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Carve Her Name With Pride
(1958) [PG]
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II, Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful, she joins the Resistance, where she stays until captured by the... More
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In Which We Serve
(1942) [G]
This is the story of a Royal Navy destroyer - based on Lord Louis Mountbatten's sailing career during the war - which is dive-bombed in the battle of Crete. As survivors cling to the life rafts, the story of the ship and its crew unfolds from the perspective of the Captain (Noel Coward), Petty... More
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Ill Met By Moonlight
(1957) [G]
The final film from the creative team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. On Nazi-occupied Crete, British officers Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) and Moss (David Oxley), aided by local patriots, are assigned the job of kidnapping the German commander-in-chief General Kreipe (Marius Goring). The... More
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The Wrong Man (1956)
(1956) [PG]
From Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense, a tense thriller based on the true tragedy of an honest man. When Christopher Balestrero decides to borrow money on his wife's insurance policy to pay urgent debts, a tragic chain of shattering events set in motion. Three insurance office clerks are... More
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Coming Home
(1978) [MA]
Perhaps the most powerful picture ever made about the shattering aftermath of the Vietnam War, Hal Ashby's Coming Home earned eight Academy Award nominations and three Oscars: Best Actress (Jane Fonda), Best Actor (Jon Voight) and Best Screenplay. Hailed by critics as dazzling, gripping and... More
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Intolerance
(1916) [M]
From the Babylonian era to the (1916) present day, four stories of intolerance and inhumanity (Modern, Babylonian, Judean and French) interweave to form an amazing spectacle that gains momentum as it moves towards a powerful and memorable climax. Lillian Gish features as the woman in the linking... More
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On The Waterfront
(1954) [PG]
Marlon Brando gives one of the screen's most electrifying performances as Best Actor in this 1954 Academy Award® winner for Best Film. Ex-fighter Terry Malloy (Brando) could have been a contender, but now toils for boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. Terry is... More
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42nd Street
(1933) [G]
Musical tale highlighting the problems of putting on a Broadway musical show. Songs include '42nd Street', 'Shuffle Off To Buffalo' and 'You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me.' Music and lyrics by Al Dubin and Harry Warren. Based on a novel by Bradford Ropes. More
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The Harder They Fall
(1956) [M]
Humphrey Bogart delivers one of his most memorable performances as Eddie Willis, a sportswriter who joins forces with a corrupt boxing promoter (Rod Steiger). Together, they scheme to deceive Toro Moreno (Mike Lane), a clumsy, seven-foot giant, and the public into believing Moreno has a shot at... More
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And God Created Woman
(1956) [PG]
Roger Vadim's directorial debut broke box-office records and censorship taboos in its teasing display of eroticism in the sunny vacation playground of the Saint-Tropez seashore. It also made Brigitte Bardot an international star.
Bardot is Juliette, cinema’s original sex-kitten,... More
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The Diary Of Anne Frank
(1959) [G]
An extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods, The Diary Of Anne Frank features Millie Perkins as the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two year hiding in an Amsterdam attic. At first, the strong-willed teenager embraces her fugitive... More
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Great Expectations
(1946) [G]
David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor, and of the young man trials as he establishes himself in the world. More
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The Taming Of The Shrew
(1967) [G]
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor sparkle as Katharina and Petruchio in Franco Zeffirelli's sumptuous adaptation of Shakespeare's tale of male chauvinism and women's lib in the 16th century. More
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In Cold Blood
(1967) [M]
In Cold Blood is the powerful, true story of a callous muder, based on the best-selling classic by Truman Capote. A prosperous and respected Kansas famer, his wife and his two teenage children are wantonly and brutally sluaghtered. The murderers are two mindless ex-convict drifters: Perry Smith... More
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The Sound Barrier
(1952) [G]
The true story of the jet plane's early days and the committed men who risked all to test the danger levels. An air-craft manufacturer is driven to design the first supersonic aeroplane even if his obsession to break the sound barrier costs him his humanity, the love of his family and the... More
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Grand Hotel
(1932) [PG]
Ruined aristocrat John Barrymore. Terminally ill clerk Lionel Barrymore. Ruthless tycoon Wallace Beery. Scheming stenographer Joan Crawford. And disillusioned ballerina Greta Garbo. Teaming them was a masterstroke whose success fostered more star-packed extravaganzas. The radiant film captured... More
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The Hustler
(1961) [PG]
Paul Newman is electrifying as Fast Eddie Felson, an arrogant, amoral hustler who haunts backstreet pool rooms fleecing anyone who'll pick up a cue. Determined to be acclaimed as the best, Eddie seeks out the legendary Minnesota Fats, who's backed by Bert Gordon, a predatory gambler. Eddie can... More
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Pelle The Conqueror
(1988) [M]
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture, this epic drama about human resilience stars the hypnotic Max Von Sydow as a poor, but never downtrodden widower who emigrates with his young son, Pelle, from the economically depressed Sweden to Denmark at the turn of the century. His... More
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This Happy Breed
(1944) [G]
'This Happy Breed' is a splendidly acted classic portraying how an ordinary British family lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. The inhabitants of 17 Sycamore Road are ordinary people, with their irritable in-laws, their just-plain-folks... More
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Confidential Report (Mr Arkadin)
(1955) [PG]
Guy Van Stratten, a convicted American smuggler, leaves an Italian prison term with one asset, a dying man's words about the wealthy, mysterious and elusive Gregory Arkadin. Guy sets out in search of the enigmatic Arkadin and starts to scrutinize him through his lovely daughter Raina. To thwart... More
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A Summer Place
(1959) [PG]
Troy Donahue's first starring role. A story of middle-aged adultery intertwined with teenage love and adult hypocrisy about it set on an island off the Maine coast. The song "Theme From A Summer Place" was a chart topper the year of the movie's release.
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Peyton Place
(1957) [M]
Based on Grace Metalious' best-selling novel, Peyton Place received an impressive nine Oscar nominations in 1957, including Best Picture. Lana Turner's acclaimed performance as Constance MacKenzie, the single mother of a beautiful teen (Diane Varsi), earned her a Best Actress nomination (Varsi... More
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Hamlet (1948)
(1948) [G]
William Shakespeare's tragic tale of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mourning his father's... More
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The African Queen
(1951) [G]
Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Aunt - the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called The African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn... More
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The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
(1943) [G]
In the Powell and Pressburger classic The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, Roger Livesey brilliantly portrays British officer Clive Candy, through the trials and tribulations of three wars, three loves and a lifelong friendship across enemy lines. During the Boer War, Candy is sent to Berlin to... More
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Little Caesar
(1931) [PG]
"R-I-C-O, Little Caesar, that's who!" Edward G. Robinson bellowed into the phone. And Hollywood got the message: 37 year old Robinson, not gifted with matinee-idol looks, was nonetheless a first-class star and moviegoers hailed the hard-hitting social consciousness dramas that became the... More
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The Sting
(1973) [PG]
Combining startling cinematography, a superb cast and a riveting script, The Sting is a movie that can quite easily be described as a classic. Redford and Newman are brilliant in their portrayals as the couple of con-men and the supporting cast is one of the strongest you will see in any film,... More
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Stage Fright
(1950) [G]
Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herself, but when she meets the detective in... More
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The Cruel Sea
(1953) [PG]
Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott and Virginia McKenna star in a powerful and moving documentary-style account of life on board a British warship during World War 11. Directed by Charles Frend, it is the courageous story of the Battle of the Atlantic – a story of an ocean, a ship and... More
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Belle De Jour
(1967) [M]
Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in... More
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