What makes this dizzying whirl of spectacular montages so much fun is the mix of famous sequences with colorful lesser-known bits, like Clark Gable's rendition of "Puttin' on the Ritz," Jimmy Stewart's serenade in "Easy ...

Thanks to its intense young star and a script that emphasizes the slow, painstaking development of a Shaolin warrior, Chia-Liang Liu's "36th Chamber" is regarded as one of the finest kung-fu movies of the 1970s. Its ...

An early classic from the Master, "Steps" is fast, gripping and clever, with priceless chemistry and repartee between the two charismatic young stars. Hitchcock's most successful film to-date, “Steps” also inaugurated ...

The first feature by writer-director François Truffaut, "Blows" is an early, timeless classic of the French New Wave, released the same year as Godard's "Breathless." Drawing on his own life experience as a truant and ...

Also known as "The Invaders," and co-scripted by Powell's longtime partner Emeric Pressburger, this clever, rousing anti-fascist war thriller was one of Britain's boldest and most memorable propaganda pictures. Portman ...

Wildly imaginative, deliriously kooky film was co-written by Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), and captures the fun, off-kilter spirit of his books. Some over-the-top set pieces get showcased in saturated "50s ...

This first and best of the Sinbad movies remains a showcase for the unique special-effects "dynamation" of the late Ray Harryhausen. His ground-breaking work, combined with solid story-telling, provides an ideal ...

Geena Davis rightly won an Oscar for her magnetic, star-making performance in Lawrence Kasdan’s alternately humorous and heart-wrenching adaptation of Anne Tyler’s best-selling novel; that said, Hurt’s more low-key work ...

Based on a real-life incident, Jonathan Kaplan's hard-hitting courtroom nail-biter is quite an eye-opener, as it confronts head-on a woman's right to exhibit her sexuality and still not be physically violated against ...

Based on tales from the "Arabian Nights" and made entirely from hand-cut, Art Deco-styled silhouettes and color-tinted backdrops, Lotte Reiniger's mesmerizing 1927 fantasy has the distinction of being the very first ...

This campy, madcap road trip through the Aussie frontier was a huge hit in the U.S., loved for its cheeky humor and hilariously absurd scenarios-most involving awestruck locals encountering the gaudily clad men. In a ...

This rousing, gorgeously photographed adventure movie exemplifies the magical heights Warner Brothers attained in the Golden Age of the studio system. Bolstered by a consistently clever script, with both humor and ...

Based on a stage play and straying far from the Arthur Conan Doyle canon, Werker's "Holmes" nevertheless makes for thrilling entertainment, in no small part because it reunites Rathbone and co-star Nigel Bruce, playing ...

With its unblinkered stance toward war—especially the devastation it wreaks on its young recruits—“Werner” seems cut from the same cloth as American anti-war classics like “All Quiet On The Western Front” “Apocalypse ...

Scripted by James Agee, Huston’s hugely entertaining “African Queen” pairs a grizzled Bogart with the lovably straitlaced and ever-haughty Hepburn for a bumpy ride down a treacherous river, where a German gunboat is ...

Demme is best known for his Oscar-winning “Silence of the Lambs,” but he’s had a long-standing interest in Haiti, the subject of several previous documentaries. “The Agronomist” is a sparkling, vivid tribute to ...

Written by the gifted Paddy Chayefsky, this is one of the sharper anti-war satires out there. Both leads are solid, with Andrews particularly impressive in her first non-singing role. Veterans Douglas and James Coburn ...

Adapted from the same Broadway play that actor-director George C. Scott (of "Patton" fame) starred in back in 1959, "Trial" is an Emmy-winning drama of the real-life events surrounding the court martial of a Confederate ...

Peerless director Wilder seamlessly blends comedy, romance and pathos in this touching tale of a lonely man forced to confront the corruption of his life, just as he falls helplessly in love. With winning performances ...

Veteran Hollywood actor Robert Duvall wrote, directed, and starred in this stirring evangelical drama about faith, personal passion, and moral responsibility, a pet project he spent over a decade bringing to the big ...