Ben Hecht

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

Dir. Michael Curtiz · With James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Dir. Howard Hawks · With Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley

During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak

Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.

Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Gary Cooper

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Dir. Otto Preminger · With Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Bert Freed

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.

Dir. William Wyler · With Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Dir. William A. Wellman · With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

Dir. Rouben Mamoulian · With Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

Dir. William Dieterle · With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Dir. Henry Hathaway · With Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Dir. Otto Preminger · With Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman

A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Dir. Mario Camerini · With Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

Dir. George Stevens · With Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

Dir. William A. Wellman · With Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

Dir. Christian Nyby · With Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite

After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.

Dir. Henry Hathaway · With John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Dir. King Vidor · With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck

A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.

Dir. Carol Reed · With Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

Dir. Otto Preminger · With Gene Tierney, José Ferrer, Richard Conte