Monday, November 17, 2014

Top 25 Movies in Classics

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Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange artwork A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
Genre: Drama
Price: $9.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 9, 1972

Being the adventures of a young man...who loved a bit of the old ultra-violence...went to jail, was brainwashed...and came out cured...or was he?

In a futuristic welfare state, Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a vicious young hoodlum, sleeps all day and spends his nights roaming the city with his droogs (friends), assaulting innocent people in the streets and in their homes. Finally captured by the police, Alex undergoes rehabilitation in the form of aversion therapy as brutal and horrifying as any of his offenses.
© © 1971 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Polaris Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske - Alice In Wonderland (1951) artwork Alice In Wonderland (1951)
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske
Genre: Kids & Family
Price: $17.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: July 26, 1951

Experience the magic and majesty of this ultimate collector's dream. Featuring Disney Enhanced Home Theater Mix, this remarkable digital restoration boasts pristine sound and unparalleled picture quality. Join Alice as she chases the White Rabbit and journeys into a topsy-turvy world that gets "curiouser and curiouser" as her fantastical adventures unfold. Meet the Mad Hatter, March Hare, Tweedledee & Tweedledum, the Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts and more unforgettable characters, all set against a backdrop of awe-inspiring splendor.
© © Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles artwork Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks
Genre: Comedy
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 7, 1974

The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!
© © 1974 Warner Bros. All Rights Reserved.
Blake Edwards - Breakfast At Tiffany's artwork Breakfast At Tiffany's
Blake Edwards
Genre: Romance
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: October 5, 1961

Winner of two Oscars, the romantic comedy that sparkles like diamonds! The names Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly have become synonymous since this dazzling romantic comedy was translated to the screen from Truman Capote's best-selling novella. Holly is a deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian Millionaire. George Peppard plays her next-door neighbor, a writer who is "sponsored" by a wealthy Patricia Neal. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy. Seeing just how that romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of this gem-like treat set to Henry Mancini's Oscar-winning score and the Oscar-winning Mancini-Johnny Mercer song "Moon River."
© © 2008 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Peter Yates - Bullitt artwork Bullitt
Peter Yates
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $6.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: January 3, 1969

Action star Steve McQueen ("The Getaway," "The Magnificent Seven") is at his dynamic best as a San Francisco cop assigned to guard a star witness who soon ends up dead. The definitive detective thriller, featuring one of the screen's greatest car chases and razor-sharp Oscar-winning editing. Co-starring Jacqueline Bisset ("Rich and Famous," "Murder on the Orient Express"), Academy Award-nominee Robert Vaughn ("The Magnificent Seven," "The Towering Inferno") and Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall ("A Civil Action," "The Godfather"). Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 greatest American films of all time.
© © 1968 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Solar Productions Inc. Renewed 1996 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Chad McQueen (successor-in-interest to Solar Productions Inc.) and Terry McQueen (successor-in-interest to Solar Productions Inc.). All rights reserved.
Bob Fosse - Cabaret artwork Cabaret
Bob Fosse
Genre: Musicals
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 13, 1972

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to Cabaret. The winner of eight Academy Awards, it boasts a score by the legendary songwriting partnership behind another film that would energize the movie musical genre with equal razzle-dazzle 30 years later: Chicago's John Kander and Fred Ebb. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and an impish emcee (Joel Grey) sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. Cabaret caught lightning (and won Oscars) for Minnelli, Grey and director Bob Fosse, who shaped a triumph of style and substance. Come to this Cabaret, old chum. You'll never want to leave.
© © 1972 Lorimar Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Michael Curtiz - Casablanca artwork Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
Genre: Romance
Price: $14.99
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Release Date: November 26, 1942

Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one, especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives hanging in the balance.
© © 1943 Turner Entertainment Co. All rights reserved.
Roman Polanski - Chinatown artwork Chinatown
Roman Polanski
Genre: Drama
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: June 26, 1974

Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown. Co-starring film legend John Huston and featuring an Academy Award-winning script by Robert Towne, Chinatown captures a lost era in a masterfully woven movie that remains a timeless gem.
© © 1974 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane (70th Anniversary Edition) artwork Citizen Kane (70th Anniversary Edition)
Orson Welles
Genre: Drama
Price: $17.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: May 1, 1941

Orson Welles' masterwork (#1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary digital transfer. It's grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and directed with inspired visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner (1941) is rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity - the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word: "Rosebud."
© © 1941 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Norman Jewison - Fiddler On the Roof artwork Fiddler On the Roof
Norman Jewison
Genre: Musicals
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: November 3, 1971

Norman Jewison's adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is set in the Ukranian ghetto village of Anatevka. Tevye the milkman, played by Israeli actor Topol, is constantly being challenged by his poverty, the romantic entanglements of his five daughters, and the prejudicial attitudes of non-Jews. Tevye carries on lengthy conversations with God whenever the weight of the world becomes too much for him, he does not answer but he is at least more willing to listen than the milkman's remonstrative wife Golde. Tevye is forced to do some quick rearranging when his oldest daughter Tzeitel falls in love with poor tailor Motel Kamzoil after he has already arranged a marriage between her and wealthy butcher Lazar Wolf. Fancying himself more broad-minded than his gentile oppressors, Tevye cannot accept the notion that his other daughter Chava would want to marry Fyedka, a non-Jew. When Tevye and his neighbors are forced out of Anatevka by the Czar's minions he must find a way to change his tune and his entire life.
© © 1971 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All rights reserved.
Victor Fleming - Gone With the Wind artwork Gone With the Wind
Victor Fleming
Genre: Drama
Price: $17.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: December 15, 1939

Now completely remastered, revisit Margaret Mitchell's epic American classic, winner of 10 Academy Awards! On the eve of the American Civil War, rich, beautiful and self-centered Scarlett O'Hara has everything she could want - except the handsome Ashley Wilkes. When war devastates the South, Scarlett must concern herself with more important things than girlhood love. As the nation and the world changes around her, Scarlet finds an adult tenacity that carries her through all obstacles, still in pursuit of what she wants - the man that got away. Sparks fly along the way as the wily Rhett Butler comes in and out of her life - the only man she has met who is a match for her strong will. Only after Rhett walks out on her does Scarlett realize what she has lost... and decides to win him back. Starring Oscar-winners Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, and Oscar-nominated Leslie Howard. Ranked as the #2 Greatest Love Story of all time by AFI.
© © Turner Entertainment Co. & The Stephens Mitchell Trusts. Turner Entertainment Co.
Randal Kleiser - Grease artwork Grease
Randal Kleiser
Genre: Musicals
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: June 16, 1978

John Travolta solidified his position as the most versatile and magnetic screen presence of the decade in this film version of the smash hit play Grease. Recording star Olivia Newton–John made her American film debut as Sandy, Travolta's naive love interest. The impressive supporting cast reads like a "who's who" in this quintessential musical about the fabulous '50s. Grease is not just a nostalgic look at a simpler decade – it's an energetic and exciting musical homage to the age of rock 'n' roll.
© © 2005 Paramount Pictures
Michelangelo Antonioni - L'avventura artwork L'avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre: Drama
Price: $19.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: January 1, 1960

Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, L’avventura concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) and best friend (Monica Vitti, in her breakout role). Antonioni’s controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation.
© © 1960 Cino del Duca
Clive Barker - Nightbreed: The Director's Cut artwork Nightbreed: The Director's Cut
Clive Barker
Genre: Horror
Price: $12.99
Rental Price: $3.99
Release Date: October 21, 2014

For the first time ever, experience Clive Barker’s original director’s cut with over 40 minutes of new and altered footage, all mastered in high definition from the original camera negative!

Boone may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters.

Hellraiser creator Clive Barker writes and directs this vivid leap into horror that asks: in the battle of man vs. monster, who’s really the monster? The answer supplies flesh-crawling suspense, sudden fear, a colorful Danny Elfman score and a creepy array of shape-shifting beings. Enter a world beyond death, beyond the imagination, perhaps beyond anything you’ve ever seen.
© © 1990 Morgan Creek Productions, INC.
Alfred Hitchcock - North By Northwest artwork North By Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: July 28, 1959

Selected as one of the top 50 American films of all time by the prestigious American Film Institute, and considered by many critics to be Hitchcock's greatest film, this fast-paced thriller stars Oscar-winner Cary Grant ("Notorious," "The Philadelphia Story") as a Madison Avenue advertising exec who is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped by a group of international spies, headed by James Mason ("A Star Is Born," "Lolita"). After a hair-raising escape, he is framed for a murder he didn't commit and goes on the run with the lovely Eva Marie Saint ("Superman Returns," "On the Waterfront"). Famous for a wild plane attack and a harrowing chase across the faces of Mount Rushmore, this is quintessential Hitchcock ("Psycho," "The Birds"). With Academy Award-winner Martin Landau ("Ed Wood," "The Majestic") as Mason's evil henchman, this film is the rare combination of action, suspense and humor.
© © 1959 Turner Entertainment Co.
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest artwork One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Miloš Forman
Genre: Drama
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: November 1, 1985

Nominated for nine Academy Awards and winner of five, including the top categories of Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Randle Patrick McMurphy (multi-Oscar winner Jack Nicholson -- "Something's Gotta Give," "As Good As It Gets") is a free-spirited, small-time convict who fakes being crazy so he can get transferred from the state penitentiary to what he thinks will be a more comfortable state mental hospital. But his contagious sense of delightful chaos clashes with the numbing routine of the hospital and the woman in charge of making sure nothing disrupts the sedate mood of the floor, Nurse Ratched (Oscar-winner Louise Fletcher -- "Cruel Intentions," "2 Days in the Valley"). Based on Ken Kesey's acclaimed bestseller. The superb cast also includes Emmy-winner Danny DeVito ("Big Fish," "L.A. Confidential"), Emmy-winner Christopher Lloyd (the "Back to the Future" trilogy, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit") and Brad Dourif (the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "Murder in the First").
© © 1975 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.
Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window (1954) artwork Rear Window (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: Thriller
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: September 1, 1954

None of Hitchcock's films has ever given a clearer view of his genius for suspense than Rear Window. When professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors play out across the courtyard. When he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife, Jeffries enlists the help of his glamorous socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events… Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in all of film history.
© © 1954 Patron, Inc. Renewed 1982 Samuel Taylor & Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell, as Co-Trustees. All Rights Reserved.
Wolfgang Reitherman - The Jungle Book artwork The Jungle Book
Wolfgang Reitherman
Genre: Kids & Family
Price: $19.99
Release Date: October 18, 1967

Experience the song-filled celebration of friendship, fun and adventure that was the last film to receive Walt Disney's personal touch. Embark on a thrilling, adventure-filled journey with the boy Mowgli as he makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.
© © 1967 Disney
Moustapha Akkad - The Message artwork The Message
Moustapha Akkad
Genre: Drama
Price: $12.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: November 11, 2014

It was a movie seven years in the making, with a cast of thousands and featuring an Oscar® nominated score by Maurice Jarre (Dr. Zhivago, A Passage to India). This is the epic story of the prophet Mohammad, whose holy revelations defied a pagan society and changed the world forever. Two-time Academy Award® winner Anthony Quinn (Lawrence of Arabia) stars in this landmark international hit produced and directed by Moustapha Akkad (Lion of the Desert) that remains the most powerful and acclaimed movie ever made about the birth of Islam.
© © 1976 Filmco International Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Francis Ford Coppola - The Outsiders: The Complete Novel artwork The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
Francis Ford Coppola
Genre: Drama
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: March 25, 1983

In 1983, director Francis Ford Coppola struck a powerful chord with his adaptation of S.E. Hinton's classic coming-of-age story featuring young talents who would go on to become major stars. Two decades later, he revisited the epic with an added 22 minutes of footage that includes a beginning and ending more true to the book and a rousing rock 'n' roll soundtrack – The Outsiders: The Complete Novel.
© © 1983 Warner Bros. All Rights Reserved.

Robert Wise - The Sound of Music artwork The Sound of Music
Robert Wise
Genre: Musicals
Price: $14.99
Release Date: March 29, 1965

Rodgers & Hammerstein's® cinematic treasure, “The Sound of Music” is the winner of five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture. In this true-life story, Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, a spirited young Austrian woman who leaves the convent to become a governess for Captain von Trapp’s (Christopher Plummer) seven unruly children. Her charm and songs soon win the hearts of the children – and their father. But when Nazi Germany unites with Austria, Maria is forced to attempt a daring escape with her new family.
© © 1965 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
George Roy Hill - The Sting artwork The Sting
George Roy Hill
Genre: Comedy
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: December 25, 1973

Winner of 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, The Sting stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford as two con men in 1930s Chicago. After a friend is killed by the mob, they try to get even by attempting to pull off the ultimate "sting." No one is to be trusted as the twists unfold, leading up to one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history. The con is on!
© © 1973 Universal Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Victor Fleming - The Wizard of Oz artwork The Wizard of Oz
Victor Fleming
Genre: Musicals
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: April 23, 1939

"There's no place like home..." Entirely remastered, the colorful characters and unforgettable songs of Oz come alive as never before. This magical cinematic event finds Kansas farm girl Judy Garland ("A Star is Born," "Meet Me in St. Louis") caught in a tornado and magically transported to the Land of Oz. Needing help to return home, she is told to follow the Yellow Brick Road and find the powerful Wizard (Frank Morgan). On her perilous journey, she is befriended by the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), the Tin Man (Jack Haley), and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who help her battle the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) and her flying monkeys. Based on the classic book by Frank L. Baum, "The Wizard of Oz" is a dazzling motion picture achievement, featuring unforgettable songs (including Oscar-winner "Over the Rainbow"), scenery, and costumes. The film had 5 Academy Award nominations, and Garland was awarded a special Oscar for her outstanding performance.
© © THE WIZARD OF OZ and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and Turner Entertainment Co.
Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird artwork To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan
Genre: Drama
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: December 25, 1962

Gregory Peck won an Oscar® for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him – except Peck, the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
© © 1963 Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Inc. & Brentwood Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Mel Stuart - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - 40th Anniversary Edition artwork Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - 40th Anniversary Edition
Mel Stuart
Genre: Kids & Family
Price: $14.99
Rental Price: $2.99
Release Date: June 30, 1971

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of a musical fantasy for the young, and the young at heart. The mysterious candy maker extraordinaire Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) hides a Golden Ticket inside five of his famous candy bars. The kids who find them are invited on a grand tour of the wondrous, wacky Wonka factory, and a chance for an even grander prize -- if they can resist temptation. The delightful musical score includes the hit song "The Candyman." From Roald Dahl's classic novel, produced by David Wolper ("Roots," "The Thorn Birds") and nominated for an Academy Award.

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