After a German U-Boat is bombed to smithereens in the Hudson, it's Nazi survivors determine to reach the still-neutral United States and hide out - and they'll gladly murder anyone who tries to stand... more
The astonishing The Bridge, by Bernhard Wicki (The Longest Day), was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation's first postwar film to be widely... more
After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in... more
A twisting, turning, cloak-and-dagger delight, Night Train to Munich is a gripping, occasionally comic confection from writers Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat (Hitchcock's the Lady Vanishes) and... more
A pivotal work by Stanley Kubrick (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, a CLOCKWORK ORANGE), PATHS OF GLORY is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. A fiery Kirk Douglas (ACE IN THE HOLE, SPARTACUS)... more
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss between two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths... more
With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson (AU HASARD BALTHAZAR) made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in a MAN ESCAPED. Based on the memoirs of an... more
In Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness inhabits the role of Jock Sinclair, a Whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion.... more