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The Entertainer
(1960) [PG]

Career first. Everything else second. According to vaudevillian Archie Rice (an Oscar nominated Laurence Olivier), the show must go on - even if it means stringing along his fellow performers, exploiting the hopes and money of a starlet and neglecting his own family. This is Archie's world, but...  More

Histoires Extraordinaires (Tales Of Mystery And Imagination) (Spirits of the Dead)
(1968) [MA]

Three of Europe's finest filmmakers - Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini - direct compelling remakes of Edgar Allan Poe stories. Louis Malle's take on "William Wilson" features Alain Delon as an officer troubled by a mysterious doppelganger; Roger Vadim's journey into supernatural...  More

Darling
(1965) [M]

Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a young, attractive and vivacious model and socialite who is determined to become rich and famous. Although married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert Gold (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair...  More

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
(1969) [M]

Maggie Smith won a well deserved Best Actress Academy Award in 1969 for her tour de force performance in this fine screen adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel. Miss Jean Brodie is an eccentric and outspoken schoolteacher at an exclusive Edinburgh school for girls in the 1930's. She regards her...  More

The Silver Fleet
(1943) [G]

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaberates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a childs rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?...  More

The Greatest Show On Earth
(1952) [G]

Step right up for Cecil B. DeMille's spectacular Academy Award-winning Best Picture - The Greatest Show On Earth. The master showman brings the thrills, chills and exhilaration of the Ringling Brothers - Barnum & Bailey Circus to the screen via an Oscar-winning story and an all-star cast that...  More

Tiger Bay
(1959) [PG]

In director J.Lee Thompson's classic thriller Tiger Bay, Polish sailor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) is furious to discover his lover has left him for another man and shoots her. The crime is witnessed by 10-year-old Gillie (Hayley Mills in her breakthrough role) who steals the gun. Investigating...  More

Oliver Twist
(1948) [G]

David Lean's atmospheric production remains the definitive version of the Charles Dickens' masterpiece. Orphan Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) is expelled from the work house where he lives by the miserly Mr.Bumble (Francis L.Sullivan) for daring to ask for more. After an unhappy apprenticeship...  More

Strike
(1925) [PG]

The first full-length feature project of pantheon Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, Strike is a government-commissioned celebration of the unrealized 1905 Bolshevik revolution. The story is set in motion by a series of outrages and humiliations perpetrated on the workers of a metalworks plant....  More

Anatomy Of A Murder
(1959) [M]

A riveting courtroom drama of rape and premeditated murder is brought to life with an all-star cast in director Otto Preminger's suspenseful and highly-acclaimed Anatomy of a Murder. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1959), the film pits a humble small-town lawyer (James...  More