Network
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
Gallant Lady
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
Star Dust
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she’s too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
An American Christmas Carol
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of…
American Madness
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson’s wife…
Steptoe & Son
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the…
Sudden Rain
Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki’s marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before…
The House in the Square
Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather’s diaries. He falls in love with his forefather’s cousin, Helen, but…
Lives of Performers
Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and tableaux vivants to explore issues of power and gender that influence…
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