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2) F for fake
Series
Criterion collection volume 288
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Trickery, Deceit, Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
3) The stranger
Publisher
FOCUSfilm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Frank Kindler is a Nazi war criminal who has fled to America, where he disguises himself as a small town schoolteacher. Mary is the young woman who falls in love with the devious, yet charming Kindler.
6) Compulsion
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Chicago, 1924. Two young men, one bossy and intimidating, the other sensitive and introverted, thought their superior intellect would enable them to pull off "The perfect crime." The result is a sensational case with defense attorney Jonathan Wilk putting capital punishment itself on trial.
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
Series
Criterion collection volume 830
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Prince Hal must choose between loyalty to Sir John Falstaff or to his father, King Henry IV.
9) Jane Eyre
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre is the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester, lord of an English manor house called Thornfield, whose halls hide a dark and sinister secret.
11) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
12) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.
13) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
15) Shōgun
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The story of a shipwrecked English navigator who becomes a samurai during a struggle for power by a Shogun and the Emperor in feudal Japan.
16) Macbeth
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c[2012]
Language
English
Description
Eleventh century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king. But he does not enjoy his newfound, dearly-won kingship.
17) "American"
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1940s, director Orson Welles navigates his meteoric Hollywood rise. As World War II begins, a Japanese American boy visits abroad, and an African American soldier enlists in the army. As the story heads towards 1947, each character follows their own ambitions in search of their American identity"-- american1947.com.
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This collection contains twelve of the greatest comedy shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You'll hear Ozzie and Harriet Nelson in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Amos 'n' Andy, Robert Young in Father Knows Best, Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee and Molly, William Bendix as Chester A. Riley in The Life of Riley, Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband, Eve Arden as English teacher Connie...
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