Mommie Dearest (1981)
The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout
1776 (1972)
A musical retelling of the American Revolutions political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
An ex bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife
Unconquered (1947)
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War
They Live by Night (1948)
An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning
David and Lisa (1962)
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person Perturbed, Davids overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people
M (1951)
In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls