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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**.
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A Polynesian sailor -- unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully -- is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.
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Produced by Bute's company Expanding Cinema and made in collaboration with Ted Nemeth and sculptor Rutherford Boyd, PARABOLA is a celebration of film's ability to create new ways of seeing the forms around us. Creating juxtaposition between light/shadow, stasis/motion, and form/music, the black-and-white short invites us to see the parabolic curve, or "nature's poetry," as both invigorating and beguiling.
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First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.
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Two families living on a remote island off of Scotland are brought together by star-crossed lovers. When Ruth's brother Robbie plans to leave the island for a future abroad, her item of affection, Andrew, challenges her brother to race up the island's treacherous cliffs. Their challenge threatens to tear the families apart and ruin whatever peace is left on their island home, bringing both men right up onto THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. Shot entirely on the wild, windswept island of Foula in the Shetlands, this thrilling romantic drama from director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Stairway to Heaven) is beautiful and profoundly moving for its time.
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A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future. Nominated for two **Academy Awards**.
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One of the great romantic classics of the 1930s. Radiant Vivien Leigh plays an Allied double agent in 1915 Stockholm. When the Germans, suspicious that she's passing secrets to the French, send Chief of Intelligence Conrad Veidt to catch her, the two fall hopelessly in love..
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During the reign of England's Queen Elizabeth I, a young naval officer (Laurence Olivier) spies on the Spanish and discovers their plans to send the Armada against England. This wins him the love of the Queen's lady-in-waiting (Vivien Leigh) as he takes the British fleet into battle..
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A young girl travelling to London to find work becomes involved in a gang stabbing.
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A local politician tries to break a reporter who writes a negative story about him, crushing his political ambitions. Charming chaos follows when the writer, now in love with the daughter of the politician, is sued by her father, ending in an uproarious courtroom confrontation..
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A young bride is possessed by the spirit of her dead husband's dislocated soul. Based on the Yiddish theater's most memorable play.
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Master filmmaker Charles Chauvel delivers an exciting tale of high peril, inland exploration and forbidden romance in UNCIVILISED. Filmed on location in 1937, it tells the story of high society author Beatrice Lynn. Unfulfilled and looking for inspiration, she heads into the wilds of northern Australia in search of an indigenous tribe ruled by a non-indigenous man named Mara.. Embarking on a tumultuous journey, battling the heat and extremes of the outback, Beatrice is caught up in a smuggling ring. Captured against her will, she is taken away, fearful that she will never return home. However, when she is sold on to Mara as a potential bride, Beatrice finally faces her man and must consider the true nature of her incredible predicament.
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