Unknown Pearl White (Betty Hutton) becomes "queen of the silent serials," famous as a heroine in distress.

At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson (Scotty Beckett) decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father (Ludwig Donath) and pursue a career in show business.

A 1920s dancer/actress (Kim Novak) leaves her jealous lover (Jeff Chandler) for Broadway, Hollywood and alcoholic decline.

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

The wife (Norma Shearer) of an English lord (Herbert Marshall) has a grounds-for-divorce encounter with a playboy (Robert Montgomery) from her past.

Groucho, Chico and Harpo go to Italy and bring opera and its patrons down to their level.

An heiress (Bette Davis) with only months to live embarks on a social whirl, then marries her doctor (George Brent).

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

A 14-year-old teen adores a promising composer (Charles Boyer), who is quite fond of the girl (Joan Fontaine), but his romance with her older cousin (Alexis Smith) and following marriage create an emotional rivalry that affects the three.

Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. A doctor-artist develops a tragic infatuation with a promiscuous waitress.

A Norwegian farmer (Edward G. Robinson) lovingly raises his daughter (Margaret O'Brien) in Benson Junction, Wis.

A San Francisco police detective (Chevy Chase) protects a librarian (Goldie Hawn) who knows too much about a plot to kill the pope.

Townsfolk know a gunman's (Audie Murphy) going to kill someone, but they don't know who it will be.

A corporate climber (Jack Lemmon), whose boss (Fred MacMurray) and others use his apartment for hanky-panky, aids a young woman (Shirley MacLaine).

A divorced dancer (Marsha Mason) and her daughter (Quinn Cummings) must room with an off-off-Broadway actor (Richard Dreyfuss).

Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.

Paul (Lionel Barrymore) is wrongfully convicted of robbery and murder, and breaks out of prison using a scientist's shrinking invention.

A reporter (Lee Tracy) saves a mad doctor's (Lionel Atwill) daughter (Fay Wray) from a full-moon killer with synthetic flesh.

An executed convict returns from the grave to revenge himself against the gangsters who framed him for murder.

March won an Oscar for his portrayal of the scientist whose experiments bring out a hideous side of his personality.

The secretary of state's (Lewis Stone) wife (Diana Wynyard) and son (Phillips Holmes) oppose a 1940 war, ending with an air raid on New York.

William Cameron Menzies' adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel tells of humankind's efforts to rebuild the war-torn planet.

An engineer (Richard Dix) leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

Gangsters and a detective (John Loder) take an airliner to follow a British chorus girl (Anna Lee) who witnessed a murder.

Upstarts challenge the fastest gun in the West, a haunted man (Gregory Peck) trying to escape his reputation.

Good and bad sons (Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck) of a Texas cattle baron fight each other, and the railroad, over a dark beauty (Jennifer Jones).

An ex-gunman is torn between his obsession with revenge and his responsibility to a 6-year-old girl and a lonely widow.

A bearded Scot (Gregory Peck) robs a bank with a young Indian (Desi Arnaz Jr.), then leaves him with an old rancher's young wife.

A former sea captain (Gregory Peck) goes West, woos women (Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker) and joins a fight over water rights.

The history of 19th-century Western expansion, as seen through the lives of three generations of a pioneer family.

A clever crook and a romantic triangle complicate Tarzan's efforts to bring a wanted criminal to justice.

A young hawk looking for a chicken to eat finds Foghorn Leghorn teasing a grumpy dog.

Hubie and Bertie are determined: they want to live in the house the cat Claude lives in; they drive Claude so mad that he prefers to sleep outside; now they have the whole house themselves.

A salesgirl's (Debbie Reynolds) boss (Adolphe Menjou) thinks his son (Eddie Fisher) fathered the baby that she found on a doorstep.

Filmmaker Saul J. Turell profiles early 20th-century American singer Paul Robeson. Sidney Poitier narrates.

An Arab chieftain (Sean Connery) abducts a U.S. widow (Candice Bergen) and her children; President Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Keith) sends the Marines.

Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning portrait of the man whose policy of nonviolence won India's independence.

Polish partisans (Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wisczyslaw Glinski) hide from the Nazis in the sewers of Warsaw.

An outlaw goes to work for separatist politicians during the 1940s.

Young Martha inadvertently causes the death of her cruel, authoritarian aunt. Martha lies to the cops, but fear a childhood friend saw it too.

A private eye (Walter Slezak) hunts a killer (Lawrence Tierney) who marries a divorcee's (Claire Trevor) rich sister.

John Dillinger's (Lawrence Tierney) crime spree ends in 1934 when the lady in red (Anne Jeffreys) shows the FBI where he is.

Sisters resent their divorced magazine-editor mother's (Jeanette MacDonald) new husband, a concert pianist (Jose Iturbi) she met while on vacation.

Orson Welles' tale of an eccentric Indiana family clinging to tradition during a time of rapid change.

Young Martha inadvertently causes the death of her cruel, authoritarian aunt. Martha lies to the cops, but fear a childhood friend saw it too.

After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter.

An Irish cabby (Ernest Borgnine) in the Bronx watches his wife (Bette Davis) go overboard planning their daughter's (Debbie Reynolds) wedding.

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

One of a stage mother's (Rosalind Russell) daughters quits, and the other (Natalie Wood) becomes stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

Presented as originally released in 1939. Includes themes and character depictions which may be offensive and problematic to contemporary audiences. A Southern belle struggles to return her family's estate to its original glory after the Civil War.

A writer (Barbara Bel Geddes) recalls her Norwegian mother (Irene Dunne) and family in circa-1900 San Francisco.

A young widow (Claudette Colbert) and her maid (Louise Beavers) build a booming pancake business while raising their daughters.

A mad scientist (Richard Carle) sends Stan and Ollie to a graveyard.

J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Stan Laurel) takes his nephew from Scotland (Oliver Hardy) to get proper pants.

Stanley and Oliver, two sailors on shore leave, rent a car and go driving with dates but get stuck in a traffic jam. A minor fender-bender starts an escalating series of retaliations that leaves the vehicles in pieces.

Bumbling band members (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) hit a sour note.

Harihar Ray leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. His wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life.

After the death of his father, Apu leaves his mother and goes to Kolkata to study. His mother falls sick, but does not let the news get to him, because it would affect his academics.

Two escaped convicts (James Craig, Frank Jenks) ride a tide to a lighthouse, where they catch Nazi spies.

The wife (Ginger Rogers) of a World War II soldier (Robert Ryan) moves into a communal house with wives of men at war.

The search for a missing person plunges detective Philip Marlowe into a deadly web of blackmail and murder.

A U.S. colonel (John Wayne) and a Filipino captain (Anthony Quinn) lead guerrilla raids on the Japanese.

Three servicemen return from World War II: one (Guy Madison) loves a war widow (Dorothy McGuire) ; another one (Robert Mitchum) drinks in pain.

An English millowner's daughter (Martha Scott) and an editor (John Mills) marry, part and cross paths between the world wars.

A New Orleans belle (Elizabeth Taylor) lures a man (Montgomery Clift) away from his sweetheart (Eva Marie Saint) and into marriage during the Civil War.

A mystic's accident forces a lawyer (Steve Martin) to share his body with the essence of an acerbic rich woman (Lily Tomlin).

A middle-class man (Steve Martin), his wife (Mary Steenburgen), his father and a divorcee (Dianne Wiest) try to be good parents.

A harried patriarch (Steve Martin) faces separation anxiety, exorbitant costs and more as he prepares for his daughter's (Kimberly Williams) wedding.

François Truffaut's Hitchcockian account of a widow's efforts to take revenge against the men who killed her husband.

A cabaret singer's (Joan Crawford) noble boyfriend presents her at a Tirolean resort, where she charms two men (Franchot Tone, Robert Young).

A charter-boat captain winds up in the middle of a syndicate shootout after transporting illegal immigrants.

A U.S. immigration agent (George Murphy) and his Mexican counterpart (Ricardo Montalban) go under cover to stop traffic in slave labor.

An insurance investigator (William Lundigan) looks for stolen jewels with a missing colleague's sister (Jacqueline White).

Two guys (Robert Mitchum, William Bendix) and a woman (Jane Greer) chase an Army payroll thief through Mexico.

Two men on a fishing trip give a lift to a trigger-happy killer.

A woman (Barbara Stanwyck) lures a fugitive (Ralph Meeker) to help her husband (Barry Sullivan), trapped under a piling at low tide.

A hit man (Jack Palance) catches a gangster's ex-girlfriend (Linda Darnell) and her boxer lover (Robert Mitchum) on a mountain cable car.

Lured to Mexico, a gambler (Robert Mitchum) meets a café singer (Jane Russell) and learns a gangster wants his face.

A private eye (Robert Mitchum) cannot seem to get away from a gambler (Kirk Douglas) and his no-good girlfriend (Jane Greer).

A widowed professor (Chishû Ryû) fakes an impending marriage to spur his adult daughter (Setsuko Hara) to get on with her life.

A 28-year-old Japanese woman resists parental and societal pressures to marry.

An elderly Japanese couple (Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama) visit their busy children but are not treated with respect.

Caring for a rebellious niece causes trouble for a couple.

After their father's untimely death, elder Japanese siblings fail in their duty to take care of their widowed mother and youngest, unmarried sister.

In the wake of a terrible tragedy, a poor schoolteacher hopes that his son will succeed where he has failed.

A peace officer settles a quarrel between twins, the offspring of an American Indian mother and a white father.

A bank robber (John Ireland) teams up with a drifter (Antonio Sabato) to hunt down a killer they each know well.

Bullied mountain villagers learn how to fight back from an outlaw (Anthony Quinn) posing as a monk in 18th-century Mexico.

An old lawman (Buddy Ebsen) finds a Kansas City bride (Lois Nettleton) for a young and restless Montana rancher (Keir Dullea).

A gunfighter (Robert Taylor) and a cowboy (Chad Everett) help a Mexican girl (Ana Martín) avenge the land-related murder of her parents.

Two aging ex-lawmen are hired to transport a shipment of gold from a mining camp into town after six miners were murdered attempting to transport the gold themselves.

A mayor's cowardice allows an outlaw to ride roughshod over the citizens of a desolate frontier town.

Edward D. Wood Jr. (Johnny Depp) directs awful '50s cult films like Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 From Outer Space.

The life and times of Broadway showman Florenz Ziegfeld and his two wives.

Based on the autobiography of Diana Barrymore (Dorothy Malone), the troubled daughter of actor John Barrymore (Errol Flynn).

A Broadway dancer (Ray Danton) goes to Hollywood and begins his movie career as a gangster in "Scarface.".

Supported by her mother, a New Englander (Jean Simmons) finally tells her salty father (Spencer Tracy) she wants to be an actress.

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

Three New York newsmen use women (Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming) and a reporter (Dana Andrews) to find a so-called Lipstick Killer.

An innocent man (John Beal) sits on death row in colorful company, as friends (Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak) race to save his life.

A thrill-seeking teenage girl joins a garbage man on a South Dakota killing spree.

A Victorian governess (Valerie Hobson) marries an English heir, then plots with a stableboy (Stewart Granger) to kill him.

Upper-class Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) stands trial for killing her French lover (Ivan Desny) in Victorian Scotland.

A U.S. reporter (Dustin Hoffman) joins the search for writer Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave), lost for 11 days in 1926.

An honest working woman (Thelma Ritter) poses as a maid in the home of her son (John Lund) who has married a socialite (Gene Tierney).

An upstart card shark has a marathon game with the king of stud poker in the 1930s New Orleans.

A Liverpool private eye (Albert Finney) works on a case confused by his sister-in-law (Billie Whitelaw) and brother (Frank Finlay).

A Hollywood producer (James Coburn) shares his Riviera yacht with six people who might have killed his wife.

Urbane Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) look for a cousin's missing husband and find murder.

A woman (Loretta Young) recalls a gangster (Ricardo Cortez) and a lawyer (Franchot Tone) in her life while on trial for murder.

A gunrunner's (Ricardo Cortez) girlfriend (Kay Francis) meets a drunken doctor (Lyle Talbot) in a Rangoon bar, where she sings.

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

A poor store worker (Constance Bennett) becomes one man's (Adolphe Menjou) mistress and another man's (Robert Montgomery) lover.

An artist (Conrad Nagel) restores an embittered model's (Dorothy Mackaill) faith in men after a cad (Walter Byron) abandons her with child.

Beauty-shop workers gossip and dream of meeting eligible men.

The death of her mother drives a bitter blonde (Joan Blondell) to a life of crime that ends with prison.

A Barbary Coast madam's (Ruth Chatterton) illegitimate son (Donald Cook), a district attorney, tries her for murder.

A gold digger (Jean Harlow) breaks up her boss's (Chester Morris) marriage and sins her way to financial success.

An out-of-town working girl (Barbara Stanwyck) rises in a New York bank by using her power over men.

An amnesiac (Gregory Peck) roams New York, seeking his identity, and finds he is a target for assassins.

A U.S. professor (Gregory Peck) at Oxford turns spy with the mistress (Sophia Loren) of a plotting Arab oilman (Alan Badel).

A World War II veteran (Gregory Peck) can either rise on Madison Avenue or be with his wife (Jennifer Jones) and family.

A married sportswriter (Gregory Peck) and fashion designer (Lauren Bacall) have clashing friends.