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Viceroy's House (Blu-Ray)
(2016) [PG]
The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change. More
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Suddenly Last Summer (Blu-Ray)
(1959) [M]
This acclaimed film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Southern Gothic journey into the dark workings of the human mind was “very controversial for its time and still packs a wallop” today. With spellbinding performances from Academy Award ® Winners Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor,... More
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Giant (Blu-Ray)
(1956) [PG]
The legendary epic that's as big as Texas. Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. It's also one of the... More
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Rebel Without A Cause (Blu-Ray)
(1955) [M]
In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens - and reverberate more than 40 years later. Natalie Wood (as Jim's girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim's... More
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East Of Eden (Blu-Ray)
(1955) [PG]
Based on John Steinbeck's novel and directed by Elia Kazan, East of Eden is the first of three major films that make up James Dean's movie legacy. The 24-year-old idol-to-be plays Cal, a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his... More
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Pozieres (The Director's Cut)
(2016) [M]
A captivating step back in time, Pozieres explores the small village in Northern France which, during the Great War in 1916, was the setting of one of the bloodiest battles in history, a twentieth century tragedy.
The village was stormed and captured by Australians and became key to... More
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Lawrence Of Arabia
(1962) [PG]
An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The film recalls his life's adventures: as a young intelligence... More
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Gone With The Wind (75th Anniversary 2 disc set)
(1939) [PG]
David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winner Gone with the Wind is "the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking," Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight said: "it looks better than it has in years." This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive 10 Academy Awards... More
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Joan of Arc (1948)
(1948) [PG]
In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of... More
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Il Conformista (The Conformist) (New restoration)
(1970) [MA]
In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode - and murder - joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes... More
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The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith
(1978) [M]
Fred Schepisi’s internationally acclaimed masterpiece, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, is the shocking tale of an indigenous man driven to madness and revenge. Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis) is a young Aboriginal ‘half-caste’ raised in central NSW at the turn-of-the-century, a boy... More
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The Man in the Iron Mask
(1939) [G]
Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D'Artagnan.
D'Artagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep... More
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The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
(1934) [G]
Robert Donat stars in this classic swashbuckler based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It tells the story of Edmond Dantes, a common seaman falsely accused of spying during the Napoleonic Wars. Imprisoned without trial in the infamous Chateau d’If, he spends over a decade in solitary... More
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Another Time, Another Place
(1958) [G]
An American war correspondent falls in love with a BBC reporter, but their relationship seems doomed from the start.
Early Sean Connery picture before finding stardom as James Bond. More
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Hannibal (1959)
(1959) [PG]
Love and war intertwine in this stunning epic of the story of Hannibal, the brilliant Carthiginian general who dared to oppose Rome. Fuelled by hatred of Roman supremacy, Hannibal (Victor Mature) drives his army of elephants through the treacherous, frozen Alps into Italy, crushing anyone who... More
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Fear and Desire
(1953) [PG]
Independently financed with contributions from Stanley Kubrick's family and friends in an era when an "independent cinema" was still far from the norm, Fear and Desire first saw release in 1953 at the Guild Theater in New York, thanks to the enterprising distributor Joseph Burstyn. Now, with this... More
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Fear and Desire (Blu-Ray)
(1953) [PG]
Independently financed with contributions from Stanley Kubrick's family and friends in an era when an "independent cinema" was still far from the norm, Fear and Desire first saw release in 1953 at the Guild Theater in New York, thanks to the enterprising distributor Joseph Burstyn. Now, with this... More
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Paths Of Glory (Blu-Ray)
(1957) [PG]
Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas, in one of his greatest performances): take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal... More
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Sunset Boulevard (Blu-Ray)
(1950) [PG]
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the... More
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The Great Gatsby (Blu-Ray)
(1974) [PG]
F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is a story that could have only taken place in the Jazz Age - an era in which recklessness with money, liquor, women and fast cars pervaded the American consciousness. Robert Redford is Jay Gatsby, the dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with the elusive and... More
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East Of Eden
(1955) [PG]
Based on John Steinbeck's novel and directed by Elia Kazan, East of Eden is the first of three major films that make up James Dean's movie legacy. The 24-year-old idol-to-be plays Cal, a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his... More
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Anna Karenina (2012) (Blu-Ray)
(2012) [M]
The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with director Joe Wright, following the award-winning boxoffice successes 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Atonement,' is the epic love story 'Anna Karenina,' adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard... More
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Anna Karenina (2012)
(2012) [M]
The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with director Joe Wright, following the award-winning boxoffice successes 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Atonement,' is the epic love story 'Anna Karenina,' adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard... More
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The Heiress
(1949) [G]
Olivia De Havilland is Catherine Sloper, an aristocratic young woman living under the scrutiny of her malevolent father. When a handsome but penniless suitor proposes, her father believes he could only be after her vast estate and threatens disinheritance. Can she be rich in both love and money?... More
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Grand Hotel (Blu-Ray)
(1932) [PG]
'People come. People go. Nothing ever happens,' one world-weary patron (Lewis Stone) of Berlin's finest hotel comments. Movie audiences knew better. They were witnessing the glorious comings , goings and intersecting stories of a starry array billed as 'the greatest cast in stage or screen... More
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Mrs. Miniver (Blu-Ray)
(1942) [G]
The Wartime Classic Of A Nation's Darkest - Yet Finest - Hour. Kay Miniver doesn't fly a Spitfire in dogfights over London or ply the North Sea in a battleship, but she's doing her all for wartime England. And she does it so well that Winston Churchill would say Mrs. Miniver was more vital to the... More
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) (Blu-Ray)
(1946) [PG]
The sign outside the roadside diner says "Man Wanted." Drifter Frank Chambers knows the sign has more than one meaning when he eyes pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor. Based on the same-titled novel by James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce), this... More
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Citizen Kane (70th Anniversary edition) (Blu-Ray)
(1941) [G]
Orson Welles' masterwork (No.1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary high-definition digital transfer. It’s grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and... More
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Citizen Kane (70th Anniversary edition)
(1941) [PG]
Orson Welles' masterwork (No.1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary high-definition digital transfer. It’s grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and... More
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