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Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many trials, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who invests money and facilities to develop it. However, when the news of Stratton's invention breaks, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves...

Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo), a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island, where she tries first to survive and then to cope with her past. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour-guide (Alia Shawkat) and together they find the resilience to forge ahead.

Buster Keaton goes back to school and stages a hilarious send-up of university life in COLLEGE. Keaton stars as Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. *"Buster on the playing field, failing gloriously at every sport but executing each one beautifully when he dashes to his girl's rescue,...

After their supporting roles in *My Friend Irma* and *My Friend Irma Goes West*, AT WAR WITH THE ARMY was the first film starring the legendary duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. They went on to co-star in thirteen more comedies becoming Paramount Pictures new comedy team and box office champs. Lewis is a hapless bungling private and Martin is his bossy first sergeant and ladies man. Together the duo is thrown into a series of classic gags and routines...

A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Buster Keaton's THREE AGES is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: form the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome, to the city streets of the American Jazz Era. *"Superb three-part silent comedy." - Daniel Eagan, **Film...

A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.

Bruce Pritchard (Malcolm McDowell) is a young, active man - until he finds himself struck down by a crippling disease and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is taken to a home for the disabled, but his bitterness and his dislike of rules and regulations only serve to make him angry and withdrawn. But he finds meaning in life once more when he falls in love with Jill (Nanette Newman), a polio victim. Happy, halcyon days follow for...

During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army. Plumpick encounters a strange town occupied by the former residents of the local psychiatric hospital who escaped after the villagers deserted. Assuming roles like Bishop, Duke, barber, and circus ringmaster, they warmly accept the visitor as their King of Hearts. With his reconnaissance...

When a young girl is found dead with two fang marks upon her neck, the farmers of Kleinenberg know who is responsible - the evil Count Dracula. They decide to take immediate action and march on his castle with bundles of straw and plenty of oil. They set fire to the castle and as they watch the blaze from a safe distance, they feel sure that, once and for all, the Count has met his end. But killing Dracula, Prince of Darkness, is no easy task and...

After disappearing for nearly a century, THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN returns to once again break boundaries for Native American cinema. An all-Indigenous cast directed by Norbert Myles tell the story of a love triangle amidst rising conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages, featuring thrilling fight scenes, dance performances and more. Newly restored in 2K by the Oklahoma Historical Society, this subtly acted, beautifully conducted silent melodrama remains...