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81) Dead End
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum. Nominated for 4 **Academy Awards**.
82) Song of Freedom
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A black British dockworker named Johnny Zinga becomes a famous singer and learns that he is the rightful king of the African island of Casanga.
83) Rain
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
W. Somerset Maugham's powerful story of Sadie Thompson has perhaps the most celebrated version, vividly capturing the lives of several very different human beings, thrown together on Pago Pago during a fierce monsoon. Brilliant performances by Crawford, as the cynical prostitute, and Huston, as the minister who tries to reform her. A 'tour de force' that caused controversy when first released,
84) The Balloonatic
Pub. Date
1923.
Description
A hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
85) Hard Luck
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.
86) Heritage
Pub. Date
1935.
Description
An epic scale narrative of Australian history from master filmmaker Charles Chauvel (Jedda), HERITAGE spans the earliest days of white settlement in 1788 across some fifty years to the 1930s. The story follows the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation....
Pub. Date
1950.
Description
After their supporting roles in *My Friend Irma* and *My Friend Irma Goes West*, AT WAR WITH THE ARMY was the first film starring the legendary duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. They went on to co-star in thirteen more comedies becoming Paramount Pictures new comedy team and box office champs. Lewis is a hapless bungling private and Martin is his bossy first sergeant and ladies man. Together the duo is thrown into a series of classic gags and routines...
Pub. Date
1963.
Description
Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier), an itinerant handyman, is driving through the desert when he meets five nuns. Stopping to fix their leaky farmhouse roof, Homer discovers the Mother Superior also wants him to build their chapel - for free! Hesitant at first, Homer soon finds himself single-handedly raising the chapel and the financing. But although he will not receive a monetary reward, Homer knows that when his work is done, he'll leave the desert town...
89) One Week
Pub. Date
1920.
Description
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
90) The Wanderers
Pub. Date
1979.
Description
Based on the acclaimed first novel by Richard Price (*The Night Of*), Philip Kaufman's THE WANDERERS follows the exploits of the eponymous Italian-American gang in the Bronx in 1963, just before the country underwent profound change. This cult classic features a jukebox full of golden oldies and a young cast of up and comers. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**. “*This visually extravagant gang ode…has Fellini-esque touches.*”...
91) The Paleface
Pub. Date
1922.
Description
Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.
92) The Goat
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil badguy.
93) Sherlock Jr
Pub. Date
1924.
Description
Buster plays a movie projectionist who daydreams himself into the movies he is showing and merges with the figures and the backgrounds on the screen. While dreaming he is Conan Doyle's master detective, he snoops out brilliant discoveries. *"A master of movement and stillness, Keaton developed a comedy style that was as intellectual as it was physical, and this small gem shows us why he's as purely American a film genius as the motion pictures have...
96) The Playhouse
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.
97) On the Yard
Pub. Date
1978.
Description
In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.
98) The Green Man
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
An irreverent black comedy adapted by Frank Launder (The Lady Vanishes) and Sidney Gilliat (Night Train to Munich) from their play Meet a Body, THE GREEN MAN marked the directorial debut of camera operator Robert Day (Tarzan the Magnificent). A scintillating Alastair Sim (An Inspector Calls) plays Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part-time job—he is also a professional assassin who bumps off the people we love to hate. But when pompous MP Sir...
99) The Pawnbroker
Pub. Date
1964.
Description
Sol (Rod Steiger), is a Jewish pawnbroker, and Holocaust survivor. He has lost all faith in his fellow man and ultimately realizes the tragedy of his own actions. Nominated for Best Actor at the **Academy Awards,** and the **Golden Globes**. Winner of Best Actor at the **BAFTA Awards** and the **Berlin International Film Festival.** *"...a dark and haunting drama of a man who has reasonably eschewed a role of involvement and compassion in a brutal...
100) Up in Arms
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.
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