Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.

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.

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.

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.

Cary Grant spiller John Robie, en tidligere juveltyv, som engang gik under navnet "The Cat", i denne klassiske, spændingsfyldte Alfred Hitchcock-thriller. Robie mistænkes for en ny bølge af smykketyverier i luksushotellerne ved den franske Riviera, og han må forsøge at rense sig selv. Han møder den forkælede arving Frances (Gene Kelly) og øjner her en chance for at lokke den mystiske tyv frem ved hjælp af hendes mors (Jessie Royce Landis) eventyrlige juveler. Hans plan giver imidlertid bagslag, men Frances, som tror han er skyldig, beviser sin kærlighed ved at hjælpe ham med at undslippe. I et nervepirrende klimaks afsløres den virkelige forbryder. Filmen modtog tre Oscar-nomineringer og vandt for "Bedste cinematografi".

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.

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.

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.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.