Summer of 42 (1971)
During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, young Hermie, eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter, develops an innocent love for young war bride Dorothy who is awaiting news about her soldier husbands fate in WWII
The Man in the Moon (1991)
A coming of age story set in the south of the U S when Elvis was King
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice
Come September (1961)
Younger generation vs older folks on vacation at an Italian villa
Claras Heart (1988)
A Jamaican woman becomes the housekeeper for a rich Baltimore family and bonds with a disillusioned teenage boy
Up the Down Staircase (1967)
The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner city New York high school
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
The ghost of a dead husband haunts his wife as she moves back to their house in NYC Shes about to marry an egyptologist there
Fear Strikes Out (1957)
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball
The Great Impostor (1960)
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it
The Spiral Road (1962)
In 1936, a Dutch physician who treats leprosy patients in the jungles of Indonesia has a dangerous run in with a local witch doctor who uses black magic to kill his enemies