Claude Rains
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy scientist, Cecilia Kass escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being...
2) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection ; 137
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The innocent daughter of a Nazi cooperates with American agents by using her father's reputation as cover for infiltrating a Nazi organization operating in Brazil. Her dangerous role is complicated by her love for the agent with whom she is working.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Casablanca (1942, b&w, 102 min.) : Rick Blaine sticks his neck out for nobody. Then she walks back into his life...with her Resistance-leader husband.
Mrs. Miniver (1942, b&w, 133 min.): One of Hollywood's most memorable spirit-lifters about an idealized England confronting the terror of World War II.
Gigi (1958, color, 115 min.): Gigi goes from girlishness to glamour and desires more than the lush life of suitor Louis Jordan.
An American in Paris...
5) Casablanca
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
6) Rope of sand
Series
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Mike Davis is back in Africa to claim the diamonds he has supposedly stolen two years ago. Standing in his way are the diamond syndicate head and the vicious commandment who has left Mike for dead years before.
7) Notorious
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, high-living prizefighter Johnny Bradfield (Garfield) flees to avoid arrest. While hiding out on a ranch in Arizona, he meets up with a group of juvenile delinquents (The Dead End Kids). Bradfield takes it upon himself to set the kids straight, as a detective (Rains) closes in on the boxer.
10) Casablanca
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
14) Notorious
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful young woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so, he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he₂s love her all along." --
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
17) Deception
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
World War II has separated pianist Christine Radcliffe from her great love, cellist Karel Novak. Thinking Karel has been killed in action, she is unexpectedly reunited with him. Now, Christine desperately strives to hide her wartime dalliance as the mistress of a wealthy, sadistic composer. She'll lie to keep her shameful past a secret.
18) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection ; 137
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The innocent daughter of a war criminal is persuaded to help a U.S. agent trap a Nazi mastermind now living in Brazil.
19) Mr. Skeffington
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dealing openly with anti-Semitism and Nazi atrocities, the story spans World War I, Prohibition and the prelimanary volley of World War II. Fanny (Bette Davis) thrives on the adulation of countless suiters before and after she marries Job Skeffington (Claude Rains). Ravaged by age and illness, Fannyh clings to Job's promise that "a woman is beautiful only when she is loved."
20) Now, voyager
Series
Criterion collection ; 1004
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother's grip, but will she find fulfillment...
