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7.0

♡ 4

based on a true story

Laurence Olivier Director

Robert Newton as Ancient Pistol

Arthur Hambling as Bates - Soldier in the English Army

Robert Helpmann as Bishop of Ely

Niall MacGinnis as Macmorris - Captain in the English Army

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

1976

6.1

♡ 11

61%

Robert Altman Director

Bert Remsen as The Bartender

Kevin McCarthy as The Publicist

Harvey Keitel as The Relative

Paul Newman as The Star

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.

Bent

1997

7.1

♡ 17

74%

76%

concentration camp prisoner

Sean Mathias Director

Paul Bettany as Captain

Rachel Weisz as Prostitute

Jude Law as Stormtrooper

Ian McKellen as Uncle Freddie

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.

The Women

2008

5.0

♡ 25

13%

37%

Diane English Director

Joanna Gleason as Barbara

Julie Nathanson as Church Choir Member

Eva Mendes as Crystal Allen

Allyssa Brooke as Sweet Woman

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.

Stage Door

1937

7.7

♡ 6

96%

87%

audition

Gregory La Cava Director

Pierre Watkin as Carmichael

Mary Stewart as Dancer / Singer

Samuel S. Hinds as Henry Sims

Jack Carson as Mr. Milbanks

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel.

One Hour with You

1932

7.0

♡ 12

86%

74%

adultery

George Cukor Director

Charles Ruggles as Adolph

Bill Elliott as Dance Extra

Richard Carle as Henri Dornier - Private Detective

Genevieve Tobin as Mitzi Olivier

Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.

Operation Mad Ball

1957

6.5

♡ 5

42%

Richard Quine Director

Arthur O'Connell as Col. Rousch

Roy Jenson as Hospital Guard

Richard Bull as Military Police Sergeant

Mary Tyler Moore as Nurse

In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.

Richard III

1955

7.3

♡ 6

81%

79%

Laurence Olivier Director

Norman Wooland as Catesby

Michael Ripper as Forrest, 2nd murderer

Stanley Baker as Henry, Earl of Richmond

Timothy Bateson as Ostler

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.

Love Me Tonight

1932

7.5

♡ 11

100%

82%

Rouben Mamoulian Director

William H. Turner as Bootmaker

Myrna Loy as Countess Valentine

Elizabeth Patterson as First Aunt

Charles Ruggles as Viscount Gilbert de Varèze

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

Godspell

1973

6.6

♡ 7

63%

71%

David Greene Director

Jerry Sroka as Jerry

Victor Garber as Jesus

David Haskell as John / Judas

Lynne Thigpen as Lynne

In modern-day New York City, John the Baptist calls out to a group of young men and women to learn from the teachings of Jesus. Through song and dance, they relive Christ's crucifixion.

Lemonade Joe

1964

Czech

7.4

♡ 3

Adventure

based on novel or book

Oldrich Lipský Director

Jan Pohan as Bandit #1

Vladimír Mensík as Barman #1

Karel Engel as Fighter #2

Milos Kopecký as Horác Badman Alias 'hogofogo'

A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!

Major Barbara

1941

6.8

♡ 4

93%

58%

David Lean Director

Rex Harrison as Adolphus Cusins

Robert Newton as Bill Walker

Cathleen Cordell as Mog Habbijam

Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Price

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.

Androcles and the Lion

1952

6.0

♡ 3

43%

Nicholas Ray Director

Alan Young as Androcles

Alex Sharp as Officer

Robert Foulk as Soldier

Charlie Hall as Town Crier

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.

Cyrano de Bergerac

1950

7.4

♡ 3

74%

80%

Adventure

Michael Gordon Director

Edgar Barrier as Cardinal

Elena Verdugo as Orange Girl

Lloyd Corrigan as Ragueneau

Don Beddoe as The Meddler

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.

Gypsy

1962

7.1

♡ 11

69%

74%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Kenneth Gibson as Audience Member

Karl Malden as Herbie Sommers

Jack Benny as Jack Benny

Frank Sully as Wichita Burlesque Audience Member

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1988

6.8

♡ 8

78%

1940s

Robert Altman Director

Matt Malloy as Legal Assistant

Daniel Jenkins as Lt.

Peter Gallagher as Lt. Com. John Challee

Brian Haley as Party Guest

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

Miyagino

2010

Japanese

5.8

♡ 2

artist

Tatsuji Yamazaki Director

Jun Kunimura as A Man like Toshusai Sharaku

Kirin Kiki as Madam

Aimi Satsukawa as Okayo

Ainosuke Kataoka as Yatarô

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

Same Time, Next Year

1978

7.2

♡ 10

40%

85%

middle ages (476-1453)

polyamory

Romance

Robert Mulligan Director

Ivan Bonar as Chalmers

Ellen Burstyn as Doris

Alan Alda as George Peters

Cosmo Sardo as Second Waiter

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.

Wild Mountain Thyme

2020

5.8

♡ 36

25%

53%