Baby Doll (1956)
An immature, naive teenage bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer
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
East of Eden (1955)
Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible toting fathers favor as an old secret about their long absent mother comes to light
Wild River (1960)
A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship
On the Waterfront (1954)
An ex prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicates victims
The Arrangement (1969)
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown
Gentlemans Agreement (1947)
A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred
The Sea of Grass (1947)
On Americas frontier, a St Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals
Boomerang! (1947)
The true story of a prosecutors fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder
The Last Tycoon (1976)
F Scott Fitzgeralds novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Female radio reporter Marcia Jeffries turns folk singing drifter Larry Lonesome Rhoades into a powerful media star who becomes utterly detestable during his meteoric rise Film debuts of Anthony Franciosa, Andy Griffith, and Lee
Viva Zapata! (1952)
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century
America America (1963)
A young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America
The Visitors (1972)
Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s
Panic in the Streets (1950)
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague
Pinky (1949)
A light skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
A Czech circus ownerclown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain