Fletcher Christian leder et succesfyldt mytteri mod den hensynsløse Kaptajn Bligh på skibet HMS Bounty i 1787. Et år senere vender Bligh dog tilbage til skibet, fast besluttet på at hævne sig på Christian og resten af besætningen.

Jefferson Smith, leder af drengespejderne, bliver valgt til senator af staten guvernør, men opdager snart at hans idealistiske mål kommer i konflikt med korruptionen i Washington.

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Den benhårde revolvermand Quirt Evans (Wayne) må bide i en kugle i en af sine utallige dueller og havner hos en kvæker-familie, der tager sig af den hårdt sårede lovløse. Langsomt forsøger familiens datter Penelope (Gail Russell) at gøre Evans menneskelig, men er der noget håb for en inkarneret morder?

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Tom er en skidt fyr, som konstant sammenlignes med sin bror Mike, der har et fornuftigt job og går på aftenskole for at videreuddanne sig. Mens Mike forgæves forsøger at få sin bror til at holde sig på den rigtige side af loven, begår Tom og hans ven Matt den ene forbrydelse efter den anden. Da Matt bliver slået ihjel, går Tom på jagt efter sin vens mordere.

På samme dag på det berlinske Grand Hotel, attrår juveltyven baron Felix von Geigern både ballerinaen Grusinskayas juveler og den smukke Flaemmchen, elskerinde for Preysing, chefen for den uhelbredeligt syge Otto Kringelein. Blot 24 timer vil forandre disse menneskers liv for evigt i denne Hollywood-klassiker.

Frank Capras opfølger til It Happened One Night scorede ham endnu en Bedste Instruktør Oscar. Der er tale om et af 30’ernes mest berømte lystspil. Jean Arthur spiller reporteren Babe Bennett, der skjuler sin identitet og profession og på den måde bliver i stand til at udlevere den naive helt Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), der netop har arvet $20 million. Dog forelsker hun sig i sit offer og fortryder sin adfærd.

Der hersker almindelig uenighed om, hvilken præstation der rent faktisk var Greta Garbos bedste. Ernst Lubitsch fik hende i sin vidunderlige komedie Ninotchka til at folde sit ellers tillukkede væsen ud i en grad, som ingen anden før, så dette var i hvert fald hendes mest sympatiske og charmerende præstation. Datidens storcharmør, Melvyn Douglas, som senere udviklede sig til en formidabel karakterskuespiller, er også i top i denne tidløse klassiker.

Louis Mazzini er en del af den aristokratiske familie D’Ascoyne, men da hans mor løber bort med en operasanger, bliver de begge udstødt af D’Ascoyne-familien. Nogle år senere beslutter Louis sig for at tage hævn, for han vil have sin eftertragtede titel tilbage.

Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.

Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.