Keith, we have the Downton movie, haven't watched it yet but friends said it's good, it picks up after the series.
For a totally different Lucy, we really enjoyed this on Kanopy. They have some really unique films there if you haven't checked them out. We check Google when we see something we like, sometimes they're free on YouTube or somewhere else so we don't use a credit on them. The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu is next. They also have a lot of series from The Great Courses which Amazon charges for.
LURED
In this sumptuous thriller by legendary filmmaker Douglas Sirk and featuring a bevy of classic stars of the silver screen, a serial killer is on the loose in London, luring young women into his web through ads placed in the personal column.
Scotland Yard's bait to ensnare the villain is a young American dance hall girl (played by a stunning Lucille Ball), who encounters a series of likely suspects, including the always dashing George Sanders as a sophisticated playboy and an unforgettable Boris Karloff as a mad fashion designer.
Restored from 35MM nitrate and safety material.
"What could have been merely a diverting whodunit becomes, in Sirk's hands, an atmospheric, sensuous pleasure." - Entertainment Weekly
Running Time 103 mins
Year 1947
Filmmakers Douglas Sirk
Features Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Sir Cedric Hardwick
Languages English
Subjects Movies > Classic Cinema Movies > Drama Movies Movies > Horror & Thriller
These were really good too (just in spoiler to not take up too much room):
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Suddenly
In advance of a presidential visit to the small town of Suddenly, California, a trio of FBI agents enters the Benson family's home to assess potential security risks. Once inside, leader John Baron (Frank Sinatra) reveals himself as a psychopathic assassin, and he kidnaps the family in order to use their house as his vantage point in his plot to kill the president. Sheriff Tod Shaw (Sterling Hayden) matches wits with the assassin and his gang in an attempt to save the day. "A taut melodrama that... shapes up as one of the slickest recent items in the minor movie…
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story - Filmmaker William Castle and his Outrageous Audience Participation Gimmicks
Throughout the 1950's and 60's, William Castle produced and directed a series of horror films marked by their outrageous audience participation gimmicks. Castle treated moviegoers to buzzing seats, flying skeletons, luminescent ghosts and life insurance policies -- and they loved every minute of it. SPINE TINGLER! is a documentary about the last great American showman. It is a rags to riches tale of a legend of exploitation and master of self-promotion, yet a man privately plagued by a fear of failure and a desperate desire to be respected among his peers.
Purple Noon
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The Cockettes - The Original Gender Revolutionaries
The Cockettes, a flamboyant ensemble of hippies decked out in outlandish gender-bending finery, created a series of legendary, LSD-fueled midnight musicals in early 1970s San Francisco. A diverse mix of genders and races, The Cockettes were an immediate sensation and their performances embodied the blending of the psychedelic counterculture and the sexual revolution. This must-see documentary -- now digitally restored -- follows the rise and and fall of this now-legendary group of fashion forward performers from 1969-1972. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Winner of Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film at the Los Angeles Film…
A few others on our watchlist to give you an idea (though there are thousands of titles). Also in spoiler to not take up too much room:
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Royal Deceit
An ancient Danish story of evil, power and human spirit, that subsequently inspired William Shakespeare on his tragedy, Hamlet. When the king of Jutland is murdered by his brother, the dark prince claims both the throne and Queen Geruth. Although her son saw the murder, he feigns madness to spare his life. This historical drama features a stellar cast including Oscar-winners Christian Bale and Helen Mirren.
Daddy and the Muscle Academy - The Art and Life of Tom Of Finland
Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity, attitude and self-understanding. This ground-breaking work combines interviews with Tom (prior to his death in 1992) and his leather men acolytes with hundreds of his original drawings and steamy fantasy scenes inspired by his work. Winner of the Special Jussi Award for Best Documentary at…
Marriage Italian Style - Matrimonio all'italiana
One of the most famous, and funniest, Italian comedies of all time, MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE received nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Actress for Sophia Loren, at the Academy Awards. Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren's Filumena as a young prostitute and keeps her as his mistress and confidante. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is…
Amazing Grace
A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album AMAZING GRACE at The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.
God's Own Country
This simmering drama is a New York Times Critics' Pick and an award-winner at Sundance and Berlinale. Johnny Saxby (Josh O'Connor) works long hours in brutal isolation on his family's farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. When a handsome Romanian migrant worker (Alec Secareanu) arrives Johnny is confronted with new emotions.…
Ray & Liz
"Richard Billingham's blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom - RAY AND LIZ, as they have come to be intimately known - were the toast of Charles Saatchi's epochal late '90s exhibition Sensation." - Elizabeth Fullerton, British art critic. One of Britain's most celebrated artists, Billingham has made an autobiographical debut feature that immerses the viewer in his Midlands childhood of loveless squalor and parental…
Hamlet
Shakespeare's classic tragedy is re-imagined by mixing and repurposing Richard Burton's 1964 Broadway production, directed by John Gielgud. The Burton production was recorded in live performance from 17 camera angles and edited into a film that was shown as a special event for only two days in nearly 1,000 movie houses across the U.S. The idea of bringing a live theater experience to thousands of simultaneous viewers in different cities was trumpeted as a new form called "Theatrofilm," made possible through "the miracle of Electronovision." The Wooster Group's production attempts to reverse the process, reconstructing a hypothetical theater piece from…
And the price is right -- if your library has Kanopy, you get six free movies a month (at least ours offers six). We like it a lot for off-beat, foreign and old classic films (although they have some newer ones like Parasite and stuff too).