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The Lost Weekend
(1945) [PG]

The Best Picture of 1945 has lost none of its bite or power in this uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism. Ironically, this brilliant Billy Wilder film was almost never released because of poor reaction by preview audiences unaccustomed to such stark realism from Hollywood,...  More

The Defiant Ones
(1958) [PG]

remains "a raw, powerful film that is as exciting as it is moving, real and literate" (Variety). Joker Jackson (Tony Curtis) and Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run. Escaping from a Southern work gang, the two men are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated...  More

Sapphire
(1959) [PG]

On a bleak winter's day the body of a beautiful young girl is found on waste land. She has been stabbed violently through the heart. All her clothes indicate that she was a student, apart from a flame-red petticoat. As the police eventually trace her identity, her brother identifies her as music...  More

Aces High
(1976) [M]

A moving story of comradeship and bravery, loneliness and fear. Aces High contains some of the most magnificent aerial battles ever staged leading to a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography and Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. Under Jack Gold's sensitive direction, this...  More

I'm All Right Jack
(1959) [G]

The Boulting Brothers aim their satirical gaze at British trade unionism and industrial relations in this sequel to Private's Progress. Stanley Windrush (Carmichael) returns from the war determined to carve a niche for himself in the industrial world, much to the displeasure of his Aunt Dolly...  More

Jailhouse Rock
(1957) [PG]

In one of his best-loved films Elvis stars as Vince Everett, a small-time convict introduced to the music business by his cellmate, a former country music singer who also teaches Vince the guitar. On his release Vince tastes success as a performer but becomes disillusioned by the record industry...  More

Fiddler On The Roof
(1971) [G]

The Most Powerful Movie Musical Ever Made "An outstanding accomplishment in every category" (Boxoffice), this lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and...  More

The Panic In Needle Park
(1971) [R]

Welcome to New York City's 'Needle Park' - a world of pimps, thieves and junkies. Al Pacino, in his first major movie role, plays Bobby, a heroin addict who meets his clean girlfriend (Kitty Winn) and introduces her to a new strung-out world filled with young derelicts who steal, love, cheat,...  More

Deliverance
(1972) [R]

Four ordinary men, descending on a river they've only seen on a map, determined to test themselves against the wilderness they think they understand. They discover a backwoods world filled with hillbilly cut-throats and teeming with violence. John Voight is Ed, the advertising man, opposed to...  More

Annie Hall
(1977) [M]

Arguably the best of all of Woody Allen's movies, Annie Hall portrays with candour the fragility of relationships in an amusing and touching manner. As with Allen's other movies you don't have to look far to find the idiosyncratic neurosis that is innate in most of his work but his handling of...  More