There are echoes of High Noon (1952) in director Delmer Daves’ adaptation of an Elmore Leonard story, but this well acted, absorbing 1957 Western more than holds its own as a solid, suspenseful horse opera. Notorious outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) has been captured and is awaiting the title train that will take him to trial.

Robin Williams offers a superb display of his versatility in this award-winning 2002 psychological thriller as Sy Parrish, a buttoned-down, seemingly mild-mannered employee who develops photographs at a suburban store called “SavMart.

Low-budget auteur Charles B. Pierce’s 1976 thriller takes a docudrama approach to this real-life mystery, replete with narration by Vern Stillman (and a measure of dramatic license), and the result is a memorable shocker that prefigured the big-screen slasher craze by a few years.

Director Brett Whitcomb has fashioned a rousing triumph with the unlikeliest of topics — a documentary about the late-’80s cable-TV show “GLOW: The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.” For those who remember the series (and you know who you are), “GLOW” wasn’t so much titillating and exploitative as campy and silly.

For those who savor spaghetti Westerns, this 1972 outing is a quintessential example and boasts a prime turn by Lee Van Cleef as a black-clad anti-hero.

Producer/director Laurence Olivier’s 1955 screen adaptation of the William Shakespeare is high-toned, highly theatrical and highly entertaining. The role of the corrupt, crook-backed king is a feast that Olivier the actor (who earned an Oscar nomination as Best Actor) savors with wicked relish.

The lesbian overtones of the Le Fanu’s tale are unleashed in this version, considered quite racy in its day and still possessing a palpable erotic charge, due in large part to Ingrid Pitt’s passionate performance as the bloodthirsty Carmilla, who...

David Cronenberg’s 1991 screen version of William S. Burroughs’ controversial 1959 novel isn’t so much an adaptation as a reimagining and reinterpretation of the author’s hallucinatory head trip — although it very much captures the unique (and twisted) Burroughs spirit.

A fact-based story gets first-class treatment in this enthralling mini-series, originally broadcast on the BBC. In September 1942, the Laconia, an old cruise ship refitted as a troop ship for the war effort, is en route to Liverpool carrying Italian POWs, Polish soldiers and some civilians when it is torpedoed by a German U-boat.

The popular ’70s British TV series gets a first-rate screen update in this crackling, stylish police thriller that adds more firepower and more profanity yet stays true to the spirit of the series.

In the annals of typecasting, few actors were more associated with a single role than Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) was with the character of Count Dracula.

Among the many giant-monster movies of the ’50s and ’60s, this 1961 British effort, newly available in an “ultimate collector’s edition,” stands tall as one of the best.

Phantasm mythos. Having barely escaped the events of the first film, Mike (James LeGros) and Reggie (a returning Reggie Bannister) take the fight to the mysterious and malevolent Tall Man (Angus Scrimm again), pursuing him and his ghoulish minions across California.

Based on Graham Green’s novel — although not entirely faithfully — Fritz Lang’s 1944 suspense thriller is top-notch entertainment in the best Hitchcock tradition. Indeed, some cineastes prefer Lang to Hitchcock.

Were it not for a confusing script, this 1972 adaptation of James Munro’s novel might well have been one of the better of the many James Bond knock-offs that proliferated during that time.

Although critics were divided by Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, it earned three (welldeserved) Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix), Best Supporting Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Best Supporting Actress (Amy Adams).

Elia Kazan’s timeless 1954 saga of one man battling the system gets the superb Criterion Collection treatment in this special edition.

Keanu Reeves produced and hosts this engaging documentary that explores the recent but raging debate between traditional and digital filmmaking, and how the latter became the rule rather than the exception in only a few years’ time.

Sleeper is pure comic genius at full throttle. Miles Munroe (Woody, of course) is the 20th century owner of a health-food store in Greenwich Village who wakes up 200 years later after a botched hernia operation. Hilariously acclimating to the world of the future, he hooks up with futuristic poet Luna.

There’s a nice Stephen King-type vibe in this moody, atmospheric chiller from writer/director Pascal Laugier, which boasts its fair share of twists, turns and surprises throughout — including some that change the entire complexion and direction of the story.