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Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
(1975) [PG]

A music revue featuring the troubadour-like ballads of French songwriter Jacques Brel, with new English lyrics. Brel himself sings, showcasing his beautiful delivery and profound and touching lyrics.  More

Lost in the Stars
(1974) [PG]

Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical Lost in the Stars is based on Alan Paton's classic novel Cry, The Beloved Country. This film, like the stage musical and the book it was based on, is a moving indictment of racial hatred, made at the height of apartheid. Lost in the Stars tells the story...  More

Luther
(1973) [PG]

This adaptation of John Osborne's Luther was part of the American Film Theater series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Stacy Keach stars as Martin Luther, the German priest who, during the 16th...  More

Being Julia
(2004) [M]

In the role that brought her amazing critical acclaim, an Academy Award® nomination, the Golden Globe® Award and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, Annette Bening plays a beautiful and beguiling actress who finds herself bored with her role as the toast of the town in Being...  More

Romeo and Juliet (1954) / Romeo and Juliet Ballet (1966) (2 Disc Set)
(1966) [M]

Disc 1: 1954 film version with Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall. In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry....  More

A Good Woman
(2004) [PG]

Set in the 1930s on the Amalfi coastline, the marriage of Robert Windermere and his wife Meg is put in danger, when gossip surfaces that Robert is providing a secret allowance to an older woman... Based on Oscar Wilde's play 'Lady Windermere's Fan'.  More

Hamlet
(1969) [G]

Nicol Williamson's portrayal of Hamlet was greeted with storms of applause on both the London and Broadway stage. This performance is here captured on film by director Tony Richardson, bringing life to William Shakespeare's immortal play.  More

Mad Hot Ballroom
(2005) [PG]

Tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba, and meringue may seem to represent the last vestiges of a dying art to some, but director Marilyn Agrelo proves this is far from true in MAD HOT BALLROOM. Agrelo reveals that the New York City public school system runs a ballroom dance programme for fifth graders, in...  More

The Five Obstructions
(2003) [M]

Danish auteur Lars von Trier directs the documentary-of-sorts The Five Obstructions (De Fem Bensp?nd). In 2001, von Trier convinces veteran filmmaker Jorgen Leth to create five remakes of his 1967 short The Perfect Human. Calling himself the Obstructor, von Trier orders Leth to make his films in...  More

Modigliani
(2004) [M]

A gifted artist wages a personal war against his demons as well as a world that refuses to accept his creative vision in this biographical drama based on the true story of Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani (Andy Garcia) was an Italian Jew who was living in Paris in the 1910s, when the city's bohemian...  More