
Ratings: IMDB 8.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 99%, Metacritic 100/100, External Reviews
Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 14 nominations.
Actors: Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger
Plot: Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home in Kansas and help her friends as well.
Writer: Noel Langley (screenplay), Florence Ryerson (screenplay), Edgar Allan Woolf (screenplay), Noel Langley (adaptation), L. Frank Baum (from the book by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 8.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
Actors: Aline MacMahon, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Warren William
Plot: A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play.
Writer: Erwin S. Gelsey (screenplay), James Seymour (screenplay), David Boehm (dialogue), Ben Markson (dialogue), Avery Hopwood (based on a play by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 8.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins.
Actors: Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis, Paul Muni
Plot: Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Writer: Robert E. Burns (by), Howard J. Green (screen play), Brown Holmes (screen play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Don DeFore, Robert Walker, Spencer Tracy, Tim Murdock, Van Johnson
Plot: In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Writer: Dalton Trumbo (screen play), Ted W. Lawson (based on the book), Robert Considine (based on the book)
Language: English, Mandarin Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 92%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations.
Actors: Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, William Powell
Plot: In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.
Writer: Frank S. Nugent (screenplay), Joshua Logan (screenplay), Thomas Heggen (based on the play by), Joshua Logan (based on the play by), Thomas Heggen (from the novel by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 8.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 89%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors: Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Ronald Colman, Susan Peters
Plot: An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Writer: Claudine West (screen play), George Froeschel (screen play), Arthur Wimperis (screen play), James Hilton (based upon the novel by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB

Ratings: IMDB 7.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 91%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Edward G. Robinson, Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr.
Plot: A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
Writer: W.R. Burnett (novel), Robert N. Lee (continuity), Francis Edward Faragoh (screen version), Francis Edward Faragoh (dialogue)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 91%, External Reviews
Actors: Anthony Bushell, Edward G. Robinson, H.B. Warner, Marian Marsh
Plot: The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
Writer: Louis Weitzenkorn (based on the play by), Byron Morgan (screen play), Robert Lord (adaptation)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Robert Taylor
Plot: A fierce Roman commander becomes infatuated with a beautiful Christian hostage and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero.
Writer: John Lee Mahin (screen play), S.N. Behrman (screen play), Sonya Levien (screen play), Henryk Sienkiewicz (based on the novel by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 94%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins.
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Harry McKim, Teddy Infuhr
Plot: Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
Writer: Albert Maltz
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win.
Actors: Lucile Watson, Robert Taylor, Virginia Field, Vivien Leigh
Plot: During World War I, believing her fiancé to be dead, a young ballerina loses her job and is forced to turn to prostitution.
Writer: S.N. Behrman (screen play), Hans Rameau (screen play), George Froeschel (screen play), Robert E. Sherwood (play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.9/10, External Reviews
Actors: Dick Powell, Marion Davies, Mary Astor, Pat O'Brien
Plot: Loretta Dalrymple, a homely young country girl comes to New York City and gets a job as a chambermaid in a large hotel. She meets Ed Olson, a photographer out of work, and Dan Riley, a ...
Writer: Delmer Daves (screen play), Robert Lord (screen play), Joseph Schrank (play), Phillip Dunning (play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Peter Lawford
Plot: The March sisters -- Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy -- struggle to make ends meet in their New England household while their father is away fighting in the Civil War. Despite harsh times, they cling...
Writer: Andrew Solt (screen play), Sarah Y. Mason (screen play), Victor Heerman (screen play), Louisa May Alcott (from the novel by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.8/10, External Reviews
Actors: Alison Skipworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas
Plot: A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
Writer: Fanny Hatton (adaptation), Frederic Hatton (adaptation), Lily Hatvany (play), Ernest Vajda (written for the screen by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB

Ratings: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%, External Reviews
Actors: Albert Bassermann, Greer Garson, Henry Travers, Walter Pidgeon
Plot: Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.
Writer: Paul Osborn (screen play), Hans Rameau (screen play), Ève Curie (book)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB

Ratings: IMDB 7.7/10, External Reviews
Actors: Andy Griffith, Murray Hamilton, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams
Plot: Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
Writer: John Lee Mahin (screenplay), Ira Levin (play), Mac Hyman (novel)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.3/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Claude Rains, Edward Norris, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger
Plot: A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
Writer: Ward Greene (novel), Robert Rossen (screen play), Aben Kandel (screen play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.3/10, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Warren William
Plot: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Writer: Lucien Hubbard (screen play), Kubec Glasmon (story), John Bright (story)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Alla Nazimova, Conrad Veidt, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor
Plot: 1938: A young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.
Writer: Arch Oboler (screen play), Marguerite Roberts (screen play), Grace Zaring Stone (novel)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, External Reviews
Actors: Marie Dressler, Maureen O'Sullivan, Robert Young, Wallace Beery
Plot: Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their ...
Writer: Norman Reilly Raine (stories), Zelda Sears (adaptation), Eve Greene (adaptation), Norman Reilly Raine (additional dialogue)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 69%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 10 nominations.
Actors: Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Paul Wallace, Rosalind Russell
Plot: Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Writer: Arthur Laurents (based upon the stage play: book by), Gypsy Rose Lee (from the memoirs of), Leonard Spigelgass (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 65%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Eileen Heckart, Henry Jones, Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack
Plot: A housewife suspects that her seemingly perfect eight year-old daughter is a heartless killer.
Writer: John Lee Mahin (screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (play), William March (novel)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.0/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Guy Kibbee, Preston Foster, Vivienne Osborne
Plot: A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Writer: Elliott Lester (play), Harvey F. Thew (adaptation)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.0/10, External Reviews
Actors: Alice White, Blanche Sweet, Ford Sterling, Jack Mulhall
Plot: 'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises ...
Writer: J.P. McEvoy (based on the story by), Harvey F. Thew (adapted by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.9/10, External Reviews
Actors: Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin
Plot: A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself be be seduced by a former girlfriend.
Writer: Isobel Lennart (screenplay), Marcia Davenport (novel)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB

Ratings: IMDB 6.9/10, External Reviews
Actors: Allen Jenkins, James Cagney, Mary Brian, Ruth Donnelly
Plot: Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is ...
Writer: Robert Lord (screen play), Wilson Mizner (screen play), Houston Branch (original story)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.8/10, External Reviews
Actors: Alexis Smith, Audrey Totter, Clark Gable, Wendell Corey
Plot: Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son.
Writer: Edward Harris Heth (novel), Richard Brooks
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.8/10, External Reviews
Actors: Anne Baxter, Clark Gable, John Hodiak, Lana Turner
Plot: Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day...
Writer: Sidney Kingsley (story), Jan Lustig (adaptation), Paul Osborn
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.8/10, External Reviews
Actors: Aline MacMahon, Donald Cook, Mary Astor, Paul Muni
Plot: An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.
Writer: Edward Chodorov (screenplay), Sheridan Gibney (story "America Kneels")
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.6/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: James Stewart, Larry Pennell, Murray Hamilton, Vera Miles
Plot: A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Writer: Richard L. Breen (screenplay), John Twist (screenplay), Don Whitehead (book)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.6/10, External Reviews
Actors: Charles McGraw, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Leith, William Holden
Plot: At the dawn of supersonic flight in the 1950s a group of Edwards Air Force Base experimental aircraft test pilots push themselves to the limit.
Writer: Beirne Lay Jr.
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.6/10, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: David Brian, Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon
Plot: Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
Writer: Everett Freeman (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB

Ratings: IMDB 6.6/10, External Reviews
Actors: Anne Triola, Claudette Colbert, Don DeFore, John Wayne
Plot: En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten to a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.
Writer: Andrew Solt (screenplay), Jane Allen (novel), Mae Livingston (novel)
Language: English, Spanish Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.6/10, External Reviews
Actors: Edward Arnold, Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt
Plot: A tough, ambitious newspaperman starts a new tabloid in 1919 New York, with a crooked big-time gambler as a partner.
Writer: Earl Baldwin, Bartlett Cormack, Lesser Samuels
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.5/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Kerwin Mathews, Spencer Tracy
Plot: A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
Writer: Liam O'Brien (screenplay), Max Catto (novel)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 60%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors: Alec Guinness, Madlyn Rhue, Ray Danton, Rosalind Russell
Plot: A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.
Writer: Leonard Spigelgass (play), Leonard Spigelgass (screenplay)
Language: English, Japanese, Yiddish, German Country: USA More Info: IMDB

Ratings: IMDB 6.3/10, External Reviews
Actors: Barry Nelson, Debbie Reynolds, Diane McBain, Hiram Sherman
Plot: Nine months after they split up Bob and Mary meet at his New York apartment to sort out some tax matters. He's getting married to healthy-eating Tiffany as soon as the divorce becomes final...
Writer: Jean Kerr (stage play), Richard L. Breen (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB

Ratings: IMDB 6.3/10, External Reviews
Actors: Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Marge Champion, Red Skelton
Plot: Three Broadway producers struggling to get backing for their show hope one's sudden inheritance of a half interest in a Parisian fashion house is the answer. They travel to Paris only to learn the salon is in debt and requires their help.
Writer: George Wells (screenplay), Harry Ruby (screenplay), Andrew Solt (additional dialogue), Alice Duer Miller (novel)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.3/10, External Reviews
Actors: Eric Linden, Joan Blondell, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks
Plot: Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.
Writer: Ward Morehouse (play), Ward Morehouse (screenplay), Lillie Hayward (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.1/10, External Reviews
Actors: Allen Jenkins, Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravey, Ralph Bellamy
Plot: Rene is broke and Kay is a rich actress visiting Paris. They meet, share a cab and dinner. He is smitten by her, but she leaves for London and he follows. At her house, when he cooks the ...
Writer: Herbert Fields (screen play), Joseph Fields (screen play), Irving Brecher (additional dialogue), Nancy Hamilton (from the play by), James L. Shute (from the play by), Rosemary Casey (from the play by)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 5.4/10, External Reviews
Actors: John Lund, Lana Turner, Louis Calhern, Ricardo Montalban
Plot: Nora Taylor has $37,000,00 but thinks every man she meets prefers her bankbook figure to her own, and that include her current fiancé, Paul Chevron, who has $48,000,000 of his own. Paul ...
Writer: Isobel Lennart
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 7.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 25%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
Actors: Felix Bressart, Greer Garson, Marsha Hunt, Walter Pidgeon
Plot: After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.
Writer: Anita Loos (screen play), Ralph Wheelwright (story)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 5.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 25%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 nominations.
Actors: Aldo Ray, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, John Wayne
Plot: Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.
Writer: James Lee Barrett (screenplay), Robin Moore (novel)
Language: English, Vietnamese, German, Danish Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia

Ratings: IMDB 6.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 13%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 4 Oscars. Another 3 nominations.
Actors: Anita Louise, Donald Woods, Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland
Plot: In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
Writer: Hervey Allen (by), Sheridan Gibney (screen play)
Language: English, Italian Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia