A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Buster Keaton's THREE AGES is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: form the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome, to the city streets of the American Jazz Era. *"Superb three-part silent comedy." - Daniel Eagan, **Film...

When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.

A longstanding director of ingenuity, heart and meticulous detail, Charles Burnett has earned his reputation as "one of America's very best filmmakers" from The Chicago Tribune. Focusing on everyday life in Black communities rarely featured in American cinema, Burnett's films combine lyrical storytelling with a starkly neorealist, documentary-style approach most famously seen in KILLER OF SHEEP, the chronicle of a slaughterhouse employee's daily struggles...

Comedy legend Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The "Jekyll and Hyde" game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times, and the professor begins to suffer hilarious...

In 1911, photographer Edward S. Curtis traveled to British Columbia and visited the Kwakwaka'wakw, an Indigenous tribe belonging to the Pacific Northwest Coast. Hard up for cash and loaded with a year's worth of footage, Curtis decided the best way to capture the life and ceremonies of the Kwakwaka'wakw was to make a feature-length motion picture – one of the first of its kind. Over the course of three years, Curtis and his assistant, a Kwakwaka'wakw...

In this chilling drama, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) is a wealthy and frustrated spinster who invites a homeless boy into her apartment, offering him living quarters. As she becomes completely obsessed with him, he rejects her amorous advances, leading her to take him as a prisoner in her home. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. *"Full of the drifting long shots, slow zooms, and overlapping dialogue that would help to characterise...

In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.

Following the death of her father, Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns home to Yorkshire for the first time in 15 years, to claim the tenancy of the family farm she believes is rightfully hers. Once there she encounters her older brother Joe (Mark Stanley) a man she barely recognizes, worn down by years of struggling to keep the farm going whilst caring for their sick father. Joe is thrown by Alice’s sudden arrival, angered by her claim and finds her presence...

Lord Nicholas Dorset (David Warner) and his beautiful wife Britt (Ursula Andress), are a glamorous couple who live completely beyond their means. Their bank manager is Mr. Graham, who envies his customers' wealth. Over the years he has devised a foolproof plan to rob his own bank, and Britt and Nick's desperate financial situation makes them ideal accomplices. "*Mr. Hall has made an intelligent and quietly funny film about three eccentrics, who are...

During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army. Plumpick encounters a strange town occupied by the former residents of the local psychiatric hospital who escaped after the villagers deserted. Assuming roles like Bishop, Duke, barber, and circus ringmaster, they warmly accept the visitor as their King of Hearts. With his reconnaissance...