This silky smooth film noir pits gruff police detective Dana Andrews, stiff and blunt in his street-bred manners, against a cultured columnist and acidic wit (Clifton Webb at his prissiest) in a battle of wits during a murder investigation. The cop is a romantic hiding under a hard-boiled exterior who falls in love with the beautiful victim through the portrait that hangs in her apartment. Gene ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson
Directed By: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian

Predecessor to Oliver Stone's 'JFK' this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green, John Anderson
Directed By: David Miller

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
Directed By: George Marshall

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Robin Gammell, Gary Reineke
Directed By: Michael Anderson

A suave tennis player (Ray Milland) plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who is having an affair with a writer (Robert Cummings). Amazingly, the wife manages to stave off her attacker, a twist of fate that challenges the hubby's talent for improvisation. Alfred Hitchcock wisely stuck to the stage origins of Dial M for Murder, ignoring the temptation ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

When Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy traveling with his mother Rachel (Kelly McGillis), witnesses the murder of a police officer in a public restroom, he and his mother become the temporary wards of John Book (Harrison Ford), a detective who's been assigned to solve the crime. After suspect lineups and mug-shot books yield nothing, Samuel, in the most memorable scene of the film, recognizes ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer, Jan Rubes
Directed By: Peter Weir

Garry Marshall, the man behind Pretty Woman, has made two movies here. One is based on Anne Rice's erotic novel of a fantasy island where dreams are fulfilled and sexuality is open to all, led by a congenial dominatrix (Dana Delany) and a glowing new recruit (Paul Mercurio of Strictly Ballroom). The other is a farcical comedy-action movie, which is what you saw in the ads. Savoy ...

Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Dana Delany, Hector Elizondo, Laura Harring, Tom Hines

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall
Directed By: David Miller

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Alf Kjellin
Directed By: Jack Donohue

Of all the Philip Marlowes, Robert Mitchum's in Farewell, My Lovely resonates most deeply. That's because this is Marlowe past his prime, and Mitchum imbues Raymond Chandler's legendary private detective with a sense of maturity as well as a melancholy spirit. And yet there's plenty of Mitchum's renowned self-deprecating humor and charismatic charm to remind us of his own iconic presence. ...

Manufacturer: Avid Home Ent
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe
Directed By: Dick Richards