Burt Lancaster plays the title role in this caution-to-the-winds adventure comedy filled to the top-mast with devilish derring-do and hearty goofiness. Possessed of keen acrobatic agility from his pre-acting circus days, Lancaster embodies all The Crimson Pirate is about: Escapist fare that's contagious fun. Zestily directed by Robert Siodmak (the suspense master of The Spiral Staircase and The Killers in a robust change of pace), The Crimson Pirate also boasts the treasures of lovely Eva...
The first prehistoric family is ready for another rocking adventure! The Croods have survived fanged beasts, natural disasters, and even young love, but now they must face their biggest challenge yet: another family! In search of a new home, the Croods discover a walled-in paradise created by the sophisticated Betterman family (emphasis on the "better"). As they try to coexist, the differences between the two families escalate into a full-blown feud, but when a new threat forces both families...
Matthew Williams and his friends set out to make Crop Circles. They figured out how to create amazing, wonderful shapes so incredible that they would fool thousands of people who interpreted them as signs of alien visitors. Cleverly they would make these fantastic geometric patterns appear on the ground and the world was in awe. Photographs of their circles were taken and circulated around the globe throughout the media and newspapers. Williams and his friends had pulled off a major feat, they...
According to his pirate ancestors' family tradition, Jerry Cleggett must marry on the deck of the ancient sailing ship, The Jasper B, on his 25th birthday, or lose his inheritance. Just in the nick of time, he finds a worthy soul-mate in beautiful heiress Agatha Fairhaven. But as the two lovebirds race to reach The Jasper B before sundown, gangsters, the federal authorities, and Agatha's stepbrother who stands to lose a fortune if the couple wed, are all converging to make sure that the...
Crusading District Attorney Phillip Brandon is cleaning up the city and making enemies along the way. An unscrupulous reporter gets wind of a story that Brandon's wife, Tess, lived in another city years before and was the girlfriend of a notorious mobster. As the reporter threatens to blow the lid off that story, another scandal brews. A gangster is murdered in a private room of an exclusive nightclub and the woman who fled the scene is traced back to Brandon's home!Gorgeous, tough as nails,...
Master filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille combines religious fervor and a stirring love story in one of his greatest screen spectacles, The Crusades. Christians in Medieval Europe are planning war against the Saracens who have taken over the Holy City of Jerusalem. In order to obtain supplies for his soldiers, England's king, Richard the Lion-Hearted (Henry Wilcoxon), is forced to marry a princess (Loretta Young) he has never met. The two are soon involved in a battle for survival of the Holy City and...
The Crying Game is an unpredictable, unconventional, multi-Oscar -nominated* thrilling masterpiece. Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta) stars as Fergus, an IRA soldier drawn into the sordid world of his hostage (Forest Whitaker). Lines begin to blur as Fergus becomes entrenched in this haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller. Never has a motion picture undermined viewer expectations so thoroughly and enjoyably.
World Cup fever sweeps into a remote Himalayan monastery and centuries-old traditions are threatened - the young monks will do just anything to watch the final match, posing a unique challenge to the venerable lamas in charge. An engaging tale ensues of colliding cultures, midnight escapades and daring secret plots.
Thus begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the Academy-Award winning* film starring Brad Pitt as a man who is born in his eighties and ages backward, and Cate Blanchett as the woman he is destined to love forever. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a monumental journey as unusual as it is epic that follows Benjamin's remarkable adventure of romance and redemption from the end of World War I through the twenty-first century. Directed by David Fincher, The Curious Caseof Benjamin...
The Curse of Bigfoot (1976, Color): A high school teacher leads a group of his students on an expedition into the desert, where they discover a mysterious buried tomb. In the pitch-black interior, they find the mummified body of a monstrous prehistoric beast. Excited about their historic find, they take the creature's corpse back into town, where it rises from its eternal sleep and goes on a bloody rampage.The Curse of Bigfoot is a film within a film. Half of it was shot in 1963 by two...
A Mardi Gras vacation for three college women becomes a nightmare when they find themselves cursed by a Voodoo witch and stalked by the grim reaper.
In Season 3 of The Curse of Oak Island the treasure hunt that has largely taken place above ground goes deep inside the island using the most advanced technology and heavy digging equipment. Will the Lagina brothers find the treasure and uncover incredible truth?
Rick, Marty and the Oak Island team are back for the biggest season yet bringing with them more determination, resources, and technology than ever in their quest to solve the 224-year-old treasure mystery. Last season's cliffhanger revealed a possible sunken ship in the triangle-shaped swamp, and now the team pulls out all the stops to find out what could be buried below. At Smith's Cove, the team conducts an even more expansive investigation than last year. In the Money Pit area, the...
Catch the found-footage thriller that Dread Central calls a "cult classic in waiting." Greg Hartman is an ordinary film student who's assigned to make a documentary about one of his fellow students. At first, he just wants to make an Easy A, but that changes when he meets Darren Mitchell, an eccentric young man who believes that he was attacked by an urban legend Professor Zardonicus. And Darren wants Greg to help him prove it. Even though he thinks Darren's story is laughable, Greg goes along...
A small rural Spanish village of the present is haunted by vampires. Dr.Dora Maeterlick is called to a nearby castle to cure the father of Baron Carl von Rysselbert who suffers from a strange blood disease.
Aging Broadway matriarch Sarah Crabtree is broke and depressed. When she learns that a dear friend, highly successful British actress Lady Henrietta Scorsby, has disappeared, she takes on her final and greatest role. Traveling to England, she presents herself at the Scorsby estate as their long-lost thespian aunt, where she is welcomed back by the family to live out her remaining days in grand fashion. She soon comes to realize all is not as it seems on the surface. Patriarch John's business...
Curtis Harrington is widely regarded as one of the most important avant-garde directors of the 1940s, as well as an early influential figure in what would come to be known as 'New Queer Cinema.' This publication is a joint effort between Flicker Alley and Drag City featuring restorations carried out by the Academy Film Archive on a single-disc Blu-ray, comprised of six short films by the late experimental filmmaker, as well as bonus interview footage and rarely-seen early works. Curtis...
Ted Clayton is a lazy playboy who spends his days dreaming of becoming a masked hero like Zorro. Looking to make a man out of his son, his millionaire father sends Ted overseas to manage the family's real estate interests. In the small nation of Costa Blanca, he meets President Gonzales and his daughter, Rosita. Upon meeting the curvy beauty, Ted immediately becomes interested in "diplomatic relations." But their burgeoning romance is interrupted by 'El Diablo', a rebel leader who plots to...
The four daughters of a slain notorious outlaw decide to continue in their father's footsteps--with a life of banditry and robbery. Two of the daughters soon want out. The other two love it. Cornered, all four will have to gun their way to freedom.
A much-loved British classic, Michael Anderson's 1954 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the centre of Nazi Germany's industrial complex, and the quintessentially English combination of inventiveness and dogged determination. Split into two distinct sections, the film deals first with the fraught, but ultimately successful development of a new weapon by Dr. Barnes N. Wallis (Michael Redgrave). The second and pacier section deals with the mission itself during the...
On May 17th. 1943 the Royal Air Force carried out one of the most remarkable raids ever undertaken by any aircrew. On that night a squadron of Lancaster heavy bombers flew at low level across a blacked out Europe, towards the four great dams that delivered water and power to the German industrial heartland of the Ruhr. The aircrews had been trained for months to carry out this most daring and courageous of raids. Against a storm of anti-aircraft fire, they calmly flew their bombers in across...
It's a man's world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in it: Be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. In the first of three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel, who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion to high society, one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one -- a high-rolling racketeer --...