The Man with the Golden Arm
A Junkie with a crippled wife struggles with addiction (1955).
Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker
The Scarlet Letter
A woman has a child out of wedlock; she is mistreated and pressured to reveal who the lover is (1929).
Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall
Freaks
A beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry a freak show leader. The deformed circus freaks find out that she is only marrying him for his money (1932).
Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
The Stranger
A war crimes commissioner travels to Connecticut to find a famous Nazi (1946).
Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
Broken Blossoms
A Chinese man and a British woman building a relationship. There are consequences due to the era this occurred during (1919).
Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp
Jigsaw
A district attorney in New York unravels a secret extremist group while investigating a series of murders (1949).
Director: Fletcher Markle
Stars: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick
Submarine Base
An ex-gangster is hiding on a tiny island during World War 2. He proves his worth by helping defeat the Nazis as free agent, but he is also helping the Nazis. When the Nazis find out he is working with both sides they decide to execute him (1943).
Director: Albert H Kelly
Stars: John Litel, Alan Baxter, Eric Blore
Kid Monk Baroni
A street gang leader becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in little Italy (1952).
Director: Harold D. Schuster
Stars: Richard Rober, Bruce Cabot, Allene Roberts
Algiers!
A beautiful woman falls in love with a handsome man who happens to be a jewel thief (1938).
Director: Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie
Angel on my Shoulder
The devil sends a man to earth to be a judge to make up for his previous life as a gangster (1946).
Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claudia Rains
Battleship Potemkin
Sailors revolt against a leader who sets poor working conditions. They kill the captain and many of his officers. The Sailors are praised by the revolution as heroes (1925).
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Becky Sharp
Becky Sharp is the story of a lower class woman. Becky manages to ruin her life through a series of events (1935).
Director: Rouben Mamoullian, Lowell Sherman
Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke
Dance Hall Racket
A gangster operates a sleazy dance hall using a sadistic bodyguard. That keep his girls and his customers in check (1953).
Directors: Phil Tucker
Stars: Timothy Farrell, Lenny Bruce, Bernie Jones
Go Down, Death
A jute joint owner to frame an innocent preacher, but his plan back fires (1945).
Director: Spencer Williams
Stars: Myra D. Hemmings, Samuel H. James, Eddye L. Houston
Cause for Alarm!
A husband believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him. He writes that suspicion in a letter. The husband is wrong he ends up dying anyway. The letter gets discovered and now people are getting suspicious (1951).
Directors: Tay Garnett
Stars: Loretta Young, Barry Sulivan, Bruce Cowling
Cheers for Ms. Bishop
A girl is left in an exclusive seminary for girls. while her father fights in the Second Boer War (1939).
Directors: Walter Lang, William A. Seiter
Stars: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise
Meet John Doe
A man needing money impersonates a person who would commit suicide for a protest. A political movement begins in his honor (1941).
Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbaran Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
Guest in the House
A manipulative young woman moves in with her fiance's family. She later drives apart (1944).
Director: John Brahm, John Cromwell
Stars: Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon
The Blood of Jesus
A woman is accidentally shot by her husband. The devil attempts to lead her off the path of righteousness (1941).
Stars: Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Rain
Charles Wills returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he had. When he lived there prior to it's liberation. While he worked on the "Stars and Stripes" (1932).
Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard
