Gone with the Wind (1939)
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother in law while her reality crumbles around her
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid Their love will be one of the wars unspoken casualties
Ship of Fools (1965)
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
The story of courtesan and dance hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra Vivien Leigh meets a middle aged Julius Caesar Claude Rains, who teaches her how to rule Egypt