Drama

<p>What do you call a cowboy with his brains kicked out? A bronc rider. Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis, heaven help them, are bronc riders. Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda portray the pair who are cowboy enough to do just about any job, except...

<p>Felix Farmer's (Richard Mulligan) latest movie flops -- and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued. It's what master comedy director Blake Edwards calls "Standard Operating Bull," the subject of his gleefully satiric S.O.B. Julie...

<p>She plays the cello. He plays the field. She's coltishly young. He's worldly and mature. Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane knows she's not like millionaire American playboy Frank Flanagan. But if she pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as he is, maybe...

<p>After 14 years in exile, a South African freedom fighter (Ice Cube, All About The Benjamins, Friday) returns home for his father's funeral and finds that a lot has changed: Apartheid is over, but now the drug wars are destroying his people...and his brother...

<p>The inimitable Edna May Oliver takes over both trial and deliberations in this effervescent legal comedy-drama. When society dame Yvette Gordon (Jill Esmond) stands accused of shooting her sugar-daddy husband, it appears that the French chorus-girl gold digger is getting the comeuppance her class-hopping...

<p>Carried Away, from the author of Legends of the Fall, will sweep you away in an emotional current of desire, betrayal and redemption, Joseph and Rosalee are teachers in a small town turned upside down by the arrival of an enticing 17-year-old, the precocious...

<p>Jeanne de la Motte-Valois knows what she wants. She also knows how to get it -- by conniving, deceiving and betraying. And by doing it so scandalously that it helps send Queen Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Wealth and desire. Politics and corruption. Celebrity...

<p>Gregory La Cava directs Mary Astor in this wise and witty drawing-room war of the sexes, in which manners never falter while scandal simmers at the surface. Mrs. Nancy Gibson (Astor), on a return cruise to the States after a long absence, makes the...

<p>Enough stars to light five marquees. Enough subplots of passion, power and greed to fill 10 movies. Plus fiery special effects galore. From The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno producer Irwin Allen, and continuing that spectacular and devastating moviemaking tradition, comes When Time...

<p>Frank Sinatra told the director to give the newcomer a break. John Sturges (The Great Escape) obliged, providing favorable camera angles for Sinatra's young costar. In his first big-budget film, Steve McQueen was ready to grab the movie world's attention. McQueen plays Bill Ringa,...

<p>Who knows what American journalist Jake Geismer (George Clooney) expected to find in postwar Berlin? Peace, maybe. Or at least a story. But certainly not Lena (Cate Blanchett), his embittered one-time love. And not the trail of secrecy and deception that leads from Lena...

<p>They share the same birth month, so the orphanage calls them the December Boys. But these teens -- Maps, Spit, Spark and Misty -- have much more in common. With no hopes of ever joining a family, they form their own familial bonds. Then...

<p>The game of conquest is underway. Anything goes when a predatory, wealthy widow (Glenn Close) challenges a notorious rake (John Malkovich) to seduce a beautiful young newlywed (Michelle Pfeiffer). But this time, a cardinal rule will be broken: two players will fall in love...

<p>Think of them as working men who work the angles. Rodrigo is the rookie. Richard is the mentor who knows crime like a book. But a new book is about to be written. John C. Reilly, Diego Luna and Maggie Gyllenhaal navigate the con-or-be-conned...

<p>"You've changed my mind for me so often it's a miracle I've got one left." Attorney Stephen Holland (Herbert Marshall) has had it with manipulative, disdainful wife Cynthia (Mary Astor) arranging his life like a windup toy -- to the point that he storms...

<p>Largely fictionalized biopic of turn-of-the-century nightingale Jenny Lind, highlighted by her true-to-life intersection with showman P.T. Barnum.</p>

<p>Jailbird Nick Burton (Lee Tracy) has a secret -- while the warden may run the prison, he runs the men. Big or small, Nick can outscheme, outtalk (and how!) and outfight 'em all. So when an unexpected bumper crop of millionaires end up in...

<p>Psst! Did you hear about Beau and Naomi? Everyone who's anyone on campus is in the know. But what almost no one knows is that the vicious rumor is a hoax. Three journalism students planted the trashy little story, planning to track how it...

<p>Take an ocean voyage of full-masted fright with Dead Calm, "a spare, smart, seductive piece of moviemaking with enough tension to keep us all hyperventilating for hours" (Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times). Thriller specialist Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, The Saint) directs three splendid actors...

<p>John Boorman, director of Deliverance, Hope and Glory and The Emerald Forest, guides another gripping tale of survival and personal transformation, this one based on true-life events. When Dr. Laura Bowman (Medium's Patricia Arquette) arrives in Burma (now Myanmar) shortly after a devastating family...

<p>Musical star Jenny Stewart functions on two emotional levels: demanding and impossible. Only one person will stand up to Jenny: her accompanist, blinded in the war. But it may be Jenny who can't see, not only her own loneliness but also her chance for...

<p>Hard-edged carny dancer Lane Bellamy shakes her curves and shakes a sleepy Southern burg to its core. Joan Crawford rejoins her Mildred Pierce costar (Zachary Scott), producer (Jerry Wald) and director (Michael Curtiz) in another steamy saga of a steely dame with gams, guts...

<p>Storm clouds gather over Europe on the eve of World War II, but the cafes of Paris thrive. Elena (Audie England, Red Shoe Diaries), a beautiful young American writer, reveals her love for Lawrence (Costas Mandylor, Mobsters), a handsome French novelist. Their steamy relationship...

<p>Madison Avenue man-about-town Stuart "Mac" McAllister (George Brent) has his sights set on the Great White Way's most celebrated leading lady, the glamorous and sophisticated Helen Walbridge (Verree Teasdale). Mac thinks he's about to have the night of his life when the perpetually overbooked...

<p>Deep inside the concrete jungle of an infamous Communist Bloc prison, one innocent woman struggles to stay alive amid sadistic, heroin-smuggling guards and a psychotic, stiletto-heeled warden. Voluptuous Brigitte Nielsen (Beverly Hills Cop II ) stars as the masterful mistress of a women's prison...

<p>Just out of jail after serving time on an assault rap, Max (Gene Hackman) is headed for Pittsburgh to open a deluxe car wash. Back from five years at sea, Lion (Al Pacino) wants to hit Detroit and visit the child he's never seen....

<p>A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.</p>

<p>Three beautiful women visit record executive Morris Levy with one thing in mind: to claim the music royalties earned by their husband, the late, great '50s rock icon Frankie Lymon. They say good things and bad news always travel in threes: Looks like the...

<p>Through impenetrable jungles. Across perilous swamps. Desperate for a second chance at life, a band of Devil's Island felons and a tough-as-nails prostitute struggle toward freedom. Film giants Clark Gable and Joan Crawford team for the eighth and last time in this gripping story...

<p>As working girl Sadie McKee, Joan Crawford wears a maid's uniform. And as any Crawford fan knows, she'll shortly swap her white apron for black sable -- even (or especially) if it means heartbreak along the way. In this rags-to-riches tale, Sadie wins the...

<p>New England schoolteacher Rachel Cameron's life is small and safe. Too small and too safe for a warmhearted woman who wants to do something -- anything -- to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward joined their stellar talents on this...

<p>Advertising executive Eddie Anderson has success in business, comfort in marriage and a gnawing despair he can't escape. So one morning he turns his sports car into the path of an 18-wheeler on the freeway -- and toward a tumultuous future. Writer/director Elia Kazan...

<p>No one rats on mobster Johnny Vanning. That's a message delivered to every would-be stoolie when Vanning's henchmen slash a gangland insignia on Mary Dwight's face. The real-life saga of prostitutes whose testimony put Lucky Luciano behind bars inspired Marked Woman. Bette Davis, sinking...

<p>No one thought death row inmate Ed Biddle would escape the hangman's noose. Most of all, no one in 1901 Pittsburgh imagined his accomplice in a daring jailbreak would be Kate Soffel, the warden's wife. Directed by Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career, 1994's Little...

<p>Dennis Quaid, Academy Award winner Jessica Lange and John Goodman star in this love story that spans three decades as a football hero and the high school sweetheart he marries must learn how to grow up after their time of glory ends.</p>

<p>Beverly Hills attorney Stephen Blume loves his wife Nina more than ever before. Trouble is, he didn't realize it until they divorced. Now bumbling, bereft Blume will do anything to win her back. Each overture is rejected. And each rejection just fuels Blume's humbling...

<p>Hilary, a teenage girl with a crazy new stepfamily, decides to escape domestic madness and run away from home! Her moms, dads and stepsiblings join forces to find her. While Hillary is busy having the adventure of her life, her family is busy learning...

<p>Movie queen Margaret Elliot's popularity and fortune have gone bad. But she's sure she can jump-start her dimming career. "One good picture is all I need," she says. As Margaret, Bette Davis got yet another good picture and earned her ninth Academy Award nomination....

<p>Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo),...

<p>Outlaws come and go in Nick and Nora's lives. Now it's time to meet the in-laws. The debonair sleuths leave little Nicky Jr. at boarding school, grab Asta and head to Nick's boyhood home of Sycamore Springs. Of course, wherever they go, murder has...

<p>In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a "performer," a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide -- and the impact is both exotic and explosive. James Fox and Mick...

<p>The pending case: the People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she's shocking. Outspoken. Explosive. Defiant. But is she "nuts?" Barbra Streisand is Claudia and Richard Dreyfuss is her public defender...

<p>Academy Award winner Holly Hunter (Little Black Book) and Danny DeVito (Be Cool) star in this romantic comedy written and directed by Richard LaGravenese, acclaimed screenwriter of The Horse Whisperer and The Bridges of Madison County. Judith Nelson (Hunter), newly divorced, is consumed by...

<p>Lillian Roth has it all: youth, beauty, movie and Broadway fame, and a devoted fiance. Then her fiance dies, and Lillian takes one drink to ease her grief. Then another. Then ten. Then thousands. And soon her youth, her career and her life are...

<p>Ruth Chatterton ends the Warner Bros.' phase of her illustrious film career on a high note -- elevating what could have been a lurid melodrama into a sensitive, underplayed and compelling character study. In this adaptation of the Jacques Deval drama Une Vie Perdue,...

<p>South American car-racing champ "Bulldog" Banks (Lyle Talbot) has a secret -- he's really a wanted fugitive from the USA named Wally Storm! Clashing with former Sanford Racing Team teammate Robert Griffin (Gavin Gordon) over the attentions of the team's "female mechanician" Pat Sanford...

<p>Now two are left: Susy, recently blinded and still learning how to live in a sighted world, and Roat, a psychopathic killer. Roat wants a heroin-stuffed doll he thinks Susy has. All Susy wants is to survive. Dim the lights, check the door's chain...

<p>Charlotte Gray's World War II assignment could be the first of many. Or her fatal last. The people she meets could be friends. Or insidious traitors. Trained to be an undercover courier for England, Charlotte straps on a parachute and falls from the sky...

<p>Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He's welcome to leave. Or they'll make sure he leaves in a pine box. Two-time Academy Award winner* Spencer Tracy (a 1955 Best Actor Oscar nominee for this...

<p>December 1944. A civilian victim of the Battle of Bastogne scrounges through garbage to find a scrap of food. "I don't even see those things," a war-numbed GI says. "I want to remember them!" his buddy snaps. Bastogne veteran Robert Pirosh remembers with his...