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A Star is Born (2 disc set)
(1954) [G]
Garland stars as rising actress Esther Blodgett who marries a famous leading man Norman Main. As her fame escalates, Norman's begins to fall, descending into tragic alcoholism. This unsettling, intense story is the perfect vehicle for Garland's genius and tremendous Arlen-Gershwin tunes. More
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The Street With No Name
(1948) [G]
Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, femme fatales and moral conflict. The FBI files are filled with many... More
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Roadhouse
(1948) [PG]
Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Jefty is smitten with Lily, who in turn exerts her charms on the more resistant Pete. When Pete finally falls for her and she turns down Jefty's... More
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The Poseidon Adventure
(1972) [PG]
One of the most gripping disaster films of all time, The Poseidon Adventure follows ten survivors as they struggle to escape from an ocean liner capsized by a tidal wave. Suspenseful terror, combined with the victims' intimate and personal stories, results in compelling and heart-stopping drama.... More
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The Sandpiper
(1965) [M]
SHE GAVE MEN A TASTE OF LIFE THAT MADE THEM HUNGER FOR MORE! A vibrant love story set against some of the world's most beautiful scenery, the Big Sur Coast of Northern California. ELIZABETH TAYLOR plays Laura Reynolds - a young woman who has chosen to lead the unfettered life of an artist,... More
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Only Angels Have Wings
(1939) [G]
A two-fisted adventure tale set in South America, Only Angels Have Wings stars Cary Grant as the tough-talking head of an air-freight service operating in the dangerous Andes Mountains. Jean Arthur co-stars as a vacationing showgirl competing with Rita Hayworth for Grant's affections. A potent... More
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Body And Soul
(1947) [PG]
A boxer who has fought his way out of the slums faces the biggest challenge of his life; he has been paid to throw his next title fight..... More
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Murder!
(1930) [PG]
One of Hitchcock’s most frequent techniques was to have his characters get caught up in a web of confusion and chaos that is totally beyond their control. That concept works so very well because most people can readily identify with it. In Murder, Norah Baring is an actress who is caught... More
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Blackboard Jungle
(1955) [PG]
A teacher in a New York slum school fights to win the respect of his pupils. The opening credits are backed by Bill Haley's 'Rock Around The Clock' - the first-ever use of rock music in a feature film.
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In The Heat Of The Night
(1967) [M]
While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime - and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however,... More
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Seven Days In May
(1964) [G]
It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen in America. Or can it? At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and a President with a low public approval rating. At stake is the survival of the... More
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Sink The Bismarck
(1960) [G]
The story of one of World War II's most famous sea battles is brought to the screen in this exciting, semi-documentary style movie. In the Spring of 1941, Nazi Germany's greatest battleship - the Bismarck, scourge of Atlantic shipping, is pinned down at her anchorage in Norway. Making a break for... More
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October 1917 (Ten Days That Shook the World)
(1927) [PG]
Borrowing its title from a book by American journalist John Reed (of Reds fame), Sergei Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World reenacts the crucial week-and-a-half in October, 1918, when the Russian Kerensky regime was toppled by the Bolsheviks. While Eisenstein takes certain liberties in... More
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Don't Look Now
(1973) [M]
Daphne Du Maurier's shattering psychic thriller has rightly taken its place as one the great British horror films. A truly original film, Don't Look Now is a superb psychological thriller, an eerie horror story, and much more. When a little girl is drowned, her parents (Donald Sutherland and... More
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The Wicker Man: The Director's Cut
(1973) [R]
When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) travels to a remote island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle (a brilliant performance by the legendary Christopher Lee), is not what it seems as the devout Christian... More
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Murder On The Orient Express
(1974) [PG]
This 1974 production of Agatha Christie's 1934 classic directed by Sidney Lumet is a judicious mixture of mystery, murder and nostalgia. Which member of the all-star cast, onboard the luxurious train, perforated the no-good American tycoon (Richard Widmark) with a dagger twelve times? Albert... More
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (2 disc set)
(1927) [R]
An attractive woman from the city, on vacation, stays in a small farming community and dazzles a young married farmer. The wicked woman suggests that the man's deceptively dowdy-looking wife might "accidentally" drown. Can he, will he go through with it? The scene changes; in unexpected company,... More
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Spartacus
(1960) [PG]
This presentation of the powerful film classic features an additional five minutes of footage cut from the film's original release, plus the original overture and extended soundtrack. Director Stanley Kubrick tells the tale of Spartacus (Kirk Douglas), the bold gladiator slave and Varinia (Jean... More
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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
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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
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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
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Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage)
(1959) [M]
When a beautiful girl (Edith Scab) is horribly disfigured in a car accident, her brilliant physician father (Pierre Brasseur), the driver of the vehicle, vows to reconstruct her face. Is it out of love for his blemished Christiane? Is it guilt? Or is the diabolical Dr. Genessier making a... More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Notorious
(1946) [PG]
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia... More
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