A Matter of Life and Death

Brief Encounter

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• United Kingdom • 1945
• Director David Lean
• Cast Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Shout! Factory TV, Amazon, iTunes, FlixFling, HBO Max, Sling TV, Criterion

A story of the most precious moments in woman's life!

Kind Hearts and Coronets

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• United Kingdom • 1949
• Director Robert Hamer
• Cast Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes, Miles Malleson
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Kanopy, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube

A hilarious study in the gentle art of murder.

Great Expectations

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• United Kingdom • 1946
• Director David Lean
• Cast John Mills, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on iTunes, Amazon, HBO Max, Criterion, FlixFling

We follow Pip, and orphan in Victorian England, as he learns the ways of high society.

A Man Escaped
(Un condamné à mort s'est échappé)

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• France • 1956
• Director Robert Bresson
• Cast François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau
• Genre Thriller, Drama, War
• Available on Criterion, Amazon, Kanopy

A Canterbury Tale

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• United Kingdom • 1944
• Director Michael Powell
• Cast Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet, Charles Hawtrey, Esmond Knight
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery
• Available on Amazon, Criterion

Black Narcissus

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• United Kingdom • 1947
• Director Michael Powell
• Cast Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Kathleen Byron, Sabu, Jean Simmons
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion, HBO Max, iTunes, Amazon

A story of exquisite yearning in a strange and beautiful land. Towering over the screen ... as the mountains that saw it happen.

The Red Shoes

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• United Kingdom • 1948
• Director Michael Powell
• Cast Moira Shearer, Adolf Wohlbrück, Marius Goring, Léonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Albert Bassermann
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Amazon, YouTube, Criterion, HBO Max, Google Play

Not all fairy tales are for children.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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• United Kingdom • 1943
• Director Michael Powell
• Cast Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Adolf Wohlbrück, Roland Culver, James McKechnie, Arthur Wontner
• Genre War, Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion, iTunes, Amazon

We follow an out of touch World War II general's career from beginning to end.

Odd Man Out

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• United Kingdom • 1947
• Director Carol Reed
• Cast James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick, Kathleen Ryan, William Hartnell
• Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Available on Criterion, Amazon

This is it! the most exciting motion picture ever made!

Ordet

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• Denmark • 1955
• Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Cast Birgitte Federspiel, Henrik Malberg
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion

A Legend for Today

I Know Where I'm Going!

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• United Kingdom • 1945
• Director Michael Powell
• Cast Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, George Carney, Nancy Price
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Amazon, Criterion