Ava Gardner

Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.

Dir. John Huston · With Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March

In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?

Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Dir. John Huston · With Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

Dir. Albert Lewin · With James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

Dir. Michael Winner · With Cristina Raines, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

Dir. George P. Cosmatos · With Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

Dir. John Ford · With Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly

A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then star in, his next big picture. But as the producer's possessive nature and the realities of stardom weigh on Maria, she seeks a genuine lover with whom she can escape.

Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Dir. Mark Robson · With Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Dir. Henry King · With Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner