MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES (1957)
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
HIGH NOON (1952)
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townsfolk, must face a gang of killers alone at high noon when their leader arrives on the noon train.
KISS ME DEADLY (1955)
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.
THE WHITE REINDEER (1952)
A newlywed woman goes to the local shaman, to get help with her love life, but is instead turned into a white reindeer vampire...
UGETSU (1953)
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the 16th-century.
THE 7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1958)
When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
THE FLY (1958)
A genius scientist invents a teleportation device for the good of mankind, but his careless experimentation ends in tragedy.
SCREAMING MIMI (1958)
An exotic dancer witnesses a man getting shot moments after he tries to knife her in a shower, so she goes to a psychiatrist for therapy, who falls in love with her and takes over her life...
THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA (1954)
Faded director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when wealthy Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. ..
MELVILLE • LE DOULOS (1963) • BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1956) • LÉON MORIN, PRÊTRE (1961) • L’ARMÉE DES OMBRES (1969) • UN FLIC (1972) • LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970)
Many of the Jean-Pierre Melville films included in this StudioCanal box-set feature jaded men feeling the need to take some sort of action, whether...