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The Mustache Club

The Mustache Club

9 Episodes

Get a load of that ’stache! Whether you’re swearing off shaving for Movember, rock a bushy upper lip year round, or are just an appreciator of fine facial hair, you’re invited to bask in the glory of some of the biggest, glossiest, and most impressive mustaches ever to grace the screen. From the scene-stealing walrus whiskers sported by Roger Livesey in Powell and Pressburger’s Technicolor masterpiece THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP to the drawn-on curlicue worn by honorary club member Jeanne Moreau in François Truffaut’s New Wave classic JULES AND JIM to the broom-sweeper adorning the face of Bruno Ganz in Wim Wenders’ thriller THE AMERICAN FRIEND, these hirsute appendages are true follicles de grandeur.

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The Mustache Club

9 Episodes

  • Introducing the Mustache Club
    01:10
    Introducing the Mustache Club
    Episode 1

    Introducing the Mustache Club

    Episode 1

  • Jules and Jim
    1:46:26
    Jules and Jim
    Episode 2

    Jules and Jim

    Episode 2

    Directed by François Truffaut • 1962 • France
    Starring Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre

    Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, JULES AND JIM charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François Truffau...

  • The Great Dictator
    2:05:33
    The Great Dictator
    Episode 3

    The Great Dictator

    Episode 3

    Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1940 • United States
    Starring Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Paulette Goddard

    In his controversial masterpiece THE GREAT DICTATOR, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure ...

  • Capricious Summer
    1:16:46
    Capricious Summer
    Episode 4

    Capricious Summer

    Episode 4

    Directed by Jiří Menzel • 1968 • Czechoslovakia

    Two years after his worldwide hit CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, Jiří Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose mellow summer is interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant. A meditation on agi...

  • The American Friend
    2:07:38
    The American Friend
    Episode 5

    The American Friend

    Episode 5

    Directed by Wim Wenders • 1977 • Germany
    Starring Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz

    Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with THE AMERICAN FRIEND, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “Ripley’s Game.” Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American a...

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
    2:44:20
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
    Episode 6

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    Episode 6

    Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger • 1943 • United Kingdom
    Starring Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr

    Considered by many to be the finest British film ever made, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a stirring masterpiece like...

  • 49th Parallel
    2:02:09
    49th Parallel
    Episode 7

    49th Parallel

    Episode 7

    Directed by Michael Powell • 1941 • United Kingdom
    Starring Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook

    At once a compelling piece of anti-isolationist propaganda and a quick-witted wartime thriller, 49TH PARALLEL is a classic early work from the inimitable British filmmaking team of Michae...

  • High and Low
    2:23:39
    High and Low
    Episode 8

    High and Low

    Episode 8

    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1963 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi

    Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in HIGH AND LOW (TENGOKU TO JIGOKU), the highly influential domesti...

  • The Thief of Bagdad
    1:46:34
    The Thief of Bagdad
    Episode 9

    The Thief of Bagdad

    Episode 9

    Directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan • 1940 • United Kingdom
    Starring John Justin, Sabu, June Duprez

    Legendary producer Alexander Korda’s marvel THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, inspired by “The Arabian Nights,” is one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made, an eye-popping effe...

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