Movies

Over time, we have collected a number of titles on DVD, blu-ray, online services, other digital media (and a few odd titles on VHS).

This listing is for friends who may wish to drop in and watch a movie or would like to borrow a disc.

Titles with an asterisk (*) are DVDs that belong to Jason.

Click on any title's IMDB# to see a complete description and reviews, courtesy of the Internet Movie Database.

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12 Angry Men
1957 - Approved - Crime, Drama - 96 min - United States - English
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.

Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Written by: Reginald Rose
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 17 wins & 13 nominations total
IMDB # 50083
5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., The
1953 - G - Family, Fantasy, Music - 89 min - United States - English
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.

Directed by: Roy Rowland
Written by: Dr. Seuss, Allan Scott
Starring: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
IMDB # 45464
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 - Not Rated - Drama - 108 min - United States - English
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Directed by: Richard Brooks
Written by: Richard Brooks, James Poe, Tennessee Williams
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Nominated for 6 Oscars. 3 wins & 16 nominations total
IMDB # 51459
Cinderella
1950 - G - Animation, Family, Fantasy - 74 min - United States - English
When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq and from her Fairy Godmother.

Directed by: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Written by: Charles Perrault, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner
Starring: Ilene Woods, James MacDonald, Eleanor Audley
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 6 wins & 8 nominations total
IMDB # 42332
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
1951 - G - Drama, Sci-Fi - 92 min - United States - English, French, Hindi, Russian
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

Directed by: Robert Wise
Written by: Edmund H. North, Harry Bates
Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
3 wins & 1 nomination
IMDB # 43456
Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock Collection DVD)
1954 - PG - Crime, Thriller - 105 min - United States - English
A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Frederick Knott
Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award5 wins & 3 nominations total
IMDB # 46912
Fly, The (in The Fly Collection)
1958 - Not Rated - Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi - 94 min - United States - English, French
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

Directed by: Kurt Neumann
Written by: James Clavell, George Langelaan
Starring: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
1 nomination
IMDB # 51622
Forbidden Planet (50th Anniversary Edition)
1956 - G - Adventure, Sci-Fi - 98 min - United States, Japan - English
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.

Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox
Written by: Cyril Hume, Irving Block, Allen Adler
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 3 nominations total
IMDB # 49223
High Noon
1952 - PG - Drama, Thriller, Western - 85 min - United States - English, Spanish
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon tr...

Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Written by: Carl Foreman, John W. Cunningham
Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell
Won 4 Oscars. 17 wins & 11 nominations total
IMDB # 44706
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock Collection DVD)
1953 - Not Rated - Crime, Drama, Thriller - 95 min - United States - English, French, Italian, German
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: George Tabori, William Archibald, Paul Anthelme
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
1 nomination
IMDB # 45897
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 - Approved - Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi - 80 min - United States - English
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Directed by: Don Siegel
Written by: Daniel Mainwaring, Jack Finney, Richard Collins
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates
2 wins
IMDB # 49366
Ipcress File, The
1955 - Passed - Drama, Thriller - 109 min - United Kingdom - English, Albanian
In London, a wisecracking spy investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists while dealing with the constraints of his agency's bureaucracy.

Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
Written by: Len Deighton, W.H. Canaway, James Doran
Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman
Won 3 BAFTA 5 wins & 4 nominations total
IMDB # 59319
Lady and the Tramp (50th Anniversary Edition)
1955 - G - Animation, Adventure, Comedy - 76 min - United States - English
The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

Directed by: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Written by: Ward Greene, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi
Starring: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 2 nominations total
IMDB # 48280
Mouse that Roared, The
1959 - Approved - Comedy - 83 min - United Kingdom - English, French
An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.

Directed by: Jack Arnold
Written by: Roger MacDougall, Stanley Mann, Leonard Wibberley
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
N/A
IMDB # 53084
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock Collection DVD)
1959 - Approved - Action, Adventure, Mystery - 136 min - United States - English, French
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Ernest Lehman
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 8 wins & 10 nominations total
IMDB # 53125
Rear Window
1954 - PG - Mystery, Thriller - 112 min - United States - English
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: John Michael Hayes, Cornell Woolrich
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 6 wins & 13 nominations total
IMDB # 47396
Return of the Fly (in The Fly Collection)
1959 - Unrated - Drama, Fantasy, Horror - 80 min - United States - English, French
Philippe Delambre, the now-adult son of "The Fly", does some transportation experimentation of his own.

Directed by: Edward Bernds
Written by: Edward Bernds, George Langelaan
Starring: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham
N/A
IMDB # 53219
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock Collection DVD)
1951 - PG - Crime, Drama, Film-Noir - 101 min - United States - English, French
A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde, Whitfield Cook
Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 2 nominations total
IMDB # 44079
Streetcar Named Desire, A
1951 - M/PG - Drama - 122 min - United States - English, Spanish
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Directed by: Elia Kazan
Written by: Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
Won 4 Oscars. 17 wins & 15 nominations total
IMDB # 44081
Sunset Boulevard
1950 - Passed - Drama, Film-Noir - 110 min - United States - English
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Directed by: Billy Wilder
Written by: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Won 3 Oscars. 19 wins & 20 nominations total
IMDB # 43014
This Island Earth
1955 - Passed - Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi - 86 min - United States - English
Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.

Directed by: Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold
Written by: Raymond F. Jones, Franklin Coen, George Callahan
Starring: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason
1 win & 1 nomination
IMDB # 47577
Touch of Evil
1958 - PG-13 - Crime, Drama, Film-Noir - 95 min - United States - English, Spanish
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.

Directed by: Orson Welles
Written by: Orson Welles, Whit Masterson, Franklin Coen
Starring: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh
8 wins & 2 nominations
IMDB # 52311
Vertigo
1958 - PG - Mystery, Romance, Thriller - 128 min - United States - English
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, Pierre Boileau
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 11 wins & 7 nominations total
IMDB # 52357
War of the Worlds, The
1953 - G - Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller - 85 min - United States - English, Spanish
A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.

Directed by: Byron Haskin
Written by: H.G. Wells, Barré Lyndon
Starring: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne
Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 2 nominations total
IMDB # 46534
Wrong Man, The (Alfred Hitchcock Collection DVD)
1956 - Not Rated - Drama, Film-Noir - 105 min - United States - English, Italian, Spanish
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Maxwell Anderson, Angus MacPhail
Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
1 win & 1 nomination
IMDB # 51207
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