In 1946, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to a Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Read More »
Sweet Adeline (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Irene Dunne, Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert
The 1929 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Sweet Adeline has generally been credited as the vanguard Read More »
The Lady Is Willing (1934) Gilbert Miller, Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, Binnie Barnes
A private detective is hired by three men to kidnap a wealthy man’s wife in order to get a ransom, but he soon falls for her. Read More »
Loves of Jeanne Nye AKA Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Read More »
Shooting Stars (1928) Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble, Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers Read More »
The Girl Downstairs (1938) Norman Taurog, Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly
Paul Wagner and Rosalind Brown are in love, but her father doesn’t feel Paul’s lifestyle will make him a suitable husband for his daughter. Read More »
The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960) Larry Lansburgh, George Fenneman, Dorian Williams, Slim Pickens
A palomino horse born into poverty is given a chance to compete in what he loves best- jumping and soaring over hurdles. Read More »
The Angel Levine (1970) Ján Kadár, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. Read More »
One Christmas (1994) Tony Bill, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Winkler, Swoosie Kurtz
In 1930, young Buddy (T.J. Lowther) lives with his aunt (Julie Harris) in Alabama. Read More »
Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988) George Schaefer, Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes
A famous, pampered novelist accepts a bet suggesting that she can’t survive one week of living with an average family. Read More »
What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971) Curtis Harrington, Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver
Set in the 30s, Helen and Adelle are two women whose sons commit a gruesome murder. Read More »
Sweet and Lowdown (1999) Woody Allen, Sean Penn, Samantha Morton
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Read More »
Fly Away Home (1996) Carroll Ballard, Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany
Amy is a young teenager when she loses her mother to a car accident. Read More »
Sweet Ecstasy AKA Douce Violence (1962) Max Pécas, Pierre Brice, Elke Sommer, Vittoria Prada
Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal Read More »
Almost Angels (1962) Steve Previn, Vincent Winter, Sean Scully, Peter Weck
Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys Read More »