From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 6:02 PM

The second of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen’s three Sinbad epics, this film finds the titular hero played by John Philip Law, while the principal villain, Koura, is portrayed by future Dr. Who Tom Baker. The plot sends Sinbad and his crew on a quest for a valuable and magical golden tab...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 6:02 PM

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which were the play's intricate integration of song and storyline, and the simplicity and austerity of its production design. The 1955 film version of Oklahoma! retains the ...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 6:02 PM

Nearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian’s Rainbow was committed to film. Set in the mythical southern state of Missitucky, the story involves the whimsical Irishman Finian (Fred Astaire) and his daughter Sharon (Petula Clark) arriving in the commun...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 6:00 PM

The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North Africa. When he stumbles across the body of a dead m...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:58 PM

Famed stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen concocts a collection of fantastic creatures — including a saber-tooth tiger, a chess-playing baboon, a giant walrus and three banshees -- for this follow-up to The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Patrick Wayne stars as Sinbad, who seeks the hand of Prin...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:55 PM

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, but one child isn’t so sure in this Belgian comedy drama. 7-year-old Ludovic (Georges DuFresne) is happy, healthy, and good-natured, but there's a bit of a problem — he has decided that he's a girl. While his parents Hanna (Michele Laroq...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:54 PM

A modern-day Passion Play becomes a reenactment of the life and death of Jesus Christ in more ways than one with this critically acclaimed drama from Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand. Lothaire Bluteau stars as Daniel Coloumbe, an intense young actor in Montreal who is hired by church fathers to res...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:54 PM

John Boorman, who won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival’s Direction award for this film, previously won the same Cannes award almost three decades earlier for his Leo the Last (1969) about an alienated aristocrat in a London slum. Shot in widescreen color (but printed in sharp black-and-white), The ...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:54 PM

The insular world of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem comes to the screen (with their blessings) in this warm comedy drama. Moshe (Shuli Rand) was once a secular Jew, but he rediscovered his faith and became an ultra-Orthodox Jew, and with his wife, Mali (Michal Bat Sheva Rand), he struggles to suppor...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:53 PM

Irish director Pat O’Connor helmed this adaptation of Brian Friel's 1990 play which won three Tony awards in addition to UK Olivier and Evening Standard awards. Friel's portrait of five Irish sisters takes place in 1936 on a Donegal farm. The unmarried Mundy sisters are barely surviving...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:52 PM

One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to sing the title song. D...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:52 PM

A handful of girls struggle to make their way into the man’s world of an Iranian soccer stadium in this comedy from writer and director Jafar Panahi. World Cup season is just around the corner, and Iran's team is playing a game against Bahrain that will determine who will be competing in so...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:52 PM

It was Richard Attenborough’s lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the 188-minute, Oscar-winning Gandhi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. The film begins ...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:51 PM

Director Majid Majidi, whose Bacheha-Ye Aseman/Children Of Heaven was the first Iranian film to be nominated for an American Academy Award, returns with another compassionate story of children in need. Mohammad (Moshen Ramezani) is a student at a special school for blind children in Tehran; when...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:50 PM

A woman who has long been short on feelings falls in love with a married man in this emotional drama. Gloria Wondrous (Elizabeth Taylor) is a model and party girl who lives for pleasure and is willing to take men for what she can get from them. Gloria bounces from man to man, but feels that she ...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:50 PM

Sidney Poitier, who in 1955 played a student in a tough inner-city high school, portrays a teacher assigned to a similar institution in To Sir, With Love. Unable to find work as an engineer, Poitier accepts a teaching post in London’s East End slums. To reach his sullen, rebellious students, Poi...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:49 PM

A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood’s 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy wai...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:49 PM

This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies, including a special Academy Award as "most outstanding foreign film" seven years before that Oscar category existed. Written primarily by neorealist pioneer Cesare Zavattini and directe...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:49 PM

This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies, including a special Academy Award as "most outstanding foreign film" seven years before that Oscar category existed. Written primarily by neorealist pioneer Cesare Zavattini and directe...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:48 PM

In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace in liquor. Kirsten joins him in his nocturnal drinking sessions, and before long both are confirmed al...