Memoirs of a Getaway Driver

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way throu...

Runtime

2h 12m

Director

Jacques Becker

Cast

Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.

Runtime

1h 18m

Director

Richard Fleischer

Cast

Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere

In Rio de Janeiro, the forty and something years old Mercedes (Lília Cabral) goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life since she was a girl and lost her mother. Along the three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces from her husband Gustavo (José Mayer) and has love affairs with the younger Theo (Reynaldo ...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

José Alvarenga Jr.

Cast

Lília Cabral, José Mayer, Reynaldo Gianecchini

Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Mea...

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

William A. Seiter

Cast

Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers