Drama

<p>Lili Damita dazzles and delights as Goldie, a French teenage transplant to the cloistered confines of suburban New Jersey. Bohemian to the core, Goldie chafes against the small-mindedness of her town and sets out for the big time in Hollywood. Blessed with ample animal...

<p>That TV commercial actress is so seductive she could sell you anything. She's only a computer-generated illusion. What about the real beauty who was the computer's model? Sorry, you can't meet her: She and others like her have been murdered. Writer/director Michael Crichton (ER,...

<p>No matter what rolled in on the tides of time, California surfing buddies Matt, Jack and Leroy knew they'd stick together. And that they'd be ready when a rare 20-foot swell hit the coast at last. Big Wednesday celebrates surfing as much as the...

<p>Following the shocking revelation of new bioluminescent tattoos on Jane Doe's body, Season Three jumps forward two years as FBI teammate and husband Kurt Weller finally tracks down Jane. Together, they return to the FBI, where, along with agents Edgar Reade and Tasha Zapata...

<p>Norman Mailer's classic comes to the big screen courtesy of director Raoul Walsh (Objective, Burma!; High Sierra) and an ensemble of seasoned actors and fresh-faced up-and-comers. Raymond Massey and Cliff Robertson play officers whose opposing views on military leadership are the two poles between...

<p>For their final screen pairing (out of seven), Joan Blondell and James Cagney deliver up the goods in an altogether different style in this moving and downbeat doomed romance made during the waning days of the pre-Code era. Cagney plays Flicker Hayes, recently sprung...

<p>No signs of violence? No prior indications of distress or unhappiness? No motives? No clues? No matter. FBI agent Jack Malone and his fiercely dedicated team are on the case, tracking down missing persons by using advanced profiling techniques. Presented on six discs, the...

<p>How did it happen? How did young people who had so much right going for them turn out so wrong? How could they become willing participants in a murder spree that still shocks the nation? Based on the book cowritten by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi...

<p>Thirty-something friends Joel, Charlie and Tess are having a tough time. Joel is recently divorced and now has the hots for doctor Nadia, a raging alcoholic. Tess has quit her job. And Charlie -- well, Charlie has cancer. Charlie wants to treat the cancer...

<p>As we enter Season Two, the shooting of Archie Andrews' dad, Fred, at Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe plunges the small town into utter darkness and paranoia. Archie rounds up a vigilante group to try to protect his beloved home. Jughead Jones transfers to Southside High...

<p>Jeremy Irons delivers a brilliant performance in this powerful and provocative motion picture. Irons portrays disillusioned history professor Tom Crick, who, in an age of cynicism and despair, inspires his students to embrace the past and discover the marvels and mysteries of life. For...

<p>After a lifetime serving the needs of the super-elite, maid Lizzie (Ruth Donnelly) decides to take a step down and become the housekeeper for the solidly middle-class Smiths after taking a shine to Mrs. Joan Smith (Margaret Lindsay) at an employment agency. Winning over...

<p>Wealthy playboy Paul Wagner makes illicit entrances a specialty, especially if it means getting close to society girl Rosalind Brown (Rita Johnson). Paul's brazen, swaggering ways land him in hot water with Rosalind's disapproving father (Walter Connolly), and he is barred from the Brown's...

<p>Norman Mailer's classic comes to the big screen courtesy of director Raoul Walsh (Objective, Burma!; High Sierra) and an ensemble of seasoned actors and fresh-faced up-and-comers. Raymond Massey and Cliff Robertson play officers whose opposing views on military leadership are the two poles between...

<p>One friend is an intense writer of works that win rarefied critical praise. The other, a housewife, pens trashy tales inspired by her La-La-Land neighbors, and -- voila! -- best-seller charts. Can friendship survive that? A decades-long friendship travels a savvy, sexy and often...

<p>'Tis a dark and stormy night when mousey Ambrose Applejohn's (John Halliday) Aunt Agatha (Louise Closser Hale) discovers he's put the estate up for sale in a local magazine. Much to the dismay of his doting ward, Poppy Faire (Mary Brian), Ambrose is determined...

<p>Three families in a hardscrabble farming community in Maine see their lives intertwine over the course of a year in this heartfelt drama adapted from Gladys Hasty Carroll's best-selling debut novel. The newcomer Janowski clan arrives in early spring to a reception both welcoming...

<p>Native New Englander Phillips Lord (Gang Busters) was a true Golden Age of Radio renaissance man -- writer, producer, actor and all-around creative force. Lord first came to national acclaim with his creation of a backwoods-Maine senior-citizen sage "Seth Parker" in Sunday Evening at...

<p>Soldiers-for-hire Baldwin and Dugan (Vinton Haworth and Gordon Jones) land a perilous assignment -- ensuring the safe arrival of the priceless Soo diamond to a shop in Shanghai. Upon delivery, the shop is attacked and in the ensuing firefight, the diamond disappears. Aided by...

<p>Wade Hunnicutt is a big man who casts a big shadow, one that looms over the Texas backwoodsmen who work his land over the beautiful, embittered wife he cheats on and over the sons -- one from marriage and one illegitimate -- who strive...

<p>Robert Taylor (Quo Vadis) and Stewart Granger (The Prisoner of Zenda) team up in this "grim, fierce, raw-boned outdoor fare" (Variety) filmed on location in rugged Custer State Park, North Dakota. Charlie Gilson (Taylor), a mean-spirited hunter, joins reserved Sandy McKenzie (Granger) on a...

<p>Nick Adams (The Rebel) stars alongside Robert Conrad (The Wild Wild West) and Mary Ann Mobley (Get Yourself a College Girl) in this fast-paced action epic detailing John Dillinger's journey from youthful romantic to machine-gun-toting, bank-robbing, homicidal maniac. Cajoled by his girlfriend (Mobley) into...

<p>Frank Sinatra told the director to give the newcomer a break .John Sturges (The Great Escape) obliged, providing favorable camera angles for Sinatra's young costar. In his first big-budget film, Steve McQueen was ready to grab the movie world's attention. McQueen plays Bill Ringa,...

<p>It's 1797, and the English frigate Avenger sails wartime seas, ready to engage the French navy in a broadside-for-broadside combat. But there's another warfare going on, a conflict aboard the king's ship. It's the battle of good versus evil, the powerful theme of Herman...

<p>Burt Reynolds stars in and directs this atmospheric, volatile action thriller about an Atlanta cop whose gung ho tactics on a narcotics case get him demoted to the vice squad. There, he transforms a colorful crew into a machine aimed at bigger prey: crimelord...

<p>The cables go out to grounded, disgraced pilots, enticing them: "Can Use Experienced Pilot, Best Planes in Flying Field This Part of the World." The reality of service in the Trans-Andean Air Service of Delgado, Argentina, is far different, and far deadlier than expected....

<p>Welcome to Knots Landing, where Gary Ewing -- the troubled middle son of the powerful Ewing clan of Dallas -- decides to start life anew. And what could be more reassuring, more nurturing, than an upscale California cul-de-sac in the 'burbs, complete with lovely...

<p>Roddy McDowall stars as Erik, an idealistic young student in an unnamed Iron Curtain country. After a student demonstration erupts into a riot and members of the military are assaulted, Erik is identified as the instigator. Forced to flee with just the clothes on...

<p>Fay Wray stars in this south-of-the-border fable about a noble bandito who comes to the romantic rescue of an innocent senorita. El Capitan Thunder (Hungarian silent-screen star Victor Varconi) is a caballero whose love of life, liquor and ladies is only surpassed by his...

<p>Top secret. Eyes only. Enclosed in 22-episode detail is information about Section One, the deep-cover organization whose mission is to stop the terrorists who elude other ops agencies. Mistakes are not an option for the operatives of this clandestine group -- even for a...

<p>Filmmakers often begin their directing careers with works of limited scale. Sergio Leone began with a Colossus. Spectacle is king in The Colossus of Rhodes, Leone's first credited film as a director. Sun-bronzed heroes (including toga-wearing Rory Calhoun) battle tyranny. Prisoners scramble for their...

<p>Priest is a prince of the streets, a charismatic businessman who wants out of cocaine-dealing. But a mysterious kingpin doesn't want Priest to change his ways. And that triggers murder, revenge and double-crosses that push Priest into a corner and heat the neighborhood to...

In 1930, director Lewis Milestone won an Academy Award * for his eloquent anti-war masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front. But with Edge of Darkness, made in 1943 during the dark days of the German blitzkrieg, Milestone displays no such pacifist sentiments. Indeed,...

<p>The world's most famous swashbuckler, Errol Flynn, dons a Canadian police uniform in this "slickly done drama" (Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide) also starring Julie Bishop and Helmut Dantine. Flynn (The Adventures of Robin Hood) is Steve Wagner, a Canadian Mountie of German...

<p>Fans of screen swashbuckling found a successor to the legendary Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Errol Flynn when Burt Lancaster brought a unique blend of exuberance and swagger to this exciting Robin Hood-like yarn. In medieval Lombardy, wily Dardo the Arrow (Lancaster) leads the peasantry...

<p>In one of the best performances of his career, Errol Flynn (The Charge of the Light Brigade) plays an escaped criminal whose fate is changed not by the detective who has apprehended him but by the Nazis who have taken hostages in war-torn France....

<p>The freighter Mary Deare is adrift in stormy seas. Her bulkhead is leaking, her captain is dead, and the crew has abandoned ship -- all except for one man. That man is exhausted first officer Gideon Patch, who has taken command. Appearances indicate he's...

<p>In 1952, star Kirk Douglas, director Vincente Minnelli, producer John Houseman and screenwriter Charles Schnee teamed for what many consider the greatest drama ever made about Hollywood: The Bad and the Beautiful. Ten years later, they took another powerful insider's look at the movie...

<p>Sophisticated showgirl Doree Macy (Bebe Daniels) has long enjoyed the attention of wealthy older bachelor John Thornley (Lewis Stone). In town for a show, she accepts an invitation to spend the night aboard his luxury yacht. There, she makes the acquaintance of his younger,...

<p>Dennis O'Keefe stars as Thomas Brandon, an in-it-to-win-it shyster battling the "soulless corporation" that runs his city's streetcars. With the aid of his expert pal Phil (Nat Pendleton), and dipsomaniac doc, Prescott (Lewis Stone), Brandon looks around the edges of the law for the...

<p>Their husbands are thousands of miles away from home, risking their lives to defend their country. And now, five ordinary housewives must band together to combat the loneliness, fear and temptation that the world war has brought into their lives. Ginger Rogers gives a...

<p>Acting luminary Charles Laughton stars as stalwart Anzac soldier Jocko Wilson in this saga set between the World Wars. The bighearted Jocko impulsively adopts a pair of war orphans in the closing days of World War I, intending to raise them with his singing...

<p>Four street kids are caught stealing a car and get sent to an unusual reform school -- the gridiron. Entrusted to the care of Pacific University's head football coach Howdy Hardy (Preston Foster), the youths grow into young sports stars as Hardy's Bombers, masters...

<p>Richard Barthelmess stars as a self-made Ubermensch who wills himself to power through a series of seductions in this existential epic from celebrated cineast G.W. Pabst (High and Low). Pierre Radier (Barthelmess) may be the love child of a leopard tamer and the son...

<p>Even though he recently lost his job as a department-store clerk, Steve Mason buys an electric train set for a child he scarcely knows. It must be Christmastime. Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh are warmly matched in Holiday Affair, a seasonal favorite scripted by...

<p>Paige Townsen (Bella Thorne) is a normal college girl working on her business degree who enjoys acting on the side. When a big movie franchise goes into production and opens its doors looking for the next "It" girl to play the lead role, Paige's...

<p>When gun fancier Bart Tare sees Annie Laurie Starr's sideshow sharpshooting act, he's a dead-bang goner. He and she go together, as Bart ultimately says, "like guns and ammunition." The two become bank robbers on the run, eluding roadblocks and roaring into movie history...

<p>When Daniel Boone comes calling, young Berk Jarvis (John Mack Brown) hears the message loud and clear: It's time to go west, young Americans. Quickly convincing his mother, Elvira (Lucille La Verne), and brother, Jack, to leave colonial Virginia behind for the wilderness of...

<p>Small-town lass Winnie Wharton (real-life Ziegfeld Follies star Wini Shaw) is gifted with a golden voice and gumption to boot. Thanks to the assistance of her streetwise manager, Lucky Lorimer (Lyle Talbot), she rises to the top on Broadway as a torch singer. It's...

<p>When a millionaire's machinations catch up with him in the form of a heart attack, his doctors order him to convalesce in absolute silence. Fate has other plans for G.A. Axton (Lionel Atwill), however, when a pair of escaped, condemned criminals (Bernadene Hays and...