Xtra Oldies (Films and Movies - 1900s)
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- DirectorMarcus VetterKarin SteinbergerStarsImogen PootsDaniel BrühlJens SöringThe gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, and the murder conviction of their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend Jens Soering sent shock waves through the rural community of Bedford County. Elizabeth and Jens had met in a university program for high achieving students. She was a product of European boarding schools, he was the son of a diplomat. After being arrested in London, England, for passing bad checks in 1986, they were both extradited to the United States and have now spent over 30 years behind bars. This beautifully crafted film reveals a mismanaged, or perhaps completely corrupted, judicial process. This was the first criminal trial held in front of TV cameras - the first high-profile, international case tried in a small town. Investigations over the past 3 years have turned up stunning evidence that was previously suppressed or deemed inadmissible. New forensic techniques have disproven evidence that was key to Soering's original conviction. Denied parole 12 times, his next hearing in 2017 may have a different outcome, at the same time the film is in release. Unidentified fingerprints, photographic evidence that points to sexual abuse, the presiding judge's friendship with the victims, a missing FBI profile, a bloody car with a knife under the seat - all point to a very different story, one that is revealed in the film.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsJack LemmonVirna LisiTerry-ThomasA dedicated bachelor drunkenly marries a young woman and immediately lives to regret it.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsKatharine RossSam ElliottFarrah FawcettStory of Texas heiress Joan Robinson, who married plastic surgeon John Hill. Her father, Ash, is suspicious of Hill, thinking that he married Joan for money, which he used to buy a house and indulges in some odd hobbies. He eventually has an affair with a woman named Ann Kurth. Eventually Ash threatens John with him losing custody of his son unless he makes full restitution to Joan. One day, Joan gets sick and dies. John somehow doesn't allow an autopsy to be done. Ash thinks it's strange, and thinks John killed Joan and sets out to prove it. John eventually marries Ann and she can't help but find his behavior strange.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsHumphrey BogartLauren BacallWalter BrennanDuring World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
- StarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan BlakelyAn examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsJohn MillsValerie HobsonTony WagerA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
- StarsKate AshfieldGeoffrey BretonRon CookDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsJeff YorkMartha O'DriscollMona RayThe goings-on in the rural Southern community of Dogpatch, USA.
- DirectorScott PembrokeStarsJack BennyBetty BronsonGeorge E. StoneThe son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
- DirectorRichard RoyStarsSarah WynterAndrew W. WalkerEric Breker[Spoilers ahead!] Jack, a man wrongly convicted of murder is sent to a prison where the unscrupulous warden has political aspirations. The warden manipulates his wife, his political adviser/lover, the prisoners and the voters, all while maintaining a smiling "I'm a great guy" facade. After noticing Jack's interest in his neglected wife Melanie, the warden puts Jack into a no-win situation in an attempt to make Jack do something Jack doesn't want to do. The result has Jack abducting Melanie, followed by the police across the state. Then Jack reveals to Melanie the reason why he abducted her.
- DirectorGregory HoblitStarsAnthony HopkinsRyan GoslingDavid StrathairnAfter shooting his wife, Ted confesses his crime and asks the court to move his case to trial. He represents himself against Willy, a successful lawyer. But there's more to the case than meets the eye.
- DirectorRobert L. LevyStarsThomas Ian NicholasRhona MitraNicholas IronsA teenager goes back in time to help the legendary Ali Baba save Aladdin and his kingdom from an evil villain.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsBing CrosbyRhonda FlemingCedric HardwickeA singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
- DirectorBrett ThompsonStarsMarc MartoranaTony DoyleR.A. MihailoffA scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
- StarsAlex GalatisJames RankinKirk DunnThe story focuses on Dudley, a dragon who recently woke up from centuries of hibernation and his new ten-year-old friends Matt and Sally as well as other kids down the line. The many kids and would guide Dudley around the modern world and the trio would learn about environmentalism, friendship and pro-social values.
- DirectorBrent LoefkeStarsHanna HallEdward AsnerRita RudnerAn orphan learns that the expansion of a ski resort designed by her uncle is a threat to the environment.
- DirectorMarek BuchwaldVladlen BarbeStarsSigourney WeaverTells of a girl who must rescue her friend that is held in the icy palace of the Snow Queen.
- DirectorFred WolfStarsRingo StarrDustin HoffmanPaul FreesA father reads his son a bedtime story about young Oblio, who is banished from the fantastical kingdom of pointed heads and things for having no point.
- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsHarlow ShapleyMark HubleyRay HubleyA unique documentary that uses animation and narration set to a classical music soundtrack to convey what science teaches us about matter, energy, space, time, and life and using this knowledge to ponder man's place in the universe.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsJoss AcklandAnn BellRichard BurtonThe first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jirí Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
- DirectorIvan Ivanov-VanoMikhail BotovStarsTatyana BaryshevaYuliya YulskayaLyudmila KasatkinaA poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsVladimír BejvalZdenek HustakJosef LukásOne day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsKenny GardnerJack MercerTedd PierceThe happy tranquility of Buggsville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyOrestes CalpiniStarsJessica DragonetteLanny RossPinto ColvigA doctor washes ashore on an island inhabited by little people.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerCarl KochA handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsPriscilla DeanWheeler OakmanLon ChaneyIn this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing, a kind-hearted student of Confucian philosophy, and Black Mike Sylva, a murderous rake of the San Francisco underworld.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsJenny HasselqvistIvan HedqvistTore SvennbergThe young girl Ursula is forced to marry an older man that she hates.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn GilbertGertrude OlmsteadAlan HaleWrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.
- DirectorChester M. FranklinStarsRin Tin TinClaire AdamsFred HuntleyA German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the man from certain death, and begins to feel a kinship with him that is stronger than the one he has with his adopted pack.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsRudolph ValentinoBebe DanielsLois WilsonWhen M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset's cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the Duke de Chartres, and to introduce him to the beautiful Lady Mary. The disguised barber successfully pulls off the masquerade and is soon the toast of society. But Winterset is embittered at having been blackmailed so, and he sets out to destroy Beaucaire if he can do so without revealing his own duplicity.
- DirectorHenry OttoStarsLawson ButtHoward GayeRalph LewisThe tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder, executed, and afterward swiftly taken by demons to the Hell where he will spend the rest of eternity.
- DirectorFred JackmanStarsCharley ChaseRexEdna MurphyA stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.
- DirectorH.K. BreslauerStarsEugen NeufeldHans MoserAnny MilettyJews are expelled from the city of Utopia.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsIvan MozzhukhinFrançois ViguierNathalie LissenkoIn the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and coveted by the Grand Khan. Fleeing the country, he takes refuge in Paris and his presentability allows him to be hired as an actor by a French film company. The trouble is that Anna, the star of the movie, is attracted to him. Which displeases banker Morel, the producer and Anna's lover...
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsBetty BronsonTom MooreEsther RalstonIn London during World War One, a simple-minded slavey awaits her Fairy Godmother and her Prince Charming.
- DirectorMonta BellStarsNorma ShearerMalcolm McGregorGeorge K. ArthurA world-weary prostitute yearns after respectability and the love of an inventor.
- DirectorLupu PickStarsWerner KraussEdith PoscaHermine Straßmann-WittSet during the winter, the story tells the tale of a track checker and his family who live a poverty-stricken life next to a railway line. They receive a telegram announcing the arrival of the section inspector, who is to live with the family.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsMichitarô MizushimaMisako WatanabeShôichi OzawaA prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
- DirectorFan CenStarsYindi CaoLanfang ChenCaifeng Jin
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsLaurence HarveyCapucineJane FondaA man arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend, an artist who now works in a bordello.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMarilyn MonroeYves MontandTony RandallWhen billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsMichael CraigJoan GreenwoodMichael CallanDuring the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
- DirectorK. AsifStarsPrithviraj KapoorMadhubalaDilip KumarA 16th century prince falls in love with a court dancer and battles with his emperor father.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSharmila TagoreSoumitra ChatterjeeChhabi BiswasA young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsMichael RennieJill St. JohnDavid HedisonProfessor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
- DirectorByron VaughnsStarsMonica AllisonWayne BradyRhyon Nicole BrownGet ready for laughs, adventure and hip-hopping good times as Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox, Brer Bear and a whole cast of other critters.
- DirectorOrlando FernandezStarsDanny GloverPhil ProctorInteractive storybook based on 19th century African American folktales about cunning Br'er Rabbit and his two thick pursuers Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. The two villains create a tar doll to try to trap Br'er Rabbit and eat him.