Its a Wonderful Life (1946)
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed
It Happened One Night (1934)
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd
Westward the Women (1951)
A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U S Senate His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c
Lost Horizon (1937)
When a revered diplomats plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay
You Cant Take It with You (1938)
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development
State of the Union (1948)
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels
Platinum Blonde (1931)
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change
A Hole in the Head (1959)
Widower Tony is trying to keep a small Miami hotel afloat while raising a 12 year old son Hes forced to ask his harried brother Mario for help, but hell only bail Tony out if he quits his bohemian lifestyle and marries a sensib
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
An upper crust artist hires a party girl as a model romance follows
The Battle of Russia (1943)
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War
Forbidden (1932)
A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid
Meet John Doe (1941)
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non existent person who said hed be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins
American Madness (1932)
Socially conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protege is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dicksons wife had an affair all during the same day
Tunisian Victory (1944)
Documentary made by the U S Army Signal Corps
Lady for a Day (1933)
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day
Riding High (1950)
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race
Prelude to War (1942)
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought
The Nazis Strike (1943)
The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war