Title: Citizen Kane(1941) Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane. Summary: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being Rosebud, which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. |
Title: The Godfather(1972) Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, Al Lettieri, Diane Keaton, Abe Vigoda, Talia Shire. Summary: The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged. |
Title: Casablanca(1942) Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre. Summary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. |
Title: Raging Bull(1980) Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty. Summary: De Niro stars as champion boxer Jake La Motta, who rose from the streets of the Bronx to the heights of his sport, only to find disillusionment and corruption as well as fame. |
Title: Singin' In The Rain(1952) Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, Douglas Fowley, Rita Moreno. Summary: Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as well as his buddy, prospective ladylove and shrewish co-star. |
Title: Gone With The Wind(1939) Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neill, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Carroll Nye, Laura Hope Crews, Ona Munson. Summary: An epic story of the South's fight to maintain its way of life during the Civil War years. Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in order to save herself and her family. |
Title: Lawrence Of Arabia(1962) Cast: Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy. Summary: The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity. |
Title: Schindler's List(1993) Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle, Embeth Davidtz. Summary: The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa that overlooks the prison camp he commands. |
Title: Vertigo(1958) Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Summary: An elaborately constructed murder story and a fascinating study in sexual obsession. A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot in which a girl he loves apparently falls to her death. He then meets her double and tries to re-create the image of the woman he has loved but lost in death. |
Title: The Wizard of Oz(1939) Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Toto (dog). Summary: Delightful musical fantasy tale about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who dreams of the magical land of Oz. |
Title: City Lights(1931) Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Allan Garcia, Hank Mann. Summary: A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight. |
Title: The Searchers(1956) Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood. Summary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family. |
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Title: Psycho(1960) Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin. Summary: Anthony Perkins stars as the troubled Norman Bates, whose old dark house and adjoining motel serve as the setting for murder. |
Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968) Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter. Summary: A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future. |
Title: Sunset Blvd(1950) Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton. Summary: Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with a young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad, he tries to leave, but Norma kills him in a scene which she believes is the highlight of her comeback movie. |
Title: The Graduate(1967) Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross. Summary: A rich, recent college graduate comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and daughter of his father's friend. |
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Title: On The Waterfront(1954) Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, James Westerfield, Eva Marie Saint. Summary: An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss. |
Title: It's A Wonderful Life(1946) Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Ward Bond, Frank Faylen, Gloria Grahame, H. B. Warner. Summary: Sentimental classic about a young man who attempts to end his own life, only to be shown the error of his ways by his guardian angel. |
Title: Chinatown(1974) Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, Bruce Glover, Joe Mantell, Roy Jenson, Diane Ladd, Dick Bakalyan, John Huston. Summary: Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown. |
Title: Some Like It Hot(1959) Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown, George Raft, Pat O'Brien. Summary: Two unemployed muscians accidently witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians. |
Title: The Grapes Of Wrath(1940) Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury. Summary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. |
Title: E.T.The Extra-Terrestrial(1982) Cast: Summary: A moving story of a lost little alien who befriends a 10-year-old boy named Elliott. While E.T. learns about life on Earth, Elliott learns that friendship knows no earthly bounds. |
Title: To Kill A Mockingbird(1962) Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, Rosemary Murphy, John Megna, Frank Overton, Brock Peters, Alice Ghostley, William Windom. Summary: Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. |
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(1939) Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi. Summary: Washington's youngest senator exposes corruption in high places, almost at the cost of his career. |
Title: High Noon(1952) Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney, Henry Morgan, Lee Van Cleef. Summary: This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife. |
Title: All about Eve(1950) Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Marilyn Monroe. Summary: From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit. |
Title: Double Indemnity(1944) Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather. Summary: Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out. |
Title: Apocalypse Now(1979) Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, Dennis Hopper. Summary: A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War. |
Title: The Maltese Falcon(1941) Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet. Summary: After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette. |
Title: The Godfather Part ll(1974) Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Lee Strasberg, Michael V. Gazzo, G.P. Spradlin, Richard Bright, Gaston Moschin, Tom Rosqui. Summary: In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael conspires to make inroads in the Las Vegas and Havana pleasure industries by any means necessary. As he realizes that even his allies are trying to kill him, the increasingly paranoid Michael also discovers that his ambition has crippled his marriage to Kay and turned his brother Fredo against him. Barely escaping a federal indictment, Michael decides to turn his attention to dealing with his enemies, completing his own corruption. |
Title: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest(1975) Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif. Summary: Tells the adventures of a free-spirited mental ward inmate whose rebelliousness pits him against the repressive head nurse, and whose charm wins him the loyalty of his fellow inmates. |
Title: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1937) Cast: Adriana Caselotti (Snow White), Harry Stockwell (The Prince), Lucille LaVerne (The Queen), Roy Atwell (Doc), Pinto Colvig (Sleepy). Summary: Retells the story of a princess who escapes her wicked stepmother by hiding out in the home of seven hospitable dwarfs. |
Title: Annie Hall(1977) Cast: Screenplay, Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman; director, Woody Allen; producer, Charles H. Joffe; photography, Gordon Mills. Summary: Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this nervous romance for modern times. |
Title: The bridge On The River Kwai(1957) Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne. Summary: British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy. |
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives(1946) Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George, Roman Bohnen, Ray Collins, Victor Cutler. Summary: Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands. |
Title: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948) Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya. Summary: Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune. |
Title: Dr. Strangelove(1964) Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens. Summary: In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian Doomsday Device. The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom. |
Title: The Sound Of Music(1965) Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker. Summary: Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment. |
Title: King Kong(1933) Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Jan Hardy, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente, James Flavin. Summary: Carl Denham is a filmmaker and entrepreneur who leads an expedition to Skull Island. The island is a place where time has stood still. The natives pay homage to the one whom they revere as Kong, and who is, indeed, king of the island. Denham, together with his beautiful starlet, Ann Darrow, and the crew of the ship, investigate the strange ritual being performed on the island by its native population. Ann finds herself captured by the natives and is to become the bride of the mysterious Kong. The ship's first mate, Jack Driscoll, who is in love with Ann, manages to rescue her from the clutches of Kong. Denham then arranges to capture the creature, whom he calls King Kong and takes him back to New York. |
Title: Bonnie and Clyde(1967) Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons. Summary: A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. |
Title: Midnight Cowboy(1969) Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voigt, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White, Sylvia Miles, Barnard Hughes. Summary: A Texas cowboy takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services but spends a hard winter helping a con man. |
Title: The Philadelphia Story(1940) Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler. Summary: A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage. |
Title: Shane(1953) Cast: Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Walter Jack Palance, Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan. Summary: A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun. |
Title: It Happened One Night(1934) Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns. Summary: A runaway heiress falls in love with a reporter who is chasing her across America. |
Title: A Streetcar Named Desire(1951) Cast: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden. Summary: An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is abused and eventually driven mad by her brother-in-law. |
Title: Rear Window(1954) Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr. Summary: As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in film history. |
Title: Intolerance(1916) Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Constance Talmadge, Elmer Clifton, and Miriam Cooper. Summary: Made in response to charges of racial prejudice following Griffith's Birth of a Nation, this film dramatizes four separate historical events to show the pervasiveness of hatred and intolerance throughout history. The solitary figure of Lillian Gish rocking a cradle is the film's unifying image. |
Title: The Lord Of The Rings: Cast: Voices: Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler, Dominic Guard. Summary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandolf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed. |
Title: The Fellowship Of The Ring(2001) Cast: Narrator, Phil Crowley. Summary: Through the examination of myth, legend, language and history, an exploration of how the imaginary world of Middle-Earth reflects our own. Includes interviews with the cast, filmmakers, explorers, anthropologists, and archaeologists. |
Title: West Side Story(1961) Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakaris. Summary: This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets. |
Title: Taxi Driver(1976) Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd. Summary: A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption. |
Title: The Deer Hunter(1978) Cast: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken. Summary: Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress. |
Title: M*A*S*H(1970) Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Jo Ann Pflug, Rene Auberjonois. Summary: |
Title: North By Northwest(1959) Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason. Summary: An ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agents. |
Title: Jaws(1977) Cast: Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton. Summary: A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it. |
Title: Rocky(1976) Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith. Summary: Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time. He works in a meat factory in Philadelphia for a meager wages so he also earns extra cash as a debt collector. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer. The promoters are touting the fight as a chance for a nobody to become a somebody. The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time. |
Title: The Gold Rush(1925) Cast: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite, Georgia Hale. Summary: The Little Tramp searches for gold and love in the Klondike. Includes both a restored version of the original 1925 silent film, and the 1942 re-issue, the latter featuring a new score and narration written and spoken by Charles Chaplin. |
Title: Nashville(1975) Cast: Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Barbara Harris, Karen Black Summary: Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music. |
Title: Duck Soup (1933) Cast: Cast: The 4 Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo), Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, Louis Calhern, Edmund Breese, Leonid Kinsky, Charles B. Middleton, Edgar Kennedy. Summary: As Prime Minister Firefly of Freedonia, Groucho soon reduces the kingdom to shambles. Harpo and Chico are secret agents disguised as peanut vendors and Zeppo is Firefly's secretary. |
Title: Sullivan's Travels (1958) 1941 Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Margaret Hayes, Porter Hall, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore, Robert Greig, Georges Renavent, Harry Rosenthal. Summary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter. |
Title: American Graffiti (1973) Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Ronny Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charlie Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Wolfman Jack. Summary: Four teenagers come of age on their last summer night before college in 1962. |
Title: Cabaret (1972) Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey. Summary: An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret. |
Title: Network (1976) Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Bill Burrows, John Carpenter, Jordan Charney. Summary: A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the ratings. |
Title: The African Queen (1951) Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Peter Swanwick, Richard Marner. Summary: A hard-drinking river trader and a prim missionary become unlikely travel companions on a river expedition in the war-torn African jungle in 1914 as they battle nature, a German gunboat, and each other. |
Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis. Summary: A freewheeling, headlong slide into the corrosive hell of a marriage twisted by years of hatred and humiliation. |
Title: Unforgiven(1992) Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris. Summary: Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. |
Title: Tootsie (1982) Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Geena Davis, Bill Murray. Summary: Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as Dorothy Michaels and lands the part. All goes well until Dorothy falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for Dorothy. |
Title: A Clockwork Orange (1971) Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin. Summary: Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying cities, murderous adolescents and nightmarish technologies of punishment and crime. |
Title: Saving Private Ryan (1998) Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore. Summary: Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. |
Title: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore. Summary: Andy is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and sentenced to the toughest prison in the Northeast. Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, based on a short story by Stephen King. |
Title: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey, Henry Jones. Summary: Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels. |
Title: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine. Summary: FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. |
Title: In the Heat of the Night (1967) Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant. Summary: A small town Southern sheriff finds himself in an uneasy alliance with a big-city black homicide detective as they investigate a murder. |
Title: Forrest Gump (1994) Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field. Summary: The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody a generation. |
Title: All the President's Men (1976) Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jane Alexander. Summary: The true story of how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the White House involvement in the Watergate break in. |
Title: Modern Times (1936) Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard. Summary: A satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and singing waiter. Primarily silent with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios. |
Title: The Wild Bunch (1969) Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates. Summary: The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West |
Title: The Apartment (1960) Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Hope Holiday, Edie Adams. Summary: An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend. |
Title: Spartacus (1960) Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Tony Curtis. Summary: Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom. |
Title: Sunrise (1927) Cast: Summary: |
Title: Titanic (1997) Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Peter Gallagher, Marilu Henner, George C. Scott, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger Rees, Harley Jane Kozak. Summary: Everyone bought into the ultimately fatal myth of her being unsinkable. What makes the Titanic saga so compelling are the private stories of those who embarked on the fateful crossing, many of whom we meet in this gripping drama. |
Title: Easy Rider (1969) Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson. Summary: Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America. |
Title: A Night at the Opera (1935) Cast: The Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones. Summary: A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan. |
Title: Platoon(1986) Cast: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen. Summary: Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself. |
Title: 12 Angry Men(1957) Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Robert Webber. Summary: Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons. |
Title: Bringining Up Baby(1938) Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Fritz Feld. Summary: An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention. |
Title: The Sixth Sense(1999) Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Bruce Willis. Summary: A noted child psychologist attempts to help a frightened 8 year old boy who is experiencing terrifying visions. |
Title: Swing Time(1936) Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa. Summary: Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include The Way you look tonight. |
Title: Sophie's Choice(1982) Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol. Summary: A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor. |
Title: Goodfellas(1990) Cast: Summary: |
Title: The French Connection(1971) Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi. Summary: Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France. |
Title: Pulp Fiction(1994) Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stolz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis. Summary: Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers. |
Title: The Last Picture Show(1971) Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd. Summary: Story of the social and sexual mores in small-town Texas. |
Title: Do The Right Thing(1989) Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bull Nunn, John Turturro. Summary: Traces the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever. |
Title: Blade Runner(1982) Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah. Summary: Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a blade runner stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the uplifting finale. |
Title: Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942) Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Jeanne Cagney, Frances Langford, George Tobias, Irene Manning. Summary: Special features: All-new digital transfer from restored picture and audio elements; documentaries chronicling the movie's making and James Cagney's career; audio commentary; John Travolta remembers James Cagney; Leonard Maltin hosts Warner night at the movies 1942 with trailer, newsreel, dramatic short, cartoon Bugs Bunny gets the boid and galleries of art/photo/publicity materials and James Cagney trailers; audio-only extras; radio show and prerecording session outtakes/rehearsals. |
Title: Toy Story(1995) Cast: Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenger, Annie Potts, Laurie Metcalf, Penn Jillette. Summary: Hilarious fantasy about the lives of toys when they are left alone. |
Title: Ben-Hur(1959) Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe. Summary: A peace-loving prince of Judea, leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he learns to fight, to love, to hate and, finally, to forgive. |