Eternal Return (L’Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. Read More »
Romance
Hair (1979) Milos Forman, John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo
This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. Read More »
The Good and the Bad (1976) Claude Lelouch, Marlène Jobert, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fossey
The story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks. Read More »
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) Roy Rowland, Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh makes an impressive debut alongside Van Johnson in this historical romance in which a farmer’s daughter Read More »
Samson and Delilah (1949) Cecil B. DeMille, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders
Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan Read More »
Devotion (1931) Robert Milton, Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Robert Williams
The poor, downtrodden (beautiful, of course) “dutiful” daughter in a London society family falls for a barrister, disguises herself Read More »
Million Dollar Baby (1941) Curtis Bernhardt, Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Ronald Reagan
An older woman discovers that her multi-million dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. Read More »
The Male Animal (1942) Elliott Nugent, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Read More »
Mrs. Parkington (1944) Tay Garnett, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life Read More »
Trapeze (1956) Carol Reed, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist – and the only to have completed a triple somersault – before his accident. Read More »
Millie (1931) John Francis Dillon, Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames
Millie Blake has a love affair that goes wrong, so Millie plays the field recklessly from that point on. Read More »
The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Mikhail Kalatozov, Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev
As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany’s surprise invasion in 1941, the fervent young lovers Read More »
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles
Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. Read More »
And So They Were Married (1936) Elliott Nugent, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Edith Fellows
A bitter divorcée and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Read More »
It Happened in Paris (1935) Robert Wyler, Carol Reed, John Loder, Nancy Burne, Edward H. Robins
Whilst looking for artistic inspiration in Paris, a millionaire’s son falls for a beautiful girl. Read More »