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The Battleship Potemkin
(1925) [PG]

After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship Potemkin. Fed...  More

Ben-Hur
(1959) [PG]

Having swept the board at the Academy awards, Ben Hur achieved an outstanding feat in film history, winning eleven Oscars in 1959 including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. After a ten month production schedule and a then massive $15 million budget, this 1950's epic movie has always...  More

Barry Lyndon
(1975) [PG]

How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of the 18th-century English nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O’Neal) the answer is: any way he can! Barry is a pining suitor, a duellist, a vagabond, a soldier in the Seven Years War, a rogue, a spy, a card shark - all way stations on the...  More

A Clockwork Orange
(1971) [R]

Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has his own way of having a good time. He has it all at the tragic expense of others. Alex’s journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the...  More

Written on the Wind
(1956) [PG]

Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star cast that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall...  More

Indochine
(1991) [M]

Eliane is a wealthy French plantation owner living in Indochina in the 1930's with her father and adopted native daughter Camille. She has a brief affair with a young officer, Jean-Baptiste, but after she has ended it, to her dismay discovers that Camille is madly in love with the young man....  More

And Then There Were None
(1945) [PG]

At first glance, Rene Clair might seem an odd match for Agatha Christie's mystery thriller Ten Little Indians, but his buoyant touch is exactly what is missing from so many overly solemn remakes. Ten strangers gather for a mysterious gathering on a secluded island. It turns out to be a farewell...  More

The Story Of G. I. Joe
(1945) [PG]

Robert Mitchum and Burgess Meredith star in this gripping World War II drama based on the newspaper columns of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Directed by legendary filmmaker William Wellman, The Story Of G.I. Joe depicts Ernie Pyle's (Meredith) experiences with the men of...  More

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969) [M]

One of the most popular screen westerns ever made, this Academy Award winning classic bleeds adventure, romance and comedy to tell the true story of the West's most likeable outlaws. No one is quicker than Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) when it comes to get rich quick schemes, and his sidekick...  More

The Omen (1976)
(1976) [MA]

When Kathy Thorn (Lee Remick) gives birth to a stillborn baby, her husband Robert (Gregory Peck) shields her from he devastating truth and substitutes an orphaned infant for their own -- unaware of the child's satanic origins. The horror begins on Damien's fifth birthday when his nanny stages a...  More