In flashback from a ‘Rebecca’-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Read More »
Romance
Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) Gordon Douglas, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready
When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. Read More »
Ripe (1996) Mo Ogrodnik, Monica Keena, Daisy Eagan, Gordon Currie
When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. Read More »
Trio (1950) Ken Annakin, Harold French, James Hayter, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer
Three short stories are introduced by author W. Somerset Maugham in the second of his anthology film trilogy. Read More »
Somewhere in Time (1980) Jeannot Szwarc, Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to “Come back to me”. Read More »
Summer Affair (1971) Giorgio Stegani, Alessio Orano, Ornella Muti, Luigi Pistilli
Lisa, a fifteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy industrialist, falls in love with Robert, a young hippie, slightly older than her. Read More »
The Girl of the Golden West (1938) Robert Z. Leonard, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called “The Poker”. Read More »
Fours a Crowd (1938) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell
Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Read More »
Pride and Prejudice (1940) Robert Z. Leonard, Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Edward Ashley
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. Read More »
One Swedish Summer (1968) Gunnar Höglund, Hans Gustafsson, Lillemor Ohlsson, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
A young, shy and inexperienced man travels back to Sweden, to spend the summer at his mother’s house. Read More »
Marie Antoinette (1938) W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. Read More »
David Copperfield (1935) George Cukor, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph
When David’s father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. Read More »
Moulin Rouge (1952) John Huston, José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Colette Marchand
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Read More »
Bedazzled (1967) Stanley Donen, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron
Stanley is a short order cook, infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works at Wimpy Bar with him. Read More »
Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser (1957) Gerhard Klein, Ekkehard Schall, Ilse Pagé, Ernst-Georg Schwill
The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Read More »