(0)
(0)HBO Pictures.
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy Dandridge still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds, she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of Carmen Jones, becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award.
22) Citizen Cohn
Language
English
Description
Ruthless, destructive, power hungry and insatiable, attorney Roy Cohn could make or break the strongest men in America just for the thrill of the kill.
23) Heaven help us
Language
English
Description
Set in a Catholic school in Brooklyn in the 1960's, the film tells the story of 16-year-old Michael Dunn who arrives at St. Basil's school in 1965 and immediately befriends all of the misfits in his class. What unfolds is the hilarious and moving story of boys growing up during a tumultuous, important year in their lives.
24) Gia
Language
English
Description
Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the cover of a magazine. She was a star who appeared on the...
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the biography of Ishi, a lone survivor of California's Yahi tribe of Native-Americans. The story begins with Ishi's capture by ranchers, his early encounters with the academics who wish to study him, and the slow unveiling of his past to Dr. Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist who is intent on knowing all of Ishi's secrets.
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy Dandridge still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds, she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of Carmen Jones, becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award.
28) Breast men
Language
English
Description
A young medical resident (Schwimmer) in the plastic surgery unit is bored with facial reconstruction. He takes the concept of breast augmentation to his senior surgeon (Cooper) and together they embark on a partnership that will change the shape of America. Based on a true story.
30) Amistad
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland. When the ship is seized, the captives are brought to the United States where they are charged with murder and await their fate in prison. An enthralling courtroom battle ensues that captures the attention of the entire nation.
31) RKO 281
Language
English
Description
Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script...
33) Citizen Kane
Language
English
Description
Orson Welles's masterwork dazzles anew in a superb 70th Anniversary digital transfer. It's grand entertainment, sharply acted and directed with inspired visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner is rooted in themes of power, corruption, and vanity: the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word, 'Rosebud'. Special features include interviews,...
34) Sugartime
Language
English
Description
When Vegas mobster Sam Giancana falls for singer Phyllis McGuire, it's no ordinary love affair. Sam agrees to kill Castro for the CIA, if they will get the mob-busting Kennedy's off his back, but the FBI is using his realtionship with Phyllis to shake down the mob.
35) The tracker
Language
English
Description
A legendary tracker and Indian fighter is coaxed out of retirement to hunt down a crazed killer and self-appointed "Avenging Angel."
36) Soul of the game
Language
English
Description
The film features the story of three famous baseball players of the 40s, when for the first time a black player took the field.
38) The late shift
Language
English
Description
When Johnny Carson announces his retirement from "The Tonight show", it throws the networks and their executives, two talk-show stars, and millions of late night television viewers into a frenzy. Who could replace the most important talk-show host in history? It soon comes down to "The Tonight Show's" guest host Jay Leno, and the later late-night star David Letterman in a fight to the finish.
39) Traveling man
Language
English
Description
A salesman in a sales slump is teamed with an eager rookie and finds a beautiful stranger who shows him that its never too late to find love and happiness.
40) Fever
Language
English
Description
When Ray Wellman gets out of jail on parole, his only thought is to find his ex-lover Lacy who is now with lawyer Elliott. Before either one can win her, Lacy is kidnapped, and to get her back Ray has to break parole and commit three crimes.