2024-06-24
A study of the neuroses of patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic, where the selection of new drapes for the hospital library sparks a war among a doctor's wife and a number of the institution's personnel.
John O'Hara's story about the affairs of an amoral beauty won an Oscar for Elizabeth Taylor.
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.".