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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
(1970) [M]

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.

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Never on Sunday (Pote tin Kyriaki)
(1960) [M]

Illia is Piraeus's most popular person: an energetic prostitute, full of life and good humor. Every day, she swims at the pier, entertaining the dock hands. Sundays she has an open house with food, drink and song. Homer Thrace, an amateur philosopher from Middletown, Conn., arrives in town to...  More

The Three Stooges: Curly Classics
(1934) [G]

Fun with The Three Stooges in six zany episodes:


A Plumbing We Will Go(1940):
Three would-be plumbers mistake pipes filled with wires for water pipes. Dudley Dickerson's battle in the kitchen is a highlight.

Men In Black(1934):
Medical malpractice is an...  More

The Best of Abbott and Costello Vol 1 (One Night in the Tropics, / Buck Privates / In the Navy / Hold That Ghost ): (2 disc set)
(1940) [G]

Disc 1:
One Night in the Tropics (1940):
Features Abbott and Costello in their first film together, but they are not the leads. In their next film `Buck Privates' the following year (1941), they would star in their first leading roles. In this one, however, they do steal the show with...  More

The Best of Abbott and Costello Vol 1 ( Keep 'Em Flying, Ride 'Em Cowboy, Pardon My Sarong, Who Done It?): (2 disc set)
(1941) [G]

Disc 1:
Keep 'Em Flying (1941):
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.

Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942):
Two peanut vendors...  More

The Complete Fawlty Towers (BBC-TV) (2 disc set)
(1975) [PG]

Inept and manic English hotel owner and manager, Basil Fawlty, isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid. All hell frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel, constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the...  More

Get Smart: Season 1 (Disc 1of 5)
(1965) [PG]

From the comic genius of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry comes Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) saving the world from evil, the alluring Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon) saving Max from himself, and all those amazing gadgets saving the day. You won’t want to miss a single mis-guided mission as Max and 99 take...  More

Hogan's Heroes: Season 1 (Disc 1 of 5)
(1965) [G]

Hogan's Heroes focuses on a group of American soldiers, led by Colonel Hogan (Bob Crane), who are confined in a Nazi prisoner of war camp called Stalag 13 during World War II. While trapped in Stalag 13, the inmates conduct an espionage and sabotage campaign right under the noses of their...  More

Hoffman
(1970) [M]

Hoffman is an odd cross between There's a Girl in My Soup and The Collector and is clearly one of the few film projects Peter Sellers took seriously enough to work hard on, rather than one of the many he breezed through on a talent for funny voices and unleashed chaos. The set-up is that...  More

Ninotchka
(1939) [PG]

Garbo Talks! proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her...  More