Johnny Come Lately

1943

English

6.8

♡ 5

43%

William K. Howard Director

Irving Bacon as Chief of Police

Marjorie Main as 'Gashouse' Mary

Marjorie Lord as Jane

Margaret Hamilton as Myrtle Ferguson

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.

The Balcony

1963

English

5.9

♡ 5

60%

Joseph Strick Director

Lee Grant as Carmen

Kent Smith as General

Joyce Jameson as Penitent

Peter Falk as Police Chief

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Why Man Creates

1968

English

7.2

♡ 7

61%

Saul Bass Director

Peter Hansen as Narrator

Paul Saltman as Scientist

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Notes on the Popular Arts

1978

English

6.0

♡ 6

Action

preserved film

Saul Bass Director

Beans Morocco as Man

An exploration of American escapism through dream sequences. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Soft Fiction

1979

English

6.8

♡ 3

Chick Strand Director

Beverle Houston as Self

Melissa Lou Beal as Self

Amy C. Halpern as Self

Karen Amend as Self

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary approach with a sensuous lyrical expressionism. Strand focuses her camera on people talking about their own experience, capturing subtle nuances in facial expressions and gestures that are rarely seen in cinema. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2015.

Tight Spot

1955

English

6.6

♡ 2

67%

Phil Karlson Director

John Larch as First Detective

Edward G. Robinson as Lloyd Hallett

Brian Keith as Vince Striker

Helen Wallace as Warden

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.

Lilith

1964

English

6.8

♡ 3

86%

Robert Rossen Director

James Patterson as Dr. Lavrier

Gwen Van Dam as Nurse

Olympia Dukakis as Patient

Harvey Jason as Patient

Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.

Midnight

1934

English

5.5

♡ 2

43%

Chester Erskine Director

Helen Flint as Ethel Saxton

Humphrey Bogart as Gar Boni

Margaret Wycherly as Mrs. Weldon

Henry Hull as Nolan

Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.

The Coward

1965

Bangla

7.6

♡ 15

100%

hard drinking manager

preserved film

Romance

surface incompatibility

Satyajit Ray Director

Soumitra Chatterjee as Amitabha Roy

Santi Chatterjee as (as Shanti Chattopadhyay)

Haradhan Bannerjee as Bimal Gupta

Madhabi Mukherjee as Karuna Gupta

Amitabha Roy is a Calcutta-based scriptwriter, driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town. A tea planter, Bimal Gupta, offers hospitality for the night. Amitabha is forced to accept the offer as he has no alternative.

The Fighting Lady

1944

English

7.2

♡ 3

William Wyler Director

Robert Taylor as Narrator

Charles Boyer as Récitant / Narrator

Joseph J. Clark as Self

Dixie Kiefer as Self

Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 "newsdrama," narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR (Bataan), and photographed in zones of combat by the U.S. Navy. The film follows one of the many new aircraft carriers built since Pearl Harbor, known as THE FIGHTING LADY in honor of all American carriers, as it goes into action against the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean in 1943. See the ship and its pilots undergo their baptism of fire, attacking the Japanese base on Marcus Island. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.

In Old Arizona

1928

English

5.5

♡ 1

56%

Raoul Walsh Director

Frank Campeau as Man Chasing Cisco

Tom London as Man in Saloon

Edmund Lowe as Sergeant Mickey Dunn

Warner Baxter as The Cisco Kid

Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.

The Goddess

1960

Bangla

7.7

♡ 17

Action

Drama

preserved film

Satyajit Ray Director

Arabinda Kumar Chowdhury as

Khagesh Chakravarti as Kaviraj

Shanta Devi as Sarala

Soumitra Chatterjee as Umaprasad

A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her.

Thursday's Children

1954

English

7.3

70%

Action

Documentary

preserved film

Lindsay Anderson Director

Richard Burton as Narrator

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with British Film Institute in 2005.

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

1950

English

5.9

♡ 3

60%

general douglas macarthur

philippines

preserved film

War

Fritz Lang Director

Carleton Young as Col. Elliott M. Phillips

Micheline Presle as Jeanne Martinez

Tom Ewell as Jim Mitchell

Robert Patten as Lovejoy

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.

Pickup on South Street

1953

English

7.6

♡ 14

93%

Samuel Fuller Director

Harry Carter as Detective Dietrich

Milburn Stone as Detective Winoki

Thelma Ritter as Moe Williams

George E. Stone as Willie - Police Desk Clerk

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.

Magdalena Viraga

1986

English

5.9

♡ 2

Nina Menkes Director

Nora Bendich as

Claire Aguilar as

Edmund Lane as JOHN

Dave Gist as Trick

Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.

The Chess Players

1977

Hindi

7.5

♡ 11

91%

Satyajit Ray Director

Richard Attenborough as General Outram

Shabana Azmi as Khurshid, Mirza's wife

Amitabh Bachchan as Narration

Victor Banerjee as Prime Minister

In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess. Based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2010.

Drylongso

1998

English

6.7

♡ 1

100%

Cauleen Smith Director

Tamara Washington as

Sayyed Y. Bey as Male posing for camera

Salim Akil as Mr. Yamada

April Barnett as Tobi

A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.

Western Union

1941

English

6.7

♡ 14

75%

Fritz Lang Director

Irving Bacon as Barber

Addison Richards as Captain Harlow

Chief John Big Tree as Chief Spotted Horse

Barton MacLane as Jack Slade

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

Portrait of Jason

1967

English

7.0

100%

Shirley Clarke Director

Carl Lee as Interviewer

Shirley Clarke as Interviewer

Jason Holliday as Self

Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked, pill-popped view of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960s United States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Milestone Films in 2013.

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The Balcony

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Lilith

Midnight

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The Fighting Lady

In Old Arizona

The Goddess

Thursday's Children

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

Pickup on South Street

Magdalena Viraga

The Chess Players

Drylongso

Western Union

Portrait of Jason