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The Last Time I Saw Paris 1954 Charles Wills returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led there after it was liberated He worked then for Stars and Stripes when he met both Marion and Helen Ellswirth He soon married and was happy staying in Paris after his discharge While working for a news o

Fathers Little Dividend 1951 In this sequel to Father of the Bride 1950, Stanley Banks Spencer Tracy learns that his daughter Kay Dame Elizabeth Taylor is going to have a baby When they get the news everyone except Stanley is overjoyed His wife and grandmother to be Ellie Joan Bennett broadcasts it

A Date with Judy 1948 The upper class Pringles and middle class Fosters are two Santa Barbara families Widowed businessman Lucien T Pringles Leon Ames interests, including a bank and a radio station, keep him absent from his childrens lives Melvin Colner Foster Wallace Beery owns and operates a seaf

National Velvet 1944 Mi Taylor Mickey Rooney was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him all the roads in the Kingdom to travel One of the roads, and a notation in his fathers journal, leads him to the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family The youngest daughter, Velv

Raintree County 1957 In mid 19th century Freehaven, Raintree County, Indiana, John Wickliff Shawnessy Montgomery Clift has just graduated from high school at the top of his class, with a promising career as a writer He is a romantic, principled idealist, believing the story of the golden raintree af

Life with Father (1947) In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. His children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls and making money out of patent

Genocide (1982) A chilling, heartbreaking testament to the strength and suffering of the Jewish people and the courage and heroism of those who came to their aid. With beautiful narration by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor the film begins by providing a look at the flourishing Jewish community in

Boom! (1968) Film version of playwright Tennessee Williams' "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" involves very wealthy Flora 'Sissy' Goforth, supposedly dying, and living in a large mansion on a secluded island with her servants and nurses; into her life comes a mysterious man, Angel

The Sandpiper (1965) Twenty-something Laura Reynolds is a free spirit who questions social conventions, laws and regulations. A struggling artist, she lives in a secluded beach-side cabin in Big Sur with her nine year old illegitimate son, Danny, on who she has instilled her values. Because of this

The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.

The Drivers Seat (1974) Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman travels toward a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange, as if her own extinction will bring a meaningful existence to its wished-for end - a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liai

The V.I.P.s (1963) Awaiting at London Airport for a flight to New York, Frances Andros, seen off by her tycoon husband, Paul Andros, plans to leave her spouse for the arms of an aging international playboy, Marc Champselle. Les Mangrum, a self-made Australian businessman traveling with his loyal sec

The Comedians (1967) Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic Welsh hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism and poverty. Complications include his inability to sell the hotel so he can leave, a friendship

Elephant Walk (1954) Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of

Beau Brummell (1954) In 19th century England, captain George Brummell is an upper-class dandy. He has to leave the army after having insulted the crown prince. This gives him the opportunity to start a smear campaign against the prince. The prince, who is tired of all the yes-men around him, hires h

Love Is Better Than Ever (1952) The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Thus she plans a trap for him...

X, Y and Zee (1972) Zee and Robert Blakeley are members of swinging London's upper crust whose unique love-hate marriage heads towards destruction when Robert falls in love with a beautiful young widow named Stella, and Zee goes through a series of scheming adventures to break Robert and Stella up.

Secret Ceremony (1968) Leonora, a prostitute, mourns the death by drowning years earlier of her daughter. She encounters a strange waif-like girl, Cenci, who bears a strong resemblance to her lost child. Cenci is herself struck by the great resemblance of Leonora to her own mother, whose death the m

A Place in the Sun (1951) The young and poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) leaves his religious mother and Chicago and arrives in California expecting to find a better job in the business of his wealthy uncle Charles Eastman. His cousin Earl Eastman advises him that there are many women in the f

Night Watch (1973) Ellen Wheeler, a rich woman, is recovering from a nervous breakdown with the help of her husband and a good friend. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?

Father of the Bride (1950) Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) US Army Major Weldon Penderton is stationed on a base in the American south. He and his wife Leonora Penderton are in an unsatisfying marriage. Weldon is generally a solitary man who in his time alone tries to bolster his self image as he feels less than adequate a

Doctor Faustus (1967) Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years du

Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) George and Martha are a middle aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other. This verbal abuse is fueled by an excessive consumption of alcohol. Ge

BUtterfield 8 (1960) Beautiful Gloria Wandrous, a New York fashion model engages in an illicit affair with married socialite Weston Liggett. However, Gloria's desire for respectability causes her to reconsider her lifestyle.

Ash Wednesday (1973) Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark, and begins getting attention from young men. Her daughter tries to warn her that even tho

The Fly (1958) After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months. They were very much in love and with their little boy, a very happy family. Andre was exper

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) The family of "Big Daddy" Pollitt convenes at his and Big Momma's vast 28,000 acre East Mississippi plantation for his sixty-fifth birthday, although it may as well be for his funeral on the belief that he is dying. Despite his latest medical report being clean, in reali

The Only Game in Town (1970) While waiting in vain for her married lover to get a divorce, Fran Walker, a lonely chorus girl approaching middle age, falls for Joe Grady, a frustrated musician and compulsive gambler who dreams of escaping Las Vegas for fame and fortune in New York City.

Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owners daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acros

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Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.