Ben Hur 1959
After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge
Roman Holiday (1953)
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome
The Collector (1965)
A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there
The Big Country (1958)
A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land
Funny Girl (1968)
The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein
How to Steal a Million (1966)
The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her fathers forgeries and protect his secret
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Three World War II veterans return home to small town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South Undertaker L B Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a whit
The Heiress (1949)
A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household
Jezebel (1938)
In 1850s Louisiana, a free spirited Southern belle loses her fiance due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back
Wuthering Heights (1939)
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War
Raffles (1939)
Man about town and First Class cricketer A J Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose A
The Westerner (1940)
Judge Roy Bean, a self appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Beans policy against homesteaders
The Letter (1940)
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II
The Childrens Hour (1961)
A rebellious student at a girls school accuses two teachers of lesbianism
Carrie (1952)
A young girl from a provincial town learns the bitter reality of a big city and great love
The Little Foxes (1941)
The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century
The Fighting Lady (1944)
An indepth look at aircraft carrier combat operations during Wolrd War II Real combat footage Very strong and compelling
The Shakedown (1929)
Dave Roberts is a professional boxer better at losing in fixed matches than in knocking out his opponents He turns up in towns and is part of a group who sets up corrupt boxing matches Daves life on the margins changes after he me
Dead End (1937)
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum
Dodsworth (1936)
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life
The Good Fairy (1935)
A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a good fairy to strangers makes life awfully complicated
These Three (1936)
Two school teachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie