In old Spanish California, the son of a California aristocrat disguises himself as a daring swordsman to defend the honor of his people.

Simon stands on top of a stone column in the middle of the desert and prays for six years, six weeks and six days. Despite his ceaseless penance he remains plagued by unrest, uncertainty and the devil herself.

A would-be nun (Silvia Pinal) visits her rich uncle (Fernando Rey), who drugs her, and everything gets surreal.

A documentary about acclaimed film director William Wyler.

A fake preacher (Zero Mostel) and his helper (Kim Novak) are not the only ones planning to rob a frontier bank.

An ex-British army officer (Jack Hawkins) recruits other ex-officers to do a bank caper with military precision.

An ex-convict's (Edward G. Robinson) niece (Jane Wyman) runs a shop over the tunnel he and his partners are digging to a bank vault.

An Army officer and his buddies go behind enemy lines with a tank escort to steal gold bars from the Nazis.

A woman (Natalie Wood) disguised as a little old lady robs her husband's (Ian Bannen) bank, then tells her analyst (Dick Shawn).

A bank clerk (Eddie Bracken) gets in trouble after posing as the unknown GI father of his girlfriend's (Betty Hutton) sextuplets.

Three bored old-timers (George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg) leave Queens, put on funny masks and rob a Manhattan bank.

A ballerina (Greta Garbo), baron (John Barrymore), stenographer (Joan Crawford), bookkeeper and tycoon check into Berlin's Grand Hotel.

A tycoon (Warren William) lies to women and his partners as he grasps for control of a 100-story office building.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

A dime-store heiress (Marion Davies) rejects a New Yorker (Leslie Howard), then destroys his marriage.

Old flames and new jealousies compel a married woman to leave her husband and embark on a series of romances.

Mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, scullery maid Ella (Leslie Caron) finally meets her prince (Michael Wilding).

A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.

The son (Richard Kiley) of an ill-fated anti-crime crusader (John McIntire) tries to clean up his notorious Alabama hometown.

An anti-Nazi German (John Wayne) romances a Nazi spy (Lana Turner) on his rusty freighter, as the British navy hunts it down.

Ensign Pulver (Jack Lemmon) plots cargo officer Mr. Roberts' (Henry Fonda) escape from their nit-picking captain (James Cagney).

The Rev. Harry Powell, a religious fanatic and serial killer, meets condemned murderer Ben Harper in prison, who tells him about hiding $10,000 in stolen loot. After he's released, Powell tracks down Harper's widow, Willa, and her two children.

Cowboy Curly (Gordon MacRae) loves Laurey (Shirley Jones) despite hired hand Jud Fry (Rod Steiger). Rodgers and Hammerstein songs include Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'.

A child spreads malicious lies about two women (Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon) and a man (Joel McCrea) at a private boarding school.

A young woman's (Merle Oberon) $90 million inheritance drives out her fiance (Rex Harrison) and draws fortune hunters.

A global reporter (Dennis Morgan) tries to win back his wife (Merle Oberon) and is wooed by a colleague (Rita Hayworth) in the process.

An elderly woman (Merle Oberon) recalls her suitors: a football hero, a doctor (Joseph Cotten), a blind musician and a sailor (Alan Marshal).

After the death of her husband, Christine sets out to visit each man who danced with her at a ball many years earlier.

A French family's picnic leads to romance as a pair of flirtatious strangers tries to seduce a mother and her daughter.

MGM history; Cyd Charisse; host George Murphy.

A bank teller's (Frank Sinatra) reward for saving a bookie's life reflects a shortage on his teller girlfriend's (Jane Russell) shift.

Songwriter Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas) and his wife (Doris Day) have problems as he pens hit tunes like "It Had to Be You.".

A divorced coach (John Wayne) and his little girl build a football team to pull a priest's (Charles Coburn) college out of debt.

Dixieland cornetist Loring "Red" Nichols (Danny Kaye) quits for his wife (Barbara Bel Geddes) and daughter, then makes a comeback.

A Philadelphia lawyer (Clark Gable) goes to Italy to wrest his orphan nephew from a stripper aunt (Sophia Loren).

A lawyer (Cary Grant) with three children lives on a houseboat with an Italian symphony conductor's daughter (Sophia Loren) as his maid.

A widow (Lucille Ball) with eight children meets, courts and weds a widowed Navy officer (Henry Fonda) with a brood of 10.

Gene Kelly sings and dances in a 1967 adaptation of the tale, which combines live action and animation.

A Brooklyn bookkeeper (Don Knotts) falls off a pier, turns into a fish and helps the Navy track U-boats.

A businessman (Edward Asner) tries to reunite with his wife (Maureen Stapleton) and family for what may be his last Christmas.

A London speech therapist (Patricia Neal) helps an uprooted boy (Scott Jacoby) about to have a breakdown over his parents' divorce.

A teenage genius (Wesley Eure) invents a robot watchdog to bail out his girlfriend's (Valerie Bertinelli) father's (Conrad Bain) home-security business.

The U.S. ambassador's (Walter Pidgeon) daughter falls for a Mexican pianist (Jose Iturbi) old enough to be her grandfather.

The life story of Raoul Walsh, who was one of the most influential directors of classic Hollywood cinema, with a filmography of over 150 films of various genres.

Discovered by Gene Kelly, French actress and dancer Leslie Caron stars in some of the best and most important American films of the 1950s.

Highlighting the birth of the Hitchcock Touch at a period when talking pictures first emerged and exploring trademark themes like murder, suspense and blondes.

Film clips, home movies and interviews with contemporaries round out a profile of Humphrey Bogart as Lauren Bacall traces the actor's career from his early stage work through 75 films.

Documenting Horn and Hardart's iconic Automat, one of America's original and most popular restaurant chains in NYC and Philadelphia.

The story of Z Channel, one of the first U.S. pay cable stations, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey; debuting in 1974, their eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

The in-depth biography explores Dean Martin's varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and others.

Television highlights and interviews profile the comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May.

Features the most revered screenwriter, Paddy Chayefsky.

Heavenly executive Mr. Jordan allows an angry quarterback (Warren Beatty), taken before his time, to return to Earth as a millionaire.

An angel (Harry Belafonte) visits an old Jewish shopkeeper (Zero Mostel) and his dying wife (Ida Kaminska).

God comes to Earth as an elderly man (George Burns) with a twinkle and picks a supermarket produce manager (John Denver) to spread his word.

An angel (Bruno Ganz) meets actor Peter Falk and falls in love with a French trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) in Berlin.

In biblical times a man, mistakenly proclaimed a messiah, finds himself leader of a new religious movement.

King Arthur (Graham Chapman) goes questing on a pretend horse, followed by his lackey clacking coconut shells.

Sailors Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie have 24 hours to meet pretty women and see the sights of New York.

A socialite's (Grace Kelly) ex-husband (Bing Crosby) and a magazine writer (Frank Sinatra) show up for her wedding and cause havoc.

A dried-out heroin addict (Frank Sinatra) returns to his wife (Eleanor Parker) and card dealing in Chicago.

An ex-GI writer (Frank Sinatra) hangs out with a gambler (Dean Martin) and a floozy (Shirley MacLaine) in his hometown.

Veterans of the 82nd Airborne Division devise an elaborate plot to simultaneously rob five casinos on New Year's Eve.

An adman's (Frank Sinatra) wife (Deborah Kerr) winds up wed to his buddy (Dean Martin) after a quickie Mexican divorce and marriage.

An effeminate theater director (Christopher Guest) assembles blithely talentless Missourians (Eugene Levy, Fred Willard) for a musical celebrating a town milestone.

Pampered pooches and their quirky owners converge on Philadelphia to compete in a prestigious dog show.

An American filmmaker (Rob Reiner) records the demise of a fictitious band of aging British metalheads (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest) in a mock rockumentary.

A film-school graduate (Kevin Bacon) goes to Hollywood, where tasteless people turn his arty movie into Beach Nuts.

About 65 real-life movie stars fringe the satire of a Hollywood studio executive (Tim Robbins) who gets away with murder.

A notorious con man's (George Sanders) secretary (Yvonne De Carlo) recalls his career after he's found dead in a Park Avenue mansion.

British sleuth Simon Templar (George Sanders) helps a wayward San Franciscan (Wendy Barrie) clear her framed father's name.

Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of a mysterious killer who preys upon railroads and transportation companies.

The ape man (Johnny Weissmuller) and Boy (Johnny Sheffield) meet a chorus girl (Nancy Kelly) on her way to warn a sheik about Nazis.

A doctor (Stanley Ridges) investigates crimes in his lab.

A songwriter (Dick Van Dyke) sees his big chance when rock 'n' roll idol Conrad Birdie visits Sweet Apple, Ohio, to give one last kiss to his biggest fan (Ann-Margret) before joining the Army.

London children have fun with a marvelous nanny (Julie Andrews) and her chimney-sweep friend (Dick Van Dyke).

An inventor (Dick Van Dyke) takes his kids and a candy tycoon's daughter (Sally Ann Howes) for a musical ride in a flying car.

Many of cinema's most memorable love stories end with the separation or death of one or both lovers; the paradox underlying the film helps explains why they stick in viewers' memories.

A New York boxer (Jamie Smith) corners a dancer's (Irene Kane) bad boss (Frank Silvera) in a mannequin factory.

A fight promoter (Rod Steiger) hires a hard-luck sportswriter (Humphrey Bogart) to hype a simple Argentine boxer for the mob.

A British banker (Peter Cushing) pretends to cooperate with a would-be robber (Andre Morell) holding his wife and son.

Three teens (Brooke Bundy, Kevin Coughlin, Patty McCormack) join other lost souls on the street in Chicago's hippie district.

A spoiled hippie (Karin Mossberg) and her boyfriend (George Chakiris) try to speed her inheritance by slipping her stepmother (Lana Turner) LSD.

The star (Esther Williams) of the Cypress Gardens, Fla., water show makes her boss (Van Johnson) jealous.

A honeymooning bride finds herself falling in love with an Army major when her groom is called away on business.

A British banker (Peter Cushing) pretends to cooperate with a would-be robber (Andre Morell) holding his wife and son.

A war widow (Janet Leigh) has a 6-year-old son, and two men (Robert Mitchum, Wendell Corey) who want to marry her for Christmas.

The more co-workers (Judy Garland, Van Johnson) fight in a Chicago music store, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals.

The more Budapest co-workers (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart) fight, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals.

A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair.

Mostly isolated in the Yukon, the little tramp (Charles Chaplin) cooks a shoe, falls in love, hangs from a cliff and strikes it rich.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

A young man's reluctance to introduce his working-class bride to his bourgeois family leads to tragedy.

Courageous rabbits embark on a perilous journey to a new home in this animated adaptation of the Richard Adams novel.

The 39-foot-tall pastel Draags keep leashes on the Oms, their tiny pets descended from humans.

A magazine writer (Red Skelton) reviews the suburban housing development he and his wife (Jean Hagen) call home.

A Brooklyn bookkeeper (Don Knotts) falls off a pier, turns into a fish and helps the Navy track U-boats.

A young woman (Debbie Reynolds) tries to enter 1890s Denver society but goes to Europe after her husband (Harve Presnell) strikes gold.

A Navy war hero (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) marries his girlfriend (Mary Brian) and tries to avoid publicity.

A rowdy sailor (James Cagney) flirts with a petty officer's (Pat O'Brien) sister (Gloria Stuart) and becomes a hero at sea.

Unjustly drummed out of his regiment, a Victorian Englishman (Peter Lawford) restores his honor in India.

An actor (John Ritter) costumed as Captain Avenger foils a grocery-store robbery and becomes a sensation.

An oilman (Peter Riegert) goes native in a quirky Scottish town his Texas boss (Burt Lancaster) expects him to buy.

An unmarried store clerk (Ginger Rogers) finds a baby on a doorstep and is quickly mistaken for its mother.

A director (James Cagney) creates and stages extravagant musical prologues for movie theaters.

A songwriter's (Dick Powell) big check puts chorus girls (Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler) to work but incurs his brother's wrath.

A Broadway producer (Robert Taylor) bankrolls his musical with winnings from the star's (Eleanor Powell) horse at Saratoga.

A tap-dancing understudy (Eleanor Powell) meets a sailor (James Stewart) on leave and replaces the star (Virginia Bruce) of a show.

MGM history; Cyd Charisse; host George Murphy.

Special effects by Willis O'Brien ("King Kong") highlight this tale of a radioactive sea monster's assault on Britain.

A fire-breathing behemoth terrorizes Japan after an atomic bomb awakens it from its centuries-old sleep.

Bug experts (Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon), a state trooper (James Whitmore) and an FBI agent track giant mutant ants from New Mexico to Los Angeles.

An astronaut (Hugh Marlowe) and his buddies land on 26th-century Earth and find men meek and women friendly.

Revived by a North Pole atomic blast, a submerged dinosaur swims to New York and goes to Coney Island.

A boy (Jimmy Hunt) tells a psychologist (Helena Carter) and an astronomer (Arthur Franz) about a flying saucer and his parents' strange behavior.

A pilot (Richard Derr), his girlfriend (Barbara Rush) and lottery winners escape by rocket to another planet before a star hits Earth.

Indestructible Martian war machines threaten Earth in George Pal's Oscar-winning adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel.

A newlywed (Gloria Talbott) sees her husband (Tom Tryon) turn into an alien and enter a flying saucer.

Emily Brontë's gothic heroine Cathy (Merle Oberon) loves stableboy Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) but marries squire Edgar (David Niven).

The morning after a London barrister (Laurence Olivier) lets a mystery woman (Merle Oberon) stay in his suite, a friend (Ralph Richardson) files for divorce.

A dying woman (Merle Oberon) and condemned man (George Brent) fall in love on a ship from Hong Kong to San Francisco.

An eccentric pianist (Burgess Meredith) invades a couple's (Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas) home and marriage.

A playboy prince (Maurice Chevalier) from a tiny kingdom is sent to woo a rich widow (Jeanette MacDonald) in Paris.