During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford's wife Dorothy.

The Yearling

1946

English

7.1

♡ 9

100%

75%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

Family

florida

human animal relationship

Clarence Brown Director

Chill Wills as Buck Forrester

Forrest Tucker as Lem Forrester

Gregory Peck as Penny Baxter

June Lockhart as Twink Weatherby

Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

Wife vs. Secretary

1936

English

7.0

♡ 4

70%

Clarence Brown Director

James Stewart as Dave

Jean Harlow as Helen

Myrna Loy as Linda Stanhope

John Qualen as Mr. Jenkins

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.

Of Human Hearts

1938

English

6.8

♡ 3

52%

Clarence Brown Director

Francis X. Bushman Jr. as Churchgoer

Ward Bond as Lout Laughing in Church

Anne O'Neal as Mrs. Hawks

Gene Lockhart as Quid

This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.

The Eagle

1925

English

6.6

♡ 5

83%

Clarence Brown Director

Spottiswoode Aitken as Dubrovsky's Father

James A. Marcus as Kyrilla Troekouroff

Gary Cooper as Masked Cossack

Rudolph Valentino as Vladimir Dubrovsky

Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.

Anna Christie

1930

English

6.5

♡ 6

57%

Action

based on play or musical

Clarence Brown Director

Greta Garbo as Anna

Jack Baxley as Coney Island Barker

James T. Mack as Johnny, the Harp

Marie Dressler as Marthy

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

Anna Karenina

1935

English

7.0

♡ 10

86%

70%

based on novel or book

Drama

husband wife relationship

st. petersburg, russia

Clarence Brown Director

Fredric March as Count Vronsky

Sam Flint as Husband - Second Couple

Barbara Pepper as Party Girl

Betty Blythe as Spectator in Opera Box

In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.

Flesh and the Devil

1926

English

7.6

♡ 7

94%

Clarence Brown Director

Frankie Darro as Boy Who Dances with Hertha

Glen Walters as Family Retainer

Greta Garbo as Felicitas

John Gilbert as Leo von Harden

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

Romance

1930

English

5.7

♡ 3

Clarence Brown Director

Elliott Nugent as Harry

James T. Mack as Jason - Armstrong's Butler

Clara Blandick as Miss Armstrong

Florence Lake as Susan Van Tuyl

A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.

Idiot's Delight

1939

English

6.5

♡ 9

33%

Clarence Brown Director

Edward Arnold as Achille Weber

E. Alyn Warren as Clerk at Royal Grand Hotel

Frank Faylen as Ed

Margaret Bert as Nurse #2

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

National Velvet

1944

English

7.3

♡ 6

98%

human animal relationship

pre-unix

Sport

Clarence Brown Director

Angela Lansbury as Edwina Brown

Norma Varden as Miss Sims

Donald Crisp as Mr. Brown

William A. Boardway as Racetrack Spectator

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.

Sadie McKee

1934

English

6.8

♡ 3

70%

Clarence Brown Director

Edward Arnold as Brennan

Minerva Urecal as Brennan's Cook's Assistant

Samuel S. Hinds as Dr. Branch

Gene Raymond as Tommy

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

Intruder in the Dust

1949

English

7.6

♡ 10

93%

84%

based on novel or book

Clarence Brown Director

Claude Jarman Jr. as Chick Mallison

David Brian as John Gavin Stevens

Elizabeth Patterson as Miss Eunice Habersham

Dan White as Will Legate

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.

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The Yearling

Wife vs. Secretary

Of Human Hearts

The Eagle

Anna Christie

Anna Karenina

Flesh and the Devil

Romance

Idiot's Delight

National Velvet

Sadie McKee

Intruder in the Dust