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Il Conformista (The Conformist) (New restoration)
(1970) [MA]

In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode - and murder - joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes...  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

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

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

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

Blow Up
(1966) [M]

Director Michelangelo Antonioni packs nonstop action into a controversial cinematic close-up of mid-sixties mod London where Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles star with David Hemmings in this expose of British counterculture. David Hemmings plays a master photographer who explores the city...  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