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81) The Southerner
Pub. Date
1945.
Description
In this **Academy Award** nominated drama directed by champion of poetic realism, Jean Renoir, Sam Tucker, a Texan cotton picker, has aspirations to run his own farm and create a better life for his family. Along with his wife, Nona, Sam works tirelessly on an abandoned plot of land, but numerous difficulties and hardships arise, making his humble dream a difficult one to achieve. Nominated for Best Director, Best Sound, and Best Music - Scoring of...
82) Beloved Enemy
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In 1921, Irish rebels launch an uprising with the aim of creating an Irish republic, independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. One of the rebellion's leaders and a beautiful aristocratic Englishwoman meet and - despite the enormous class, cultural, political and social differences between them - fall in love.
Pub. Date
1969.
Description
In this chilling drama, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) is a wealthy and frustrated spinster who invites a homeless boy into her apartment, offering him living quarters. As she becomes completely obsessed with him, he rejects her amorous advances, leading her to take him as a prisoner in her home. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. *"Full of the drifting long shots, slow zooms, and overlapping dialogue that would help to characterise...
85) Neighbors
Pub. Date
1920.
Description
A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
86) Little Fugitive
Pub. Date
1953.
Description
An utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. When a seven-year-old boy is tricked into believing he killed his older brother, he gathers his meager possessions and flees to New York’s nether wonderland: Coney Island. Upon and beneath the crowded boardwalk, Joey experiences a day and night filled with adventures and mysteries, resulting in a film that is refreshingly spontaneous and thoroughly delightful....
Pub. Date
1967.
Description
Peter Churchman and his crew spend a long time robbing German banks to get enough money to restore a French cathedral they bombed inadvertently during WW II. Churchman then moves to a Spanish village where he leads a peaceful life, until a former accomplice pays a visit to persuade him to return to his bank-robbing skills, under threat of blackmail. Churchman sets about robbing a bank during Pamplona's famed Festival of San Fermin.
Pub. Date
1963.
Description
Comedy legend Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The "Jekyll and Hyde" game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times, and the professor begins to suffer hilarious...
89) The High Sign
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
90) Guys and Dolls
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game. **Academy Award** nominee.
91) Battling Butler
Pub. Date
1926.
Description
Based on a Broadway play, the story revolves around a case of mistaken identity between two Alfred Butlers - on an effete millionaire (Keaton), the other the heavyweight champion of the world (Francis McDonald).
92) Patterns
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In 1911, photographer Edward S. Curtis traveled to British Columbia and visited the Kwakwaka'wakw, an Indigenous tribe belonging to the Pacific Northwest Coast. Hard up for cash and loaded with a year's worth of footage, Curtis decided the best way to capture the life and ceremonies of the Kwakwaka'wakw was to make a feature-length motion picture – one of the first of its kind. Over the course of three years, Curtis and his assistant, a Kwakwaka'wakw...
94) The Love Nest
Pub. Date
1923.
Description
In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.
95) Misty
Pub. Date
1961.
Description
Based on Marguerite Henry's award-winning novel, this heartwarming drama centers on Paul and his sister, Maureen, who set out to catch a beautiful, elusive mare called Phantom during Chincoteague Island's annual Pony Penning event.
96) The Boat
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.
97) The Blacksmith
Pub. Date
1922.
Description
Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.
98) Convict 13
Pub. Date
1920.
Description
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
99) The Three Ages
Pub. Date
1923.
Description
A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Buster Keaton's THREE AGES is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: form the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome, to the city streets of the American Jazz Era. *"Superb three-part silent comedy." - Daniel Eagan, **Film...
100) The Ten Commandments
Pub. Date
1923.
Description
After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, while the atheist brother's breaking of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS leads to tragedy. This is the first film in Cecil B. DeMille's biblical trilogy.
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