Lady in the Dark

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the...

Runtime

2h 58m

Director

Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin

Cast

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda

Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run drugs for "Mr. B." Inside a week, Diamond's beloved mother dies suddenly, his father appears after an ...

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Robert Adetuyi

Cast

Pras Michel, Ja Rule, Jason Statham

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Runtime

1h 8m

Director

Charlie Chaplin

Cast

Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henc...

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

David Lean

Cast

John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When t...

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Roy Ward Baker

Cast

Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres