Marlon Brando
4) The Men
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
In this emotional drama, the incomparable Marlon Brando plays former GI, Ken, who has become paralyzed as a result of the war. After fighting through an intense battle with depression following his injuries, Ken soon focuses on his physical therapy and eventually believes that he may gain the use of his limbs again. But after falling in love and marrying the woman of his dreams, problems arise that puts Ken right back into the hospital. Nominated...
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
When their parents died in an accident, Flora and Miles were looked after by their governess, Miss Jessel and the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But it is Peter Quint (Marlon Brando), the Irish servant, who really rules the house and particularly Miss Jessel who submits herself totally to him. Under Quint's influence, the children receive a fiendish initiation. Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best Actor (Marlon Brando).
Series
Language
English
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
Shirley Maclaine (*The Apartment, Terms Of Endearment*) portrays an amazing array of characters over seven satirical vignettes that attempt to tackle the universal subjects of love and adultery. From a distraught widow dealing with amorous advances, a bored housewife becoming a hooker, suicidal lovers, naked poetry reading and psychotic socialites to a chance encounter on public transport that leads to a bittersweet, poignant conclusion. Michael Caine,...
13) The freshman
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Clark Kellogg, a naive student, accepts a job working for Carmine Sabatini, a powerful New York importer. As Clark finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into an ingenious scam, the FBI asks him to snitch on his colorful employer.
16) Guys and dolls
Series
Language
English
Description
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
17) The young lions
Series
Language
English
Description
The story of World War II from the American and the German perspectives.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Okinawa 1946: American troops are deployed to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge is well-meaning but inept, and faces a wily interpreter and a determined geisha girl, along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
20) The wild one
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Johnny is the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hellbent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop.