The Violin Case

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Orson Welles

Cast

William Alland, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named R...

Runtime

2h 22m

Director

Frank Darabont

Cast

Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles ...

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Brett Ratner

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle

A young Russian dancer in Geneva returns to Russia, where he falls in love with a grand duchess. He is arrested but manages to escape. Lost film.

Runtime

59m

Director

F. W. Murnau

Cast

Conrad Veidt, Gussy Holl, Eugen Klöpfer