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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Rated: 0 | 136 Views Released Year: 1945

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Set in the early 1900s, Elia Kazan's first film centers on a poor Brooklyn family struggling not only to survive, but to improve their meager existence. Young Francie (Peggy Ann Garner) worships her father, Johnny (James Dunn), despite his alcoholism; mother Katie (Dorothy McGuire) holds the family together; and an impetuous aunt (Joan Blondell) keeps everyone on their toes. James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner both won Oscars for their performances.
URL: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Majority of One

Rated: 0 | 114 Views Released Year: 1961

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must relearn the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness. 

URL: A Majority of One

Man of a Thousand Faces

Rated: 0 | 119 Views Released Year: 1957

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: James Cagney sketches a vivid, dynamic picture of inscrutable cult star and master of disguise Lon Chaney in this slick Hollywood biography. Centering on Chaney's tumultuous personal life and ascent from cabaret clown to persevering Tinseltown extra to full-fledged movie star, Man of a Thousand Faces also re-creates many of the actor's renowned film characters, including the hunchback of Notre Dame and the phantom of the opera.
URL: Man of a Thousand Faces

A King in New York

Rated: 0 | 125 Views Released Year: 1973

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Charlie Chaplin takes on the 1950s in his typically zany but witty way as King Shahdov of Estrovia, who flees to New York after being overthrown by revolutionaries. By pure chance, the destitute ex-king lands a job in television and becomes an overnight celebrity. But when he befriends a 10-year-old boy with Communist parents, Shadhov is denounced as a Communist himself and must stand trial before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
URL: A King in New York

Young Man with a Horn

Rated: 0 | 121 Views Released Year: 1949

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Kirk Douglas plays hard-drinking, passionate music man Rick Martin in this drama inspired by the life of jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. Thanks to a devoted mentor, the young, idealistic Rick proves to be a musician of the highest caliber. But his life hits a sour note when his troubled marriage, penchant for the bottle and stormy personality threaten to derail a promising career. Lauren Bacall and Doris Day co-star as Rick's love interests.
URL: Young Man with a Horn

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Rated: 0 | 148 Views Released Year: 1968

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Alan Arkin earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of John Singer, a deaf and mute man who comes to live in a small Southern town and ends up touching the lives of many, in this film based on the novel by Carson McCullers. Also given an Oscar nod for her performance was Sondra Locke, who plays a lonely teenager Singer befriends. Stacy Keach, Percy Rodrigues and Cicely Tyson co-star in this sensitive drama.
URL: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Sunrise

Rated: 0 | 164 Views Released Year: 1927

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Director F.W. Murnau's emotional odyssey stars George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor as a country couple whose marriage is threatened when O'Brien falls prey to cosmopolitan temptress Margaret Livingston's feminine wiles. Imbued with an intoxicating ambiance in style and substance, the lyrical silent film -- which is, by turns, quixotic, blissful, sensual and terrifying -- chalked up Academy Awards for Best Actress (Gaynor) and Best Cinematography.
URL: Sunrise

A Double Life

Rated: 0 | 189 Views Released Year: 1947

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Director George Cukor confidently guides this brooding and cynical film noir that features what is arguably the peak performance of Ronald Colman (he won a Best Actor Oscar for the role). Coleman plays a veteran stage actor who, while playing Othello, falls victim to the actor's malady of mixing roles with reality -- a particularly dangerous affliction in this case, as he plays the jealous Moor opposite his own wife in the production.
URL: A Double Life

A Woman of Paris

Rated: 0 | 117 Views Released Year: 1923

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: Charlie Chaplin directs this silent melodrama about a small-town girl, Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance), who sets out to find romantic affirmation in the City of Lights. Believing she's been jilted by her artist beau (Carl Miller), Marie heads to Paris and becomes the mistress of a wealthy playboy (Adolphe Menjou). When she runs into her ex-lover years later and he again proclaims his love to her, she must choose between two different lives.
URL: A Woman of Paris

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Rated: 0 | 133 Views Released Year: 1964

Genre: Classic Dramas
About: A compelling drama with an unexpected twist. Myra Savage, an unstable psychic in London, is desperate to achieve recognition and wealth. She and her weak-willed husband devise a plan to kidnap the young child of a wealthy couple, collect the ransom money and then gain publicity by helping the couple locate the child using Myra's psychic abilities. The plan falls apart … but not in typical Hollywood fashion.
URL: Seance on a Wet Afternoon

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