Weekend movies we've watched this year!
Cyrano de Bergerac
The probiscis enhanced charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves as José Ferrer gives one of his best performances ever! (1950) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Cover Girl
(Musical) Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelley showing off some of their amazing talents as Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
To Catch a Thief
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation (1955) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
...And God Created Woman
In sunny St. Tropez, a young woman (Brigitte Bardot) loves one brother but marries the other. English subtitles (1956)
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Rear Window
A house and wheelchair-bound photographer, his fashion model girlfriend and his visiting Nurse spy on neighbors from his courtyard window (1954)
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If Don Juan
Were a Woman
Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin. A modern-day Don Juan-styled woman, who prides herself in the destruction of men who have fallen for her charms English subtitles (1973).
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Paint Your Wagon
Two unlikely prospector partners, Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, share the same wife (Jean Seberg) in a California gold rush mining town (1969)
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South Pacific
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission. ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Cleopatra
The man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor. (1934) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Caesar and Cleopatra
At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains)!
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Bell, Book and Candle
A modern-day witch (fabulous Kim Novak) likes her neighbor (Jimmy Stewart) but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead. (1958) ✰ ✰ ✰
Casablanca
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco (1942) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
The Silencers
Retired agent Matt Helm is re-activated in order to stop an evil organization from exploding an atom bomb. Cyd Charisse, Daliah Lavi, Stella Stevens, Nancy Kovack and Beverley Adams (1966) ✰ ✰
My Man Godfrey
Love This Movie! A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. (1936)✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
The Trouble With Harry
(Hitchcock) Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. Shirley MacLaine and John Forsythe (1955) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
What A Way To Go
Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelley, Bob Cummings, Dick Van Dyke and Fifi D'Orsay (1964) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Man's Favorite Sport
The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually extremely inexperienced in the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition (1964) ✰ ✰ ✰
Walk on the
Wild Side
Poor lovesick white-trash Dove Linkhorn arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend Hallie Gerard, an artist who works in The Doll House brothel, whose madam Jo Courtney considers her girls to be her property
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The Man Who Would Be King
In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great
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Lady of Burlesque
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again
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North By Northwest
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
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Lolita
A 1962 black comedy-psychological drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. James Mason, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers and Shelly Winters.
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Land Of The Pharaohs
Joan Collins and Jack Hawkins with thousands of extras (9,787 in one scene alone!), detailed sets (including the pyramid's inner labyrinth) and vast desert vistas fill the screen (1955) ✰ ✰ ✰
Stella Dallas
A working-class woman (Barbara Stanwyck) is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future
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Cat Ballou
A young schoolteacher (Jane Fonda) turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father. Brillant performance by Lee Marvin. (1965)
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The Fall of the
Roman Empire
In Rome the death of Marcus Aurelius (3/17/180) leads to a succession crisis. (Sophia Loren, Stephan Boyd, Alec Guinness, Christopher Plummer, James Mason and Anthony Quayle!) 1964
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Pandora and The
Flying Dutchman
Seductive Ava Gardner falls in love with James Mason, a mysterious ship's captain. Ava at her best ! (1951) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
West Side Story
(Musical) Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy and a gang fight. (1961) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
The Third Man
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime (1949) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Donovan's Reef
In an ideal society on a picturesque South Seas isle, diverse people live in harmony until an outsider disrupts the balance (1963) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Valley Of The Dolls
The film stars Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate as three young women who become friends as they struggle to forge careers in the entertainment industry. (1967) ✰ ✰ ✰
The Nutty Professor
A timid chemistry teacher (Jerry Lewis) discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome womanizer with Stella Stevens!
Invasion of the
Body Snatchers
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade a small town, replicating the residents one body at a time (1956) ✰ ✰ ✰
Irma la Douce
When a policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn't want her to see other men, so he creates an alter-ego who will be her only customer (1963). ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
The Greatest Show On Earth
James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Gloria Graham, Cornel Wilde and Dorothy Lamour. (1952) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Vertigo
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed (1958)
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Boom Town
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period, are in love with the same woman (1940)
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Gilda
The movie that made Rita a household name. A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover (1946) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Drums Along
The Mohawk
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins (1939) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
It's A Wonderful Life
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed (1946) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Three Came Home
Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak (1950) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Bandolero
Mace Bishop (James Stewart) masquerades as a hangman in order to save his outlaw brother, Dee (Dean Martin), from the gallows. Raquel Welch as Maria Stoner. (1968)
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Macao
(Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell) American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord (1952) ✰ ✰ ✰
The Quiet Man
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union (1952)
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way (1961)
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One Million Years B.C.
Prehistoric man Tumak is banished from his savage tribe and meets pretty Loana (1966) ✰ ✰
A Clockwork Orange
Disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future (1971) ✰ ✰ ✰
Viva Las Vegas
Elvis in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine and soon strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman (1964)
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