Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.

Dodsworth

1936

English

7.7

♡ 14

91%

husband wife relationship

William Wyler Director

Ruth Chatterton as Fran Dodsworth

Dale Van Sickel as Guest on Ship

Bobby Barber as Italian Taxi Driver

William Wyler as Violin Player in Dance Orchestra

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Mrs. Miniver

1942

English

7.6

♡ 12

93%

84%

Action

based on novel or book

William Wyler Director

Ian Wolfe as Dentist

Tom Conway as Man

Sidney D'Albrook as Man in Store

Forrester Harvey as Mr. Huggins

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

Wuthering Heights

1939

English

♡ 13

96%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

central and south america

William Wyler Director

Donald Crisp as Dr. Kenneth

David Niven as Edgar

Vernon Downing as Giles

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Isabella

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.

The Little Foxes

1941

English

7.9

♡ 9

50%

William Wyler Director

Anita Brown as Bit Part

Dan Duryea as Leo Hubbard

Hank Worden as Loafer at Train Station

Bette Davis as Regina Giddens

In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.

These Three

1936

English

7.4

♡ 6

100%

William Wyler Director

Margaret Hamilton as Agatha

Joel McCrea as Dr. Cardin

Ann Bupp as Minor Role

Alma Kruger as Mrs. Tilford

Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.

The Westerner

1940

English

7.2

♡ 10

100%

William Wyler Director

Lilian Bond as Lily Langtry

Trevor Bardette as Shad Wilkins

Chill Wills as Southeast

Forrest Tucker as Wade Harper

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

The Fighting Lady

1944

English

7.2

♡ 3

William Wyler Director

Robert Taylor as Narrator

Charles Boyer as Récitant / Narrator

Joseph J. Clark as Self

Dixie Kiefer as Self

Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 "newsdrama," narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR (Bataan), and photographed in zones of combat by the U.S. Navy. The film follows one of the many new aircraft carriers built since Pearl Harbor, known as THE FIGHTING LADY in honor of all American carriers, as it goes into action against the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean in 1943. See the ship and its pilots undergo their baptism of fire, attacking the Japanese base on Marcus Island. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.

The Children's Hour

1961

English

7.8

♡ 22

78%

84%

Action

based on play or musical

Drama

falsely accused

female friendship

girls' boarding school

Romance

suicide

teacher

William Wyler Director

Diane Mountford as

Hope Summers as Agatha

James Garner as Dr. Joe Cardin

Veronica Cartwright as Rosalie Wells

An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.

The Shakedown

1929

English

6.7

♡ 2

William Wyler Director

George Kotsonaros as Battling Roff

John Huston as Extra

William Wyler as Photographer at Fight Arena

Jack Raymond as Salesman

The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.

Funny Girl

1968

English

7.4

♡ 27

95%

William Wyler Director

Johnny Silver as Arnstein's Jockey

Ethelreda Leopold as Audience Member

John Roy as Audience Member

John Dennis as Newsman

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.

The Desperate Hours

1955

English

7.4

♡ 11

88%

William Wyler Director

Fredric March as Daniel Hilliard

Walter Baldwin as George Patterson

Helen Kleeb as Miss Wells

Ann Doran as Mrs. Walling

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

Counsellor at Law

1933

English

7.5

♡ 5

William Wyler Director

John Qualen as Johan Breitstein

Thelma Todd as Lillian La Rue

Bebe Daniels as Rexy Gordon

Melvyn Douglas as Roy Darwin

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

Carrie

1952

English

7.3

♡ 5

75%

William Wyler Director

Walter Baldwin as Carrie's Father

Don Beddoe as Mr. Goodman

John Alvin as Stage Manager

Robert Foulk as Sven

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister. She then runs for help to traveling salesman Charles Drouet. She soon becomes his mistress, but falls in love with married restaurant manager George Hurstwood.

The Good Fairy

1935

English

7.4

♡ 6

88%

84%

Action

based on play or musical

William Wyler Director

Beulah Bondi as Dr. Schultz

Alan Hale as Maurice Schlapkohl

Lillian Lawrence as Teacher in Orphanage

Reginald Owen as The Waiter

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.

How to Steal a Million

1966

English

7.5

♡ 42

100%

William Wyler Director

Jacques Marin as Chief Guard

Eli Wallach as Davis Leland

Peter O'Toole as Simon Dermott

Georg Stanford Brown as Waiter

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

Detective Story

1951

English

7.5

♡ 8

71%

William Wyler Director

Joseph Wiseman as Charley Gennini

Horace McMahon as Lt. Monaghan

Eleanor Parker as Mary McLeod

Lee Grant as Shoplifter

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

Dead End

1937

English

7.2

♡ 8

83%

William Wyler Director

Ward Bond as Doorman

Sylvia Sidney as Drina

Claire Trevor as Francey

Leo Gorcey as Spit

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

The Big Country

1958

English

7.9

♡ 18

100%

parent child relationship

ranch

Romance

Western

William Wyler Director

Shailar Coby as Buck Hannassey

Gregory Peck as James McKay

Jean Simmons as Julie Maragon

Chuck Hayward as Rafe Hannassey

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.

The Heiress

1949

English

8.1

♡ 24

100%

William Wyler Director

Lester Dorr as Groom

Douglas Spencer as Minister

Montgomery Clift as Morris Townsend

Russ Conway as Quintus

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.

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Dodsworth

Mrs. Miniver

Wuthering Heights

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These Three

The Westerner

The Fighting Lady

The Children's Hour

The Shakedown

Funny Girl

The Desperate Hours

Counsellor at Law

Carrie

The Good Fairy

How to Steal a Million

Detective Story

Dead End

The Big Country

The Heiress