A Man Escaped
(1956) [G]

Based on a true story, 'A Man Escaped' is set in a Nazi prison in France in 1943. Fontaine is a Resistance fighter sentenced to death, and the film reconstructs his escape plan. Director Bresson won the Best Director award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. French dialogue  More

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

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

Marty
(1955) [G]

Marty has a problem. Middle-aged and trapped by a smothering mother, his future looks bleak. But when this butcher from the Bronx meets a lonely schoolteacher, suddenly everything is possible. Marty swept the Academy Awards in 1955, winning a Best Actor Oscar for Ernest Borgnine and a Best...  More

Rififi
(1955) [PG]

In Jules Dassin's classic noir Rififi, Jean Servais plays Tony le Stephanois, a master thief with a battered face and a tubercular cough, souvenirs of a recent stint in the pen. The aging Tony is reluctant to return to a life of crime, but when he realises his girlfriend has thrown him over for a...  More

Bad Day At Black Rock
(1955) [PG]

The tense story of a one-armed stranger who alights from a train at a sleepy desert town and is greeted by the hostile locals with something to hide. Based on a true story by Howard Breslin.

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Smiles Of A Summer Night
(1955) [PG]

A romantic comedy of manners with a satirical edge, Smiles of a Summer’s Night takes place in 1900 and was inspired in part by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Full of subtle eroticism and wit, Ingmar Bergman’s romance proposes that falling in love - or lust - beyond the...  More

From Here To Eternity
(1953) [PG]

In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio (Frank Sinatra) tries to help him but has his own...  More

Wages of Fear
(1953) [M]

In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerene are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivallry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death. Subtitled...  More

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