Drama Movies

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager’s daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

Agnes “Astra” Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks…

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She’ll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of…

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a…

A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.

A nature photographer and his guide meet a corrupt emir with a dirty secret. Only jungle-dwelling Bomba knows the truth.

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads…

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she’s pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try…

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in…

During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he…

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because “men like her too much.”…

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he’s paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran’s hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his…

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera…

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants…

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to…

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

When ship’s fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence…

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

Director Peter Godfrey’s 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as “The Hollywood Raffles”, whose famous robbery victims included such real-life…

A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as…

In flashback from a ‘Rebecca’-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff,…

A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness.

The Next Voice You Hear… (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world….

Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.

Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of…

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine…

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

Angered that her sister Celia has stolen her fiance, Dell Faring kills her and allows Celia’s husband David, knocked out in an argument with Celia, to take the blame and…

A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

A pilot devises a plan to airlift hay to thousands of ranch cattle stranded and dying due to severe winter weather.

While holidaying in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician, becomes friendly with young Guido, and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary…