Movies & TV

Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder. Chaplin is a twentieth-century Bluebeard, an enigmatic family man who goes to extreme lengths to support...

This wondrous fantasy comes out of the pages of "A Thousand and One Nights." When the nefarious Jaffar usurps the Sultan's throne, the princess's beloved suitor Ahmad and the strong and handsome thief Abu use magic to help the king regain power. To...

With a father having gone to the gallows, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) grew up with no end of stigma and bullying in his small town... and one fateful night, a fistfight with privileged, lifelong tormentor Jerry Sykes (Lloyd Bridges) turned deadly. Having...

Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn't merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director-it...

The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann's bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con...

Truman Capote's best seller, a breakthrough narrative account of real-life crime and punishment, became an equally chilling film in the hands of writer-director Richard Brooks. Cast for their unsettling resemblances to the killers they play, Robert Blake...

A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a...

With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson (AU HASARD BALTHAZAR) made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in a MAN ESCAPED. Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably...

Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn. With the help of a handsome rogue, a widow searches for the fortune left behind by her late husband. New edition includes interview with director Stanley Donen and much more. 1963/color/113 min/NR.

With THE MUSIC ROOM, Satyajit Ray (PATHER PANCHALI) brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to his way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he...

Once an undisputed judo champ, Sze-To Bo (Louis Koo) was now an alcoholic karaoke bar manager on the margins. Between an ambitious kid (Aaron Kwok) looking to challenge him, an old rival (Tony Leung Ka Fai) with an agenda, a mentor (Hoi Pang Lo) seeking...

In Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness plays Jock Sinclair a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. A lifetime military man, Sinclair expects respect and loyalty from his men...