La grande illusion AKA The grand illusion (1937) - classic WWI-themed masterpiece from director Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio and Erich von Stroheim

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 113 min
Language: French/German/English/Russian
Country: France
Directed by: Jean Renoir
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028950/

Cast

Jean Gabin ... Le lieutenant Maréchal
Dita Parlo ... Elsa
Pierre Fresnay ... Le captaine de Boeldieu
Erich von Stroheim ... Le captaine von Rauffenstein
Julien Carette ... Cartier - l'acteur
Georges Péclet ... Le serrurier
Werner Florian ... Le sergent Arthur
Jean Dasté ... L'instituteur
Marcel Dalio ... Le lieutenant Rosenthal

Description: During 1st WW, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escape. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.25 GB, 1625 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 660x480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 129
Audio : 203 MB, 250 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = FLAC, VBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Greek, Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Serbian) posters and screenshots included

Five graves to Cairo (1943) - war adventure movie from director Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035884/

Cast

Franchot Tone ... Cpl. John J. Bramble / Davos
Anne Baxter ... Mouche
Akim Tamiroff ... Farid
Erich von Stroheim ... Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Peter van Eyck ... Lt. Schwegler
Fortunio Bonanova ... Gen. Sebastiano

Description: June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border- Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel...soon to be German HQ. To survive, Bramble assumes an identity which proves perilous. The new guest of honor is none other than Rommel, hinting of his secret strategy, code-named 'five graves'.Now the fate of the British in Egypt depends on whether a humble corporal can penetrate the secret.

Screens (to be added later):


Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/zv79drve


Video and audio information (to be added later):

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Subtitles (to be added later)

Sunset Boulevard (1950) - masterpiece film noir from director William Wyler starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim

Rating 8.7/10
Runtime: 110 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: William Wyler
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0043014/

Cast

William Holden ... Joe Gillis
Gloria Swanson ... Norma Desmond
Erich von Stroheim ... Max von Mayerling
Nancy Olson ... Betty Schaefer
Fred Clark ... Sheldrake
Lloyd Gough ... Morino
Jack Webb ... Artie Green

Description: Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenplay writer, escapes the finance men who are trying to reclaim his car by driving into the garage of an old mansion on Sunset Boulevard. Assumed to be someone else, he is led by Max the butler to the mansion's owner, silent film star Norma Desmond. Wishing to make a comeback, she hires him to rewrite her "Salome" script, then falls in love with him. Joe moves into the mansion as a kept man. Secretly, Joe is collaborating with a pretty young screenplay editor, Betty Schaefer, on another idea. Though she is engaged to his best friend, Artie Green, an assistant director, Betty falls in love with Joe. When Betty finds out about Norma, she asks him to leave Norma for her, but Joe can't unsettle her life, too. He decides, instead, to leave Hollywood. As he is leaving, a crazed Norma tries to stop him.

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

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Also included a really nice set of extra material:

* "The making of Sunset Boulevard" - including interviews with Nancy Olson, Ed Sikov, film critic Andrew Sarris, Paramount producer A.C. Lyles and Glenn Close
* "Franz Waxman and the music of Sunset Boulevard"
* "The Noir side of Sunset Boulevard" by Joseph Wambaugh
* "Edith Head: The Paramount Years" - documentary of the famed costume designer
* Hollywood location map
* "Paramount in the 50s" - featurette about studio's successes in 1950s
* "Mad about the boy: A portrait of William Holden"
* "Recording Sunset Boulevard"
* "Stories of Sunset Boulevard"
* "Sunset Boulevard: The beginning" - featurette detailing pre-production of movie
* "Sunset Boulevard becomes a classic"
* "The city of Sunset Boulevard"
* "Behind the Gates: The Lot"
* "Two sides of Ms Swanson"
* Original theatrical trailer
* Shooting script (PDF file)


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.19 GB, 4145 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 786x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 177/70 MB (main/commentary) , 224/89 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AC3/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French, Brazilian-Portuguese, Portuguese, Chinese simplified, Danish, German, Estonian, Hungarian, Italian, Vietnamese closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Greek, Turkish, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Serbian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Arabic), posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by Ed Sikov, author of "On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder". You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, commentary on Track 2)