Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.

A Bill of Divorcement

1932

English

6.5

♡ 9

60%

father daughter relationship

George Cukor Director

Bramwell Fletcher as Gareth

Elizabeth Patterson as Hester

Dennis O'Keefe as Party Guest

Katharine Hepburn as Sidney

A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.

Holiday

1938

English

7.7

♡ 22

George Cukor Director

Ann Doran as Kitchen Maid

Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton

Lew Ayres as Ned Seton

Henry Daniell as Seton Cram

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

Pat and Mike

1952

English

6.9

♡ 9

85%

George Cukor Director

Paul Brinegar as Caddy

Margaret Bert as Golf Spectator

Charles Bronson as Hank Tasling

Frank Richards as Sam Garsell

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.

Love Among the Ruins

1975

English

7.7

♡ 6

79%

George Cukor Director

Richard Pearson as Druce

Joan Sims as Fanny Pratt

John G. Heller as Headwaiter

Colin Blakely as J.F. Devine

An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.

Born Yesterday

1950

English

7.5

♡ 16

95%

85%

Action

based on play or musical

George Cukor Director

Mike Mahoney as Elevator Operator

Judy Holliday as Emma 'Billie' Dawn

William Holden as Paul Verrall

Grandon Rhodes as Sanborn

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.

A Star Is Born

1954

English

7.5

♡ 29

98%

81%

academy awards

academy awards (oscars)

husband wife relationship

musical

Musical

Romance

George Cukor Director

Irving Bacon as Graves

Louis Jean Heydt as Ocean Scene Director

Ron Nyman as Stage Manager

Don Beddoe as Studio Executive at Premiere

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Keeper of the Flame

1942

English

6.7

♡ 4

67%

foreign correspondent

Mystery

widow

George Cukor Director

Forrest Tucker as Geoffrey Midford

Audrey Christie as Jane Harding

Darryl Hickman as Jeb Rickards

John Roy as Police Officer at Funeral

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

Desire Me

1947

English

6.1

♡ 5

36%

George Cukor Director

Sidney D'Albrook as Assistant

Ian Wolfe as Dr. Poulin

Hans Schumm as German voice

Robert Mitchum as Paul Aubert

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

One Hour with You

1932

English

7.0

♡ 12

86%

74%

Action

adultery

based on play or musical

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.

A Life of Her Own

1950

English

6.2

♡ 5

70%

ventriloquist's dummy

George Cukor Director

Georgia Holt as Agency Model

Queenie Leonard as Hotel Matron

Tom Ewell as Tom Caraway

Margaret Bert as (uncredited)

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

I Met My Love Again

1938

English

5.5

♡ 2

teacher student relationship

George Cukor Director

Tim Holt as Budge Williams

Lester Dorr as Hotel Desk Clerk

Henry Fonda as Ives Towner

Joan Bennett as Julie Weir

In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.

The Virtuous Sin

1930

English

5.6

♡ 4

96%

George Cukor Director

Paul Cavanagh as Capt. Orloff

Walter Huston as Gen. Gregori Platoff

Kay Francis as Marya Ivanova Sablin

Anita Garvin as Undetermined Secondary Role

Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.

Lust for Life

1956

English

7.3

♡ 23

80%

George Cukor Director

Len Lesser as Cartoonist

Betty Blythe as Dowager

Everett Sloane as Dr. Gachet

Henry Corden as Waiter

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Let's Make Love

1960

English

6.4

♡ 20

64%

George Cukor Director

Tony Randall as Alexander Coffman

Byron Morrow as Executive

Roxanne Tunis as Extra

Richard Haydn as Prologue Narrator

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

Gaslight

1944

English

7.8

♡ 34

89%

George Cukor Director

Joseph Cotten as Brian Cameron

Angela Lansbury as Nancy

Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist

Terry Moore as Paula Alquist - Age 14

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Bhowani Junction

1956

English

6.4

♡ 2

100%

62%

Adventure

based on novel or book

George Cukor Director

Abraham Sofaer as Surabhai

Les Tremayne as Trailer Narrator

Roger Delgado as Train Driver

Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

Little Women

1933

English

7.1

♡ 11

89%

78%

Action

based on novel or book

George Cukor Director

Joan Bennett as Amy March

Douglass Montgomery as Laurie

Nydia Westman as Mamie

Samuel S. Hinds as Mr. March

Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences tribulations, joy, and kindness from their wealthy neighbor and his high-spirited grandson.

David Copperfield

1935

English

7.3

♡ 4

100%

76%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

George Cukor Director

Madge Evans as Agnes

Elsa Lanchester as Clickett

Lionel Barrymore as Dan Peggotty

Lennox Pawle as Mr. Dick

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.