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1. The Return of October (1948)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

This is the warm-hearted story of a wholesome Terry Moore, whose late uncle Willie (James Gleason) is reincarnated as a thoroughbred horse. At least, as far as Ms. Moore is concerned, he is... See full summary »

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Glenn Ford, Terry Moore, Albert Sharpe, James Gleason

Votes: 237

2. The Sign of the Ram (1948)

Approved | 84 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

A jealous, manipulative stepmother confined to a wheelchair interferes with her stepchildren's romances so that they will not get married and leave home.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Susan Peters, Alexander Knox, Phyllis Thaxter, Peggy Ann Garner

Votes: 836

3. Green Dolphin Street (1947)

Approved | 141 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Van Heflin, Lana Turner, Donna Reed, Richard Hart

Votes: 1,821

4. This Time for Keeps (1947)

Approved | 105 min | Musical, Romance

Expected to follow his opera star father into the business, but discontent with his life, a young man pursues a career in popular music and romances the aquatic ballet dancer he met during his time in the service.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Esther Williams, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante, Johnny Johnston

Votes: 442

5. If Winter Comes (1947)

Approved | 97 min | Drama

Laurie Anderson reflects on her relationship with her beloved terrier Lolabelle.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Binnie Barnes

Votes: 785

6. Devotion (1946)

Passed | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

Genius authors Emily and Charlotte Brontë fall in love with their curate as they seek to get their work published.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet

Votes: 1,015

7. My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Julia Ross secures employment through a rather nosy employment agency, with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. 2 days later, she awakens - in a different house, in... See full summary »

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno

Votes: 3,761

8. Gaslight (1944)

Passed | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty

Votes: 34,029

9. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance, War

Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan

Votes: 1,817

10. Lassie Come Home (1943)

Passed | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.

Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn

Votes: 5,950

11. Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Passed | 132 min | Comedy, Romance, War

"Dakota" Smith (William Terry), a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and movies appear and host a recreational ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Judith Anderson, Kenny Baker

Votes: 1,838

12. Crash Dive (1943)

Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War

A submarine lieutenant and his commander fall in love with the same girl.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason

Votes: 1,766

13. Madame Curie (1943)

Passed | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.

Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann

Votes: 3,209

14. Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be ... See full summary »

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, May Whitty

Votes: 878

15. Forever and a Day (1943)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, History

During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is ... See full summary »

Directors: Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, René Clair | Stars: George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty, Connie Leon

Votes: 792

16. Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field

Votes: 1,163

17. The Constant Nymph (1943)

Passed | 112 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

The daughter (Joan Fontaine) of a musical mentor (Montagu Love) is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband (Charles Boyer), a handsome composer.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith

Votes: 1,592

18. Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, War

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty

Votes: 19,566 | Gross: $13.50M

19. Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air (1942)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Romance, War

A veteran American flyer trains new recruits, including the acrophobic son of his dead war buddy. Complications arise when the younger man falls in love with his mentor's girl.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton, Jack Holt

Votes: 587

20. Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942)

9 min | Documentary, Short

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden pary and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

Director: Herbert Moulton | Stars: Hedda Hopper, Joan Bennett, Billy Bletcher, The Canadian Legion Post Band

Votes: 21

21. Suspicion (1941)

Approved | 99 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce

Votes: 42,659 | Gross: $4.50M

22. One Night in Lisbon (1941)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy

A Texas pilot courts a British aristocrat in London amid bombing and in Portugal amid spies.

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Patricia Morison, Billie Burke

Votes: 105

23. A Bill of Divorcement (1940)

Approved | 74 min | Drama

Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Bainter, Herbert Marshall

Votes: 229

24. Return to Yesterday (1940)

69 min | Drama

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England. When she falls in love with Maine, Carol has the same dilemma.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Clive Brook, Anna Lee, May Whitty, Hartley Power

Votes: 156

25. Raffles (1939)

Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend... See full summary »

Directors: Sam Wood, William Wyler | Stars: David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, May Whitty, Dudley Digges

Votes: 1,216 | Gross: $0.09M

26. Mary Rose (1939 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

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Stars: Frank Cellier, May Whitty, J.H. Roberts, Margaret Vines

27. Rake's Progress (1939 TV Movie)

145 min | Drama

A play on the life of John Wilkes, rake, scholar, wit, and man of fashion, who fought George III on the question of English liberty and won.

Stars: Robert Harris, William Fox, Lawrence Hanray, Stuart Latham

28. The Royal Family of Broadway (1939 TV Movie)

76 min | Comedy

An eminent, slightly eccentric theatrical clan is as flamboyant offstage as they are on. Real-life family drama occurs when the grand matriarch learns that her daughter and granddaughter may both be giving up the stage for marriage.

Stars: Renee Blakelock, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Finlay Currie, Benjamin Denso

29. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty

Votes: 57,490

30. I Met My Love Again (1938)

Approved | 77 min | Drama, Romance

College sweethearts Julie and Ives have planned to marry. Their plans go amiss when Julie meets a weak writer and runs off to marry him. After her husband dies, she's left in Paris, ... See full summary »

Directors: Joshua Logan, Arthur Ripley, George Cukor | Stars: Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda, Louise Platt, Alan Marshal

Votes: 427

31. Parnell (1938 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama

Another version of Schauffler's play about the life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell.

Stars: Margaretta Scott, Wyndham Goldie, Harry Hutchinson, Earl Grey

32. Night Must Fall (1937)

Passed | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estate hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, May Whitty, Alan Marshal

Votes: 2,950

33. Conquest (1937)

Approved | 113 min | Drama, History, Mystery

A Polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders who feel she could influence him to make Poland independent.

Directors: Clarence Brown, Gustav Machatý | Stars: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal

Votes: 1,686 | Gross: $0.73M

34. The Thirteenth Chair (1937)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama

Inspector Marney of Scotland Yard travels to Calcutta to investigate the murder of Leonard Lee, a generally despised man in these parts. John Wales, who considered Lee his best friend, is a... See full summary »

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: May Whitty, Madge Evans, Lewis Stone, Elissa Landi

Votes: 336

35. The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937)

Approved | 17 min | Documentary, Short

This short chronicles, in a semihumorous way, events associated with MGM's 1937 convention for the studio's national sales and distribution staff. First the delegates arrive by train in San... See full summary »

Stars: Louis B. Mayer, Al Lichtman, William F. Rodgers, James E. Davis

Votes: 44

36. Keep Your Seats, Please! (1936)

82 min | Comedy, Musical

A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.

Director: Monty Banks | Stars: George Formby, Florence Desmond, Gus McNaughton, Alastair Sim

Votes: 268

37. Colonel Newcombe, the Perfect Gentleman (1920)

Drama

A colonel's son loves a girl who was compromised by a widow's son in a scheme to enforce a rich marriage.

Director: Fred Goodwins | Stars: Milton Rosmer, Joyce Carey, Temple Bell, Louis Willoughby

38. The Little Minister (1915)

Romance, Drama

A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.

Director: Percy Nash | Stars: Joan Ritz, Gregory Scott, Henry Vibart, Fay Davis

39. Enoch Arden (1914)

Drama

A shipwrecked man returns to find his wife has married her first love.

Director: Percy Nash | Stars: Gerald Lawrence, Fay Davis, Ben Webster, May Whitty

Votes: 24