The Crow: City of Angels

Tim Pope

This fast-moving, action-packed sequel to The Crow explodes on screen with hot stars Vincent Perez (Queen of the Damned) and Mia Kirshner (TV's The L Word). After a brutal attack by an evil drug cartel, the murder victim (Perez) is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. With the help of a beautiful woman named Sarah (Kirshner), he exacts revenge on his killers on by one...only to realize his enemy, the lethal Judah, has discovered the one weakness that can destroy him forever.


Jacqueline and Jilly

Victoria Rowell

The respectable Mitchel family is the envy of their wealthy, well-educated Virginia community. They seem to have it all but under the surface, scandal and heartbreak are tearing them apart. Once strong and passionate, the marriage of Jacqueline and Magnus is on the verge of collapse. Zillah, the family matriarch, has alienated her loved ones with her overbearing ways. And young Jilly Mitchell has fallen into a crippling prescription drug addiction that threatens, not just her college graduation, but her life. Three generations face a devastating wakeup call where they must learn to come together and renew the bonds of faith and family or lose everything they hold dear.


The Catered Affair

Richard Brooks

When Jane Hurley tells her parents she's engaged to be married, they are overjoyed. But while Jane says she wants a simple ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley insist no expense be spared for The Catered Affair. Academy Award winners Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine star as the Hurleys, who are determined to impress their future in-laws and wow the neighborhood--even if it means spending everything they've saved for their future... even if it makes the bride (Debbie Reynolds) miserable over a lavish event she doesn't want. Based on the live-television play by multiple Academy Award winner Paddy Chayefsky and adapted by Gore Vidal.


Any Number Can Play

Mervyn LeRoy

Academy Award winner Clark Gable stars with Alexis Smith as a gambler with a heart of gold who runs the rarest of all things, an honest casino, where Any Number Can Play. Despite Charley Kyng's (Gable) honor, his wife, Lon (Smith), and son, Paul (Darryl Hickman), view his business with disdain. But on the day that Paul is arrested for a brawl and Charley is diagnosed with a dangerous heart condition that will require him to stop gambling, Charley brings his wife and son to the casino for his last night of gambling. As they watch, Charley loses and wins back a fortune, thwarts a robbery, and bets the casino itself on a single turn of the cards.


Battle Circus

Richard Brooks

Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson star as a hard-bitten surgeon and an idealistic nurse who find romance at a mobile army field hospital during the Korean War.By-the-book commanding officer and surgeon Major Jed Webbe (Bogart) finds the idealism of his new nurse, Lieutenant Ruth McCara (Allyson) misplaced and annoying. But despite the grimness of the war raging around them, the relationship between the two grows into romance ... and the independent Webbe begins to realize he has met a woman he wants to marry.


Brute Force

Jules Dassin

As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin’s forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well. Burt Lancaster is the timeworn Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey (a riveting Hume Cronyn). Only Collins’s dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey’s chains? Matter-of-fact and ferocious, Brute Force builds to an explosive climax that shows the lengths men will go to when fighting for their freedom.


Something of Value

Richard Brooks

Peter McKenzie and native boy Kimani are raised as brothers in the British colony of Kenya. But cruelty and intolerance drive them apart. Kimani becomes the leader of his people, the Mau Mau. After the slaughter of whites, Peter becomes vengeful but he relents and searches for his childhood friend with hopes of ending the killing. Peace proves elusive after Kimani's wife is killed and the Mau Mau leader runs away. Peter sets out after him for a final confrontation, only to find tragedy and redemption.


Sweet Bird of Youth

Richard Brooks

Oscar-winning adaptation of Tennessee Williams' acclaimed play stars Academy Award-winner Paul Newman ("Nobody's Fool," "The Sting,"

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") as a womanizing drifter who returns to his Florida home town with an aging movie actress only

to run into trouble with his former girlfriend's corrupt father. Ed Begley ("12 Angry Men") took home an Oscar for his portrayal of

the brutal mayor who seeks revenge on Newman for seducing his daughter. Oscar-winner Geraldine Page ("The Trip to Bountiful")

scored an Oscar nomination as the fading movie queen, as did Shirley Knight (TV's "The Billionaire Boys Club") as Newman's

girlfriend. With Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner Rip Torn (TV's "The Larry Sanders Show"). Written and directed by Academy

Award-winner Richard Brooks ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"). Produced by Academy Award-recipient Pandro S. Berman ("Ivanhoe," "Top Hat,"

"Father of the Bride").


The Last Hunt

Richard Brooks

Robert Taylor (Quo Vadis) and Stewart Granger (The Prisoner of Zenda) team up in this "grim, fierce, raw-boned outdoor fare" (Variety) filmed on location in rugged Custer State Park, North Dakota. Charlie Gilson (Taylor), a mean-spirited hunter, joins reserved Sandy McKenzie (Granger) on a great government-sanctioned buffalo hunt that will keep the buffalo population under control and make the men rich. Joining them are Woodfoot, an old one-legged skinner (Lloyd Nolan) and Jimmy (Russ Tamblyn) a half-Indian boy. But trouble begins to break the team apart when Charlie kills a group of Indians whom he accuses of stealing his horses. Charlie's subsequent mistreatment of the lone survivors – an Indian woman and her child – forces Sandy to realize that his partner is consumed with hate…and that he enjoys killing more than just buffalo. "Raw, real and rugged" (L.A. Examiner), The Last Hunt is so intense and powerful that its stark images will stay with you long after the film ends.


The Brothers Karamazov

Unknown

Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given the Hollywood screen treatment in this sumptuous and colorful film. Lee J. Cobb, in an Academy Award®-nominated role plays Fyodor Karamazov, the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri (Yul Brynner), a callous Russian officer; Ivan (Richard Basehart), the intellectual; pious Alexey (William Shatner in his screen debut); and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find peace, each in their own way.


The Last Time I Saw Paris

Richard Brooks

Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Donna Reed star with Van Johnson in this sweeping romance loosely based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a story of love and dreams found and lost in The City of Lights--The Last Time I Saw Paris. When reporter Charles Wills (Johnson) travels to Paris to cover the Allies' victory in World War II, he falls in love with and marries the stunningly beautiful Helen Ellswirth (Taylor). The young newlyweds choose to stay in Paris, where Charles tries to make his way as a writer. But years of struggle, rejection and poverty take their toll on the Wills' marriage, and the two drift into affairs with others as their love and dreams fade. Now, after years of disillusion and tragedy, Charles returns to Paris. But can he rediscover the passion and dreams that once came so easily?


Crisis (1950)

Richard Brooks

Eugene Ferguson pledged to help people when he became a doctor, but will he perform a life-saving surgery on a South American tyrant (Jose Ferrer) who's taken him captive? Yes, if Ferguson hopes to leave the troubled land. No, if he heeds the threats made by revolutionaries determined to overthrow the despot. Cary Grant plays Ferguson, a physician navigating the unexpected terrain between a rock and a hard place in this political thriller that's the directorial debut of Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry). The role is a change of pace for Grant, and he prepared for it with diligent study and observation of surgical procedures. The result is a portrayal rooted in reality and put across with the uncanny talent of one of film's greatest stars.


Shocker

Wes Craven

Master of horror, Wes Craven, directs this exciting visual treat which introduces a diabolical mass murderer who harnesses electricity for unimaginable killing powers. About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi) transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete, Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg), with an uncanny connection to Pinker through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon. The two dive in and out of television programs, chasing each other from channel to channel through stunning scenes of disaster, game shows and old reruns. A blend of dazzling special effects, jolting humor and an electrifying soundtrack, Shocker is an ironic tale of terror and madness in the video age.


Wrong Is Right

Richard Brooks

A satire of American news reporting, covert agencies, and political systems.


Listen Up - The Lives of Quincy Jones

Ellen Weissbrod

This unique and fascinating look at the legendary musician, arranger, composer and producer offers a collage of memories, sounds and intimate interviews with musical greats in a rousing showcase of popular music. It's a living history of black America, a revealing glimpse into the psyche of an artist, and a modern story of inspiration. American Movie Classics calls it "a landmark... warm, funny and compelling." Featuring appearances by legendary performers Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Lionel Hampton and Barbra Streisand.


Key Largo

John Huston

Bogart and Bacall ignite the screen in this acclaimed story of a war veteran who finds himself in a deadly fight against gangsters who have taken over a Florida hotel during a tropical storm. All-star cast includes Oscar-winner Humphrey Bogart ("Casablanca," "The African Queen"), Oscar-nominee Lauren Bacall ("The Big Sleep," "The Mirror Has Two Faces"), Academy Award-honoree Edward G. Robinson ("Little Caesar," "Double Indemnity"), Oscar-winner Lionel Barrymore ("It's A Wonderful Life") and Claire Trevor ("Murder, My Sweet"), who won an Oscar for her powerful performance as gangster Robinson's mistress. Directed by Academy Award-winner John Huston ("The African Queen," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre") from a script by Oscar-winner Richard Brooks ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Blackboard Jungle").


Lord Jim (1965)

Richard Brooks

Based on Joseph Conrad's classic novel, Jim serves an apprenticeship on a tramp liner and graduates to first officer, on a ship which is mercilessly lashed by a hurricane. In a moment of desperation, the idealistic Jim abandons the ship and leaves its passengers to their fate. To redeem himself, he agrees to take a shipment of dynamite and deliver it to a tribe of natives in uncharted territory.


Dollars

Richard Brooks

Superstars Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn both took on the mantle of Robin Hood as they set out to fleece the criminally over-privileged (drug dealers, racketeers, gamblers, etc.) of $1 million from a safe-deposit vault in Hamburg. He's a security expert, she's a hooker. Together they made a dynamite combination at the box-office.


The Hidden (1987)

Jack Sholder

Daytime Emmy-nominee Michael Nouri ("The Terminal," TV's "The O.C.") and Emmy-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Kyle MacLachlan (TV's "Desperate Housewives," "Twin Peaks") star as Tom Beck and Lloyd Gallagher, a pair of Los Angeles police detectives assigned to stop a crime spree being perpetrated by what seems to be an alien intruder. When detective Tom Beck is teamed with Lloyd Gallagher to solve a puzzling case, he seems to notice the same odd gait and look in Gallagher's eyes that he has seen in the criminals. What he doesn't see at first is that, like the criminals, Gallagher is not human, that he has been sent to earth to apprehend an extraterrestrial criminal in this sci-fi thriller that has become a cult classic.


The Professionals (1966)

Richard Brooks

Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin headline the top-notch, rip-roaring Western action/adventure, "The Professionals." Four soldiers of fortune are hired by a wealthy Texan oil baron (Ralph Bellamy) to rescue his kidnapped wife (Claudia Cardinale), who's been spirited actress the Mexican Border by a band of mercenaries led by Jesus Raza (Jack Palance). The four rugged professionals, each regarded as a specialist in his selected field - an expert marksman and tracker (Woody Strode), the explosives master(Lancaster), horse handler (Robert Ryan) and one skilled in tactics and weaponry (Marvin) - make their way across the treacherous landscape to retrieve the beautiful kidnappee, but discover all is not what it seems in the explosive climax. Excellent performances from an all-star cast, Maurice Jarre's haunting musical score and surprising plot twists make "The Professionals (1966)" a true classic. "The Professionals (1966)" garnered three Academy Award(r) nominations; two for Richard Brooks (Best Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay) and another for the esteemed Conrad Hall (Best Cinematography). The filmmakers received the same nominations the following year for the true crime classic, In Cold Blood.


Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Richard Brooks

Oscar-winning adaptation of Tennessee Williams' acclaimed play stars Academy Award-winner Paul Newman ("Nobody's Fool," "The Sting," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") as a womanizing drifter who returns to his Florida home town with an aging movie actress only to run into trouble with his former girlfriend's corrupt father. Ed Begley ("12 Angry Men") took home an Oscar for his portrayal of the brutal mayor who seeks revenge on Newman for seducing his daughter. Oscar-winner Geraldine Page ("The Trip to Bountiful") scored an Oscar nomination as the fading movie queen, as did Shirley Knight (TV's "The Billionaire Boys Club") as Newman's girlfriend. With Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner Rip Torn (TV's "The Larry Sanders Show"). Written and directed by Academy Award-winner Richard Brooks ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"). Produced by Academy Award-recipient Pandro S. Berman ("Ivanhoe," "Top Hat," "Father of the Bride").


Bite the Bullet

Richard Brooks

Bite the Bullet is an epic Western adventure featuring an amazing award-winning cast. Directed by Robert Brooks (In Cold Blood, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), the film's turn of the century tale of high stakes and harsh tests of endurance glorifies the kind of gutsy men and women who built this country. Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman plays a former rough-rider who matches wits with a lovely but shady lady in distress (Oscar nominee Candice Bergen). Academy-Award winner James Coburn (1997 Best Supporting Actor, Affliction) is a drifting ex-cowboy who joins a grueling 700-mile race and competes against a young, reckless cowboy (Jan-Michael Vincent), a haughty English sportsman (Oscar(r) nominee Ian Bannen), and a gutsy Pony Express rider (Oscar winner Ben Johnson, 1971 Best Supporting Actor, The Last Picture Show).


Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Richard Brooks

Thrilling performances by Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor and Burl Ives make this adaptation of Tennessee Williams's story about a wealthy plantation owner succumbing to cancer one of the most acclaimed movies in history.


Blackboard Jungle

Richard Brooks

Glen Ford is riveting as a dedicated teacher whose idealism fades under the tensions that rip his classroom apart. Anne Francis and Sidney Poitier co-star.


In Cold Blood

Richard Brooks

In Cold Blood is the powerful, true story of a callous murder, based upon the best-selling novel byTruman Capote. A prosperous and respected Kansas farmer, his wife and his two teenage children are wantonly and brutally slaughtered. The murderers are two mindless ex-convict drifters: Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickock (Scott Wilson). Neither of the men are sane enough to regret their crime. The story penetrates the inner workings of the criminals minds as it follows their purposeless meandering through Mexico and the United States in evasion of the law. After more than a year of wandering, the hunted men are finally caught, tried and in a dramatic conclusion condemned to hang.