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American Buffalo (1996)
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release Date: Sep 13, 1996
Synopsis: A pair of crooks and their young intern plot the theft of a valuable Buffalo-head nickel. Most of the story takes place within the junky confines of Don Dubrow's second-hand store. And most of the story focuses on the machinations of these well-drawn characters who pro- vide fascinating insight into the criminal mind as they ingeniously devise new ways to manipulate and aggravate each other. Based on a 1975 play by David Mamet.
The Angel Levine
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Jul 15, 1970
Synopsis: Harry Belafonte portrays a black angel from Heaven, on probation for not doing his heavenly job. He has been assigned to provide a miracle for an elderly and impoverished Jewish tailor. The tailor refuses to believe in the angel, which places the miracle and the angel in jeopardy.
Angels & Insects
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Historical
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 26, 1996
Synopsis: Victorian England... An impoverished naturalist is taken in by an aristocratic family and falls for their daughter. While the man of science studies the social order of the insect world, the humans around him appear increasingly eccentric.
Annie Hall
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 20, 1977
Synopsis: This Best Picture Oscar winner stars Woody Allen as a neurotic, New York comedian who falls for a quirky midwestern girl (Diane Keaton) in an on-again, off-again romance.
Avanti!
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Dec 17, 1972
Synopsis: Jack Lemmon, along with Juliet Mills, delivers a brilliant performance in this comedy about death's lengthy red tape from writer/director Billy Wilder.
Black Robe
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 04, 1991
Synopsis: The compelling saga of Father LaForgue, an ambitious 17th-century Jesuit Priest, who journeyed through the frozen Canadian wilderness to save the souls of the Indians and colonize the tribes.
Bananas
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 28, 1971
Synopsis: Woody Allen's humor is at his wild and bizarre best in this story of a "weird-gadget" tester who, after being jilted by his girlfriend (Louise Lasser), ends up as president of a tiny country where absurdity reigns.
The Birdcage
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Mar 08, 1996
Synopsis: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane and Dianne Wiest lead the laughs in this wild comedy that insists you don't have to be a woman to be a mother.
Blue Sky
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release Date: Sep 16, 1994
Synopsis: In 1962 a nuclear engineer, his provocative wife and their two daughters are transferred to a military base where they become entangled in a cover-up involving nuclear bomb testing.
Bound For Glory
Collection: Contemporary Classics
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release Date: Dec 05, 1976
Synopsis: David Carradine gives a brilliant performance as Woody Guthrie, the hard-travelin', ramblin' balladeer who sang of America's sorrows and joys during the Great Depression.
