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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.Joan Fontaine was robbed of the Best Actress Oscar for her marvelous portrayal of the shy and mousy Mrs. De Winter, haunted by her husband's memories of his first wife, who died under mysterious circumstances. Judith Anderson is a campy delight as the spooky housekeeper Mrs. Danvers.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsJulie ChristieDirk BogardeLaurence HarveyBeautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsKatharine HepburnRossano BrazziIsa MirandaAn American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.Heartwarming, grown-up love story about a lonely spinster (Hepburn) who finds love with a married man while on vacation in gorgeous Venice. One of Kate's best performances and the vulnerable, repressed American secretary who manages to let her hair down in spite of herself.
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBarbara StanwyckHenry FondaCharles CoburnA trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.One of the finest screwball comedies ever made. It's a pity that Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda made but three films together. They perform with the precision of a Swiss watch under Preston Sturges fast-paced, slightly racy direction.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnFay BainterRival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.The first (and maybe the best) pairing of Hepburn and Tracy as polar opposites who fall in love. The film is let down by a patronizing (if somewhat funny) ending, but the chemistry between the two leads is spot on. Anyone who had doubts about Hepburn's beauty should watch this film.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJane WymanLew AyresCharles BickfordA kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.
- DirectorHenry KingRoy Ward BakerStarsGregory PeckSusan HaywardAva GardnerWriter Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsBarbara StanwyckFred MacMurrayBeulah BondiLove blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.Underrated holiday gem about the power of redemptive love.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJoan CrawfordJohn GarfieldOscar LevantA classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.Perhaps even better here than she was in Mildred Pierce, Joan Crawford is the boozy, neurotic socialite who falls in love with John Garfield's ambitious violinist.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsCharles BoyerJean ArthurLeo CarrilloA wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.I wonder if James Cameron watched this film before he made his Titanic...there are a few similarities between the characters, plus a great shipwreck sequence where a large ocean liner crashes into an iceberg.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsAudrey HepburnPeter FinchEdith EvansAfter leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.Audrey Hepburn has never been better as a Catholic nun who struggles with her pride and self-will within the rigid structure of religious life. Beautifully directed by Fred Zinnemann.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHerbert MarshallJames StephensonThe wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.Prewar thriller based on a Somerset Maugham story, with perhaps one of the best opening sequences of any film made.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.Julie Christie and Omar Sharif make a striking couple in this sweeping romantic epic. A favorite of many, and deservedly so.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsCharlton HestonYul BrynnerAnne BaxterMoses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonOver the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.A true bromance.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsKenneth MoreRonald AllenRobert AyresOn her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.From a story POV, still the definitive film on the famous RMS Titanic disaster.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsElizabeth TaylorVan JohnsonWalter PidgeonAn American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.Glossy, slightly weepy version of a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Liz Taylor's beauty is almost criminal
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsGregory PeckAva GardnerFred AstaireAfter a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.Glamorized version of the famed Nevil Shute novel is well-acted and thought provoking.
- DirectorMichael RoemerStarsIvan DixonAbbey LincolnJulius HarrisA black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.Jazz singer turned actress Abbey Lincoln and Ivan Dixon are the leads in this amazing love story set in the Jim Crow South of the 60s.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsClifton WebbBarbara StanwyckRobert WagnerAn unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.Heavily fictionalized, mostly inaccurate, but nonetheless entertaining version of the great maritime disaster. Barbara Stanwyck is superb as the socialite wife on the lam from her controlling husband, portrayed by Clifton Webb.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorShelley WintersA poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsCary GrantAudrey HepburnWalter MatthauRomance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?Sometimes touted as "the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made" has a great cast and lots of great chemistry between Hepburn and Grant.
- DirectorAlan RudolphStarsNick NolteJulie ChristieLara Flynn BoyleA handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.Offbeat love story about a woman (Christie) who encourages her husband (Nolte) to have affairs, mainly because of something she did to him when they first got married. Christie is still gorgeous and gives a wonderful performance, and Montreal has seldom looked better onscreen.
- DirectorWalter SallesStarsFernanda MontenegroVinícius de OliveiraMarília PêraThe emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.Superbly acted import from Brazil. Deserved a Best Foreign Film award.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus NachtergaeleIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsHarry BelafonteDorothy DandridgePearl BaileyContemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.Celebrated all-black version of Bizet's famous opera. Dandridge is a neurotically sexy delight.
- DirectorMarcel CamusStarsBreno MelloMarpessa DawnLourdes de OliveiraA retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsRobert StackDorothy MaloneGeorge SandersAfter a boiler explosion aboard an aging ocean liner, a man struggles to free his injured wife from the wreckage of their cabin and ensure the safety of their four-year-old daughter as the ship begins to sink.The cast is great, but the star of the show is the dowager liner Ile de France, which is pretty much wrecked onscreen in the name of cinematic realism.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsLana TurnerLee PhilipsLloyd NolanA peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsMarilyn MonroeBetty GrableLauren BacallThree women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.Superb, charmingly funny confection about three not-too-wise girls looking for love and money in The Big Apple.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsLana TurnerJohn GavinSandra DeeAn aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.Incredibly soapy, compulsively watchable remake of the 1934 classic about two women, one black, one white, and the challenges they face raising their daughters.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge SandersA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsPaul NewmanSteve McQueenWilliam HoldenAt the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsDennis QuaidJake GyllenhaalEmmy RossumJack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.Ok, so the science doesn't "work". But who can forget the scene of Manhattan being wiped out by that gigantic storm surge?
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsGene HackmanErnest BorgnineShelley WintersA group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsChristian BaleJohn MalkovichMiranda RichardsonA young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.Underrated Spielberg gem about a young British teen's coming of age in WW2 China under the Japanese occupation.
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsWill SmithBill PullmanJeff GoldblumThe aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.