2024-06-24
Oscar-nominated adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about the still-single Dashwood sisters and how they cope with men, marriage and money after their father dies. The screenplay (written by star Emma Thompson) was the sole Oscar winner out of seven nominations.
In 1926 China, during the country's civil war, an American crew of a gunboat patrolling the Yangtze comes into cross-cultural conflict with locals on- and off-board.
A post-Civil War Union officer's post is on the Texas-Mexican border, where his estranged son is assigned to his regiment; and the officer shows no favoritism to the underaged recruit.
Lovers separated in Paris reunite years later after their lives have taken sordid turns.
A disfigured chemist dons a lifelike mask to get even with those who've distanced themselves from him, but runs into trouble when his wife is attracted to his handsome new visage.
A video album of the 1956 marriage of American actress Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
Tennessee Williams adapted his Pulitzer-winning character study about an emotionally troubled, faded Southern belle, who moves in with her sister in a seedy New Orleans neighborhood, where her brutish brother-in-law torments her delicate sensibilities, and she becomes even further disconnected from reality. A Best Picture nominee.
A team of scientists at an Arctic research station near the crash site of a UFO unearth a mysterious figure frozen in ice, and when it thaws the unearthly monster goes on a murderous rampage. Remade by John Carpenter in 1982.
Best Actor nominee Paul Newman gives one of the best performances of his career in this prison drama about a defiant loner doing time in a Southern penal camp, where escape is futile and punishment sadistic. George Kennedy won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as the convict leader Dragline, and Strother Martin is excellent as the prison official who can't abide a "failure to communicate.".
A profile of the early days of the American space program that focuses on the lives of the first astronauts, as well as that of Chuck Yeager, the test pilot who initially breaks the sound barrier, but never becomes as famous as the men who go into space.
Barry Levinson's autobiographical story of three generations of an immigrant family in Baltimore explores how a small group of Polish Jews tried to find a better life in America.