Blu-ray - Classics

One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization. Simply put, it is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a world-weary ex-freedom fighter who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during the early part of WWII. Despite pressure from the local authorities, notably the crafty Capt. Renault (Claude Rains), Rick's café has become a haven for refugees looking to purchase illicit letters of transit which will allow them to escape to America. One day, to Rick's great surprise, he is approach...

Actors: Humphrey Bogart » Ingrid Bergman » Paul Henreid » Claude Rains » Conrad Veidt » Dooley Wilson » Sydney Greenstreet »

Director: Michael Curtiz »

Movie category: Drama » Classics » Lovestory »

When plans to launch a second Star Trek television series in the late 1970s were scrapped by Paramount Pictures, the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, instead transformed the aborted program's 2-hour pilot into this big budget theatrical feature. Five years after the legendary voyages of the starship Enterprise, James T. Kirk (William Shatner) is an unhappy, desk-bound admiral at Starfleet headquarters. Kirk goes aboard his old vessel to observe its re-launch under new captain Will Decker (Stephen Collins). Soon, however, an escalating crisis causes Kirk to take command of his old ship. A myst...

Actors: DeForest Kelley » George Takei » James Doohan » Leonard Nimoy » Walter Koenig » William Shatner »

Director: Robert Wise »

Movie category: Classics » Sci-Fi & Fantaisie »

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is fondly regarded as being the closest in spirit to the 1966-69 TV series that spawned it. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) escapes the tedium of a desk job to join Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) on another space mission. While boldly going where no man etc. etc., Kirk crosses the path of his old enemy Khan (Ricardo Montalban), who as any die-hard Trekker can tell you, was the chief antagonist in the 1966 Trek TV episode "Space Seed." Leading a crew of near-savage space prisoners, Khan insinuates himself into the Genesis...

Actors: DeForest Kelley » George Takei » James Doohan » Leonard Nimoy » Walter Koenig » William Shatner »

Director: Nicholas Meyer »

Movie category: Classics » Sci-Fi & Fantaisie »

When last we left the crew of the star ship Enterprise, they were heading home following a skirmish with the despotic Khan. The unpleasant incident had cost the life of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy)--or so it seemed. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) is informed by Spock's Vulcan father Sarek (Mark Lenard) that the pointy-eared one is being kept alive in the thoughts of one of the crew members. It now becomes necessary to search for Spock's body, so that flesh and soul can be rejoined on Vulcan. It turns out that Spock's spirit is residing within the grey cells of the Vulcan's longtime friendly enemy...

Actors: William Shatner » DeForest Kelley » James Doohan » George Takei » Walter Koenig » Nichelle Nichols »

Director: Leonard Nimoy »

Movie category: Classics » Sci-Fi & Fantaisie »

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) concludes the story arc begun with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but on a wholly new, different, and upbeat note. As the movie opens, months have elapsed since the events in Star Trek III; Admiral Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Scott (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and Chekhov (Walter Koenig) are marooned in self-imposed exile on Vulcan, along with the resurrected and regenerated Spock (Leonard Nimoy, who also directed). While Spock tries t...

Actors: DeForest Kelly » James Doohan » Leonard Nimoy » Nichelle Nichols » Walter Koenig » William Shatner »

Director: Leonard Nemoy »

Movie category: Classics » Sci-Fi & Fantaisie »

Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) are enjoying a vacation in Yosemite National Park when duty calls. Vulcan cult leader Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) and his followers have invaded a "planet of peace," where delegates from hostile races co-exist in a sort of intergalactic United Nations. Ordered to quell the crisis, the Enterprise crew discovers that it's a ruse perpetrated by Sybok, who takes over the ship, piloting it toward the "Great Barrier," an energy field at the galaxy's rim. Sybok, who is revealed to be Spock's half-brother, possesses the ability...

Actors: DeForest Kelley » James Doohan » Leonard Nimoy » Nichelle Nichols » Walter Koenig » William Shatner »

Director: William Shatner »

Movie category: Classics » Sci-Fi & Fantaisie »

Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall) combine their skills to tell the story of three families and their travels from the Erie Canal to California between 1839 and 1889. Spencer Tracy narrates the film, which cost an estimated 15 million dollars to complete. In the first segment, "The Rivers," pioneer Zebulon Prescott (Karl Malden) sets out to settle in the West with his wife (Agnes Moorehead) and their four children. Along with other settlers and river pira...

Actors: Carroll Baker » Henry Fonda » James Stewart » Lee J. Cobb » Carolyn Jones » Karl Malden »

Director: Henry Hathaway » John Ford » George Marshall »

Movie category: Classics » Western »

From Russia With Love, the second in the series of James Bond films, is the film that solidifies all the Bond film elements into a formula -- the action sequences are intensified and lend greater tension to the proceedings; John Barry's inimitable score makes its first appearance; Q is seen for the first time; and Sean Connery as Bond has nailed down his role as 007 -- accentuating Bond's stylishness and sophistication, while toning down his cold-bloodedness. In From Russia With Love, the bad guys don't want to take over the world. They want something more mundane -- a Russian decoding device....

Actors: Sean Connery » Daniela Bianchi » Pedro Armendáriz » Lotte Lenya » Robert Shaw » Bernard Lee » Eunice Gayson » Walter Gotell » Francis De Wolff » George Pastell » Nadja Regin » Lois Maxwell » Aliza Gur »

Director: Terence Young »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Classics » Thriller »

With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy gadgetry, extravagant sets, and kitschy jokes. Bond (Sean Connery) has to prevent a notorious gold smuggler, appropriately named Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), from robbing Fort Knox. Goldfinger is surrounded by evil henchmen such as the sexy female pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) and Oddjob (Harold Sakata), who kills with his steel-rimmed bowler hats. In order to stop Goldfinger, Bond has to survive several perilous situations, including a huge, deadly laser. Goldfinger is one...

Actors: Sean Connery » Honor Blackman » Gert Fröbe » Shirley Eaton » Tania Mallet » Harold Sakata » Bernard Lee » Martin Benson » Cec Linder » Austin Willis » Lois Maxwell » Bill Nagy » Michael Mellinger »

Director: Guy Hamilton »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Classics » Thriller »

In this adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1955 novel, James Bond (Roger Moore) must thwart Sir Hugo Drax (Michel Lonsdale), who plans to wipe out all of humankind and replace it with a super race that he has cultivated in a massive space station. The girl in the case is American secret agent Holly Goodhead, intelligently played by Lois Chiles. "Jaws," the steel-mouthed henchman played by Richard Kiel in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), makes a return appearance in Moonraker, turning good guy (complete with a girlfriend of his own) in the process. Bernard Lee makes his last appearance as "M" in this most...

Actors: Roger Moore » Lois Chiles » Michael Lonsdale » Richard Kiel » Corinne Clery » Bernard Lee » Geoffrey Keen » Desmond Llewelyn » Lois Maxwell » Walter Gotell »

Director: Lewis Gilbert »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Classics » Thriller »

Thunderball finds James Bond matching wits with the sinister espionage organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E, (which stands for Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). This time, S.P.E.C.T.R.E. hijacks a NATO nuclear bomber, hiding the bombs under the ocean depths and threatening to detonate the weapons unless a ransom of 100,000,000 pounds is paid. The mastermind behind this scheme is international business executive Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), who maintains a pool full of sharks for the purpose of eliminating enemies and those henchmen who fail to come up to standa...

Actors: Sean Connery » Claudine Auger » Adolfo Celi » Luciana Paluzzi » Rik Van Nutter » Guy Doleman » Molly Peters » Martine Beswick » Bernard Lee » Desmond Llewelyn »

Director: Terence Young »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Classics » Thriller »

Terence Young directed this first of a long line of screen adventures with Ian Fleming's unflappable British Secret Service Agent 007 in a fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek style that set the tone for the rest of the popular series. Sean Connery sets the standard by which all future takers must measure themselves as the insouciant and devil-may-care James Bond. The story concerns Bond being sent to Jamaica to investigate the murders of a British agent and his secretary. During his investigation, he comes into contact with the evil and unscrupulous Chinese scientist Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) who, livin...

Actors: Sean Connery » Ursula Andress » Joseph Wiseman » Jack Lord » Bernard Lee » Lois Maxwell » Anthony Dawson » Zena Marshall » John Kitzmiller » Eunice Gayson » Peter Burton » Yvonne Shima » Michel Mok »

Director: Terence Young »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Classics » Thriller »

For Your Eyes Only eschews the gimmickry and campiness of earlier James Bond films, concentrating instead on telling the story and maintaining suspense. Roger Moore is back as Secret Agent 007, this time on the trail of Soviet spies while he romances the beautiful Melina, played by Carole Bouquet. Richard Maibaum's screenplay has very little to do with the collection of short stories that made up Ian Fleming's For Your Eyes Only, save for the plotline involving Melina's seeking vengeance for the death of her father. The direction is by John Glen, who'd previously done second unit work on other...

Actors: Roger Moore » Carole Bouquet » Topol » Lynn-Holly Johnson » Julian Glover » Cassandra Harris » Jill Bennett » Michael Gothard » John Wyman » Jack Hedley » Lois Maxwell » Desmond Llewelyn » Walter Gotell »

Director: John Glen »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Classics » Thriller »

Roger Moore makes his first appearance as "Bond...James Bond" in 1973's Live and Let Die. Bond is dispatched to the States to stem the activities of Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto), who plans to take over the Western Hemisphere by converting everyone into heroin addicts. The woman in the case is Solitaire (Jane Seymour in her movie debut), an enigmatic interpreter of tarot cards. The obligatory destructive-chase sequence occurs at the film's midpoint, with Bond being chased in a motorboat by Mr. Big's henchmen, slashing his way through the marshlands and smashing up a wedding party. Clifton James makes...

Actors: Roger Moore » Yaphet Kotto » Jane Seymour » Clifton James » Julius Harris » Geoffrey Holder » David Hedison » Gloria Hendry » Bernard Lee » Lois Maxwell »

Director: Guy Hamilton »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Classics » Thriller »

Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving artists" colony. He is discovered by wealthy Milo Roberts (Nina Foch), who becomes Jerry's patroness in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Jerry plays hookey on this setup by romancing waif-like Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron) -- who, unbeknownst to him, is the object of the affections of his close friend Henri (Georges Guetary), a popular nightclub performer. (The film was supposed to make Guetary into "the New Chevalier." It didn't.) The thinnish plot is held together by the supe...

Actors: Gene Kelly » Leslie Caron » Oscar Levant » Georges Guetary » Nina Foch » Eugene Borden » Martha Bamattre » Mary Young » Madge Blake »

Director: Vincente Minnelli »

Movie category: Classics » Music films »

William Friedkin's classic policier was propelled to box-office glory, and a fistful of Oscars, in 1972 by its pedal-to-the-metal filmmaking and fashionably cynical attitude toward law enforcement. Gene Hackman's Popeye Doyle, a brutally pushy New York City narcotics detective, is a dauntless crime fighter and Vietnam-era "pig," a reckless vulgarian whose antics get innocent people killed. Loosely based upon an actual investigation that led to what was then the biggest heroin seizure in U.S. history, the picture traces the efforts of Doyle and his partner (Roy Scheider) to close the pipeline p...

Actors: Gene Hackman » Fernando Rey » Bernard Fresson » Roy Scheider » Philippe Léotard »

Director: John Frankenheimer »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Classics »

Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy young Gaston (Louis Jourdan). When Gaston falls in love with Gigi and asks her to be his wife, Jeans is appalled: never has anyone in their family ever stooped to anything so bourgeois as marriage! Weaving in and out of the story is Maurice Chevalier as an aging boulevardier who, years earlier, had been in love with Gingold's character. Chevalier gets most of the best Lerner & Loewe tunes, including Thank Heaven for Little Girls, I'm Glad I'm Not You...

Actors: Maurice Chevalier » Leslie Caron » Louis Jourdan » Hermione Gingold » Isabel Jeans » Jacques Bergerac »

Director: Vincent Minnelli »

Movie category: Classics » Music films »

Originally advertised as "Colossal Quo Vadis," this opulent MGM production is far and away the most elaborate of the many versions of Henryk Sienkiewicz' novel. The plot, as always, concerns the romance between a beautiful early Christian woman (Deborah Kerr) and the initially agnostic Roman soldier Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor). This love story is laid against the larger intrigues of the debauched emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov), who hopes to gain immortality by destroying Rome with a fire and remaking it in his own image. Part of Nero's master plan is the elimination of the Christian "threat,...

Actors: Sir Peter Ustinov » Robert Taylor » Deborah Kerr » Leo Genn » Patricia Laffan » Finlay Currie » Abraham Sofaer »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy »

Movie category: Drama » Classics »

All of Washington, D.C., is thrown into a panic when an extraterrestrial spacecraft lands near the White House. Out steps Klaatu (Michael Rennie, in a role intended for Claude Rains), a handsome and soft-spoken interplanetary traveler, whose "bodyguard" is Gort (Lock Martin), a huge robot who spews forth laser-like death rays when danger threatens. After being wounded by an overzealous soldier, Klaatu announces that he has a message of the gravest importance for all humankind, which he will deliver only when all the leaders of all nations will agree to meet with him. World politics being what ...

Actors: Billy Gray » Frances Bavier » Hugh Marlowe » Michael Rennie » Patricia Neal » Sam Jaffe »

Director: Robert Wise »

Movie category: Classics » Sci-Fi & Fantaisie »

Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a "godfather" or "don," the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero. Having long ago ...

Actors: Talia Shire » Robert Duvall » Marlon Brando » Andy Garcia » Robert De Niro » Diane Keaton » Al Pacino »

Director: Francis Ford Coppola »

Movie category: Classics » Thriller »

Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a "godfather" or "don," the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero. Having long ago ...

Actors: Talia Shire » Robert Duvall » Marlon Brando » Andy Garcia » Robert De Niro » Diane Keaton » Al Pacino »

Director: Francis Ford Coppola »

Movie category: Classics » Thriller »

Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a "godfather" or "don," the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero. Having long ago ...

Actors: Talia Shire » Robert Duvall » Marlon Brando » Andy Garcia » Robert De Niro » Diane Keaton » Al Pacino »

Director: Francis Ford Coppola »

Movie category: Classics » Thriller »

With Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hopper, Steven Spielberg had his first great success as a producer. Released around the same time as Spielberg's E.T., the film presents the dark side of Spielberg's California suburban track homes. The film centers on the Freeling family, a typical middle class family living in the peaceful Cuesta Verde Estates. The father, Steve (Craig T. Nelson), has fallen asleep in front of the television, and the dog saunters around the house revealing the other family members -- Steve's wife Diane (JoBeth Williams), sixteen-year-old daughter Dana (Dominique Dunne), eig...

Actors: Craig T. Nelson » Martin Casella » Virginia Kiser » Dominique Dunne » Beatrice Straight » Zelda Rubinstein » Oliver Robins » Richard Lawson » Heather O'Rourke » JoBeth Williams » Michael McManus »

Director: Tobe Hooper »

Movie category: Horror » Classics »

Disney produced this lavish animated fairy tale, the most expensive cartoon ever made up to its release with a budget of $6 million. When the young princess Aurora is cursed at birth by the evil fairy Maleficent, the baby is kidnapped by a trio of good fairies who raise the girl themselves, hoping to avoid the spell's fulfillment. Nevertheless, at the age of 16, the beautiful Aurora falls into a deep sleep that can only be awakened by a kiss from her betrothed, Prince Phillip. Knowing that Phillip intends to save Aurora, Maleficent takes him prisoner. When the good fairies launch a rescue atte...

Director: Clyde Geronimi »

Movie category: Kids & Family » Classics »

Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood ...

Actors: Gene Wilder » Cleavon Little » Madeline Kahn » Mel Brooks »

Director: Mel Brooks »

Movie category: Classics » Western »