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Directed by Lindsay AndersonOrigin United-kingdomGenres DramaThemes Films based on playsActors Malcolm McDowell,
Lisa Banes,
Fran BrillRating73%
Look Back in Anger is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Lisa Banes), and her snooty best friend Helena Charles (Fran Brill). Cliff (Raymond Hardie), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace., 1h42
Directed by Franklin J. SchaffnerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Politique,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on playsActors Henry Fonda,
Cliff Robertson,
Lee Tracy,
Margaret Leighton,
Edie Adams,
Ann SothernRating75%
William Russell (Fonda) and Joe Cantwell (Robertson) are the two leading candidates for the presidential nomination of an unspecified political party. Both have potentially fatal vulnerabilities., 1h55
Directed by Irving RapperOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about education,
Films based on playsActors Bette Davis,
Nigel Bruce,
John Dall,
Rhys Williams,
Mildred Dunnock,
Joan LorringRating72%
Middle-aged Lily Cristobel Moffatt (Bette Davis) sets up a school in a Welsh coal mining town, despite the determined opposition of the local squire (Nigel Bruce). Eventually, she considers giving up. Then she discovers a promising student, Morgan Evans, a miner seemingly destined for a life of hard work and heavy drink. With renewed hope, she works hard to help him realise his potential. , 1h37
Directed by Richard ThorpeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
WarThemes Seafaring films,
Théâtre,
Transport films,
Political films,
Films based on playsActors Margaret Sullavan,
Ann Sothern,
Joan Blondell,
Fay Bainter,
Marsha Hunt,
Ella RainesRating68%
The film tells the story of a mixed group of Army nurses stationed in Bataan during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the head nurse, Lt. Mary Smith (Margaret Sullavan) begs her superior, Capt. Alice Marsh (Fay Bainter) for more nurses to help deal with the excessive workload, but instead of professional nurses, she is assigned a group of civilians from various backgrounds. They lack experience and require training and find it difficult to settle in. Pat Conlin (Ann Sothern) rebels against Lt. Smith's strict nature, but the group begin to reveal stories from their past and become better acquainted. They also meet a male officer, Lt. Holt (Allan Byron), and Pat becomes infatuated with him, leading to jealousy between her and Lt. Smith who refuses to explain why she is offended by Pat's attention to him. During an air-raid one of the volunteers, Sue West (Dorothy Morris), is separated from the group, and some of the women, including her sister Andra (Heather Angel) search for her. After three days she is found alive, having spent the time trapped in a hut with the corpses of several soldiers who were killed during the attack., 1h55
Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Bette Davis,
Herbert Marshall,
Teresa Wright,
Charles Dingle,
Richard Carlson,
Carl Benton ReidRating78%
The focus is on Southern aristocrat Regina Hubbard Giddens (Bette Davis), who struggles for wealth and freedom within the confines of an early 20th-century society where a father considered only sons as legal heirs. As a result, her avaricious brothers, Benjamin (Charles Dingle) and Oscar (Carl Benton Reid), are independently wealthy, while she must rely for financial support upon her sickly husband Horace (Herbert Marshall), who has been away undergoing treatment for a severe heart condition., 1h35
Directed by Roy Ward BakerOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Black comedyThemes Films about families,
Films about sexuality,
Théâtre,
LGBT-related films,
Films based on plays,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Bette Davis,
Sheila Hancock,
James Cossins,
Jack Hedley,
Timothy Bateson,
Elaine TaylorRating68%
One-eyed Mrs. Taggart is an emasculating woman whose husband, a successful building contractor, has been dead for ten years. Joining her for the traditional annual celebration of her wedding anniversary are her three sons: eldest Henry is a transvestite; middle son Terry is planning to emigrate to Canada with his shrewish wife Karen and their five children; and youngest Tom, a promiscuous philanderer whose many past relationships have ended at his mother's insistence, arrives with his pregnant girlfriend Shirley in tow. Throughout the day and evening, the domineering, evil, vindictive, manipulative matriarch does everything in her power to remind her children who controls the family finances and ultimately their futures., 1h35
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch,
Otto PremingerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Politique,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
Children's films,
Films about royaltyActors Tallulah Bankhead,
Charles Coburn,
Anne Baxter,
William Eythe,
Vincent Price,
Mischa AuerRating66%
Une comtesse autrichienne souhaite que sa fille épouse un homme de son rang. Mais la princesse amoureuse d'un ingénieur des mines américain John Gavin, ne l'entend pas de cette oreille. Sur la vie amoureuse de l'impératrice de Russie (tsarine) Catherine la Grande. Scandale à la cour est le remake de "Paradis défendu" (Forbidden Paradise) film muet de 1924 d'après une pièce "Die Zarin" de Lajos Biró et Melchior Lengyel., 1h23
Directed by Archie MayoOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on plays,
Gangster filmsActors Leslie Howard,
Bette Davis,
Humphrey Bogart,
Genevieve Tobin,
Dick Foran,
Porter HallRating74%
In the midst of the Great Depression, Alan Squier (Howard), once a respected British writer, now a disillusioned, penniless drifter, wanders into a roadside diner in the remote town of Black Mesa, Arizona, at the edge of the Petrified Forest. The diner is run by Jason Maple (Porter Hall), his daughter Gabrielle (Davis), and Gramp, Jason's father (Charley Grapewin), who regales anyone who will listen with stories of his adventures in the Old West with such characters as Billy the Kid., 1h50
Directed by Vincent ShermanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Bette Davis,
Miriam Hopkins,
Gig Young,
John Loder,
Phillip Reed,
Anne RevereRating73%
In 1924, newly successful author Kit Marlowe returns to her home town to speak, as part of a lecture tour, and to visit her dear childhood friend Millie. Millie has married Preston Drake and is pregnant, and she surprises Kit when she discloses she has also written a book, a romance novel. Millie asks Kit to present her book to her publisher. Upon their meeting, Preston appears to be impressed by Kit Marlowe., 1h30
Directed by Fred NibloOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Romantic drama,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on playsActors Lillian Gish,
Ralph Forbes,
Frank Currier,
George Fawcett,
Fritzi Ridgeway,
Hans JobyRating82%
Newlywed Carl (Ralph Forbes) goes to war where he endures major suffering. Back home, wife Pauli (Lillian Gish) starves, becomes a prostitute to survive, and their baby dies.