Two Americans (Murray and Johansson) staying at the same luxury hotel in Tokyo, but unknown to each other, cross paths one night in the hotel bar. This chance meeting soon becomes a surprising friendship. Over the next several days they venture through Tokyo, having often hilarious encounters with its citizens, and ultimately discover a new belief in life's possibilities.

When professional cellist Daigo is left jobless after his Tokyo orchestra disbands, he and his wife Mika move to the rural family home left by his mother, who passed away two years previously. Here he stumbles upon a vaguely-worded advert in a local newspaper for a job assisting departures, which he took to be travel-agency related. He turns up at the interview and is hired on the spot, only to discover the post is for an assistant nôkanshi, or traditional mortician, performing the Japanese rites of washing and preparing corpses for their final journey. Initially he is disgusted by the work, but as his disgust turns to pride, he soon finds himself coming to terms with his own life.

One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom. In the role that cemented his superstar status, Steve McQueen plays the motorcycle-racing daredevil who sets out to foil the Nazis, alongside an all-star cast that includes Charles Bronson, James Coburn, James Garner, and Donald Pleasence. The expert direction of John Sturges, eminently hummable Elmer Bernstein score, and rip-roaring stunts come together in what may just be the most spectacularly entertaining prison-break movie of all time, a rousing ode to the determination, camaraderie, and courage of everyday heroes.

John Frankenheimer's The Train stars Burt Lancaster as a workaday World War II-era French trainman who doubles as a French Resistance fighter. He and his small group are charged with ensuring that a cargo of irreplaceable French art -- the pride and heritage of his nation -- is not allowed to leave France, despite the machinations of a Nazi officer (Scofield) determined to steal these great works for Germany.

John Wayne won the Best Actor Academy Award for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth, and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When the girl insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced but enthusiastic Texas Ranger joins the party. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in this extraordinary Western.

In Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood returned to the saddle after nine years – and Western movies were riding high again. Here the star/director crafted an exciting film in the suspenseful tradition of Shane and High Noon. After corporate mining boss Coy LaHood begins a terror campaign to drive independent pan miners out of the area, a stranger called Preacher rides into the underdogs’ camp. He becomes their avenger. The tycoon then hires a badge-wearing killer and his duster-shrouded deputies, men loyal to whomever pays the most. LaHood pays in gold. But in a climactic shootout to remember, Preacher pays in lead.

In this sly, merciless thriller, Lindsay Crouse stars as a best-selling author and therapist who wants to help a client by making restitution for the money he owes to a gambler. After she meets Mike, the attractive cardsharp, her own compulsions take hold as he lures her into his world of high-stakes deception. Packed with razor-edged dialogue delivered with even-keeled precision by a cast of Mamet regulars, House of Games is as psychologically acute as it is full of twists and turns, a rich character study told with the cold calculation of a career con artist targeting his next mark.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side. Starring Toshirô Mifune as the rookie cop and Takashi Shimura as the seasoned detective who keeps him on the right side of the law, Stray Dog goes beyond crime thriller, probing the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind.

The myth and poetry of the old west come alive in Fred Zinnemann’s classic western, High Noon. One of the great treasures of the American cinema, the film stars the legendary Gary Cooper as lawman Will Kane, a marshal who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of killers out for revenge. Engaged in the fight of his lifetime, Kane stands to lose everything when the clock strikes noon – his friends, his honor, and his Quaker bride, played by Grace Kelly in one of her first screen roles. Unfolding in real time, the tension builds as we race ever closer to the climactic duel at high noon from which the film takes its name. For his career-defining role, Cooper would go on to win the Oscar for Best Actor.

Jean-Luc Godard radically reimagined the gangster film with Band of Outsiders. In it, two restless young men enlist the girl of both of their fancies to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard’s most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakably cool Madison dance sequence.

An aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme. Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ensemble, this gritty crime classic by John Huston climaxes in a meticulously detailed anatomy of a robbery that has reverberated through the genre ever since. An uncommonly naturalistic view of a seamy underworld, The Asphalt Jungle painstakingly depicts the calm professionalism and toughness of its gangster heroes while evincing a remarkable depth of compassion for their all-too-human fragility, and it showcases a master filmmaker at the height of his powers.

Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin headline the top-notch, rip-roaring Western action/adventure, The Professionals. Four soldiers of fortune are hired by a wealthy Texan oil baron to rescue his kidnapped wife (Cardinale), who's been spirited across the Mexican border by a band of mercenaries led by Jesus Raza (Jack Palance). The four rugged professionals, each regarded as a specialist in his selected field – an expert archer and tracker (Woody Strode), the explosives master (Lancaster), horse handler (Robert Ryan) and one skilled in tactics and weaponry (Marvin) – make their way across the treacherous landscape to retrieve the beautiful kidnapee, but discover all is not what it seems in the explosive climax.

Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space-cruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr. Morbius, his daughter, a dutiful robot named Robby…and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.

The Station Agent stars Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, and Bobby Cannavale in a comedy about friendship that will have you smiling long after the final credits. Fin McBride, a loner with a passion for trains, inherits an abandoned train station in the middle of nowhere -- a place that suits him just fine because all he wants is to be left alone. But that is not to be. Soon after moving in, he discovers his isolated depot is more like Grand Central Station. There's Olivia, a distracted and troubled artist, and Joe, a friendly Cuban with an insatiable hunger for conversation. With absolutely nothing in common, they find their isolated lives coming together in a friendship none of them could have foreseen.

Family loyalty and self-reliance take on whole new meanings in this dark, uncompromising story as seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her deadbeat father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, her father will most certainly miss his court date, and she will be left without a home and lose custody of her two young siblings.To avoid losing everything, Ree must track through the lies and threats looming everywhere in her rural Ozarks town to piece together the dangerous truth about her father -- without getting herself killed -- in this taut, pulse-pounding thriller.

Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche star in Caché, a psychological thriller about a TV talk show host and his wife who are terrorized by surveillance videos of their private life. Delivered by an anonymous stalker, the tapes reveal secret after secret until obsession, denial, and deceit take hold of the couple and hurl them to the point of no return. Caché is director Michael Haneke's dark vision of a relationship torn mercilessly apart by the camera's unblinking eye.

A much-loved British classic, Michael Anderson's 1955 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the center of Nazi Germany's industrial complex, and the quintessentially English combination of inventiveness and dogged determination. Split into two distinct sections, the film deals first with the fraught, but ultimately successful development of a new weapon by Dr. Barnes N. Wallis. The second and pacier section deals with the mission itself during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams, and its associated costs for the enemy and for the British airmen.

Academy Award-winners Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn star as a team of Allied military specialists recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives. Adapted by screenwriter Carl Foreman from Alistair MacLean’s best-selling novel. The Guns of Navarone was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and won for Best Special Effects.

Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five year old unresolved rape and murder case, which still haunts him. Sharing his plans with Irene, the beautiful judge and former colleague he has secretly been in love with for years, Benjamin’s initial involvement with the case is shown through flashbacks, as he sets out to identify the murderer. But Benjamin’s search for the truth will put him at the center of a judicial nightmare, as the mystery of the heinous crime continues to unfold in the present, testing the limits of a man seeking justice and personal fulfillment at last.

Jimmy Rabbitte (Arkins) "knows" he's the world's greatest band manager.... now he just needs a band. Auditioning everyone he can find, Jimmy gathers ten of the most talented, least experienced musicians from the rough streets of working-class Dublin with a plan to launch the greatest Irish Soul band in the world. The Commitments is sparked by its young cast and enthusiastic performances of a number of '60s soul classics; the cast, who play their own instruments, reassembled the band for a concert tour after the film became a hit.

Winner of the Academy Award and Golden Globe as Best Foreign Language Film, this irresistible comedy treat was embraced by critics and audiences everywhere! A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires, setting off a wild set of circumstances and leaving him with a pint-sized new roommate! Now, with a mischievous five-year-old named Kolya suddenly in his care, life in this once carefree playboy's tiny apartment changes faster than he could ever imagine! Uplifting and endlessly funny, Kolya is delightful motion picture entertainment.

A chance encounter between a mild-mannered professor and an alluring woman, whose portrait the professor admires in a gallery window, quickly turns into a murder investigation and blackmail scheme. Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window is a briskly paced and brilliantly plotted thriller.

When Ned Devine dies from shock upon winning the lottery, two longtime friends, Michael and Jackie, discover the body, agree Ned would want them to benefit from his good luck, and embark upon an outrageous scheme to claim the ticket. A heartwarming comedy with a delightfully light touch.

Three men come across a downed plane with a rotting corpse and four million dollars in it and decide they should keep the money. So they devise a scheme that’s perfect in its simplicity … and lethal in its miscalculation of the human heart as mistrust, murder, and intrigue are all soon at work in this stark, twist-filled thriller.

Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eyes fixed on the big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by manipulative Feds and the unwitting courier’s Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption, Right versus Red, and passion against self-preservation. With its dazzling cast and director Samuel Fuller’s signature raw energy and hardboiled repartee, Pickup on South Street is a true film noir classic by one of America’s most passionate cinematic craftsmen.