Movie Recommendations

Another great Marx Bros. film that would rate an A except for some tedious musical interludes. The Tutti-Frutti ice cream sequence stands out among the string of classic bits.

True story of WW II POW escape artists who are confined to a maximum-security camp only to plan the biggest breakout ever.

A lone British soldier tries to save a French town from being dynamited. Since the normal residents have fled, the slightly off-balance patients of the local asylum have taken over. (subtitled)

Albert Finney is a wonderful Hercule Poirot in an all-star treatment of the Christie classic.

A typically repressed young Englishwoman learns to live and love a little on an Italian vacation.

Comedy director Joel McCrea decides to do a serious drama and prepares by traveling the country incognito and penniless.

Darkly comic dystopian variation on 1984 pits Jonathan Pryce against the powers that be.

Tense cat-and-mouse game of hired assassin gunning for Charles De Gaulle and the police officer who must stop him.

Deftly underplayed story of Scottish footballer Gregory out to win the heart of the new goalkeeper.

Cole Porter songs are the real star; Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson are ex-spouses headlining a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.