A Place in the Sun (1951)

IMDB Url : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043924/

Categories : Drama, Romance

Director : George Stevens

Crew : Shepperd Strudwick, Walter Sande, John Ridgely, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Fred Clark, Frieda Inescort, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle, Raymond Burr, Herbert Heyes, Kathryn Givney, Ted de Corsia, Lois Chartrand

Release : 11 October 1951 (France)

Summary : The young and poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) leaves his religious mother and Chicago and arrives in California expecting to find a better job in the business of his wealthy uncle Charles Eastman. His cousin Earl Eastman advises him that there are many women in the factory and the basic rule is that he must not hang around with any of them. George meets the worker of the assembly line, Alice Tripp, in the movie theater and they date. Meanwhile, the outcast George is promoted and he meets the gorgeous Angela Vickers at a party thrown at his uncle's house. Angela introduces him to the local high society and they fall in love with each other. However, Alice is pregnant and she wants to get married with George. During a dinner party at Angela's lake house with parents, relatives, and friends, Alice calls George from the bus station and gives him thirty minutes to meet her; otherwise she will crash the party and tell what has happened. George is pressed by the situation which ends in a tragedy.

Two Women (1960)

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Categories : Drama, War

Director : Vittorio De Sica

Crew : Pupella Maggio, Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi, Emma Baron, Bruna Cealti, Antonella Della Porta, Mario Frera, Franco Balducci, Luciana Cortellesi, Curt Lowens, Tony Calio, Remo Galavotti

Release : 9 May 1961 (USA)

Summary : Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second world war. They travel to the village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village, the mother does everything to protect Rosetta. However, on one occasion they both get raped by soldiers hiding in a church. This cruel event is too much for the always powerful fighting Cesira and she suffers from a breakdown. During their stay in the village, a young intellectual, Michele falls in love with Cesira who does not know how to reply to the advances of such a gentleman.

Twentieth Century (1934)

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Categories : Comedy, Romance

Director : Howard Hawks

Crew : John Barrymore, Edgar Kennedy, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Carole Lombard, Ralph Forbes, Charles Lane, Etienne Girardot, Dale Fuller, Billie Seward

Release : 11 May 1934 (USA)

Summary : Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. When one of his discoveries, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and heeds the call of Hollywood, Oscar begins a career slide. He hits the skids and seems on his way out, until he chances to meet Lily again, on a train ride aboard the Twentieth Century Limited. Oscar pulls out all the stops to re-sign his former star, but it's a battle... because Lily, who is as temperamental as Oscar is, wants to have nothing to do with her former mentor.

Cabaret (1972)

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Categories : Drama, Music, Musical

Director : Bob Fosse

Crew : Marisa Berenson, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Helen Vita, Sigrid von Richthofen, Gerd Vespermann, Ralf Wolter, Georg Hartmann, Ricky Renée, Estrongo Nachama, Kathryn Doby

Release : 13 February 1972 (USA)

Summary : Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her... All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings.

True Grit (2010)

IMDB Url : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403865/

Categories : Adventure, Drama, Western

Director : Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Crew : Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin, Dakin Matthews, Jarlath Conroy, Paul Rae, Domhnall Gleeson, Elizabeth Marvel, Roy Lee Jones, Ed Corbin, Leon Russom, Bruce Green, Candyce Hinkle

Release : 22 December 2010 (USA)

Summary : Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.

Breaking the Waves (1996)

IMDB Url : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115751/

Categories : Drama, Romance

Director : Lars von Trier

Crew : Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Jonathan Hackett, Sandra Voe, Udo Kier, Mikkel Gaup, Roef Ragas, Phil McCall, Robert Robertson, Desmond Reilly, Sarah Gudgeon, Finlay Welsh

Release : 13 November 1996 (USA)

Summary : Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover.

Top Hat (1935)

IMDB Url : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027125/

Categories : Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director : Mark Sandrich

Crew : Fred Astaire, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes

Release : 6 September 1935 (USA)

Summary : Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.