Screenplay: Ernest Lehman

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Eva Marie Saint · James Mason · Martin Landau

Synopsis North by Northwest (1959) follows Roger Thornhill, a New York advertising executive mistaken for a government agent by foreign spies. After being kidnapped and nearly killed, Thornhill embarks on a cross-country journey to clear his name and uncover the truth....

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Sandy Dennis · George Segal

Synopsis Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) follows a volatile late-night gathering between two couples: George, a disillusioned history professor, and his sharp-tongued wife Martha, who invite a younger couple, Nick and Honey, to their home after a university party. As...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Paul Newman · Pier Angeli · Everett Sloane · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Robert Wise, who directed the classic boxing noir The Set-Up in 1948, also made this 1956 biopic about the life of Rocky Graziano, a one-time juvenile delinquent from New York's back streets who became World Middleweight Champion. Paul Newman, though...

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Burt Lancaster · Tony Curtis · Susan Harrison · Martin Milner

Synopsis A columnist (Burt Lancaster) and a press agent (Tony Curtis) tear into the maelstrom of midtown Manhattan's night creatures in a sinister game that involves money, power and ultimately survival.

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Audrey Hepburn · William Holden · Walter Hampden

Synopsis In Sabrina (1954), a charming romantic comedy directed by Billy Wilder, Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a wealthy family's chauffeur, returns from Paris transformed into an elegant woman. Her childhood crush, David Larrabee, a carefree playboy, finally notices her, sparking...

Direction Robert Wise · Jerome Robbins

Cast Natalie Wood · Richard Beymer · George Chakiris · Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis West Side Story (1961) is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," set in 1950s New York City. The story follows two rival gangs, the Jets (white Americans) and the Sharks (Puerto Rican immigrants), as they battle for control...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Edward G. Robinson · Elke Sommer · Anna Lee

Synopsis In The Prize (1963), Nobel laureates gather in Stockholm for the prestigious awards ceremony. Among them is American writer Andrew Craig, a cynical and disillusioned author who struggles with alcoholism. As the festivities unfold, Craig becomes entangled in a web...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Deborah Kerr · Yul Brynner · Rita Moreno · Martin Benson

Synopsis Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Julie Andrews · Christopher Plummer · Richard Haydn · Eleanor Parker

Synopsis 'The Sound of Music' is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Maria (Julie Andrews) is a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Marsha Hunt · William Lundigan · Charles Winninger · Gail Patrick

Synopsis A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Barbra Streisand · Walter Matthau · Michael Crawford · Marianne McAndrew

Synopsis Film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Concerns itself with Dolly Levi, a New York-based matchmaker who merrily arranges things... like furniture and daffodils and lives. A widow, she has found herself in love with a "half-a-millionaire" Yonkers merchant named...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Karen Black · Bruce Dern · Barbara Harris · William Devane

Synopsis In Family Plot (1976), a playful Hitchcockian thriller, a fake psychic and her taxi-driver boyfriend are hired to find a missing heir for a hefty reward. Their search unwittingly crosses paths with a pair of cunning jewel thieves who execute...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast William Holden · June Allyson · Barbara Stanwyck · Fredric March

Synopsis When the president of a major furniture-manufacturing company suddenly dies, the members of the Board scramble to replace him quickly and quietly. Each man is driven by his own motives, be it avarice or altruism. An all-star cast is entangled...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Ina Balin · Myrna Loy

Synopsis Based on the novel by John O'Hara, From the Terrace tells the tale of Alfred Eaton, a man whose marriage is crumbling from neglect as he climbs the ladder of success. From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton,...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Robert Shaw · Bruce Dern · Marthe Keller · Fritz Weaver

Synopsis An Isreali anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Mickey Rooney · Edmond O'Brien · Kim Hunter · Mel Torme

Synopsis Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a raging, tyrannical egomaniac who demands instant obedience and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than he is. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for...

Direction Ernest Lehman

Cast Richard Benjamin · Karen Black · Lee Grant · Jack Somack

Synopsis The movie chronicles a young man's love and passion in his own kinky way.

Direction Douglas Heyes

Cast Jean-Pierre Aumont · Horst Buchholz · James Coco · Chad Everett

Synopsis A luxury liner is hijacked by terrorists.