Rod Steiger
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Sol (Rod Steiger), is a Jewish pawnbroker, and Holocaust survivor. He has lost all faith in his fellow man and ultimately realizes the tragedy of his own actions. Nominated for Best Actor at the **Academy Awards,** and the **Golden Globes**. Winner of Best Actor at the **BAFTA Awards** and the **Berlin International Film Festival.** *"...a dark and haunting drama of a man who has reasonably eschewed a role of involvement and compassion in a brutal...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, and Rod Steiger star in this adaptation of the Carson McCullers novella. Merchant Ivory veteran Simon Callow's only turn as a director is a twisted Southern Gothic dark comedy set in a rural town in the deep South. Redgrave plays Miss Amelia, the eccentric proprietor of the town's only café and, more importantly to her grip on the townsfolk, the owner of a secret moonshine still. Her domineering hold on the town...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In November 1974, a family of six was brutally murdered in a house in Amityville, NY. Now, a year later, an unsuspecting young couple, George (Ryan Reynolds) and Kathy Lutz (Melissa George), and their children move into the house that was the site of the horrific event and is now haunted by a murderous presence. What follows is 28 days of unimaginable terror. With demonic visions of the dead and relentless screams of terror, this is the haunted house...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger (who won a Best Actor Oscar® for his performance) shine in this classic mystery-thriller that took home five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Lee Grant and Warren Oates also star.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
8) Jubal
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to rankle his shifty fellow cowhand.
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1954.
Language
English
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
11) The longest day
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
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