Movie Recommendations

Robert Donat’s life is turned upside-down when a mysterious spy is murdered in his apartment. On the run from both the police and enemy agents, he must uncover the secret of the 39 steps to survive…

A naive young woman falls for and marries a moody widower but cannot escape the legacy of first wife Rebecca.

A tour de force performance from Dustin Hoffman as an actor who can only get employed by auditioning in drag…then becomes a feminine role model on a soap opera.

This classic touches both great themes of sci-fi movies in the 1950s: aliens/monsters from space and the horrors of the nuclear bomb. Unlike in most, the alien here is benign—backed up by the power of awesome robot Gort. Excellent performances from Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal, but Gort steals the show.

First film since It Happened One Night (1935) to win all five top Oscars (best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, and best screenplay—from Ken Kesey’s novel). Jack Nicholson plays a man who voluntarily enters an insane asylum and then begins to undermine the repressive and dehumanizing discipline. Louise Fletcher is the controlling, iron-willed…

Good-natured fun with Burt Lancaster showing off his circus skills as the eponymous buccaneer.

Preston Sturges’s wonderfully acerbic fantasy of a famed conductor contemplating revenge for his wife’s infidelity while leading the orchestra through three pieces.

Lightning-fast screwball comedy of Berlin-based Coca-Cola executive Jimmy Cagney frantically trying to cover up his daughter’s marriage to a Communist.

Dustin Hoffman personifies the 1960s’ generation breaking away from their parents.

The epitome of kung fu movies. Bruce Lee infiltrates a martial arts order to uncover a plot about…oh, who cares? It’s all about the fight sequences.