Carol Reed
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Canal+ Image
Pub. Date
[1999, 1949]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.
3) Oliver!
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service. He becomes an unlikely agent in Cuba. To avoid working while cashing the checks, Wormold spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A twisting, turning, cloak-and-dagger delight, combining comedy, romance and thrills with the greatest of ease. [A] World War II journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent"--Container.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The scene is post-war Berlin. Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) arrives in the city to stay with her brother and his German wife, Bettina. Reluctantly, Bettina takes Susanne into the Eastern Sector where they meet Ivo Kern (James Mason), a former lawyer who is being blackmailed into luring a man called Kastner to East Berlin, who is helping refugees to escape to the West. Sensing Susanne's attraction to the rogue ex-lawyer, Bettina confesses that she...
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Documentary films produced by the Allied military during 1944-1945 as a permanent visual record of the campaigns in Europe. Covers every major engagement from D-Day to the fall of Berlin. Disc 1: The true glory: Widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made and utilized the footage of combat cameramen from nine nations. From Italy to D-Day: Covers the war in Europe from July 1943 to June 1944 and concentrates on the land operations...
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
10) Oliver!
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
11) Trapeze
Publisher
JL Enterpises
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Veteran trapeze artist trains newcomer Tino Orsisi and tumbler Lola.
12) The running man
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rex Black has successfully faked his death in a plane crash and escaped to sunny Malaga under a new identity, waiting for his wife Stella to arrive with £50,000 of life insurance money. It's the start of a blissful, trouble-free new life for the couple, until Stephen, the insurance agent in charge of investigating Rex's death, suddenly arrives in town.
14) Trapeze
Language
English
Description
A love triangle develops between an injured trapeze artist, his student, and a circus tumbler.
15) The way ahead
Series
Publisher
[Distributed by VCI Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The metamorphosis of a cross-section group of Britons from squabbling individuals into a top fighting unit in the final phase of the African campaign against Rommel.
16) Odd man out
Series
Criterion collection volume 754
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed₂s psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason (Lolita) as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Series
Publisher
Periscope Film
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The true glory: An account of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.
D-Day minus one: A record of the operations of the U.S. 82nd and 1O1st Airborne Divisions in the 1944 invasion...
18) Trapeze
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A triangle of lovers in a powerful drama set against the magnificent background of a European circus. Filmed on location in Paris, it has been acclaimed as one of the most spectacular and authentic circus movies ever made.
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When the immoral Peter Willems is accused of stealing in his position at a Dutch East Indies port, he persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to take him up-river to a secret trading post on a remote Indonesian island. There, he falls in love with the beautiful native woman Aissa, as the cunning Babalatchi tries to trick and blackmail him into disclosing the entrance of the secret trading route.
Series
Publisher
Marathon Music & Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Corregidor: Doctors on Corregidor sort out a love triangle while fighting the invading Japanese forces. (1943) with Otto Kruger & Donald Woods.
The immortal battalion: An army officer shapes a unit of British recruits into a crack battalion to face Rommel's North Africa Korps. (1944) with David Niven, Stanley Holloway & Peter Ustinov. Directed by Carol Reed.
The big lift: When the Russians blockade Berlin, British and American airmen receive supplies...