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Director: Jesus Franco    More Info
Starring: Maria Schell, Maria Rohm, Elisa Montes, Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Mercedes McCambridge, Rosalba Neri, Valentina Godoy, Jose Maria Blanco, Maria Perschy

 Director Jesus Franco adds a "women-in-prison" storyline to his genre collection as the oppressive prison environment at a women's prison leads to an escape attempt.

Director: Bo Widerberg    More Info
Starring: Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund, Stefan Feierbach, Marie De Geer, Anita Bjork, Martin Widerberg, Olof Bergstrom, Jonas Bergstrom, Olle Bjorling

 On May 14, 1931, strikebreakers were assaulted in Sandviken, Sweden, and five people were killed. This is the story of that tragedy, which was the result of the military unleashing its power. The film received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Film.

Director: Michael Powell    More Info
Starring: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glyn, Peggy Cass, Frank Thring, Andonia Katsaros, Michael Boddy, Harold Hopkins

 This offbeat film has painter Bradley Morahan (James Mason) returning to Australia and upsetting the citizens when he uses a very young Cora (Helen Mirren) as his nude model.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto    More Info
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Etsushi Takahashi, Shima Iwashita, Minori Terada, Shigeru Koyama, Nobuko Otowa, Yuko Mochizuki, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Tokue Hanazawa, Kawai Okada

 After a ten-year absence, Gonzo (Toshiro Mifune) returns to his village as a representative of the new emperor. His mission is to tell the villagers that there will be a cut in taxes, and he plans to bring an end to the villagers' suffering. But, when the army rescinds the tax cut and attacks the village, Gonzo is left with no choice but to lay siege on the army.

Director: Arthur Penn    More Info
Starring: Arlo Guthrie, Patricia(2) Quinn, James Broderick, Michael McClanathan, Geoff Outlaw, Tina Chen, M. Emmet Walsh

 Based on Arlo Guthrie's satirical song about life in the mid-1960s, this film marks Guthrie's film debut. He plays the hero of the song whose good deed of taking Alice's trash to the dump comes back to haunt (and save) him when he is about to be inducted into the U.S. Army. Arthur Penn received an Oscar nomination for Best Director.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky    More Info
Starring: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Irma Raush, Nikolai Burlyayev, Yuri Nazarav, Yuri Nikulin, Rolan Bykov, Nikolai Grabbe

 Fifteenth-century monk Andrei Rublev (Anatoli Solonitsyn) roams medieval Russia amidst the barbaric Tartar invaders. Rublev loses his faith, but he is able to restore it when he is influenced by the total faith of a bell caster.

Director: Charles Jarrott    More Info
Starring: Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos, Michael Hordern, Peter Jeffrey, Katherine Blake, Joseph O'Conor, Vernon Dobtcheff

 Anne Boleyn (Genevieve Bujold), married to Henry VIII (Richard Burton), becomes the victim when divorce is not granted by the Pope. Henry solves the problem by ordering Anne's execution, withdrawing from the Roman Catholic Church, and forming the Church of England. The film had nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Supporting Actor (Anthony Quinn), and won for Best Costume Design.

Director: Sidney Lumet    More Info
Starring: Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimee, Lotte Lenya, Fausto Tozzi, Ennio Balbo, Didi Perego

 Frederico Fendi (Omar Sharif) is a brilliant lawyer; however, his brilliance does not extend into his personal life–as is evident when he marries Carla (Anouk Aimee) and neither can survive his obsessive jealousy.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg    More Info
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Myrna Loy, Charles Boyer, Harvey Korman, Sally Kellerman, Melinda Dillon, Kenneth Mars

 Slapstick is the name of the game in this comedy about Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon) who is unhappily married to Phyllis (Sally Kellerman). While attending a party at the home of his boss Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford), Howard meets and is attracted to Ted's wife Catherine (Catherine Deneuve). After Catherine tells Howard that she is planning to leave Ted, they fly off to Paris together.

Director: Elia Kazan    More Info
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone, Hume Cronyn, Michael Higgins, Carol Rossen, Harold Gould, Michael Murphy, Charles Drake

 Unhappy with his job and marriage, Eddie (Kirk Douglas) tries and fails to commit suicide. He then ignores his wife's (Deborah Kerr) needs and has an affair with a coworker (Faye Dunaway). Finally, he recognizes that his problems come from his unsatisfactory relationship with his own father (Richard Boone).

Director: Gerard Patris    More Info


 This good Documentary from France tells the story of the amazing musician Arthur Rubinstein. The film won a Best Documentary Academy Award.

Director: Earl Bellamy    More Info
Starring: Neville Brand, James Drury, Doug McClure, Peter Brown, Fernando Lamas, Rhonda Fleming, Ida Lupino, Royal Dano, L.Q. Jones, Philip Carey

 Using scenes from "The Virginian" and "Laredo," this film features Doug McClure as Trampas–an adventurer who happens upon murder and mayhem after a train robbery.

Director: Guy Hamilton    More Info
Starring: Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Robert Shaw, Trevor Howard, Laurence Olivier, Curt Jurgens, Kenneth More, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York

 This story recounts the famous battle of World War II involving the British Royal Air Force taking on the German Luftwaffe. Sir Laurence Olivier heads up the air group as flight commander Sir Hugh Dowdling whose leadership contributed to driving off the Luftwaffe's planes that outnumbered the R.A.F (650 R.A.F. planes vs. 2,500 Luftwaffe planes) in the Battle of Britain.

Director: Veljko Bulajic    More Info
Starring: Yul Brynner, Curt Jurgens, Sergei Bondarchuk, Orson Welles, Hardy Kruger, Sylva Koscina, Franco Nero

 The original filmed version of this movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Sadly, the effect was lost when more than 60 minutes of celluloid was deleted from the American reproduction. While the plot now appears confused, it is the story of the Nazis' brutal invasion of Yugoslavia in 1943.

Director: J. Lee Thompson    More Info
Starring: David Niven, Topol, Anna Karina, John Hurt, Anthony Quayle, Ori Levy, John Collin, Karel Stepanek, Guy Deghy, George Innes

 During 1945, in an Austrian camp for displaced persons, British Major Giles Burnside (David Niven) is given the job of dispatching civilians to either the Russian or the American zones. Burnside is aided by a multilingual refugee, Janovic (Topol), who, it turns out, is not the person he pretends to be.

Director: Alex March    More Info
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin, Lee Grant, James Daly, Robert Webber, Cindy Eilbacher, Noam Pitlik, Victor Paul, Kevin O'Neal

 Don't be fooled by the well-known cast–this film is rotten. Farmhand Jack (Ryan O'Neal in his feature film debut) starts a torrid romance with the wild, teen mistress of a plantation owner. Murder and suicide add to the trashy goings-on in this sex-filled soaper.

Director: Tito Davison    More Info
Starring: Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan, Dan O'Herlihy, Karin Mossberg, Pamela Rodgers, Carlos East, Augusto Benedico, Victor Junco, Norma Herrera

 Adriana (Lana Turner) inherits a fortune after her husband Charles (Dan O'Herlihy) dies, but her stepdaughter Lisa (Karin Mossberg) plots to steal the inheritance. Hippy Lisa is romantically involved with medical student Johnny Allen (George Chakiris) who sells LSD on the side. They lace Adriana's sleeping pills with LSD to the extent that she ends up committed to an asylum. Then, Broadway playwright Frederick Lansdale (Richard Egan) steps in and tries to rescue Adriana. Will he accomplish his goal in time, or will Lisa and Johnny succeed in taking Adriana's money?

Director: Various Directors    More Info
Starring: Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Stan Laurel, Lucille Ball, Marie Dressler, Carole Lombard, Lionel Barrymore, Marion Davies, Spencer Tracy, Oliver Hardy

 Scenes from comedies are presented in this video made up from great moments in both silent and sound film.

Director: Al Adamson    More Info
Starring: Paula Raymond, Alexander D'Arcy, John Carradine, Gene Otis Shayne, Jennifer Bishop, Robert Dix, Ray Young, Vicki Volante, John "Bud" Cardos, Ken Osborne

 Count and Countess Townsend (Alexander D'Arcy and Paula Raymond)–in reality Dracula and his wife–show up in modern-day California where their butler (John Carradine) and his hunchback assistant (Ray Young) tend to the food supply consisting of the blood of young women chained in the dungeon.

Director: Paul Mazursky    More Info
Starring: Robert Culp, Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon, Horst Ebersberg, Lee Bergere, Donald F. Muhich, K.T. Stevens, Noble Lee Holoderread Jr., Celeste Yarnall

 This very funny account of four people–Bob and Carol Sanders (Robert Culp and Natalie Wood) and Ted and Alice (Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon)–who are determined to be completely honest with each other, even to the point of an attempted orgy among the four of them, ends up with the group discovering that they are more conservative than they believed.

Director: Giuseppe Colizzi    More Info
Starring: Terence Hill, Woody Strode, Bud Spencer, Eduardo Ciannelli, Victor Buono, Lionel Stander, Glauco Onorato, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Nazzareno Zamperla, Maurizio Manetti

 Cat Stevens (Terrence Hill) and pal Hutch Bessy (Bud Spencer) are again involved in stopping the desperados–this time they get unexpected help from circus performers.

Director: John Guillermin    More Info
Starring: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Peter van Eyck, Tom Heaton, Matt Clark, Bo Hopkins, Robert Logan

 Toward the end of World War II, U.S. troops attempted to capture the last remaining bridge over the Rhine River to keep the Germans from destroying it. Meanwhile, the German officer in charge (Robert Vaughn) delayed the demolition, which precluded German soldiers from returning home. Good acting.

Director: George Roy Hill    More Info
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Cloris Leachman, Jeff Corey, George Furth, Kenneth Mars, Ted Cassidy

 This film earned Burt Bacharach an Oscar for his classic song, "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the title roles. The infamous bandits just barely escape from the law and head to Bolivia, accompanied by Etta Case (Katharine Ross) who is Sundance's woman. A timeless classic not to be missed. There were three other Oscars (Best Writing, Cinematography and Musical Score) as well as three additional nominations (Best Picture, Director, Sound).

Director: J. Lee Thompson    More Info
Starring: Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie, Conrad Yama, Keye Luke, Burt Kwouk, Zienia Merton, Ori Levy, Eric Young

 Nobel Prize-winning teacher John Hathaway (Gregory Peck) is coerced into performing espionage service for the United States when the Chairman (Conrad Yama) of the Chinese Communist Party asks him for help with a scientific problem.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren    More Info
Starring: Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French, Lynn Kellogg, James Sikking, Robert Karnes, Paul Brinegar, Barbara Werle, Solomon Sturges, Harry Landers

 Reformed gunfighter Jess Wade (Elvis Presley) is falsely accused of stealing a jewel-encrusted cannon–the legendary Victory Gun–used during Mexico's fight for freedom. Jess seeks safety in Rio Seco, and, when his former band of outlaws who actually stole the cannon, prepares to terrorize the town, Jess arms the townsfolk so that they are prepared for an attack. Fighting ensues, and Jess helps save the town.