Crime film devotees will thrill to this collection of gritty and shadowy thrillers with true Brit. Includes The Interrupted Journey (Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd. 1949/80 min), Cosh Boy (Joan... more
Discover more underrated and under-reported gems from the noir movement across the pond! Five hardboiled dramas from '40s and '50s Britain. Includes The Frightened Lady (Marius Goring. 1940/75 min),... more
Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt. From the director of The Big Heat comes this long-lost film noir masterpiece about a successful novelist who murders his maid and with his brother disposes of... more
Crime, mystery and intrigue are featured in this British spin on the classic Hollywood film noir genre. Includes They Met in the Dark (James Mason. (1943/95 min.), The October Man (John Mills.... more
Mesmerizing silent film icon Pola Negri stars as Jeanne Becu, Countess of Barry, who rises from humble origins to become a plaything of the rich and powerful during the firestorm of the French... more
When Beatrice (Estella Blain) decides to spend an evening with a group of wealthy playboys, her working class fiance, Pierre (Robert Hossein), follows her and exposes a gang of organized criminals.... more
Soundies have been called the music videos of the 1940s, but that doesn't begin to describe their cultural importance. It's true that they feature a remarkable range of talent, from big-band... more
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Ernst Duetsch. Based on the Jewish folk legend that influenced the American film Frankenstein, a Talmudic rabbi creates a giant warrior out of clay to protect his... more
Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall. A desperately lonely barman and a woman meet for sex every Wednesday. Things spiral out of control when he follows her home one night and discovers she is... more
Peter Falk, Barbara Lord, Jack Betts. From the director of the cult classic The Mask comes this turned-on tale of beatniks, murder and revenge. When a messenger boy dies from eating a hamburger laced... more
Jean Luc-Godard s First Name: Carmen (1983) is a radical reinvention of Bizet s opera, updating the story of sexual obsession with bank robbery and kidnapping. Godard himself appears as doddering... more
Raquel Welch, Jeanne Moreau, Anna Karina. Six French directors put together six different sketches and short films about "the oldest profession," prostitution. From a Neanderthal lady of the night to... more
Anthony Perkins, Sophia Loren, Gig Young. An unhappily married couple tries to pull off an insurance scam when it's mistakenly believed that the husband has been killed. But money, deceit and death... more
Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Eddie Cline. From heralded classics to little-known gems, this collection of Keaton's laugh-out-loud funny work in short comedies covers a career that changed... more
Catherine Deneuve, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein. Two sisters struggle to survive after they are captured by the Nazis in occupied France during WWII. But their methods of survival take totally... more
Christopher Lee, Daliah Lavi, Tony Kendall. A sexually sadistic son returns to his father's castle to reclaim his former lover, who's now married to his brother and is his father's mistress. But when... more
Bette Davis, Leslie Howard. A well-known doctor's affair with an ill-mannered waitress gets him into trouble. Davis made her first big splash in Hollywood in this terrific production of the W.... more
Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou. Sparks fly and wit abounds when an editor and his ace reporter battle over the biggest story to hit Chicago in years. A crime reporter vows to quit the business and marry... more
Intriguing silent German adaptation of the Prosper Mérimée tragedy, courtesy of director Ernst Lubitsch, stars Pola Negri as the seductive Gypsy tobacco factory worker of 19th century Andalusia and... more
This remarkable collection of 39 silent farces produced by the Vitagraph Studios over 1907-1922 offers the preserved comic craft of John Bunny, Larry Semon, Frank Daniels, Edith Storey, Mr. And Mrs.... more
Sexy hi-jinks meet screwball laughs in this romantic romp featuring Brigitte Bardot as a model whose boyfriend leaves her for an American heiress. Following the couple to a ski resort, Bardot gets... more
Includes: Nudist Life (1961)The intricate complexities and subtle social structure of 1950s nudist colony life is depicted in this titillating exploiter in which sun worshippers walk, talk, snack and... more
"Solidarity! All for One and One for All!" Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changed the course of... more
Intriguing look at the films and gay life of Rock Hudson, as narrated by Hudson "himself" from beyond the grave. By looking at clips from the actor's most popular films like "Pillow Talk" and tracing... more
Respected airman Elissen (Hans Albers) finagled agreement from aviation heiress Claire Lennartz (Sybille Schmitz) to execute the visionary design of his engineer buddy Droste (Paul Hartmann) for an... more