Edward, My Son (1949)
Synopsis: Opportunistic and unethical businessman Arnold Boult (Spencer Tracy, Bad Day at Black Rock) is obsessed with giving his son all the things he never had. Arnold’s obsession not only […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Stories of people dealing with human emotions in realistic situations
The Dead (1987)
Synopsis: The year is 1904. The place is Dublin, Ireland. A group of friends and family members come together for the annual holiday dinner hosted by three well-respected spinsters. The […]
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 […]
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 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 ire […]
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
Synopsis: A poor farm girl (Greta Garbo, Ninotchka) runs away from home and is rescued by a worldly architect (Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind). They fall in love, but […]
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 young Italian 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 […]
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, […]
