The life and career of 1940s sex symbol Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) is affectionately but uncompromisingly recounted in this...
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2003
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Greene (Anthony Edwards) confronts unforeseen perils as he flies to Indiana and back with a heart-transplant patient. Carter...
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2000
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1988
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This ghostly made-for-television romance tells the story of a struggling widower who finds that life becomes easier once his...
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1982
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The directorial debut of actor and stand-up comedian David Steinberg concerns a single man who decides that he wants to be a...
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1981
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Joey originated as a 30-minute episode of the TV religious anthology Insight. The title character (Danny Martin) is on the...
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1977
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Thomasine and Bushrod was intended as the African American counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde, the difference being that the...
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1974
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An intriguing blend of 70's "blaxploitation" and Exorcist clone, William Girdler's Abby is an effective and chilling film...
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Mama Potter
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1974
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, new police commissioner Edna Dixon (Juanita Moore) insists upon accompanying mobile...
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1973
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A box-office success during the early '70s, this blaxploitation flick traces the life of a Bay Area pimp facing drug dealers,...
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1973
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Created by Earl Hamner, A Dream for Christmas is set in the 1950s. African-American minister Will Douglas (Hari Rhodes) moves...
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1973
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In the first episode of a two-part story, a flu epidemic has decimated the Rampart division, forcing Officers Jim Reed (Kent...
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1973
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When a black man and his foster brother find a fortune in oil on their Texas land, he must struggle to come to terms with...
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1973
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Skin Game was historically significant as the 2000th film produced by Warner Bros. studios. The film is a comedy western...
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1971
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After accidentally knocking her down with the van, a guilt-ridden Mark (Don Mitchell) befriends an elderly woman named...
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1971
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Uptight is an updated remake of John Ford's The Informer (35). The Irish Republican rebels of the original are replaced by...
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1968
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Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe...
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1967
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Henry Koster directed this cloying family musical based on the true life story of Soeur Sourire, a Belgian nun whose...
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1966
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Imperious Southern matron Nell Snyder (Margaret Leighton) is upset by the recent behavior of her orphaned niece, Eva...
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Suse
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1965
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Elderly eccentric Emmy Rice (Ruth McDevitt) is charmed by the attentions of her much-younger gentleman caller, a fellow named...
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Mrs. Jones
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1964
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This charming tale is about a young girl's father and his slightly erratic behavior after sampling a refreshing alcoholic...
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1963
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A woman calling herself Vera (Nancy Kelly) displays a great deal of affection toward the baby son of her landlady, Louise...
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Mrs. McFarland
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1963
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This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from...
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1962
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1961
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In this emotional romance, the young backwoods girl Tammy lives in a houseboat on the river. She is very sad because she...
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1961
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This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling...
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Annie Johnson
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1959
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This drama is set inside a girl's reformatory. When one of the teens has a baby, the other girls rally together to conceal...
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1957
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1957
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The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma...
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1956
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The inimitable writer-director Frank Tashlin once more aims his satiric barbs at modern culture (modern 1950s culture, that...
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1956
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Viewers familiar with the 1996 Mel Gibson blockbuster Ransom may be disappointed that there are no smirking villains, car...
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1956
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With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama...
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1955
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This jungle adventure is the final entry in the "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. This time Bomba (played by 24-year-old Johnny...
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1955
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Queen Bee offers a stinging portrait of a mad, manipulative woman and chronicles her downfall and that of those around her in...
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1955
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The witness of the title is Barbara Stanwyck, who insists she's seen a man strangling a girl in the apartment across the...
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1954
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Twenty-one-year-old Anne Francis carries off the title-character duties in 20th Century-Fox's Lydia Bailey with class and...
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1952
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In this romantic spy thriller, a nightclub performer plys her trade in her husband's Trinidad bar. He is murdered by a...
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1952
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1952
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Elia Kazan directed this, one of Hollywood's early attacks on racism, starring Jeanne Crain as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson....
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1949
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