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Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's 1981 resurrection of the Saturday-matinee adventure genre was deservedly popular, and kicked off a successful trilogy. Set in 1936, this first feature introduces Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, an archaeologist and adventurer whose quests for rare antiquities frequently find him running from one menace or another. Raiders finds Dr. Jones in the middle of ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies
Directed By: Steven Spielberg

"I've never seen a woman who was more like a man," a character observes of Vienna (Joan Crawford), who has just opened a saloon that hasn't exactly endeared itself to the local townspeople. Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy harpy, is particularly displeased. Vienna is wooed both by the Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and by Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a ...

Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond
Directed By: Nicholas Ray

It’s hard to imagine that a film with worldwide box office receipts topping $300 million worldwide could be labeled a disappointment, but some moviegoers considered Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second installment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ 1980s adventure trilogy, to be just that. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad effort; any collaboration between these two cinema ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Kate Capshaw
Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Sir Richard Attenborough's biographical film of the life and times of Charles Chaplin is a little thin as a narrative, but it is so charmingly creative and ultimately moving, it's hard to care about any deficits. Robert Downey Jr. does an excellent job re-creating Chaplin's graceful slapstick and getting inside the silent-film superstar's head over many years of triumph, defeat, scandal, official ...

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Artisan
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, John Thaw, Moira Kelly
Directed By: Richard Attenborough

"I've never seen a woman who was more like a man," a character observes of Vienna (Joan Crawford), who has just opened a saloon that hasn't exactly endeared itself to the local townspeople. Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy harpy, is particularly displeased. Vienna is wooed both by the Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and by Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a ...

Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond
Directed By: Nicholas Ray

In this gripping, real-life fairy tale, a young German princess rises from relative obscurity to the Russian throne as one of the most remarkable monarchs in history--CATHERINE THE GREAT. A strange twist of fate in 1744 brings 15-year-old, foreign-born princess Sophia Fredericka (Catherine Zeta Jones) to the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia (Jeanne Moreau) where she becomes Catherine II, ...

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson, Brian Blessed, John Rhys-Davies
Directed By: John Goldsmith, Marvin J. Chomsky

Producer Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) is behind this decadent comedy about a pair of lowlife but oddly intelligent Welsh brothers who generally make a pain of themselves in their small community, but who get serious about exacting revenge for a family tragedy. Director Kevin Allen succeeds at turning the entire film into a jacked-up freak show, with petty terrorism, cops on the take, a young ...

Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video
Starring: Mary Allen, Di Botcher, Huw Ceredig, Danny Durden, Paul Durden

A clairvoyant police detective must stop the most notorious serial killer in history - Jack the Ripper - before it's too late! Johnny Depp and Heather Graham star in this "engrossing, stylish thriller" (People) that "grips tighter than a chokehold and cut as deep as a knife" (Washington Post)

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson
Directed By: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

As an independent producer-star, circus-tough with charisma to burn, Burt Lancaster could be hard on directors. So it wasn't surprising when he decided he could do the job himself. It was a mistake he made only once (apart from cohelming 1974's The Midnight Man). For all his balletic control as an actor-athlete, Lancaster showed no sense of how a film should move and breathe over an hour ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Clem Bevans, John Carradine, Lee Erikson, Dianne Foster, James Griffith

The love story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Christ are realistically brought to life in The Nativity. Starring John Shea as Joseph, Madeleine Stowe as Mary, and Jane Wyatt as Anna, this film explores the emotions and relationships of the participants in the first Christmas. A story that is tender, dramatic and inspiring, The Nativity was lavishly filmed on location in Almeria, Spain and ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Madeleine Stowe, John Shea, Jane Wyatt, Paul Stewart, Audrey Totter
Directed By: Bernard L. Kowalski