Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, director, novelist and occasional producer. His outstanding works as director are Blackboard Jungle (1955); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958); Elmer Gantry (1960) – for which he won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay); In Cold Blood (1967); and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Brooks was one of the relatively few filmmakers whose careers bridged the transition from the classic studio system to the independent productions that marked the 1960s and beyond. He was also among the postwar writer-directors who made some of their best films as they struggled to break free of industry censorship. His legacy is that of a filmmaker who sought independence in a collaborative art and tried to bring his own vision to the screen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Brooks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Richard Brooks
  • Popularity: 3.71
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1912-05-18
  • Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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  • Also Known As: Ruben Sax , Ричард Брукс
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Richard Brooks Movies

  • 1988
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    Bacall on Bogart

    Bacall on Bogart

    6 1988 HD

    Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.

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  • 1988
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    Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

    Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

    7 1988 HD

    A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

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  • 1975
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    Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait

    Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait

    4 1975 HD

    Vintage 1975 documentary about the life of movie queen Elizabeth Taylor hosted by Peter Lawford, and featuring appearances by actors Roddy McDowall...

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  • 1987
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    A Special Friendship

    A Special Friendship

    1 1987 HD

    During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of...

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  • 1958
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    7.6 1958 HD

    An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

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  • 1958
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    7.6 1958 HD

    An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

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  • 1948
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    Key Largo

    Key Largo

    7.5 1948 HD

    A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and...

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  • 1960
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    Elmer Gantry

    Elmer Gantry

    7.3 1960 HD

    When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her...

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  • 1960
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    Elmer Gantry

    Elmer Gantry

    7.3 1960 HD

    When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her...

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  • 1965
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    Lord Jim

    Lord Jim

    6.8 1965 HD

    After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

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  • 1965
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    Lord Jim

    Lord Jim

    6.8 1965 HD

    After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

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  • 1966
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.071 1966 HD

    An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

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  • 1966
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.071 1966 HD

    An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

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  • 1971
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    6.1 1971 HD

    A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.

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  • 1971
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    6.1 1971 HD

    A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.

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  • 1982
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    Wrong Is Right

    Wrong Is Right

    5.5 1982 HD

    Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in...

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  • 1982
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    Wrong Is Right

    Wrong Is Right

    5.5 1982 HD

    Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in...

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  • 1975
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    Bite the Bullet

    Bite the Bullet

    6.3 1975 HD

    At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing,...

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  • 1975
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    Bite the Bullet

    Bite the Bullet

    6.3 1975 HD

    At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing,...

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  • 1962
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    Sweet Bird of Youth

    Sweet Bird of Youth

    6.8 1962 HD

    Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him...

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  • 1962
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    Sweet Bird of Youth

    Sweet Bird of Youth

    6.8 1962 HD

    Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him...

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  • 1955
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    Blackboard Jungle

    Blackboard Jungle

    6.9 1955 HD

    Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior....

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  • 1947
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    Crossfire

    Crossfire

    6.6 1947 HD

    A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

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  • 1947
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    Brute Force

    Brute Force

    7.3 1947 HD

    Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of...

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  • 1951
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    Storm Warning

    Storm Warning

    6.6 1951 HD

    A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her...

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  • 1969
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    The Happy Ending

    The Happy Ending

    6 1969 HD

    The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate...

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  • 1952
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    Deadline - U.S.A.

    Deadline - U.S.A.

    6.8 1952 HD

    With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

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  • 1952
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    Deadline - U.S.A.

    Deadline - U.S.A.

    6.8 1952 HD

    With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

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  • 1958
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    The Brothers Karamazov

    The Brothers Karamazov

    6.6 1958 HD

    Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons...

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  • 1977
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    Looking for Mr. Goodbar

    Looking for Mr. Goodbar

    6.3 1977 HD

    A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively more violent sexual...

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  • 1944
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    Cobra Woman

    Cobra Woman

    5.2 1944 HD

    A man (Jon Hall) tracks his kidnapped bride (Maria Montez) to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

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  • 1957
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    Something of Value

    Something of Value

    5.4 1957 HD

    As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British...

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  • 1957
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    Something of Value

    Something of Value

    5.4 1957 HD

    As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British...

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  • 1967
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    In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood

    7.5 1967 HD

    After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own...

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  • 1950
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    Mystery Street

    Mystery Street

    6.7 1950 HD

    When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics,...

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  • 1950
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    Crisis

    Crisis

    6.6 1950 HD

    An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

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  • 1950
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    Crisis

    Crisis

    6.6 1950 HD

    An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

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  • 1953
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    Battle Circus

    Battle Circus

    6 1953 HD

    A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr....

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  • 1953
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    Battle Circus

    Battle Circus

    6 1953 HD

    A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr....

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  • 1954
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    The Last Time I Saw Paris

    The Last Time I Saw Paris

    6 1954 HD

    Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her...

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  • 1954
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    The Last Time I Saw Paris

    The Last Time I Saw Paris

    6 1954 HD

    Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her...

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  • 1969
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    The Happy Ending

    The Happy Ending

    6 1969 HD

    The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate...

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  • 1949
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    Any Number Can Play

    Any Number Can Play

    6.9 1949 HD

    When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it...

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  • 1953
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    Take the High Ground!

    Take the High Ground!

    5.7 1953 HD

    Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he...

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  • 1956
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    The Catered Affair

    The Catered Affair

    7.085 1956 HD

    An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

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  • 1956
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    The Last Hunt

    The Last Hunt

    6.7 1956 HD

    A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.

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  • 1956
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    The Last Hunt

    The Last Hunt

    6.7 1956 HD

    A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.

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  • 1985
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    Fever Pitch

    Fever Pitch

    3.7 1985 HD

    An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry — organized gambling.

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  • 1985
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    Fever Pitch

    Fever Pitch

    3.7 1985 HD

    An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry — organized gambling.

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  • 1951
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    The Light Touch

    The Light Touch

    6.2 1951 HD

    An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.

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  • 1954
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    Flame and the Flesh

    Flame and the Flesh

    10 1954 HD

    American woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.

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  • 1975
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    Bite the Bullet

    Bite the Bullet

    6.3 1975 HD

    At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing,...

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  • 1943
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    White Savage

    White Savage

    5.2 1943 HD

    A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.

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  • 1969
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    The Happy Ending

    The Happy Ending

    6 1969 HD

    The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate...

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  • 1982
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    Wrong Is Right

    Wrong Is Right

    5.5 1982 HD

    Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in...

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  • 1946
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    The Killers

    The Killers

    7.339 1946 HD

    Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight....

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  • 1944
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    My Best Gal

    My Best Gal

    1 1944 HD

    A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.

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  • 1967
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    In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood

    7.5 1967 HD

    After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own...

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  • 1951
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    The Light Touch

    The Light Touch

    6.2 1951 HD

    An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.

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  • 1946
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    The Killers

    The Killers

    7.339 1946 HD

    Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight....

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  • 1965
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    Lord Jim

    Lord Jim

    6.8 1965 HD

    After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

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  • 1942
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    Men of Texas

    Men of Texas

    1 1942 HD

    A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.

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  • 1955
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    Blackboard Jungle

    Blackboard Jungle

    6.9 1955 HD

    Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior....

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  • 1946
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    Swell Guy

    Swell Guy

    1 1946 HD

    Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.

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  • 1942
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    Sin Town

    Sin Town

    3 1942 HD

    Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.

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  • 1948
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    To the Victor

    To the Victor

    1 1948 HD

    An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.

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  • 1944
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    With the Marines at Tarawa

    With the Marines at Tarawa

    6.7 1944 HD

    Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa. ...

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  • 1966
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.071 1966 HD

    An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

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  • 1958
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    The Brothers Karamazov

    The Brothers Karamazov

    6.6 1958 HD

    Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons...

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  • 1943
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    Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

    Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

    1 1943 HD

    Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against...

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  • 1944
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    Return to Guam

    Return to Guam

    6 1944 HD

    Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a...

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  • 1977
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    Looking for Mr. Goodbar

    Looking for Mr. Goodbar

    6.3 1977 HD

    A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively more violent sexual...

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  • 1992
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    MGM: When the Lion Roars

    MGM: When the Lion Roars

    7.7 1992 HD

    On April 24, 1924, the movies changed forever: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio opened and soon assembled “more stars than there are in the...

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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