One year after 1933's Queen Christina, Greta Garbo again portrays a heroine faced with irrevocable choices. She plays Katrin in The Painted Veil, an exotic love triangle loosely based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel. The story unfolds in China, where Katrin's marriage to busy M.D. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) is in trouble. Lonely and neglected, Katrin falls in love with diplomatic attache Jack Townsend (George Brent). When Walter discovers the affair, he takes Katrin inland to fight a...
An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. He becomes the subject of her new work, and even in seperation their relationship grows morphing from victim / thief to artist / muse and more.
Labor and management at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory aren't sleeping much lately: A proposed 7 1 2-cent hourly wage increase is why -- and a strike may result. But negotiations here involve snappy stars, terrific tunes and dynamic dances as Doris Day, John Raitt and a Broadway-seasoned cast play The Pajama Game. Songs by the Damn Yankees duo of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross and choreography by Bob Fosse generate lots of "Steam Heat," all whipped together delightfully under the direction of two...
Labor and management at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory aren't sleeping much lately: A proposed 71 2-cent hourly wage increase is why -- and a strike may result. But negotiations here involve snappy stars, terrific tunes and dynamic dances as Doris Day, John Raitt and a Broadway-seasoned cast play The Pajama Game. Songs by the Damn Yankees duo of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross and choreography by Bob Fosse generate lots of "Steam Heat," all whipped together delightfully under the direction of two...
A teacher's assistant, trapped in a small town with a strange illness, takes on a local missing person case aided by a Pale Man down the hall.
The Palindromists is a documentary delving into the world of palindromes- those peculiar words and phrases that read the same backwards and forwards. Explore palindromes in history and meet the world's greatest palindromists as they see everything backwards preparing for the World Palindrome Championship.
Leaked by an anonymous source to journalists in 2015, The Panama Papers were a collection of documents, exposing the use of secretive offshore companies to enable widespread tax evasion and money laundering. Director Alex Winter examines how this story reshaped our understanding of corruption amidst the highest forms of government, and the systemic problem of global inequality.
ITS PRINTS SPELLED DOOM! Based on a pair of Foulton Osler's thrilling detective stories, The Panthers Claw tracks Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Rosemary's Baby's Sidney Blackmer) and his trusted partner Anthony Abbot as they use methods both scientific and deductive to solve the murder of an opera singer. In doing so, the pair get caught up in a larger mystery involving a mysterious blackmailer known only as "The Panther," eventually winding up victims of his vindictive games in this...
A California family filmed strange occurrences in their home. This rare footage has over 40 million views online. we investigated to get the full story and never before seen footage of the first documented spirit entity ever captured on film.
Directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard, The Paper brings the fast-paced, cutthroat, frequently hilarious world of newspaper journalism vividly to life. It's editorial bedlam during the course of one hectic, twenty-four hour period at the New York Sun. In order to make the morning edition and scoop the competition, Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton) must race against the clock to expose a major scandal or two innocent men will go to prison. Thwarting him at every turn is his ambitious managing...
Nikki Travis' on the run from her abusive husband and the townspeople of Paradise who believe she killed one of their own, searches desperately for a place to grow and lose her timidity but discovers more misadventure when she falls into the wrong crowd at a strip club where she has decided to become a dancer. She befriends the strippers and the owner of the club and only to learn that they are killers themselves and she is in danger as she kills again to protect herself. Setting out to flee...
A troubled woman's attempt to run away from her reality brings her to a heartbreaking awareness.
Surviving a history of childhood abuse, which lands her in a brothel, Toni Jo briefly discovers love and happiness when she marries the dashing boxer Cowboy Henry. But Cowboy is sent to prison, leaving Toni Jo to embark on an ill-fated mission with Cowboy's sometime partner Arkie. A grim murder and a series of shocking trials, where she pleads her innocence, instantly makes the beautiful Toni Jo into a celebrity. Facing conviction after conviction, will she find true redemption in the face of...
Love and laughter get together in Disney's original comedy classic, THE PARENT TRAP, on Blu-ray for the first time! Through a wacky twist of fate, lookalikes Sharon McKendrick (from Boston) and Susan Evers (from California) clash at a summer camp -- and soon discover they're identical twins who were separated as babies! Each longs to meet the dad/mom she never knew, so the girls hatch a hilarious plot to switch places, hoping that when their divorced parents reunite to switch them back,...
THE PARENT TRAP: Hayley Mills, Special Academy Award(R) winner for 1960's POLLLYANNA, lights up the screen in Disney's fondly remembered release of THE PARENT TRAP. Mills stars as Susan and Sharon, identical twins separated at birth. Neither twin knows the other exists until a simple twist of fate finds them at the same summer camp. Then, realizing who they are, they plan a little twist of their own. They switch places with high hopes of getting their parents back together. This delightful and...
What makes the Special Edition of THE PARENT TRAP so cool isn't just that you get to enjoy Lindsay Lohan's amazing theatrical debut, but that's it's filled with bonus materials you've never seen before. Hallie Parker, a hip Californian, and Annie James, a proper London miss (both played by Lohan) are identical twins who don't even know each other exists -- until they accidentally meet at summer camp. Now they're up to their freckles in schemes and dreams to switch places, get their parents...
Carl Theodor Dreyer has long been exalted by film connoisseurs for The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr, Day of Wrath, and Ordet . With The Parson's Widow , we meet a different Dreyer: a director who engages with broad humor, then gradually guides to a wise, bittersweet resolution. Sofren, an aspiring parson, is engaged to Mari, but her father won't allow them to marry until Sofren gets a ministry. He's hired by a small rural congregation only to discover that according to local custom, the...
A surreal coming of age story told from the perspective of a young Scottish woman (Karen Gillan) trying to cope with the suicide of her best friend and struggling to confront what's truly haunting her.
Jason and Ade are nineteen. They've been in the academy of a famous London soccer club since they were eight, and now it's the night before their first-ever game as professionals. They should be sleeping, but they're over-excited. They exercise, fight, laugh, and talk. And then, suddenly, Jason kisses Ade. In the high-profile sporting world where image is everything, this surprising 'pass' sets the men up for a contrasting decade of fame and failure, full of secrets and denial.
Three-time Oscar(R)-winner Jack Nicholson (Best Actor, As Good As It Gets - 1997, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975; Best Supporting Actor, Terms of Endearment - 1983) and iconic screen beauty Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) star in THE PASSENGER, a cinematically brilliant romantic thriller written and directed by Oscar(R)-winning filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni (1995 Honorary Award; Blow Up, L'Avventura). When a fellow traveler dies suddenly, burned-out journalist David Locke...
A terrifying tale of a young girl (Rose) who struggles with the recent loss of her older sister. Rose is haunted by her dead sister as she isolates herself from her family and friends. Blaming herself for her sisters death she may suffer her sisters fate.
Renowned embalmer James Bryant puts his faith in a new generation to continue the vanishing legacy of Black funeral home.