79% from 10 members
Casablanca
A contender for My Favourite Film. Almost every line has become legendary - hard to believe they were making most of it up the night before each days shooting.
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Casablanca
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joy Page, Leonid Kinskey
Director: Michael Curtiz
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The classic story of the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca and of the return of his former lover who is now a member of the Resistance. Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
76%
from 26,990 members
The Apu Trilogy
Heartbreaking, truly heartbreaking.
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The Apu Trilogy
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Karuna Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Pinaki Sen Gupta
Director: Satyajit Ray
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The Apu trilogy is the most celebrated work of Satyajit Ray, the greatest filmmaker ever to have emerged from Indian cinema. Pather Panchali (1955), Ray's extraordinarily accomplished debut feature, begins the story of Apu, a young boy born into a poor but loving family in rural Bengal, and ..read more »
73%
from 2,583 members
The Maltese Falcon
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The Maltese Falcon
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet
Director: John Huston
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Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by ..read more »
73%
from 10,365 members
The Big Sleep
Yep, Humph again.
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Charles Waldron, Lauren Bacall
Director: Howard Hawks
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Chandler's first novel introduced private detective Philip Marlowe, and THE BIG SLEEP set the standard for private detective movies. Down-at-the-heels private eye Marlowe gets the assignment to clean up after the daughters of a dying millionaire, but dead people have a nasty habit of trailing in ..read more »
73%
from 7,408 members
Brief Encounter
Many of the attitudes have dated, but it's comforting to see romance without cynicism.
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Brief Encounter
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Director: David Lean
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David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste ..read more »
73%
from 10,206 members
It's A Wonderful Life
Best known for the final twenty minutes, which is actually its weakest part.
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It's A Wonderful Life
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Frank Capra
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The legendary James Stewart (HARVEY, VERTIGO) stars as George Bailey. George is a noble man who has spent much of his life on a crusade to stop shady local businessman Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore - TREASURE ISLAND, DUEL IN THE SUN) from taking over the picturesque town of Bedford Falls. However, ..read more »
78%
from 37,018 members
Citizen Kane
If they could make films as sophisticated as this in the 1930s, why didn't they do it more often?
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Citizen Kane
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
Director: Orson Welles
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CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard ..read more »
70%
from 22,208 members
Yojimbo
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Yojimbo
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Seisaburo Kawazu
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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In director Akira Kurosawa's comedic YOJIMBO, a masterless samurai, Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), wanders into a town divided by two warring clans. After displaying his formidable swordsmanship before both clans in a brawl with street thugs, Sanjuro offers his services to the highest bidder. When one ..read more »
73%
from 8,789 members
Rashomon
Mifune at his manic best, and plot twists to make a modern indie envious.
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Rashomon
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's highly acclaimed film, set in feudal Japan, presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters--a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), a woman (Machiko Kyo), her husband (Masayuki Mori), and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura). Only two ..read more »
72%
from 8,246 members
The Third Man
Orson Welles's brief performance steals the show, and a great ending.
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The Third Man
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard
Director: Carol Reed
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This classic noir mystery, from the team of Carol Reed and Graham Greene, is generally considered to be the best filmwork of both of these estimable talents. THE THIRD MAN features Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his ..read more »
75%
from 17,471 members
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