The poor, downtrodden (beautiful, of course) “dutiful” daughter in a London society family falls for a barrister, disguises herself Read More »
Romance
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 »
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) Aleksander Ford, Urszula Modrzynska, Grazyna Staniszewska, Andrzej Szalawski
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. Read More »
Death is a Caress (1949) Edith Carlmar, Claus Wiese, Bjørg Riiser-Larsen, Eva Bergh
The story of a working man,who’s got a gorgeous fiancée but who falls for a rich older woman — who turns out to be a femme fatale. Read More »
The Undercover Man (1949) Joseph H. Lewis, Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Read More »
Mélo (1986) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who’s the wife of an old friend. Read More »
Love on a Bet (1936) Leigh Jason, Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Helen Broderick
In order to raise money to produce a play (as well as prove that the plot isn’t ridiculous) Read More »