8.5

Lawrence of Arabia

1962, UK

• Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, I.S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Jack Gwillim, Hugh Miller, John Barry, Bruce Beeby, Fred Bennett, John Bennett, Steve Birtles, Robert Bolt, Peter Burton, J.R.M. Chapman, Tim Clutterbuck, Barbara Cole, John Crewdson, Basil Dignam
• Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
• Director(s): David Lean
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in London at the age of 47, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916, he is given leave to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. In the desert, he organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Arabs in harassing the Turks with desert raids, train-wrecking and camel attacks. Eventually, he leads his army northward and helps a British General destroy the power of the Ottoman Empire.

  8.2

Notorious

1946, USA

• Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schünzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Alex Minotis, Wally Brown, Charles Mendl, Ricardo Costa, Eberhard Krumschmidt, Fay Baker, Bernice Barrett, Bea Benaderet, Candido Bonsato, Charles D. Brown, Eddie Bruce, Paul Bryar, Aileen Carlyle, Beulah Christian, Richard Clarke, Tom Coleman, Alfredo DeSa, Ben Erway, Bess Flowers, Almeda Fowler, Gavin Gordon, William Gordon
• Genre: Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.

  7.6

Mr. Skeffington

1943, USA

• Actors: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring, Marjorie Riordan, Robert Shayne, John Alexander, Jerome Cowan, Johnny Mitchell, Dorothy Peterson, Peter Whitney, Bill Kennedy, Fred Aldrich, Sylvia Arslan, Sam Ash, Janet Barrett, Harry C. Bradley, Georgia Caine, Wallis Clark, Ann Codee, Gino Corrado, Joe Devlin, Ann Doran, Helen Eby-Rock, Richard Erdman, Edward Fielding, Mary Field, Bess Flowers, William Forrest
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Vincent Sherman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's 1914 in New York City. Adult brother and sister Trippy Trellis and Fanny Trellis, whose parents are now deceased, were once wealthy, but Trippy squandered away the family fortune, about which no one knows except their cousin George Trellis and their many creditors. Fanny and Trippy still put on the façade to the outside world that they have money. The beautiful Fanny can have any man that she wants to marry, but she sets her sights on Job Skeffington, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. Job's wealth was self-made in finance. They met as Trippy was once employed by Job in his brokerage house. Fanny and Job, who is now aware of the Trellis' financial straits, ultimately do get married, much to the consternation of Fanny's many suitors, but most specifically to Trippy, who knows the reason why Fanny married him. Job also realizes that Fanny does not love him, but is unaware of the real reason she agreed to marry him. After their marriage, Fanny's suitors are still around with more joining the ranks, which Job does not mind as he is aware that Fanny is not leading them on. But when the reason for Fanny marrying Job no longer exists, their relationship changes. They have to figure out what to do, which now takes into consideration their daughter, also named Fanny. As time goes on, they grow into middle age and Fanny's physical beauty deteriorates, Fanny comes to the realization of what is really important in life.

  8.8

Casablanca

1941, USA

• Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, S.Z. Sakall, Madeleine Lebeau, Dooley Wilson, Joy Page, John Qualen, Leonid Kinskey, Curt Bois, Enrique Acosta, Ed Agresti, Louis V. Arco, Frank Arnold, Leon Belasco, Nino Bellini, Trude Berliner, Oliver Blake, Monte Blue, Dick Botiller, Maurice Brierre, Anita Camargo, George M. Carleton, Melie Chang, Spencer Chan, Gino Corrado
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Director(s): Michael Curtiz
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan....

  8.4

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939, USA

• Actors: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi, H.B. Warner, Harry Carey, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Grant Mitchell, Porter Hall, Pierre Watkin, Charles Lane, William Demarest, Dick Elliott, Billy Watson, Delmar Watson, John Russell, Harry Watson, Garry Watson, Larry Simms, H.V. Kaltenborn, Erville Alderson, Harry Anderson, Stanley Andrews, William Arnold, Sam Ash
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Frank Capra
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal.

  7.2

The Prince and the Pauper

1937, USA

• Actors: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson, Barton MacLane, Billy Mauch, Robert J. Mauch, Alan Hale, Eric Portman, Lionel Pape, Leonard Willey, Murray Kinnell, Halliwell Hobbes, Phyllis Barry, Ivan F. Simpson, Montagu Love, Fritz Leiber, Elspeth Dudgeon, Mary Field, Forrester Harvey, Joan Valerie, Lester Matthews, Robert Adair, Harry Cording, Robert Warwick, Rex Evans, Holmes Herbert, Ian Maclaren, Anne Howard, Gwendolyn Jones, Lionel Braham
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): William Keighley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

On the same day two boys are born: the pauper Tom and prince Edvard. As a kid, Tom sneaks into the palace garden and meet the prince. They change clothes with each other but the guards discover them and throw out the prince, since they are almost identical. Nobody believe them when they try to tell the truth. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.