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Director Ken Russell s moving adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence s novel is set i... Director Ken Russell s moving adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence s novel is set in 1920s England and chronicles the complicated romantic lives of artist Gudrun Brangwen (Glenda Jackson who won a Best Actress Oscar) and her sister schoolmistress Ursula... more

Aloof teenage Japanese tourists a frazzled Italian widow and a disgruntled Bri... Aloof teenage Japanese tourists a frazzled Italian widow and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams-which in Mystery Train from Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise Night on Earth) is Memphis. Made with it s director s... more

This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the... This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (I Know Where I m Going! the Red Shoes). a group of nuns - played by some of Britain s... more

Martin Scorsese directs this lavish filming of Edith Wharton s classic novel s... Martin Scorsese directs this lavish filming of Edith Wharton s classic novel set against the backdrop of New York society of the 1870s. Aristocratic lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) questions his wedding plans when he falls for fiancée May... more

Writer/director Sofia Coppola s acclaimed debut feature based on Jeffrey Eugen... Writer/director Sofia Coppola s acclaimed debut feature based on Jeffrey Eugenides novel traces the tragic ends of the five beautiful teenage Lisbon sisters in a 70s Michigan suburb. Through narration by a now-grown man who worshipped the girls from... more

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH from director Francesco Rosi (SALVATORE GIULIANO) is a vis... THE MOMENT OF TRUTH from director Francesco Rosi (SALVATORE GIULIANO) is a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo known as Miguelin. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus... more

American director Joshua Marston broke out in 2004 with his jolting Oscar-nomi... American director Joshua Marston broke out in 2004 with his jolting Oscar-nominated MARIA FULL OF GRACE about a young Colombian woman working as a drug mule. In his remarkable follow-up THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD he turns his camera on another corner... more

John Schlesinger followed his Academy Award winning MIDNIGHT COWBOY with this ... John Schlesinger followed his Academy Award winning MIDNIGHT COWBOY with this sophisticated and highly personal take on love and sex. SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirty... more

Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton... Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (TRAFFIC S Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne er-do-well younger brother (MILK S Sean Penn) on his forty-eighth birthday: A voucher for a game that if... more

In what has to be the most comprehensive set of it s kind 53 separate cinemati... In what has to be the most comprehensive set of it s kind 53 separate cinematic chronicles of the Winter and Summer Olympic Games-spanning 41 different contests from 1912-2012-are collected here. The earliest surviving Olympic documentary The Games... more

Icon of the American avant-garde Hollis Frampton made rigorous audacious brain... Icon of the American avant-garde Hollis Frampton made rigorous audacious brainy and downright thrilling films leaving behind a body of work that remains unparalleled. In the 1960s having started out as a poet and photographer Frampton became... more

In ALAMBRISTA! a farm worker sneaks across the border from Mexico into Califor... In ALAMBRISTA! a farm worker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day told here in an uncompromising groundbreaking work of realism from... more

THE 39 STEPS is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock (PSYCHO) followin... THE 39 STEPS is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock (PSYCHO) following Richard Hannay (Oscar winner Robert Donat of GOODBYE MR. CHIPS) who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moorsa chase in... more

Twelve-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) all coiled anger and furious motion is li... Twelve-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) all coiled anger and furious motion is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father (SUMMER HOURS Jeremie Renier). He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man... more

Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock s elegantly crafted Rebecca hi... Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock s elegantly crafted Rebecca his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier s 1938 novel the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who believes... more

Four decades into an already legendary career Terrence Malick realized his mos... Four decades into an already legendary career Terrence Malick realized his most rapturous vision to date tracing a story of childhood wonder and grief to the outer limits of time and space. Reaching back to the dawn of creation Malick sets a story... more

In the 1940s the wit of playwright Noel Coward (DESIGN FOR LIVING) and the cra... In the 1940s the wit of playwright Noel Coward (DESIGN FOR LIVING) and the craft of filmmaker David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) melded harmoniously in one of cinemas greatest writer-director collaborations. With the wartime military drama sensation IN... more

The great Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov (THE CRANES ARE FLYING) known for ... The great Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov (THE CRANES ARE FLYING) known for his virtuosic emotionally gripping films perhaps never directed one more visually astonishing than LETTER NEVER SENT. This absorbing tale of exploration and survival... more

With a father having gone to the gallows Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) grew up wi... With a father having gone to the gallows Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) grew up with no end of stigma and bullying in his small town... and one fateful night a fistfight with privileged lifelong tormentor Jerry Sykes (Lloyd Bridges) turned deadly.... more

Julianne Moore (SHORT CUTS) gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White a ... Julianne Moore (SHORT CUTS) gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis she comes to believe that... more