2024-10-01
An English wife doesn't share the loose interpretation of fidelity of her French husband, who, she discovers, was a philandering pilot during the war.
Gentle story of how the war changes a stuffy married couple when they join the service. Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr are excellent. Dizzy: Glynis Johns. Elena: Ann Todd. Richard: Roland Culver. Alexander Korda directed.
A Christian woman falls for an agnostic Roman soldier during a time when Emperor Nero plans to wipe out Christianity completely and rebuild Rome after burning it to the ground. As their love deepens, the soldier begins to discover a faith he didn't have before. A Best Picture nominee.
Adaptation of Truman Capote's fact-based crime novel about two drifters who attempt to rob a farmhouse and end up murdering a rural family. Richard Brooks was nominated for Best Director and his script was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Philip Seymour Hoffman won a much-deserved Best Actor Oscar for his uncannily astounding performance as "In Cold Blood" author Truman Capote. The exceptional biopic spans the six years Capote spent working on his 1966 masterpiece. Catherine Keener received a Best Supporting Oscar nod as Capote's friend and researcher Harper Lee, who a few years later would publish "To Kill a Mockingbird." Dan Futt
Neil Simon wrote this spoof of murder mysteries in which famous detectives are challenged to solve a crime that has yet to be committed. Sam Diamond: Peter Falk. Tess Skeffington: Eileen Brennan. Dick Charleston: David Niven. Dora Charleston: Maggie Smith. Sidney Wang: Peter Sellers. Jessica Marbles: Elsa Lanchester. Milo Perrier: James Coco. Robert Moore directed.
A businessman who dabbles as a mystery writer gets involved in the investigation of a murder while researching a book, and then turns out to be the prime suspect.
A mystery writer trying to complete a novel in 24 hours by working at a secluded inn becomes embroiled in the attempts of a motley collection of eccentric folks to locate a cache of money hidden in the establishment.
In 17th-century Spain, the legendary swashbuckling lothario defends his queen against a traitorous duke. An uncredited William Faulkner worked on an early draft of the script.
A Spanish spy goes undercover as a singer in order to uncover Napoleon's plans to invade her homeland. A version of the Friml operetta.
When Napoleon is enamoured of a Polish princess, her country's leaders persuade her to indulge him in order to secure Poland's independence. Based on actual events.