Released Date:
1959-09-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
160 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (41594 Reviews)
Director:
Otto PremingerWendell Mayes (screenplay)
John D. Voelker (based on the novel by)
Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband's story, the police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped. Manion is defended by Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a rather humble small-town lawyer. During the course of interviews, Biegler discovers that Manion is violently possessive and jealous, and also that his wife has a reputation for giving her favors to other men. Biegler realizes that the prosecution will try to make the court believe that Laura was the lover of the bartender and than Manion killed him and beat her up when he discovered them together. Manion pleads "not guilty" and Biegler, who knows that his case is weak, sets his assistants to try to find a witness who will save Manion.
Released Date:
1960-05-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (2871 Reviews)
Director:
Elia KazanPaul Osborn (screenplay)
William Bradford Huie (based on novels by)
Borden Deal (based on novels by)
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
Released Date:
1962-12-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (8434 Reviews)
Director:
Blake EdwardsGenres:
DramaJoe Clay is a top-notch public relations man. Anything a client wants Joe can arrange for them, whether it be dancing girls or an article in a prominent magazine. Part of the job however is drinking and Joe's ability to consume alcohol seems boundless. When he meets the very pretty Kirsten Arnasen, she prefers chocolate to alcohol but Joe has a solution to that in the form of a Brandy Alexander (made up of brandy and creme de cocoa). They eventually marry but their love is insufficient to prevent them from the downward spiral that alcohol brings to them. They try desperately to break the habit but continually relapse until only one of them manages to break free.
Released Date:
1963-11-14
Languages:
English, Italian, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
107 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (753 Reviews)
Director:
Arthur HillerGenres:
ComedyGeorge J.W. Goodman (novel)
George J.W. Goodman
Ira Wallach
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas where his oil wells are drying up and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who he falls in love with. She tries to ignore the attention he lavishes on her, but, in the end, she falls for his charm.
Released Date:
1965-06-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
165 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (2449 Reviews)
Director:
John SturgesWilliam Gulick (novel)
John Gay (screenplay)
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
Released Date:
1968-03-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1355 Reviews)
Director:
Jack SmightJohn Gay (screenplay)
William Goldman (based on the novel by)
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
Released Date:
1969-06-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(335 Reviews)
Director:
S. Lee PogostinA cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for 'one last score'. His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract
Released Date:
1970-05-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (265 Reviews)
Director:
Silvio NarizzanoRay Galton
Joe Orton (play)
Alan Simpson
Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor and they have a coffin to spare. Then there's the gold-digger nurse and the gonad-grabber detective and a host of other wonderful characters.
Released Date:
1975-02-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (150 Reviews)
Director:
Joseph SargentGenres:
DramaBased on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.
Released Date:
1976-06-25
Languages:
English, Latin, Italian
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (73547 Reviews)
Director:
Richard DonnerRobert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.
Released Date:
1977-12-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (3771 Reviews)
Director:
Don SiegelPeter Hyams (screenplay)
Stirling Silliphant (screenplay)
Walter Wager (based upon the novel by)
Robert Frost (excerpts from poem)
The KGB is looking for one of their people, a man named Dalchimsky because he has stolen something important but, unfortunately, he manages to get through the border. Later in the U.S. some seemingly ordinary people after receiving a phone call go out and destroy key American military installations. Back in the U.S.S.R. General Strelsky and Colonel Malchenko send for Grigori Borzov, a KGB agent who has been to the U.S. on missions before. They inform him that after the U-2 incident in fear of the possibility that a war with the U.S. will occur; they were part of an operation called TELEFON that involved recruiting young agents and then brainwashing them into believing that they are Americans. They would assume the identity of an American who died a long time ago and who would be their age now. They would be situated in a city that is near or where a key U.S. military installation is located. They were also programmed to destroy upon receiving the command phrase. They have been fortunate that they have never had to send them on their missions. But they believe that Dalchimsky stole the book that lists all the TELEFON agents and is now sending them out on their suicide missions. It also seems that the current KGB Chairman is unaware of TELEFON so Strelsky and Malchenko want Borzov to go to America and find Dalchimsky before he starts World War 3. Borzov, who is endowed with a photographic memory, memorizes the second TELEFON book and goes to America and is aided by Barbara.
Released Date:
1979-10-08
Languages:
English, French, German
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (602 Reviews)
Director:
James IvoryHenry James (novel)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay)
It's the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe and have a somewhat bohemian lifestyle reflective of their travels throughout Europe. Felix, who has little money, is interested in painting and the arts. Eugenia is a baroness by marriage. They decide to travel to New England to meet their maternal uncle and their three cousins, the Wentworths, for the first time, the Wentworths who live just outside of Boston. The Wentworths are highly puritanical, the uncle in particular who looks to a neighbor, Mr. Brand, to provide a moral compass to his three children, especially the shy Gertrude, who Mr. Brand wants to marry. The Wentworths are somewhat suspicious as to the reason for their relatives' visit, but nonetheless the uncle puts them up in a neighboring house on their property. While Felix enjoys the company of his cousins - especially Gertrude - Eugenia is a bit more standoffish and cognizant of the real reason for their trip to the United States. For Eugenia, another of their uncle's cousins, a Mr. Robert Acton, may just fit the bill related to her goal, which concerns her current marriage and financial security.
Released Date:
1980-12-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
123 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1401 Reviews)
Director:
Joel OlianskyJoel Oliansky (screenplay)
Joel Oliansky (story)
William Sackheim (story)
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
Released Date:
1980-12-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (460 Reviews)
Director:
Bob ClarkBernard Slade (play)
Bernard Slade (screenplay)
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
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