Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. ...more about Portrait of Jennie
A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. ...more about Beat the Devil
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. ...more about Song of Bernadette
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. While there, she becomes friendly with Adam Belinski, a charming Czech refugee. She also becomes interested in a dull shopkeeper named Mr. Wilson. ...more about Cluny Brown
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chevez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. ...more about Duel in the Sun
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Carrie boards the train to Chicago with big ambitions. She gets a job stitching shoes and her sister's husband takes almost all of her pay for room and board. Then she injures a finger and is fired. This is the 1890s. ...more about Carrie
Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. During the closing days of the Chinese Civil War, he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian doctor, the widow of a Nationalist general. ...more about Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
A married American woman has gotten involved with another man while visiting relatives in Rome. She decides that the time has come to break off the relationship, and she makes plans to return home to her husband. ...more about Indiscretion of an American Wife
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. ...more about We Were Strangers
Miss Dove is a strict disciplinary, plus a well respected teacher, who has inspired her students to individual greatness. One day during class, Miss Dove experiences great pain in her back, but continues with the class. ...more about Good Morning
Hazel Woodus is a beautiful but innocent country girl who loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. She is given a rough time by her father but can escape to run barefoot through the woods when her harsh life gets too much for her. ...more about Gone to Earth
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. ...more about Love Letters
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
A re-editing of _Gone to Earth (1950)_ (qv) after a disagreement and court case between director 'Michael Powell (I)' (qv) and producer 'David O. Selznick' (qv). Selznick's changes are mainly:- (1) Adding a prologue. ...more about Wild Heart
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning. ...more about Barretts of Wimpole Street
The overweight debutante daughter of the world's wealthiest couple falls in with a gang of tripped out, skydiving pseudo-reactionary pop stars, who take their beliefs of the American ideal to profoundly impossible heights. ...more about Angel
A group of wayward astronauts returning from a long mission to Ganymede crash land on a planet very much like earth. The problem is that the mysterious inhabitants are murderous lunatics out to kill every one of them... or so it seems. ...more about Enraged New World