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Drama Classics

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The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three

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The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three
(1974) [M]


An all-star cast, including Walter Matthau and Martin Balsam with Robert Shaw (Jaws) deliver sure-fire entertainment that's enthralling from beginning to end" (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on the sizzling best-seller by John Godey, this pulse-pounding picture is guaranteed to give you the ride...  More


 
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
(1958) [PG]


"I'm not living with you," Maggie snaps at Brick. "We occupy the same cage, that's all." The raw emotions and crackling dialogue of Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play rumble like a thunderstorm in this film version whose fiery performances and grown-up themes made it a...  More


 
Sweet Smell Of Success

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Sweet Smell Of Success
(1957) [PG]


A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this "fascinating, compelling story" (The Hollywood Reporter) crackles with "taut direction and whiplash dialogue" (Time Magazine). Bristling with "vivid performances" by Curtis and...  More


 
All The King's Men

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All The King's Men
(1949) [PG]


All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Starks from a rural county seat to the spotlight. Along the way, he loses his initial innocence, and becomes just as corrupt as those he originally labeled "corrupt". Also included is the romance between one of his "right hand...  More


 
The Tree Of Wooden Clogs

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The Tree Of Wooden Clogs
(1978) [G]


Olmi gathered together an ensemble cast of peasants from the area as actors, used direct sound and shot in almost documentary style. The result is a wonderfully authentic film whose characters exist so naturally that you are immediately transported to another time and place. A testament to the...  More


 
The Eagle Has Landed

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The Eagle Has Landed
(1977) [PG]


Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin. The seemingly impossible assignment becomes more and more feasible as the mission grows nearer with Steiner and his men arriving in England...  More


 
The Thief Of Bagdad (1940)

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The Thief Of Bagdad (1940)
(1940) [G]


This spectacular romantic fantasy, in the best tradition of the Arabian Nights, features the boy thief Sabu, who aids the deposed King of Bagdad, Ahmad, to try and thwart the evil usurper Jaffar. When Ahmad sets eyes on the beautiful Princess, daughter of the Sultan, he falls hopelessly in love....  More


 
French Connection 2

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French Connection 2
(1975) [M]


Gene Hackman reprises his Oscar-winning role as Popeye Doyle, the hard-nosed New York detective determined to break a French narcotics ring. Kidnapped by heroin kingpin Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) in Marseilles, Doyle is mercilessly forced to become a junkie himself. Upon his release, Doyle...  More


 
The Old Man And The Sea

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The Old Man And The Sea
(1958) [PG]


Based on the classic, Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The story of an aging, life-long fisherman attempting to find himself, and hopefully a fish, on a fishing trip in the gulf waters off Cuba. After spending most of his life alone, and losing his only...  More


 
All About Eve

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All About Eve
(1950) [PG]


From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davies). The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even...  More


 
An Affair To Remember

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An Affair To Remember
(1957) [G]


In this poignant and humorous love story nominated for four Academy Awards, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later if they still feel the same way about each other. But the lovers'...  More


 
Krakatoa, East Of Java

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Krakatoa, East Of Java
(1969) [PG]


Join in the adventure and danger of the original - and best - volcano movie as Captain Chris Hanson and a group of eager treasure hunters search the Indonesian waters for a sunken pearl ship. Recruiting an over-the-hill deep-sea diver, a claustrophobic inventor and some beautiful Polynesian pearl...  More


 
To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill A Mockingbird
(1962) [PG]


Harper Lee's semi-autobiographical novel was the basis for this award-winning and heart-stirring drama. Young Scout Finch, a six-year-old tomboy, witnesses the racist bigotry of her small Alabama town when her idealistic lawyer father Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends a black man accused of...  More


 
The Omen (1976)

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The Omen (1976)
(1976) [MA]


When Kathy Thorn (Lee Remick) gives birth to a stillborn baby, her husband Robert (Gregory Peck) shields her from he devastating truth and substitutes an orphaned infant for their own -- unaware of the child's satanic origins. The horror begins on Damien's fifth birthday when his nanny stages a...  More


 
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969) [M]


One of the most popular screen westerns ever made, this Academy Award winning classic bleeds adventure, romance and comedy to tell the true story of the West's most likeable outlaws. No one is quicker than Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) when it comes to get rich quick schemes, and his sidekick...  More


 
The Story Of G. I. Joe

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The Story Of G. I. Joe
(1945) [PG]


Robert Mitchum and Burgess Meredith star in this gripping World War II drama based on the newspaper columns of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Directed by legendary filmmaker William Wellman, The Story Of G.I. Joe depicts Ernie Pyle's (Meredith) experiences with the men of...  More


 
And Then There Were None

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And Then There Were None
(1945) [PG]


At first glance, Rene Clair might seem an odd match for Agatha Christie's mystery thriller Ten Little Indians, but his buoyant touch is exactly what is missing from so many overly solemn remakes. Ten strangers gather for a mysterious gathering on a secluded island. It turns out to be a farewell...  More


 
Indochine

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Indochine
(1991) [M]


Eliane is a wealthy French plantation owner living in Indochina in the 1930's with her father and adopted native daughter Camille. She has a brief affair with a young officer, Jean-Baptiste, but after she has ended it, to her dismay discovers that Camille is madly in love with the young man....  More


 
Written on the Wind

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Written on the Wind
(1956) [PG]


Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star cast that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall...  More


 
A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange
(1971) [R]


Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has his own way of having a good time. He has it all at the tragic expense of others. Alex’s journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the...  More


 
Barry Lyndon

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Barry Lyndon
(1975) [PG]


How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of the 18th-century English nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O’Neal) the answer is: any way he can! Barry is a pining suitor, a duellist, a vagabond, a soldier in the Seven Years War, a rogue, a spy, a card shark - all way stations on the...  More


 
Ben-Hur

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Ben-Hur
(1959) [PG]


Having swept the board at the Academy awards, Ben Hur achieved an outstanding feat in film history, winning eleven Oscars in 1959 including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. After a ten month production schedule and a then massive $15 million budget, this 1950's epic movie has always...  More


 
The Battleship Potemkin

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The Battleship Potemkin
(1925) [PG]


After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship Potemkin. Fed...  More


 
The Birth Of A Nation

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The Birth Of A Nation
(1915) [M]


D.W. Griffith's spectacular silent masterpiece is available for the first time on DVD. The most successful silent film ever, The Birth of a Nation remains America's most controversial cinematic landmark.  More


 
Broken Blossoms

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Broken Blossoms
(1919) [M]


A Chinese man visits London in the hope that he can bring the message of Buddha to others. He falls in love with the daughter of a prize fighter and cares for her when she is beaten. Their friendship is to prove fateful... Silent with the original 1919 orchestral score by Louis F. Gottschalk....  More


 
Ivan The Terrible: Part 2 (New digital restoration) (2 disc set)

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Ivan The Terrible: Part 2 (New digital restoration) (2 disc set)
(1946) [PG]


The second part of Sergei Eisenstein's baroque chronicle of the legendary Russian czar was originally planned as a three-part epic. But Eisenstein had battles with Russian censors over the second part of his trilogy, ostensibly because of a negative depiction of Ivan's secret police force (Stalin...  More


 
The Towering Inferno

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The Towering Inferno
(1974) [PG]


Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) is an architect who has just returned from a long vacation to find the work on his new skyscraper nearly completed. He goes to its Opening Party concerned he's found that his wiring specifications have not been followed. The party goes on, despite the building's wiring...  More


 
Dogs In Space (2 disc set)

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Dogs In Space (2 disc set)
(1987) [R]


The film is set in a house occupied by a collection of social misfits. The main storyline is that of a strange musician's relationship with a girl, their drug use and his band. These events are surrounded by a chaotic myriad of sub-plots. A homicidal chainsaw maniac's lust for his machine and a...  More


 
The Greatest Story Ever Told

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The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965) [G]


The Greatest Story Ever Told is director George Stevens' magnificent Biblical film, handled with reverence, artistic appreciation and admirable restraint. The story of Jesus of Nazareth (played by Max Von Sydow), from his humble birth to his crucifixion and ultimate resurrection. Lavishly...  More


 
King Of Kings

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King Of Kings
(1961) [G]


"An intelligent, imaginative movie devoid of conventional Hollywood pieties." -Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide., Who is Jesus and why does he powerfully impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would...  More


 
 
 

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