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1958

Auntie Mame

An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.


- #Drama
- #Comedy
- #Romance
Auntie Mame

1958

I Want to Live!

A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.


- #Drama
- #Crime
I Want to Live!

1958

The Roots of Heaven

In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist ecologist starts a campaign of public awareness to help save the African elephants from extinction.


- #Adventure
- #Drama
The Roots of Heaven

1958

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.


- #Drama
- #War
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1959

The Best of Everything

An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.


- #Drama
- #Romance
The Best of Everything

1959

Imitation of Life

An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.


- #Drama
Imitation of Life

1959

The 400 Blows

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.


- #Drama
- #Crime
The 400 Blows

1959

The World of Apu

This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.


- #Drama
The World of Apu

1960

Purple Noon

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.


- #Drama
- #Thriller
- #Crime
Purple Noon

2008

The Burning Plain

A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.


- #Drama
- #Crime
- #Romance
The Burning Plain

1960

Peeping Tom

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.


- #Drama
- #Horror
- #Thriller
Peeping Tom

1960

Sink the Bismarck!

The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.


- #Drama
- #Action
- #History
- #War
Sink the Bismarck!

1960

Eyes Without a Face

A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.


- #Drama
- #Horror
Eyes Without a Face

1959

Compulsion

Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.


- #Drama
- #History
- #Thriller
- #Crime
Compulsion

1956

The Ten Commandments

Moses, an Egyptian Prince, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.


- #Adventure
- #Drama
The Ten Commandments

2008

Bathory: Countess of Blood

With an unquenchable thirst for blood, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was one of the most prolific serial killers in history.


- #Fantasy
- #Drama
- #History
Bathory: Countess of Blood

1960

L'Avventura

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.


- #Drama
- #Mystery
- #Romance
L'Avventura

1960

The Savage Innocents

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.


- #Adventure
- #Drama
- #Crime
The Savage Innocents

1960

The Unforgiven

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.


- #Drama
- #Western
- #Romance
The Unforgiven

2008

Dorothy Mills

A psychiatrist is assigned to work on the case of a disturbed young girl.


- #Drama
- #Horror
- #Thriller
- #Mystery
Dorothy Mills

1959

On the Beach

After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.


- #Drama
- #Sci-Fi
- #Romance
On the Beach

1959

Our Man in Havana

Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.


- #Drama
- #Comedy
- #Thriller
- #Crime
Our Man in Havana

1960

Pollyanna

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.


- #Drama
- #Comedy
- #Family
Pollyanna

2008

The Children of Huang Shi

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.


- #Drama
- #War
The Children of Huang Shi

2008

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.


- #Drama
- #Comedy
- #Romance