Connie og Carla har siden barnsben drømt om et liv i showbusiness, men trods ihærdige forsøg er de ikke rigtigt slået igennem. Faktisk er det kun blevet til småjobs rundt omkring. Helt galt går det imidlertid, da de bliver vidner til et mord. Af frygt for deres eget liv pakker Connie og Carla deres kjoler og parykker og flygter til Los Angeles, hvor de klædt ud som mænd får hyre som sangerinder på den lokale dragklub! Succesen melder sig hurtigt, men det gør problemerne også! Connie forelsker sig nemlig hals over hoved i Jeff, som tror, hun er mand, mens morderne rykker tættere på.

Clark Gable spiller den gammeldags advokat fra Philadelphia, Michael Hamilton, der skal rejse til Italien for at sørge for boet efter sin afdøde, skørtejagende bror.

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.

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.

Mike Ribble var engang en stor trapez-kunstner, og den eneste som kunne udføre den farlige tre-dobbelte somersault – men det var inden hans uheld. Tino, en ung og ivrig mand, tilslutter sig cirkusset og får overbevist den skadede Mike om, at han skal skal lære ham "The Tripple". Imens prøver Lola at komme ind i varmen, og hendes tilstedeværelse skaber friktion imellem de to mænd.

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.

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 film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

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.

A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.

A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.

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.

Da journalisten Phil Green (Gregory Peck) skal til at skrive en dybdeborende artikel om den paradoksale antisemitisme i efterkrigstiden, beslutter han sig for at opleve den på sin egen krop, hvordan det er at være jødisk i midten af fyrrernes USA. Men det, der begyndte som en del af hans arbejde, leder pludselig til, at han oplever at blive afvist, negligeret, set ned på og selv i sit privatliv venter der ubehagelige overraskelser. Mesterinstruktøren Elia Kazan oplevede en af sit livs store triumfer, da hans idealistiske film i 1947 blev nomineret til hele 8 Oscars, hvoraf han selv fik én for bedste instruktion, én for bedste film og én til Celeste Holm for bedste birolle.

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.

Criterion præsenterer her en samfundsrevsende Hollywood-tåreperser med Jane Wyman som den frustrerede, rige enke og Rock Hudson som den lækre gartner, der elsker hende. Det er Douglas Sirks rørende, men også anklagende beskrivelse af 1950'ernes provinsielle Amerika. Med mange filmiske virkemidler viser han det kvindelige familieoverhoveds ensomhed og isolation, fanget som hun er af sine børns snobberi og country club-vennernes sladder.

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.

Homer Bannon er en stolt og moralsk mand. Hans søn Hud er skruppeløs og egoistisk, og udnytter alle omkring sig. Fanget imellem dem er Huds nevø og Alma, deres hushjælp, som prøver at se det bedste i alle. Men en usagt mørk stemning hviler over mændene i huset.

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.