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Shakespeare box set is a collection of three films - Henry v, Hamlet, Macbeth.

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Director: René Clair
On a remote and isolated island, ten people – 8 invited guests and two servants – findthemselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone records, that as they have all been responsible for someone’s death, they in turn will die before the weekends is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding ( Popular Indian Film Gumnaam (1965) is inspired by this film.

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Director: Alan Crosland
Usually considered the first sound feature, this 1927 film is pretty much silent except for a few lines of dialogue and Al Jolson's songs. This movie tells the story of young Jakie Rabinowitz , the son of a cantor who wants him to follow in his footsteps, but the singer prefers secular music. He attempts to build a career as an entertainer, but his professional ambitions ultimately come into conflict with the demands of his home and heritage.

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Director: Pankaj Butalia
Abandoned by their families to lives of penury, marked by the white veils which they wear, Bengali widows find solace and food in the ashrams of Vrindavan where they gather every morning and evening to sing religious songs. In this profoundly moving documentary on widowhood portrayed both as social institution and personal tradition, moments of astonishing sensuous beauty alternate with rhythms of anguish. In the best of the new ethnographic tradition, ‘Moksha’ de-centres the voices of authority and allows a plurality of voices to introduce contesting positions. Haunting in its evocation of grief and anger, the film transcends documentary and assumes its place in the great tradition of lamentation, the expression of the dark night of the human soul.

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Director: Billy Wilder
Double indemnity has been voted as one of the top 30 films of all time by the American Film Institute. Smooth talking insurance salesman Walter Neff meets attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband’s automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and an affair begins. They cook up a scheme to murder Mr. Dietrichson for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go to plan...

Director: Majid Majidi
Devoid of cynicism of post-modern dramas, this heart-warming film tells the story of nine year old Ali, who loses his sister Zahra’s newly repaired shoes. Frightened to tell their parents the truth, they devise a plan to share one pair of shoes between them.
Zahra wears them to school early morning, and then runs to meet Ali who wears them to his later classes. A very simple premise, its just the basis for what can be called as one of the most deceptively powerful films of recent times. Nominated for Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film cemented Iranian maestro Majid Majidi’s place in world cinema.

Director : Shivajee Chandrabhushan
This is a touching and somber journey of Lasya, who lives with her father Karma and younger brother Chomo in a remote village in the Himalayas. Pristine snow capped mountains surround their tiny hamlet and barren harsh land stretches for miles into nowhere. One day the army moves in and settles a hundred yards across their doorstep.
The last bit of comfort the family draws from their familiar surrounding changes into a harsh ceaseless irreversible conflict. The film depicts the life of this family whose dream- like existence is interrupted by inevitable odds, one after the other…

Director: Robert James Hamer
Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), a man born with royal blood. Due to a scandal -- his mother ran off with a lowly Italian musician -- the family refuses to recognize his heritage, or even his existence. When his mother dies, Louis vows to restore himself to his rightful place by murdering the entire line of the D'ascoyne family, eight of them, so that he'll be next in line for the dukedom. Alec Guinness plays eight different roles in the film.

Director: D.W. Griffith
The birth of a nation (also known as The Clansman), directed by D.W.Griffith and released in 1915, is one of the most influential and controversial of American motion pictures. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon’s The Clansman, a novel and play. The Birth of a Nation is noted for its innovative technical and narrative achievement, and its status as the first Hollywood “blockbuster”. It has provoked great controversy for its treatment of white supremacy and sympathetic of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: George Cukor
Beautiful and trusting, Paula Anton (Ingrid Bergman) is slowly tormented by mysterious happenings in her luxurious Victorian home. The suspects is her devoted husbands Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer).But viewing the world through the dim glow of the gaslight, it is difficult to tell what is real and what is imagined. Magnificent performances from the stars in this powerfully guided study in obsession…

Director: René Clair
On a remote and isolated island, ten people – 8 invited guests and two servants – find themselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone records, that as they have all been responsible for someone’s death, they in turn will die before the weekends is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding ( Popular Indian Film Gumnaam (1965) is inspired by this film.)

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Director : Federico Fellini
Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of cinema. With utmost honesty spilled on screen, this is the perfect example of a film made on films. Acknowledged as a highly influential classic, the film frequently pops up in countless lists of best films ever made.

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
A group of Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in an isolated Himalayan valley. As they face a series of obstacles from the villagers and a hostile environment, tensions begin to grow. In Michael Powell's own view, this film (starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons, David Farrar and Flora Robson) was the most erotic film he ever made.

Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Regarded as one of the most significant works in the history of silent pictures, as well as possibly Eisenstein’s supreme work, Battleship Potemkin brought his theories of cinema art to the world in a powerful showcase; his emphasis on montage, his stress of intellectual contact, and his treatment of the mass instead of the individual as the protagonist. The film tells the story of the Russian ship Prince Potemkin where a horribly bloody mutiny took place during the 1905 uprising. Eisenstein signals this as the jumping off point for the revolution.

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Arriving in Kent by train, a Land Girl (Sheila Sim), an American GI (Bob Johnson) and a British soldier (Dennis Price) attempt to discover the identity of a mysterious figure who pours glue into the hair of local girls who date soldiers. And in the process begin a 'pilgrimage' which will lead each of them to self-discovery. One of Powell and Pressburger's most personal film, it puzzled critics and audiences alike on its release and has since come to be seen as one of their finest creations.

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Director : Robert Siod Mak
Set in the early 1900’s, about a serial killer who targets women with disabilities. It reaches its climax when the killer terrorizes a mute servant (Dorothy McGuire) in the stately home of her employer (Ethel Barrymore in an Oscar-nominated performance). Is it possible that McGuire might be cinema’s original final girl?

Director : Billy Wilder
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other.

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Director : Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Markham (Robert Mitchum), a retired private detective with a shady past is hoping for a fresh start with a new name, a new love, and a new job running a small gas station in a rural California town. But Jeff’s past comes back to haunt him in the guise of menacing gangster Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas) who had hired Markham to track down his double-crossing moll, Kathie (Jane Greer), after she had shot him and absconded with $40,000 of his money.

Director: Gregory La Cava
Based on the Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue, a scatterbrained socialite Hires Godfrey, a vagrant, as a family butler, but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. Featuring the dazzling performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell, this was the first film to receive Academy Award nominations in all four acting categories.

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Director: Stanley Kubrick
In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard orders his troops to seize the heavily fortified "Ant Hill" from the Germans. General Mireau knows that this action will be suicidal, but he will sacrfice his men to enhance his own reputation.

Director: Preston Sturges
The film is a satire of the conflict between art and commerce as well as the gap betweenthe privileged and the impoverished. It tells of the 'mission' of 'Sully' (Joel McCrea), a big-shot Hollywood director of lightweight comedies to experience suffering in the world before
producing his next about the common man. After some failed attempts dressed as a hobo and companionship on the road with an aspiring blonde actress simply called The Girl (Veronica
Lake) and wearing boy's clothes, he succeeds in losing his freedom, identity and name, health, pride and money. A classic comedy of the depression era, this is a must for Preston Sturges fans.

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In 19th century Japan, a rough tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Devoid of cynicism of post-modern dramas, this heart-warming film tells the story of nine year old Ali, who loses his sister Zahra’s newly repaired shoes. Frightened to tell their parents the truth, they devise a plan to share one pair of shoes between them. Zahra wears them to school early morning, and then runs to meet Ali who wears them to his later classes. A very simple premise, its just the basis for what can be called as one of the most deceptively powerful films of recent times. Nominated for Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film cemented Iranian maestro Majid Majidi’s place in world cinema.

A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become Emperor.

Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.

Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.

Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives private classes of violin. When Christine is near to have a baby, Antoine decides to find a new job, and he succeeds due to a misunderstanding of his employer. In a business meeting, he meets the Japanese Kyoko (Mademoiselle Hiroko) and they have an affair. When Christine accidentally discovers that Antoine has a lover, they separate. But later they miss each other and realize that they do love each other.

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