Directed by William Wyler • 1946 • United States
Starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews
William Wyler’s multi-Oscar-winning masterpiece is an era-defining portrait postwar America. Sprawling yet intimate, the film traces the experiences of three GIs—played by Fredric March, Dana Andrews...
Directed by Archie Mayo • 1937 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan
During the Great Depression, factory worker Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart) is passed over for a promotion that goes to Joe Dombrowski (Henry Brandon), a hard-working Polish immigrant. Feeling cheate...
Directed by William Wyler • 1937 • United States
Starring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
William Wyler’s striking adaptation of the hit Broadway play by Sidney Kingsley is a vivid panorama of life on the streets of New York’s Lower East Side. Humphrey Bogart plays Baby Face Martin, ...
Directed by Edmund Goulding • 1939 • United States
Starring Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, George Brent
Bette Davis’s bravura, moving-but-never-morbid performance as Judith Traherne, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months, remains a three-hankie classic. But that...
Directed by Michael Curtiz • 1932 • United States
Starring Bette Davis, Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan
“I’d love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.” Academy Award winner Bette Davis stars as the beautiful southerner whose love allows an idealistic son of sharecroppers to escape his squ...
Directed by Carroll Ballard • 1979 • United States
Starring Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr
A wild horse saves a young boy’s life after a terrifying shipwreck and the two become unlikely friends in Carroll Ballard’s cinematic tour de force, adapted from Walter Farley’s classic children’s no...
Directed by Michael Curtiz • 1950 • United States
Starring John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper’s hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood’s second crack at Ernest Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not.” John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an hone...
Directed by William Wyler • 1936 • United States
Starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor
This masterful adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel about the breakdown of a marriage represents one of the finest hours for both director William Wyler and star Walter Huston. Huston bri...
Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska • 2011 • France, Germany, Poland
Starring Juliette Binoche, Joanna Kulig, Anaïs Demoustier
A provocative and raw exploration of female sexuality, director Małgorzata Szumowska’s ELLES paints an unromantic picture of upper-crust domesticity refracted through the w...
Directed by Maren Ade • 2009 • Germany
Starring Lars Eidinger, Birgit Minichmayr, Nicole Marischka
On vacation in the Mediterranean, a young couple find their relationship pushed to the brink in this smart, sexy drama from acclaimed filmmaker Maren Ade. On the surface, Chris and Gitti appear to ...
Directed by Maren Ade • 2003 • Germany
Starring Eva Löbau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann
Bursting with idealism, Melanie Pröschle (Eva Löbau), leaves home to start her teaching career, armed with alternative methods and bright-eyed optimism. On her first day of classes, she gives an ambitious speec...
Directed by Peter Yates • 1973 • United States
Starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan
In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel “The...
Directed by Michael Curtiz • 1935 • United States
Starring Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns
Extra! Extra! Laugh all about it! Bette Davis and George Brent star in this comic battle of the sexes filled with good-natured rivalry and romance. Reporters Ellen Garfield (Davis) and Curt Devlin ...
Directed by Mike Hodges • 1971 • United Kingdom
Starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
Michael Caine stars as Jack Carter, a tough, ruthless London mob enforcer. His only sentiment is for his timid brother, Frank, who works as a bartender in Newcastle and makes a point of staying out o...
Directed by Céline Sciamma • 2014 • France
Starring Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects, and the “boys’ law” in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes he...
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1933 • United States
Starring Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon
A Broadway producer has the talent, the tunes, the theater, and everything else he needs to put on a show—except the dough. Not to worry, say Ginger Rogers and the other leggy chorines decked o...
Directed by John Berry • 1951 • United States
Starring John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
John Garfield’s final film before his blacklisting and untimely death is a slam-bang pulp noir crackling with tightly wound tension. In one of his finest performances, Garfield plays a hardened so...
Directed by Howard Higgin • 1932 • United States
Starring Bette Davis, Pat O’Brien, Junior Durkin
Independently produced by Bennie Zeidman, this pre-Code melodrama captured Bette Davis and Pat O’Brien just before they were catapulted to stardom at Warner Bros. An exposé of the American penal sys...
Directed by John Huston • 1942 • United States
Starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan
What Stanley Timberlake wants, she takes. So, on the eve of her marriage to another, she runs off with her sister’s husband, the first of many betrayals that lead to disaster—and...
Directed by Peter Collinson • 1969 • United Kingdom
Starring Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill
Michel Caine and Mini Coopers make a dynamite pairing in this turbocharged heist romp. Caine radiates debonair charm as the suave ex-con who—along with Noël Coward’s imprisoned crime boss—orchestr...
Directed by Andrea Arnold • 2011 • United Kingdom
Starring Kaya Scodelario, James Howson
Andrea Arnold’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS is an excitingly fresh and elemental take on the classic novel by Emily Brontë. An epic love story, the film follows Heathcliff, a boy taken in by a benevolent Yorkshire far...