The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
Synopsis: At the height of WWII, residents of a small Italian village try to hide their most precious commodity from the Nazis: wine. Reaction & Thoughts: The Secret of Santa […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Stories of people dealing with human emotions in realistic situations
Between the Lines (1977)
Synopsis: The fiercely independent staff members at a Boston newspaper go bananas after they find out that a major publishing company wants to buy the paper. Reaction & Thoughts: “All […]
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
Synopsis: In Victorian England, poetess Elizabeth “Ba” Barrett (Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette) falls in love with fellow poet Robert Browning (Bill Travers, Born Free), but they hide the […]
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Synopsis: Sickly poetess Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer, A Free Soul) meets and falls in love with fellow poet Robert Browning (Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), which causes the […]
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
Synopsis: A poor farm girl (Greta Garbo, Ninotchka) runs away from home and is rescued by worldly architect (Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind). They fall in love, but unforeseen […]
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Synopsis: The teen daughter (Joey Heatherton, Twilight of Honor) of a famous sculptor (Susan Hayward, I Want to Live!), and granddaughter of a wealthy woman (Bette Davis), kills her mother’s […]
The Best of Everything (1959)
Synopsis: This is the story of three ambitious women working at a New York publishing company in the late 1950s. The young women deal with, among other things, love entanglements […]
The Empty Canvas (1963, aka La Noia)
Synopsis: A wealthy Italian young man (Horst Buchholz, The Magnificent Seven) wants to be an artist, but his powerful American mother (Bette Davis) has other plans for him. All hell […]
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Synopsis: At the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi (Flora Robson, Saratoga Trunk) is persuaded to kick foreigners out of the country. The Empress orders the Boxers, a rouge group of […]
Brideshead Revisited (1981, TV-Mini-Series)
Synopsis: An officer in the British army recalls twenty years of his friendship with a troubled aristocrat and his powerful family. Reaction & Thoughts: “I believed myself very close to […]
George Pal Presents: Houdini (1953)
Synopsis: A carny magician, Harry Houdini (Tony Curtis, The Defiant Ones), falls in love with one of his admirers, Bess Rahner (Janet Leigh, The Manchurian Candidate). Bess initially objects to […]
Beloved Infidel (1959)
Synopsis: This is the true story of British Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham (Deborah Kerr, The End of the Affair) and her turbulent relationship with American author F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gregory Peck, […]
The End of the Affair (1955)
Synopsis: In the 1940s, a writer, Maurice Bendrix (Van Johnson, A Guy Named Joe), begins a clandestine relationship with a married woman, Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr, The Innocents), whom he tries […]
The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Synopsis: The place is a small town in the American South. A spoiled rich girl, played by Miriam Hopkins (Old Acquaintance), is forced into prostitution by her rapist. Reaction & […]
In the House (2012, aka Dans la maison)
Synopsis: A High School teacher (Fabrice Luchini, The Women on the 6th Floor) asks his students to write an essay and one of his pupils (Ernst Umhauer, The Monk) decides […]
The Bette Davis Project: John Paul Jones (1959)
Synopsis: The life and times of the father of the U.S. Navy: from his humble beginnings in Scotland, to his instrumental role in the American Revolution and beyond. Reaction & […]
Walt Disney Presents: Big Red (1962)
Synopsis: In Canada, a wealthy landowner (Walter Pidgeon, Mrs. Miniver) hires an orphan (Gilles Payant) to take care of his prized dog, an Irish Setter named “Red.” The child and […]
Walt Disney Presents: Greyfriars Bobby – The True Story of a Dog (1961)
Synopsis: In 19th century Edinburgh, Scotland, an old shepherd dies of pneumonia and his faithful dog, a little Skye Terrier named Bobby, refuses to leave his master’s tomb. The government […]
The Bette Davis Project: Storm Center (1956)
Synopsis: A highly respected librarian, played by Bette Davis, is asked to remove a book, The Communist Dream, from the public library. She refuses and the small town turns against […]
Street Scene (1931)
Synopsis: One day in the lives of several tenants in a poor New York City neighborhood. Reaction & Thoughts: This early sound movie still packs quite a wallop. Producer Samuel […]
Stealing Home (1988)
Synopsis: An ex-baseball player (Mark Harmon, The Presidio) returns home after he finds out that his first love (Jodie Foster, The Accused) has committed suicide. The unexpected death of the […]
The Bette Davis Project: The Catered Affair (1956)
Synopsis: A young woman (Debbie Reynolds, Singin’ in the Rain) tells her working-class parents (Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine, The Wild Bunch) that she’s getting married and the mother begins preparing […]
