Screenplay: Lillian Hellman

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Teresa Wright · Herbert Marshall · Patricia Collinge

Synopsis The Little Foxes (1941) follows the cunning Hubbard family in the early 20th-century South, as they scheme to secure wealth and power through a lucrative business deal. Regina, the ambitious matriarch, manipulates her ailing husband and clashes with her ruthless...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Marlon Brando · Robert Redford · Angie Dickinson · Jane Fonda

Synopsis The Chase (1966) is a tense drama set in a small Texas town, where simmering tensions and hidden secrets come to a boil. When a local convict escapes from prison, the townsfolk react with fear, suspicion, and chaos. As the...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Shirley MacLaine · James Garner · Miriam Hopkins

Synopsis The Children's Hour (1961) follows two close friends, Karen and Martha, who run a private school for girls. Their lives are upended when a spiteful student, Mary, spreads a malicious rumor about their relationship. As the false accusation grows, it...

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Fredric March · Dan Duryea · Edmond O'Brien · Ann Blyth

Synopsis This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way

Direction William Wyler

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Merle Oberon · Joel McCrea · Catherine Doucet

Synopsis Karen and Martha, college roommates, graduate and face the future with no place and no money. Karen, however, has inherited a farmhouse from her grandmother, and gets the idea that she and Martha can turn it into a school for...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Joel McCrea · Humphrey Bogart · Wendy Barrie

Synopsis Dead End is the prototypical social-problem drama about a Manhattan slum in the 1930s. Lillian Hellman's engaging script, based on Sidney Kingsley's hit play, finds the neighborhood residents struggling to get by, some choosing hard work, some taking the easier...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Jane Fonda · Vanessa Redgrave · Jason Robards · Maximilian Schell

Synopsis The story of a friendship between two women and their anti-Nazi efforts during World War II. Though purportedly a true story about Lillian Hellman, her involvement was proved to be untrue by the actual Julia after the film came out....

Direction Joris Ivens

Synopsis A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

Direction Herman Shumlin

Cast Bette Davis · Paul Lukas · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Lucile Watson

Synopsis Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends...

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Fredric March · Merle Oberon · Herbert Marshall · Janet Beecher

Synopsis Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives...

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Dean Martin · Geraldine Page · Yvette Mimieux · Wendy Hiller

Synopsis Julian Berniers (Dean Martin ) return from Illinois with his young bride Lily (Yvette Mimieux) to the family in New Orleans. Sisters Carrie (Geraldine Page) and Anne (Wendy Hiller) welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts for the spinsters....

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Anne Baxter · Dana Andrews · Walter Huston · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Russian efforts to bravely hold off the invading Nazi army during World War II are graphically portrayed as Russians survive the brutalities. During the Cold War, this film was altered to de-emphasize the good Russians and re-titled, "Armored Attack."

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Robert Young · Sylvia Sidney · Ann Richards · Dudley Digges