Otto Preminger’s sprawling World War II drama opens with the attack on Pearl Harbor and follows its characters as the Navy rebuilds its fleet and launches its campaign to take back the Pacific.
Denzel Washington plays real-life Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe plays the obsessive New York narcotics detective who pursued him through the 1970s.
Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom in this underworld drama set in post-war Japan.
The heat of war collides with the heat of desire in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s adaptation of “Manon Lescaut,” moved from 18th century Paris to Nazi-occupied France.
William Wellman directs this snappy pre-code drama set in a sleazy backwater where the dregs of civilization hide out and the local law is even more corrupt than the crooks.
This superb adaptation of Ken Kesey’s counterculture novel won five Oscars, including best picture, director Milos Forman, actor Jack Nicholson, and actress Louise Fletcher.
Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into “soap opera” in this exquisitely baroque melodrama with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.
