A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn’t love. Read More »
Romance
The Rake’s Progress (1945) Sidney Gilliat, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford Read More »
Betsy’s Wedding (1990) Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Joey Bishop
The very different fashion student Betsy Hopper and investment banker Jake Lovell are getting married. Read More »
Fireflies / Hotarubi (1958) Heinosuke Gosho, Chikage Awashima, Junzaburô Ban, Ayako Wakao
Tose got incredibly lucky to go from being the peasants’ daughter to the owner of a famous inn. Read More »
The Radiant Prince / Shin Genji monogatari (1961) Kazuo Mori, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hanayo Sumi
Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother Read More »
Love Letters (1945) William Dieterle, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. Read More »
So Well Remembered (1947) Edward Dmytryk, John Mills, Martha Scott, Patricia Roc
On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. Read More »
Dark Journey (1937) Victor Saville, Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner
World War I is raging, but Swedish store clerk Madeleine Goddard (Vivien Leigh) has not aligned herself with either side. Read More »
Rings on Her Fingers (1942) Rouben Mamoulian, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes Read More »
The Little Minister (1934) Richard Wallace, Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale
In rural 1840’s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new “little minister” of Thrums’s Auld Licht church. Read More »