
Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), a down-and-out British soprano, struggles to find work in the nightclubs of 1930s Paris. Read More »
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Robert Wise, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane

The abuse Rocky Barbella endures at the hand of his father and subsequent run-ins with the law lead him in Read More »
The Mummy (1959) Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux

In the 1890s a team of British archaeologists discover the untouched tomb of Princess Ananka Read More »
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) Gregory Ratoff, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best

A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s talented piano teacher. Read More »
The Naked City (1948) Jules Dassin

Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter Read More »
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938) Henry King

Roger Grant, a classical violinist, disappoints his family Read More »
99 River Street (1953) Phil Karlson, John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter

Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll Read More »
Miracle Mile (1988) Steve De Jarnatt, Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar

A young man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Read More »
The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield

Harry Caul is a devout Catholic and a lover of jazz music who plays his saxophone while listening to his jazz records. Read More »
12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room Read More »