Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Three Wise Fools

1946

English

6.5

♡ 8

Edward Buzzell Director

Billy Barty as Bit

Barbara Billingsley as Sister Mary Leonard

Thomas Mitchell as Terence Alaysius O'Davern

Edward Arnold as Theodore Findley

An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.

Night After Night

1932

English

6.7

♡ 2

83%

sexually aggressive woman

Archie Mayo Director

Paul Porcasi as Chef

Dennis O'Keefe as Drunk Sleeping on a Table

Bill Elliott as Escort

George Raft as Joe Anton

A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.

Gabriel Over the White House

1933

English

6.4

♡ 3

71%

Gregory La Cava Director

Samuel S. Hinds as Dr. H.L. Eastman

Margaret Bert as Nurse Bert

Jean Del Val as Representative at Debt Conference

Tom London as Secret Service Man

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.

Test Pilot

1938

English

6.8

♡ 4

67%

Victor Fleming Director

Myrna Loy as Ann Thurston Barton

Louis Jean Heydt as Greg Benson

Lester Dorr as Pilot

Forbes Murray as Pilot in Cafe

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Summer Magic

1963

English

6.9

♡ 6

76%

based on novel or book

James Neilson Director

Norman Leavitt as Barber

Harry Holcombe as Henry Lord

O.Z. Whitehead as Mr. Perkins

Hayley Mills as Nancy Carey

Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away in Europe, but Osh assures them he won't mind their living there, since he won't be coming home for a long time yet. The children and a cousin who comes to live with them have various adventures before an unexpected visitor shows up

The Trial of Joan of Arc

1962

French

7.4

♡ 10

100%

62%

based on a true story

Robert Bresson Director

Michael Williams as Englishman

Donald O'Brien as English Priest

Nicolas Bang as Garde

Florence Delay as Jeanne d'Arc

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, is unjustly tried by an ecclesiastical court overseen by her English enemies.

Berth Marks

1929

English

6.9

♡ 12

17%

Lewis R. Foster Director

Oliver Hardy as Ollie

Charlie Hall as Train Passenger

Paulette Goddard as Train Passenger

Baldwin Cooke as Train Passenger

Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.

Imitation of Life

1934

English

7.5

♡ 7

88%

John M. Stahl Director

Martin Turner as Man at Funeral

Alan Hale as Martin, the Furniture Man

Fredi Washington as Peola Johnson, Age 19

Joyce Compton as Young Woman at Party

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

The Merry Widow

1934

English

7.2

♡ 5

89%

Ernst Lubitsch Director

Jason Robards Sr. as Arresting Officer

Fifi D'Orsay as Marcelle

Mary Halsey as Maxim Girl

Kathleen Burke as Prisoner

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

A Lovely Way to Die

1968

English

5.1

♡ 3

David Lowell Rich Director

John P. Ryan as Harry Samson

Dana Elcar as Layton

David Huddleston as Man in Bar

Ali MacGraw as Melody

A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.

Indiscreet

1931

English

6.2

♡ 3

22%

Leo McCarey Director

Arthur Lake as Buster Collins

Gloria Swanson as Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent

Nella Walker as Mrs. Woodward

Jack Byron as Party Guest

A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965

English

7.5

♡ 18

86%

Robert Aldrich Director

Stanley Ralph Ross as Arab Singer

Ian Bannen as Crow

Richard Attenborough as Lew Moran

Dan Duryea as Standish

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.

Rashomon

1950

Japanese

♡ 82

98%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Machiko Kyô as Masako Kanazawa

Toshirô Mifune as Tajômaru

Masayuki Mori as Takehiro Kanazawa

Takashi Shimura as Woodcutter

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Woman in the Dark

1934

English

5.8

♡ 6

17%

Phil Rosen Director

Charles Williams as Hotel Desk Clerk

Ralph Bellamy as John Bradley

Fay Wray as Louise Loring

Melvyn Douglas as Tony Robson

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.

The Kennel Murder Case

1933

English

6.8

♡ 5

100%

66%

based on novel or book

Michael Curtiz Director

George Chandler as First Reporter at Police Station

Mary Astor as Hilda Lake

William Powell as Philo Vance

Spencer Charters as Sgt. Snitkin

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

The Killing

1956

English

7.9

♡ 66

96%

Stanley Kubrick Director

John Roy as Commuter

Ron Nyman as Racetrack Spectator

Joe Turkel as Tiny

Frank Richards as Track Employee in Locker Room

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

In the Heat of the Night

1967

English

7.9

♡ 48

96%

Norman Jewison Director

Lee Grant as Mrs. Colbert

Anthony James as Ralph

Warren Oates as Sam Wood

Stuart Nisbet as Shuie

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Der Turm der verbotenen Liebe

1968

German

5.1

♡ 1

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Franz Antel Director

Uschi Glas as Blanche du Bois

Jean Piat as Bouridan

Armando Francioli as Orsini

Balázs Kosztolányi as Philippe

King's swordsman Captain Buridan, hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris to find it in a grip of fear -a "vampire/witch" in the "Tower of Sin" is luring young men to their deaths by offering them a night of sexual ecstasy followed by savage slaughter. Buridan is holding secrets of his own and his battle to save France from an evil Chancellor, an impotent King and a lascivious, wanton Queen make the battlefields of war seem like child's play.