This heartwarming true story is an American adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Sadly his...
Since the birth of movies, New York has long been cinema's dream city – its teeming populace of one-of-a-kind characters, its stone-and-glass skyscrapers rocketing towards the heavens, its subterranean cultures and its rooftop love affairs all makin...
Childhood sweethearts Holly and Gerry could finish each other's sentences. No-one could imagine them apart. Until, that is, the unthinkable happens and Holly is faced with the prospect of spending the rest of her life without her husband. Then, one d...
Golden Globe and Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer (Fraiser) breathes new life into the musical adaptation beloved by millions of theatergoers every holiday season as it comes to television filled with hope, holiday cheer and the uplifting power of the huma...
At 17 Mike O' Donell was on top of the world; he was the star of his high school basketball team, and was a shoo in for college scholarship. And is dating his soul mate, Scarlett. But on what's suppose to be his big game wherein college scouts are ch...
Lawrence Wetherhold is miserable and misanthropic: he's a widower, a pompous professor at Carnegie Mellon, an indifferent father to a college student and a high-school senior, and the reluctant brother of a ne'er-do-well who's come to town. A seizure...
Woody Deane (Kevin Zegers) and Nell Bedworth (Samaire Armstrong) life-long sworn enemies, wake up one day to find themselves in a very strange place: each other's bodies. in their switched identities, each sets about to destroy the other's high schoo...
Patrick Fugit stars as Bickford in this sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll comedy about a young man who has hidden himself away in a world of brain-melting, intellectually grandiose ideas. When his book of "cool ideas" is stolen by sexy, hedonistic Sarah (O...
Victor Hugo's classic story of one man's struggle to redeem himself -- and another man's efforts to bring him down -- is brought to the screen again (there have been at least 18 previous screen adaptations) in this epic-scale television production wi...
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison star in this sweeping tale of power and betrayal - the legendary story of the Queen of the Nile and her conquest of Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony. Here is the truly unforgettable portrayal of the beg...
With a little too much leisure, but no lack of pageantry, this love story for the ages (part of Columbia’s informal Song series that began with the 1945 Chopin bio-pic, A Song to Remember) concerns the marriage of composer Robert Schumann (Paul Henr...
Three of John Steinbeck's classic short stories are combined to create a powerful family portrait in the Red Pony.
Young Tom Tiflin (PETER MILES) is unable to find the love and guidance he needs from his parents (MYRNA LOY and SHEPPARD STRUDWICK)....
This masterpiece by Preston Sturges is perhaps the finest movie-aboutp-a-movie ever made. Hollywood director Joel McCrea, tired of chuming out lightweight comedies, decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou-a serious, socially responsible film about ...
"He was born with a gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad." This exuberant period adventure is pretty irresistible itself--even more than Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk, likewise derived from Rafael Sabatini novels. Within more or less...
Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic farce based on Joseph Kesselrings 1941 Broadway hit and breezily directed by Frank Capra. Frazzled drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has two aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) who pla y ...
George Stevens' last film with Cary Grant represents yet another hit in his string of classic comedies. Grant stars as Leopold Dilg, a political activist who is wrongly indicted for arson and murder when a factory worker dies in a mill fire in the to...
On a secluded country estate, artist Meneer Chrome (Ewan McGregor) has come to create a masterpiece. Hired by wealthy patron Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite), he plans to create an extravagant garden carved out of the wilderness. But Chrome’s tr...
"I would like to say a few words about weddings," a weary man says from the middle of a muddle of rice and scattered bottles. What follows is a warm, witty look at what it means to be Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy is the father and Elizabeth Tay...
Considered by many to be the best of Howard Hawks comedies (Bringing Up Baby, I Was a Male ar Bride), HIS GIRL FRIDAY was adapted from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's soft-filmed Broadway smash "The Front Page" with a screenplay by Charles Lederer,...
Algernon, an aristocratic young Londoner, pretends to have a friend named Bunbury in the country who is frequently in ill health. Whenever Algernon wants to avoid an unwelcome social obligation, he makes an ostensible visit to his "sick friend".
A...
The film stars Ernest Borgnine as Marty Piletti, a heavy-set Italian-American butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother. Unmarried at 34, the good-natured but socially awkward man faces near constant badgering from family and friends to get marr...
The film received Oscars for Best Actress (Luise rainer) and Cinematography. The Good Earth tells the story of Wang Lung, the farmer, as he awakes, eager and excited about his arranged marriage soon to take place. Later, he meets his wife, O-Lan, and...
Celebrated stage actor Anthony John (Ronald Colman) has driven away his actress wife Brita (Signe Hasso) with his erratic temper. However, they star together in the play Othello. Gradually, his portrayal of a jealous murderous man undermines his sani...
This film was a sequel to the 1921 movie The Sheik, also starring Valentino. Ahmed, the adult son of Sheik Ahmed (Valentino played both roles) is just as impetuous as his father once was. At the beginning of the movie he is wooing the dancing girl Ya...
Groucho, Chico, Harpo... uh-oh! It's the Nazis vs. the nutsies when the legendary Marx Brothers foil Axis criminals during A Night In Casablanca. As the manager of a hotel swirling in intrigue, Groucho is up to his fake moustache in joyful if unfulfi...
Mata Hari: the name breathes mystery, intrigue and sexual allure. Who better to play the notorious World War I spy than Greta Garbo, the enigmatic, exquisite screen icon called The Swedish Sphinx?
Garbo is mesmerizing as the dancer-turned-German ...
Since the time of Sir Francis Drake, English lads have come to Brookfield School as frightened boys...and emerged years later as able young men ready to shoulder the burdens of Empire. The best of England is the Brookfield tradition - a tradition emb...
Famed French director Jean Renoir came up with a true slice of Americana in this drama, in which he also helped to write the screenplay, which chronicles a year in the life of a tenant-farmer and his family. Zachary Scott abandoned his usual smooth c...
Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk's heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces,...
The story took place in World War I Africa, Charles was a machinist who has been in African mine, Loss was a Holy Joe for African, In order to fight back German, Two people by a broken-down yacht named "the Africa Queen" together, they went down the ...
When two squabbling ex-marrieds are cast as squabbing Renaissance romantics in a musical The Taming of the Shrew life imitates art imitates life-and it all proves no musical comedy imitates Kiss Me Kate the backstage/onstage delight from the 1948Broa...
It could become a movie. Some gossip overheard by Clare Boothe Luce in a nightclub powder room inspired her Broadway hit that's wittily adapted for the screen in The Women.
George Cukor directs an all-female cast in this catty tale of battling and...
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor (Louis Jourdan) in Paris offers them all to Gigi (Leslie Caron). But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns f...
Geoff Carter (Cary Grant) is a pilot and the manager of a small, barely-solvent air service owned by "Dutchy" Van Reiter (Sig Ruman) carrying mail from the port town of Barranca (short for Barrancabermeja) in Colombia over the Andes Mountains. Bonnie...
Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an Irish-American from Pittsburgh, returns to Ireland to reclaim his family's farm in Innisfree. He meets and falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara), sister of the bullying, loud-mouthed landowner ...
The film's story is about a backwoodsman named Adam Pontipee and his new bride Milly, who marries him after knowing him for only a few hours. On returning with him to his cabin in the mountains, Milly is surprised to learn that Adam is one of seven l...
Shot on location with a cast of nonprofessional actors. Vittorio De Sica's neorealist masterpiece follows Umberto D., an elderly pensioner,as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone except for his dog, Flike, Umbert...
Meet a dewy-eyed ingenue, a gee-whiz tenor, stuck-up stars, hard-up producers, brassy blondes and "shady ladies from the 80s". They're all denizens of 42nd Street, belting out ageless Harry Warren/Al Dubin songs and tapping out Busby Berkeley's sensa...
Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. There's a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; alth...
Paris, the City of Light, shines even brighter when Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up for the only time and bring their luminous starpower to this exquisite musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. This dazzling romp filmed on locati...
Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance with the troubled building of a new cathedral. His plea is seemingly answered by a suave angel named Dudley (Cary Grant), who reveals his identity initially only to the clergyman.
Howev...
In an Oscar-nominated performance, Cornel Wilde presents the Polish native as a passionate nationalist driven by his love of his native country and his hatred of its czarist regime, a thematic focus that can be forgiven in light of the political back...
"People come. People go. Nothing ever happens," one world-weary patron (Lewis Stone) of Berlin's finest hotel comments. Movie audiences knew better. They were witnessing the glorious comings, goings and intersecting stories of a starry array billed a...
The film is wrote by Hemingway, It was told that a old fisherman longes to fish a big fish, He made a strenuous effort at sea, He finally achieved his wish. This film is directed by John Sturges, It is a literary film, It is a very wonderful film inc...
Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer, and stunt man. Don barely tolerates his vapid, shallow leading lady, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who has convinced herself that the fake romance their studio...
This 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was made just two years after Citizen Kane, and it certainly looks like star Orson Welles muscled his way behind the camera much of the time. (In fact, co-star Joan Fontaine--who plays the title ...
