as George Eastman, a poor young man...  More

Love Me Or Leave Me
(1955) [PG]

Roaring '20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything - the looks, the wiles, the smokey jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin "The Gimp" Snyder who, even as he propelled her career, afflicted her. Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955...  More

The Deep Six
(1958) [G]

A Quaker naval officer is called to active duty in WW II. He struggles to balance his beliefs with the need to serve, and is offered the chance to prove himself and redeem himself in the eyes of his mates with a dangerous mission.  More

Darby's Rangers
(1958) [PG]

Suggested by the book Darby's Rangers by historian Major James Altieri, this film successfully combines the talents of old pro action director William Wellman with those of James Garner, in his first starring role. Garner portrays Major William Darby, the leader of an elite commando brigade that...  More

Breakthrough
(1950) [G]

The story of an American infantry unit from its basic training to combat in Europe.The reality of war has varied effects on the group of soldiers marching through Normandy, especially the gruff captain, the naive lieutenant, and a soldier with political aspirations. A harsh, realistic look at the...  More

Rocky 2
(1979) [M]

It's the rematch of the century as Rock Balboa takes on Apollo Creed in this powerful follow-up to one of the most acclaimed movies in film history. Writer/Director/Star Sylvester Stallone succeeds in creating a powerful feel-good movie hailed as "a stunning effort in every way" (Archer Winston,...  More

Rocky
(1976) [PG]

It's the film that inspired a nation - and won the 1976 Best Picture Oscar! Audiences and critics alike cheered this American success story of an "everyman" triumphing over all odds. Featuring a dynamic musical score, a thrilling fight sequence and four Oscar-nominated performances, this rousing...  More

A Doll's House
(1973) [PG]

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to...  More

A Streetcar Named Desire (Director's Cut)
(1951) [M]

Two-time Academy Award – winning director Elia Kazan took the stage hit 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and turned it into not just a motion picture but a movie masterpiece, a cinematic experience so powerful and passionate that Tennessee Williams – who won the Pulitzer Prize for his play –...  More

Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
(1977) [M]

Stephen Dedalus is a young man growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century. His search for knowledge and undestanding, and the decline of his family's circumstances, lead him to revelations on the nature of art and politics. His personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his...  More

Ulysses
(1967) [M]

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry...  More

National Velvet
(1944) [G]

Mi Taylor was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel. One of the roads, and a notation in his father's journal, leads him to the quiet English country-side home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for...  More

Un Chien Andalou (2 disc set)
(1929) [M]

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s unfathomable short from 1929 is a masterpiece of filmmaking guile and audacity, a shocking celluloid dreamscape that destroyed film convention with bizarre images that still resonate today.

The film opens with a young Buñuel sharpening a knife, a...  More

The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce)
(1964) [M]

Fresh from his success with the critically acclaimed Jules et Jim, Truffaut chose to direct yet another film focusing on the intricacies and complications involved in a love triangle. Pierre (Jean Desailly) is married and has a child. A distinguished author and publisher by profession he is often...  More

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

Serious Charge
(1959) [PG]

This is Cliff Richard's first film in which he introduced 'Living Doll', his first UK No. 1 hit. In an atmosphere of sexuality and false witness, the story builds to a dramatic climax as Rev. Howard Phillips (Anthony Quayle) attempts to clear his name after being wrongly accused of a homosexual...  More

Reap The Wild Wind
(1942) [PG]

In this turbulent swashbuckler, Cecil B. DeMille presents a tale of daring piracy and hot-blooded love. 1840s Key West is filled with salvage businesses thriving on the cargo of wrecked ships. Ship owner Loxi Claiborn (Paulette Goddard) suspects salvager King Cutler (Raymond Massey) of foul play,...  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

The Letter
(1940) [PG]

Six years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equalled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder conviction in The Letter. The film throbs with sultry tension thanks to Davis, an impeccable supporting...  More

Secret Agent
(1936) [G]

Alfred Hitchcock filmed Somerset Maugham’s WWI spy story 'Ashenden' with his typical mix of ironic humour and suspenseful set pieces. Novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) has his death faked by British Intelligence. Giving him a new identity as Richard Ashenden, they persuade him to undertake...  More

I Accuse (J'accuse) (1937)
(1937) [M]

France's innovative film pioneer Abel Gance had already served briefly in World War I, but he enlisted again so he could film hair-raising footage of soldiers under fire. He used the shots in this compelling anti-war epic, which originally ran 14 reels (it was cut down to ten for release in the...  More

Miss Sadie Thompson
(1953) [M]

Rita Hayworth turns it on... in 3D! At a lonely military outpost on American Samoa, sticky heat alternates with torrential rain. A ship quarantine strands here Sadie Thompson, a "breezy dame" who sets the Marines afire... and self-righteous Mr. Davidson, powerful head of the Mission Board, who...  More

They Shoot Horses Don't They?
(1969) [M]

Nominated for nine Academy Awards, this "vivid" (Cue), "fascinating" (Leonard Maltin) film stars Oscar winner Jane Fonda as a woman driven to seize her last best chance during the very worst of times. A "brilliant" (L.A. Herald-Examiner) achievement by director Sydney Pollack, it is "a stunning...  More

The Gentle Gunman
(1952) [PG]

War-time drama set in London. Two Irish brothers visit London to begin a bombing campaign in support of the IRA.  More

Weekend Of Shadows
(1978) [M]

The shock waves of a murder in a small community. No one sleeps with their doors unlocked! After a murder occurs in a small Australian town, the local denizens almost immediately suspect, with little evidence, that an itinerant farm worker is the killer. A bloodthirsty hunt then ensues.  More

Autobiography Of A Princess
(1975) [PG]

Made for British television by the correctly esteemed Merchant/Ivory partnership, with an expected well-wrought screenplay from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, this short (one hour) film is essentially a chamber piece for two characters, shot primarily within a single room of a London town house, but the...  More

A Tale Of Two Cities (1958)
(1958) [PG]

Dickens' epic tale follows the fortunes of a disillusioned English lawyer, Sidney Carton, whose solace is drink and who bears an uncanny resemblance to a young French aristocrat named Darnay. Carton defends Darnay in an English court and falls in love with Darnay's fiancee Lucy. Eventually Carton...  More

A Tale Of Two Cities
(1980) [PG]

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and...  More

Ash Wednesday
(1973) [M]

Elizabeth Taylor stars as an aging but wealthy woman who decides to undergo painful plastic surgery in an effort to hold onto her husband, only to find that physical beauty is just not enough.  More