A jazz trumpeter tries to woo a fellow musician in mourning for her dead lover, and sets up a band in an attempt to bring them closer together. Covering a quarter-century of American "syncopated" music (ragtime, jazz, swing, blues, and boogie boogie), Syncopation features music from the turn of the 20th century through prohibition, the Great Depression, and the outbreak of WWII. Featuring jazz greats Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Gene Krupa, Harry James, and more. Includes selected "Jazz Shorts" from the Cohen Film Collection as bonus material..

Prague 1942. Following the assassination of Nazi "Reich Protector" Heydrich, Masha Novotny, a professor's daughter, hides the culprit in her parents' apartment. When the Gestapo take 400 people hostage in retaliation, Masha's father is among those arrested. The assassin, surgeon Dr. Svoboda, manages to escape. As they search for him the Gestapo also train their sights on Masha. While hostages are being executed daily, she helps Svoboda in his efforts to blame the assassination on a collaborator and save her father's life..

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).

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.

The son of a steamboat captain, Buster falls in love with the daughter of a rival steamboat owner. When a cyclone rages, he proves himself a hero by rescuing his love and her father from a watery grave.

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.

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 produced." - Kenneth Turan, **The Los Angeles Times***

Buster gets word that if he can be married by seven o'clock that evening he will inherit $7,000,000. When his sweetheart refuses, he proposes to everyone in skirts, including a Scotsman. Hopeful still, he advertises for a bride and is horrified to discover 500 would-be-brides hot on his trail in a hilarious chase to the finish. *"a work of relentless hilarity and visual invention of another order, highlighted by a majestic chase scene.." - Dan Sullivan, **Film Comment***

One of the short films Don Aspiazu of his own orchestra, a good example of the style of Cubano jazz in the 1920's and 1930's.

First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.

A meek Belgian soldier, fighting in World War I, receives a letter and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. After the war, he travels to America searching for her.

This dark French drama focuses on the final months before Vincent Van Gogh's tragic suicide. After leaving the asylum, Van Gogh settles in Auvers-sur-Oise, in the home of Doctor Gachet, an art lover and patron. Vincent keeps painting amidst the conflict with his brother, Theo, and the torments of his failing mental health. He has an affair with Marguerite, his host's daughter. However, she soon realizes that he doesn't love her and that his heart beats only for his art.. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Winner of Best Actor (Jacques Dutronc) and nominated for Best Film, Best Supporting Actor (Gerard Sety and Bernard Le Coq) , Best Director, and Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation at the César Awards.. "VAN GOGH is a good, quiet, rigorous film, made with intelligence and acted with earnest conviction." - The New York Times