First Start

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

Runtime

2h 28m

Director

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Cast

Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Roberto Rossellini

Cast

Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Harry Feist

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Runtime

2h 19m

Director

Sergio Leone

Cast

Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

John Ford

Cast

Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Howard Hawks

Cast

Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley