Release Date: 1944-01-01

Overview: Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

Rating: 6.715 (181 votes)

Release Date: 1946-12-25

Overview: It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

Rating: 7.792 (687 votes)

Release Date: 1941-04-24

Overview: Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.

Rating: 6.513 (113 votes)

Release Date: 1939-07-28

Overview: A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

Rating: 7.387 (128 votes)

Release Date: 1940-09-18

Overview: Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

Rating: 7.052 (116 votes)

Release Date: 1947-02-04

Overview: An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

Rating: 6.2 (75 votes)

Release Date: 1999-11-15

Overview: Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.

Rating: 5.5 (30 votes)

Release Date: 1936-07-28

Overview: The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

Rating: 6.3 (36 votes)

Release Date: 1944-11-01

Overview: The sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series illustrates Japan's occupation of China, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's stirring address before congress, the rape of Nanking, the great 2,000 mile migration, and Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers.

Rating: 6.3 (13 votes)

Release Date: 1997-12-25

Overview: The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.

Rating: 6.8 (461 votes)

Release Date: 1941-10-28

Overview: A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

Rating: 7.27 (418 votes)

Release Date: 1943-01-15

Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Rating: 8.2 (5670 votes)

Release Date: 1990-05-11

Overview: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Rating: 7.704 (503 votes)

Release Date: 1962-04-11

Overview: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Rating: 7.683 (721 votes)

Release Date: 2019-04-04

Overview: The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.

Rating: 6.944 (878 votes)

Release Date: 1993-07-08

Overview: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.

Rating: 7 (1661 votes)

Release Date: 1940-01-12

Overview: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Rating: 8.13 (761 votes)

Release Date: 1952-10-09

Overview: Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Rating: 8.3 (1214 votes)

Release Date: 1925-07-13

Overview: A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

Rating: 8 (1683 votes)

Release Date: 2021-12-15

Overview: A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.

Rating: 6.489 (1019 votes)