Pretinzând că nu-și cunoaște propriul trecut, un om bogat angajează un fost deținut un pic ciudat ca detectiv. Gregory Arkadin spune că nu își amintește nimic înainte de sfârșitul anilor 1920, iar condamnatul Guy Van Stratten este bucuros să-și ia sarcina de a explora povestea vieții noii sale cunoștințe. Cercetările lui Guy dezvăluie detalii uimitoare despre trecutul angajatorului său și, deoarece munca lui pare legată de decese premature, misterul din jurul domnului Arkadin se adâncește.

A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.

Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.

Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.

Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade route across the North Pole to Asia. But the heroic journey turns into tragedy when the ship gets stuck in the relentless, penetrating ice. The men are forced to spend the winter on the frozen, arctic wasteland of Nova Zembla, fighting polar bears, hunger and lethal temperatures. Their chances of making it until the following spring are virtually zero.

A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.

Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.

The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.

An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes readers inside Hollywood's inner sanctum to show how casting decisions are made, who makes them, and who has the final word.

To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a neurotic young woman (Louise Allbritton) fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her graceful nurse (Grace Kelly) discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final and desperate act of revenge.

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

Un reporter (Gregory Peck) se dă drept evreu pentru a realiza un reportaj asupra antisemitismului și descoperă adevăratele adâncuri ale bigotismului și urii.

Un fost hoț este acuzat că a inițiat o serie nouă de infracțiuni, așa că pentru a-și șterge numele, pornește să-l prindă pe noul hoț, care îi imită stilul semnăturii.

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

Hud Bannon e un tânăr fermier din Texas ce locuiește cu tatăl său, Homer, care e crescător de vite, și cu Lon, nepotul lui. Protagonistul producției este o creatură amorală și rece. Între Hud și tatăl lui există un conflict care nu numai că nu dă semne a se rezolva vreodată, ci, dimpotrivă, se adâncește tot mai mult. Când la fermă apare o epidemie, iar vitele se îmbolnăvesc, Hud dorește să vândă turma înainte ca inspectorii guvernamentali să afle ce se întâmplă. Însă, Homer are o cu totul altă abordare în rezolvarea acestei complicate situații, iar asta va conduce la adâncirea rupturii dintre tată și fiul lui.

O văduvă, din clasa aristocrată, se îndrăgosteşte de un mult mai tânăr şi sărac bărbat decât ea, spre dezamăgirea copiilor şi a celorlalţi din cercurile frecventate de ea...

După ce soțul ei infidel o părăsește, Mildred Pierce demonstrează că poate deveni independentă și de succes. Cu toate acestea, obținerea aprobării fiicei ei răsfățate se dovedește o provocare mai mare.