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By the late 1950s and early 1960s, the musical had become one of the most popular motion picture genres. The list of past hits was impressive, including titles like Singin' in the Rain, South Pacific, The King and I, Oklahoma!, An American in Pari...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Natalie Wood, Eliot Feld, David Winters, ...
This is not a date movie, especially if it's a first date. Oh, it will give you an endless source of conversational topics, all right, but What Happened Was... is almost guaranteed to warp your view of the entire experience. The Samuel Goldwyn Co...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Tom Noonan
Cast: Tom Noonan, Karen Sillas
When We Were Kings, a documentary about the Muhammad Ali/George Forman heavyweight "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match, is a wonderfully nostalgic, and occasionally insightful, window into an event nearing its 50th anniversary. By nature, ho...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-02-14
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Documentary
Director: Leon Gast
Cast: Muhammad Ali, George Forman, Don King, ...
Welcome to the lurid world of Atom Egoyan, B-grade schlock filmmaker. Until seeing Where the Truth Lies, I never would have considered applying this title to Egoyan, the eclectic filmmaker of some of the '90s most compelling features (Exotica and T...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-10-14
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, ...
Winner of four 1994 Cesar awards (best picture, best director, best screenplay, and best female newcomer), Wild Reeds beat out such big-name, high-budget productions as Queen Margot. Originally commissioned by French television, but first released...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Andre Téchiné
Cast: Elodie Bouchez, Gael Morel, Stephane Rideau, ...
Wings was one of the late silent era's epic spectacles - a combination adventure/romance that took the viewer back a mere ten years to what was, at the time, the most pivotal and traumatic event of the new century: World War I. At the time of its ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: ADVENTURE/ROMANCE
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, ...
The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) concludes one of the greatest film series of all time, Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, which chronicles the life of one Bengali boy as he traverses the road from childhood through adolescence to maturity. Ray, a mast...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, ...
Certain historical periods provide rich and varied soil for the cultivation of motion picture storylines. The twilight of the Roman Empire is one. The American Civil War is another. World War II marks a third. And a fourth is the Chinese "Cultu...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-05-07
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Joan Chen
Cast: Lu Lu, Lopsang
For his directorial debut, Idris Elba has elected to work in a genre he’s comfortable with – the crime thriller. The actor-turned-director is not, however, content merely to regurgitate bits and pieces of productions in which he has appear...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-03-15
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Idris Elba
Cast: Aml Ameen, Sheldon Shepherd, Shantol Jackson, ...
Of all the great foreign film directors to obtain U.S. releases for their movies, Akira Kurosawa can arguably boast the highest number of viewers. One of the reasons for this is that Kurosawa was heavily influenced by Hollywood - as can be seen in...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Seizaburo Kawazu, ...