Search results for "William Wyler"
The Gay Deception

The Gay Deception

The Gay Deception
IMDb: 6.8
77

Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Counsellor at Law

Counsellor at Law

Counsellor at Law
IMDb: 7.6
82

Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.

Genre: Drama
Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver
IMDb: 7.6
134

English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Dead End

Dead End

Dead End
IMDb: 7.3
93

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Dodsworth

Dodsworth

Dodsworth
IMDb: 7.8
101

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
Funny Girl

Funny Girl

Funny Girl
IMDb: 7.4
149

The story of the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
How to Steal a Million

How to Steal a Million

How to Steal a Million
IMDb: 7.6
123

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

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Collector

The Collector

The Collector
IMDb: 7.5
119

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…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Children’s Hour

The Children’s Hour

The Children’s Hour
IMDb: 7.8
108

A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student, Mary Tilford, accuses the two young women who run the school of having a lesbian relationship.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Big Country

The Big Country

The Big Country
IMDb: 7.9
165

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are…

Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday
IMDb: 8
119

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jezebel

Jezebel

Jezebel
IMDb: 7.5
103

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Heiress

The Heiress

The Heiress
IMDb: 8.2
115

Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris…

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives
IMDb: 8.1
171

It’s the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Letter

The Letter

The Letter
IMDb: 7.6
95

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur
IMDb: 8.1
222

In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
The Westerner

The Westerner

The Westerner
IMDb: 7.4
100

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…

Carrie

Carrie

Carrie
IMDb: 7.3
118

Carrie’s dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Liberation of L.B. Jones

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

The Liberation of L.B. Jones
IMDb: 6.8
102

Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted…

Genre: Drama
The Desperate Hours

The Desperate Hours

The Desperate Hours
IMDb: 7.5
112

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

The Good Fairy

The Good Fairy

The Good Fairy
IMDb: 7.5
98

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…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Shakedown

The Shakedown

The Shakedown
IMDb: 6.4
70

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

Detective Story

Detective Story

Detective Story
IMDb: 7.6
103

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion
IMDb: 7.4
137

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It’s not easy for them to meet the rules…

Genre: Drama, War, Western
These Three

These Three

These Three
IMDb: 7.5
93

Martha and Karen graduate from college and turn an old Massachusetts farm into a school for girls. The friends are aided in their venture by local doctor Joe Cardin, who…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes
IMDb: 8
115

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
IMDb: 7.6
104

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….

Genre: Drama, Romance