This lovely, lyrical animated fable is a triumph for Sylvain Chomet (of The Triplets of Belleville renown), who directed, designed, scored, penned the adaptation, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature for his splendid efforts.

For the crew of the HMS Sea Tiger, a long-overdue leave is canceled when orders are issued to intercept a German battleship in the Baltic Sea immediately. Their timings a little off, so the decision is made to pursue the ship into enemy waters, where the Sea Tiger stands alone against numerous German warships and steadily steepening odds.

A grand, grueling adaptation of the international best-seller, director Franklin J. Schaffners compelling 1973 adventure stars Steve McQueen as the real-life Henri Papillon Charriere, the legendary criminal unjustly imprisoned for murder on the infamous Devils Island in what was then French Guiana.

David Hemmings, in a nod to his role in Antonionis Blow Up (1966), stars as Marcus Daly, an English pianist in Rome who witnesses the brutal murder of psychic Helga Ulmann (Macha Meril), then plays amateur sleuth trying to ferret out the killer, joined by saucy reporter Gianni Brezzi (Daria Nicolodi).

This 1955 Western melodrama, based on a Bret Harte story and directed by the prolific Allan Dwan, is chiefly notable today for the performance of one Ronald Reagan in the title role.

The works of horror writer HP Lovecraft receive due screen credit as inspiration for this spoof that sends up Lovecraft but in an affectionate and respectful way, courtesy director/screenwriter Henry Saine and screenwriter/producer/co-editor Devin McGinn, the latter also starring as one of the films unlikely heroes.

Gilbert Chilvers (Palin) is an unassuming podiatrist whose status-conscious wife Joyce (Smith) is anxious to better her standing in their community.

True-crime aficionados should find this mini-series, originally broadcast on Lifetime in 2008, an engrossing, well-rendered adaptation of David Reicherts best-selling book Chasing the Devil, which detailed the efforts to track down the killer of young women in Washington State a case that took the better part of two decades to solve.

The films include: Director George Stevens Woman of the Year (1942), which earned Hepburn an Oscar nomination as Best Actress and won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; George Cukors 1942 adaptation of Keeper of the Flame; Without Love (1945)...

Their most recent production Princess Ida a financial disappointment, WS Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) and Arthur Sullivan (Allan Corduner) are compelled to write a new opera, yet they cant agree on a topic and are weary of their partnership, despite their past successes.

Under the no-nonsense direction of Steve Carver (who contributes an audio commentary), this fast-moving smorgasbord combines fact, fiction and a liberal dose of tried-and-true gangster clichs in dramatizing the rise and fall of the nations most notorious crime boss.

A series of bizarre events convinces young Rose Elliot (Irene Miracle) that her New York apartment building is a haven for witches.

Set in rural New Zealand during World War II, this is the story of Stan Graham (Jack Thompson), a moody farmer much disliked by his neighbors. This, combined with financial hardships and mounting paranoia, leads to a murderous rampage. The subsequent manhunt was one of the largest and most infamous in that countrys history.

Big stars. Big director. Big studio. A hot script. How could it miss? Yet this light-hearted, and light-headed, 1975 romp directed by Stanley Donen was a misfire, compounded by production delays, script rewrites and, most famously, an entirely new ending filmed long after test audiences disliked the original one.

Paranoia, guilt, fear and suspicion are the elements expertly assembled in this 1946 Hitchcockian thriller, directed by and starring Orson Welles, now available in a DVD/Blu-ray combo ($15.99 retail).

As bitter and cynical a show-biz pill as Hollywood has ever produced, this 1957 classic was notoriously unsuccessful in its day, but has since found its true place among the classics.

Originally broadcast as a TV miniseries on NBC in 1989, this is a near-perfect adaptation of the Jules Verne classic, with Pierce Brosnan perfectly cast as Phileas Fogg, the proper London gentleman who accepts a wager that he cannot circumnavigate the globe in 80 days time.

Adapted by director Matt Reeves, the story focuses on the growing relationship between Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a lonely and bullied 12-year-old boy, and Abby (Chloe Grace Moretz), the mysterious young girl who has recently moved into his apartment building with her guardian (Richard Jenkins).

Jim Brown is in fine, formidable form as Cully Briston, the quintessential loner swept up in the violent riot of the title, which has been engineered to mask an escape attempt masterminded by crafty Red Fraker (Gene Hackman). Cully soon finds himself irresistibly drawn into the escape plot, despite serious misgivings.

Its a bad day in Philadelphia for five strangers who find themselves stuck in the elevator of a high-rise office building, then realize after a series of weird circumstances that dark forces are at work.