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In this warm, witty comedy, writer/director/star Albert Brooks is killed in an auto accident and arrives at a most unusual afterlife: Judgment City, an ethereal resort with great food. There he's put on trial for his life on Earth. If he wins, he moves...

Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from...

Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer was commissioned by producers in France to create a film portrait of a French historical figure, and the result was this masterpiece of world cinema. Ren?e Falconetti, in her only film role, is impeccable as the...

Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason (Lolita) as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he...

Generation-past horror movie actor Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) was going through the motions of one last promotional tour, feeling irrelevant in the face of the modern day's real-world terrors. He'd no inkling that his path would fatefully cross with a...

Director Lizzie Borden's controversial and critically praised film tracks a day in the life of high-end hooker Molly (Louise Smith) and her colleagues at a busy Manhattan brothel, as they deal with the demands of the clientele-and the machinations of...

A young woman (Meiko Kaji), trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for the murders of her father and brother and the rape of her mother, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Japan...

A reprise of Yasujiro Ozu's favorite theme, Early Summer tells the story of the Mamiya family and their efforts to marry off their headstrong daughter, Noriko, played by the extraordinary Setsuko Hara. Direction: Yasujiro Ozu Actors: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko...

This entrancing first color feature from Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game), shot entirely on location in India; is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the...

In his late color masterpiece "Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)," director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career-the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal...

A psychological horror film shot almost entirely in a London flat, REPULSION delves into the case history of a mentally disturbed, hallucinogenic, homicidal girl repelled by sex. Good suspense and clever shocks mark this recommended film, Polanski's...