The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952)
(1952) [G]

This star-studded version of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy is full of charm and remains the definitive version of his work. Jack Worthing (Michael Redgrave) and Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison) are two wealthy bachelors in love. Jack is in love with Gwendelon Fairfax (Joan Greenwood) and...  More

Father's Little Dividend
(1951) [G]

Reprising his role from the 1950 release Father of the Bride, Spencer Tracy rejoins Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor and Don Taylor in a charming sequel to MGM's original gem. Tracy portrays Elizabeth Taylor's father, Stanley, who is still recovering from the effects of giving up his “little...  More

The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
(1974) [M]

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of...  More

Charlie Chaplin, The Early Years Vol.1
(1917) [G]

A collection of classic Charlie Chaplin 2 reeler comedies. Features: - THE IMMIGRANT: Charlie sets sail for the land of liberty and finds the opportunity for romance. - THE COUNT: Chaplin plays a tailor's assistant who masquerades as a wealthy count to gain entrance to an exclusive...  More

Charlie Chaplin, The Early Years Vol.2
(1916) [G]

A collection of classic Charlie Chaplin 2 reeler comedies. Features: - THE PAWNSHOP: Charlie's just doing his job as he creates absolute mayhem at the pawnshop. - THE ADVENTURER: Crafty Charlie may be an escaped convict on-the-run, but he borrows a tuxedo and mingles with the rich at a...  More

Charlie Chaplin, The Early Years Vol.3
(1916) [G]

A collection of classic Charlie Chaplin 2 reeler comedies. Features: - THE CURE: Charlie decides to take the health cure at a famous resort. But the trunk of liquor he's brought with him finds its way into the mineral waters, leaving everyone in a state of drunken appreciation. - THE...  More

Charlie Chaplin, The Early Years Vol.4
(1916) [G]

A collection of classic Charlie Chaplin 2 reeler comedies. Features: - BEHIND THE SCREEN: Charlie's an overworked stagehand on a movie set that gets blown up in a keystone-type slapstick frenzy. - THE FIREMAN: Only Charlie could be a firefighter who causes more trouble than the fire he's...  More

The Inspector General
(1949) [G]

Set in the 1800s an illiterate stooge, from a travelling show, wanders into a strange town in Russia and is mistaken for the dreaded Inspector General. As they are unwilling to admit to tax dodges, they try to get him out of the way by killing him...  More

My Favourite Brunette
(1947) [PG]

In one of his best comedies, Bob Hope plays photographer Ronnie Jackson who works in the same office building as Sam McLeod, the great detective. When McLeod goes out of town on a trip, Ronnie gets mistaken for the gumshoe and gets mixed up in a noirish mystery...  More

The Prince And The Showgirl
(1957) [G]

When a dazzling American showgirl captures the monocled eye of an imperious European monarch, it's clear proof opposites attract. And who could be more attractive opposites than luminous Marilyn Monroe and suave Laurence Olivier (who also produced and directed) as The Prince and the Showgirl?...  More

The Marx Brothers: A Day At The Races
(1937) [G]

Maureen O'Sullivan must rely upon a wealthy hypochondriac if she is to save her hospital, unless the Marx Brothers can save her in “ A Day At The Races”. The film includes some of their most famous sketches in a truly lavish production. A “paste up” involves the villainess being literally...  More

The Mouse That Roared
(1959) [PG]

In this classic satire, the Duchess and the Prime Minister of the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick (both played by Peter Sellers) have come up with a brilliant plan to keep their country from going broke - make war on the United States, lose, then collect lots of American post-war aid. The only...  More

The Kid
(1921) [G]

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy. The Kid was director Charlie Chaplin's first full-length film and is considered one of his best. Co-starring five-year-old Jackie Coogan, whom Chaplin discovered on a Los Angeles vaudeville stage, The Kid is the...  More

The Marx Brothers: A Night At The Opera
(1935) [G]

The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.  More

Rio Rita
(1942) [G]

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.  More

Silent Movie
(1976) [PG]

'Silent Movie' is director Mel Brooks's comic tribute to the golden days of the silent screen. A movie within a movie, 'Silent Movie' stars Brooks as Mel Funn, a filmmaker who has seen better days. When his best friends (Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise) rescue him from despair and convince him to...  More

Jabberwocky
(1977) [PG]

Gadzooks! These be terrible times in the kingdom of Bruno the Questionable! At the darkest hour of the Dark Ages, the dreaded Jabberwock roams the land. His eyes aflame, his talons bared - a bone-crushing horror! Which brave knight shall slay the beast and save the kingdom? Who shall win the hand...  More

High Society
(1956) [G]

The Philadelphia Story has jazz- and Bing, Grace, Satchmo and The Voice! The rich are generally different. But in matters of the heart, they're just as scatterbrained as the rest of us. Heiress Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) is engaged to one man (John Lund), attracted to another (Frank Sinatra) and,...  More

Sailor Beware (UK-1956)
(1956) [G]

A much-loved British classic, from the stage play and bringing across its great and talented mouthy star, Peggy Mount, as the loud-voiced matriarch Emma, terrorising her ferret-loving husband Henry (a brilliant performance from Cyril Smith), her sister-in-law Edie (the wonderful Esma Cannon), and...  More

Houseboat
(1958) [G]

This Academy Award-nominated film has the legendary Cary Grant as a government attorney who can't seem to shake his bad fortune. Living on a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids, he hires Sophia Lauren as a governess. The magnetic Loren and the charming Grant add up to a cheeky,...  More

Don Camillo (The Little World of Don Camillo)
(1952) [G]

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his...  More

The Case Of The Mukkinese Battlehorn
(1956) [G]

This film is an adaptation of an episode from the long-running BBC radio program "The Goon Show", which featured Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This hilarious outing is filled with keen-edged, outrageous British comedy that features the reunion of many veterans of the Goon Show...  More

The Ladykillers (1955)
(1955) [PG]

Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best for which William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem. The Villains plot to kill the old lady who...  More

Topkapi
(1964) [G]

A “skillful blend of romance and comedy” (The Hollywood Reporter), Topkapi shimmers with hilarity, action and great performances! Fun-filled and suspenseful, it’s “an incredibly ingenious affair [and] a considerable pleasure to watch” (Newsweek)! Trouble brews beneath the exotically...  More

Desk Set
(1957) [G]

Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) heads up the research department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, a major TV network. And she does her job very well, thank you very much. Assigned by the network president to introduce computers into some of the department’s functions, Richard Sumner...  More

An Alligator Named Daisy
(1955) [G]

Peter Weston is engaged to Vanessa Colebrook, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. On a journey home on a steamer he meets an old sea hand who shares with him how his wife won't let him keep his pet Daisy anymore. Weston offers him a kind ear and the sailor takes him for a kind man. When Weston...  More

Road To Singapore
(1940) [G]

This is the one that started it all, the first of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a team of irrepressible bachelors who end up in the most exotic places! This time it's Singapore, and the scenery gets steamy with the addition of Dorothy Lamour as the beautiful...  More

Road To Morocco
(1943) [PG]

A screen pantomime romping through the torrid heat of the desert - with the indefatigable duo of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby at the head of a camel train! The boys find themselves in hot water (or rather hot sand), coping with the Bedouin and a beautiful Arab princess. Dorothy Lamour, the face that...  More

Road To Utopia
(1946) [G]

The laughter reaches even into the chilly Alaskan Yukon when Bob Hope and Bing Crosby get together for Road to Utopia, the hilarious fourth entry in the "Road" picture series. The fun begins with Bing and Bob, rascals from the very beginning, get caught up in a race to stake their claim to the...  More

Bringing Up Baby
(1938) [G]

Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn give fantastic performances in one of Hollywood's finest screwball comedies, which is superbly directed by Howard Hawks. A dog belonging to an eccentric heiress steals a dinosaur bone from David, an absent-minded Zoology Professor. David follows the heiress to her...  More