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Man of Aran (1934) Robert J. Flaherty, Colman ‘Tiger’ King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane

In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty Read More »
Star of India (1954) Arthur Lubin, Cornel Wilde, Leslie Linder, Jean Wallace

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne Read More »
Space Riders (1984) Joe Massot, Barry Sheene, Gavan O’Herlihy, Toshiya Ito

Roger Gilbert is an adrenaline junkie who leads an otherwise ordinary life until one day he rides where no man had ridden before. Read More »
West 11 (1963) Michael Winner, Alfred Lynch, Kathleen Breck, Eric Portman

This Michael Winner directed film looks into life at Notting Hill, London, then a seedy slum. Read More »
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) Kevin Billington, Ann Beach, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Peter Cook

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. Read More »
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992) Christopher Menaul, Ralph Fiennes, Alexander Siddig, Denis Quilley

In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help the king of the Syrian in the Conference of Peace in Paris. Read More »
Eye of the Devil (1966) J. Lee Thompson, David Niven, Sharon Tate, Deborah Kerr

Vineyard owner marquis Philippe de Montfaucon is called back to his castle Bellenac because of another dry season. Read More »
Nickelodeon (1976) Peter Bogdanovich, Ryan O’Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O’Neal

This homage to the childhood days of the motion pictures starts in 1910, when the young attorney Leo Harrigan by chance meets a motion picture producer. Read More »
Uneasy Terms (1948) Vernon Sewell, Michael Rennie, Moira Lister, Faith Brook

Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Read More »