BABES IN ARMS

1939

Busby Berkeley directs Garland & Rooney

BABES ON BROADWAY

1941

Mickey & Judy & songs & dances

BABETTE'S FEAST 1987 French refugee in Denmark transforms lives

BABY DOLL

1956

Elia Kazan directs Tennessee Williams

BABY FACE

1933

pre-Production Code Stanwyck

THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER

1947

Cary Grant/Myrna Loy comedy

BACHELOR MOTHER

1939

Ginger Rogers comedy

BACK STREET

1941

Charles Boyer-Margaret Sullavan soaper

BACK TO BATAAN

1945

John Wayne wins WWII

THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

1953

Kirk Douglas as ruthless producer

BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK

1955

Spencer Tracy uncovers secrets

THE BAD SEED

1956

kid's evil ways cause deaths

THE BAD SLEEP WELL

1960

"samurai capitalism" from Kurosawa

BADLANDS

1973

Martin Sheen/Sissy Spacek cult pic

BALL OF FIRE

1941

Howard Hawks directs Billy Wilder script

BANANAS

1971

Woody Allen satire of revolutions

THE BAND WAGON

1953

Vincente Minnelli musical

THE BANK DICK

1940

one of W.C. Fields' best comedies

BARBARA STANWYCK: FIRE AND DESIRE

1991

doc about famed actress

THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA

1954

Bogart & Ava Gardner

BAREFOT IN THE PARK

1967

Neil Simon comedy w/Redford, Jane Fonda

THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY

1949

final Astaire & Rogers musical

THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET

1934

Fredric March, Norma Shearer, Laughton

BARRY LYNDON

1975

Stanley Kubrick period pic

BATMAN BEGINS 2005 Christopher Nolan rejuvenates superhero franchise

BATTLE HYMN

1957

Sirk saga of war ace who saves kids

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS 1965 classic re: Algerian struggle for independence

BATTLE OF BRITAIN

1969

England's WWII defense of homeland

THE BATTLE OF SAN PIETRO

1945

WWII doc by John Huston

BATTLEGROUND 1949 William Wellman's recreation of Battle of Bulge
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN 1925 Eisenstein classic re:1905 Russian Revolution

BATTLING BUTLER

1926

Buster Keaton "silent" comedy

BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY BLACHE 2018 documentary about pioneer woman filmmaker

THE BEAST OF THE CITY

1932

Walter Huston & Jean Harlow

BEAT THE DEVIL

1953

John Huston film w/Bogart, Lollobrigida

BEAU BRUMMEL

1954

Stewart Granger swashbuckler

BEAU GESTE

1939

Foreign Legion actioner

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

1946

Jean Cocteau's classic fairy tale

BECKET 1964 Richard Burton & Peter O'Toole star

BECKY SHARP

1935

Mamoulian directs Thackeray adaptation

BEDLAM

1946

chiller w/Boris Karloff

BEFORE STONEWALL 1984 documentary about gays before Stonewall

BEING THERE

1979

Peter Sellers in Hal Ashby comedy

BELL BOOK AND CANDLE 1958 modern-day witches operate in New York City
BELLE DE JOUR 1967 Luis Bunuel examines frigid housewife's fantasies
THE BELLES OF ST. TRINIAN'S 1954 1st film in series from Ronald Searle's cartoons

BELLS ARE RINGING

1960

Judy Holliday Broadway musical adapted

BEN-HUR

1926

"silent" spectacle

BEN-HUR

1959

Heston stars in many-Oscared pic

BEND OF THE RIVER

1952

Anthony Mann western w/James Stewart

BERLIN EXPRESS

1948

Allied agents fight Nazis

THE BEST MAN

1964

Henry.Fonda in hot politics

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

1946

soldiers return to civilian life post-WWII

BETTE DAVIS: THE BENEVOLENT VOLCANO

1984

doc re: star who challenged the studio bosses

BEVERLY HILLS COP

1984

Eddie Murphy in cop comedy

BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT

1956

Fritz Lang directs

BICYCLE THIEVES

1948

Vittorio De Sica's neorealist masterpiece

THE BIG CARNIVAL

1951

Kirk Douglas in cynical Wilder flick

THE BIG CLOCK

1948

suspenseful noir w/Charles Laughton

THE BIG COMBO

1955

cops battle syndicate in classic film noir

THE BIG HEAT

1953

Fritz Lang classic

THE BIG HOUSE

1930

prison drama written by Frances Marion

THE BIG KNIFE

1955

Robert Aldrich directs Odets script

THE BIG PARADE

1925

King Vidor "silent" WWI epic

THE BIG RED ONE

1980

Sam Fuller's meditation on WWII

THE BIG SLEEP

1946

classic Bogey & Bacall

THE BIG STEAL

1949

Robert Mitchum on the run

THE BIG TRAIL

1930

wagon train epic w/young John Wayne

THE BIGAMIST 1953 Ida Lupino-directed film about man with 2 wives
BIGGER THAN LIFE 1956 "miracle drug" threatens family man's sanity

BILL OF DIVORCEMENT

1932

John Barrymore & K. Hepburn

BIRD 1988 Eastwood biopic of jazz great Charlie Parker

BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ

1962

Burt Lancaster as convict Robert Stroud

THE BIRDS

1963

Hitchcock's birds attack Bodega Bay

THE BIRTH OF A NATION

1915

D.W. Griffith "silent" classic

THE BISCUIT EATER

1940

a white boy, a black boy & a dog

THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN

1933

early Frank Capra w/Stanwyck

THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT 1972 Fassbinder film about arrogant fashion designer

THE BLACK CAT

1934

Karloff & Lugosi in Ulmer horror classic

BLACK NARCISSUS

1946

Deborah Kerr in Powell-Pressberger classic

BLACK ORPHEUS

1959

Oscar-winning update of legend

THE BLACK STALLION

1979

boy & horse shipwrecked

BLACK SUNDAY

1960

Barbara Steele horror flick

THE BLACK SWAN

1942

swashbuckler w/Tyrone Power

BLACKBOARD JUNGLE

1955

teacher in tough NYC school

BLACKMAIL

1929

Hitchcock's (& England's) first "talkie"

BLADE RUNNER

1982

Ridley Scott's futuristic film noir cult fave

BLAZING SADDLES

1974

Mel Brooks comedy set in the old west

BLONDE VENUS

1932

Marlene Dietrich in von Sternberg soaper

BLOOD AND SAND

1941

Rouben Mamoulian directs Tyrone Power

BLOOD ON THE MOON 1948 Robert Wise directs Robert Mitchum western
BLOOD SIMPLE 1984 superb film noir; debut of Coen brothers

BLOW OUT

1981

Brian De Palma thriller w/John Travolta

BLOW-UP

1966

Antonioni classic

THE BLUE ANGEL

1930

von Sternberg directs Dietrich

THE BLUE DAHLIA

1946

Alan Ladd classic

BLUE VELVET 1986 David Lynch examines decadence in small town

BODY AND SOUL

1947

classic boxing film

BODY HEAT 1981 neo-noir with William Hurt & Kathleen Turner

THE BODY SNATCHER

1945

Karloff & Lugosi classic

BOGART: THE UNTOLD STORY

1996

Humphrey's son tells it

BOMBSHELL

1933

satire of H'wood w/Harlow

BON VOYAGE

1944

Hitchcock propaganda short

BONJOUR TRISTESSE 1958 Preminger adaptation of Sagan with Seberg, Kerr

BONNIE AND CLYDE

1967

Dunaway & Beatty as Parker & Barrow

BORDER INCIDENT 1949 Anthony Mann film about illegal immigration

BORN FREE

1966

British couple raise lions in Africa

BORN YESTERDAY

1950

Judy Holliday's Oscar performance

BOUND FOR GLORY

1976

life of Woody Guthrie

BOYS 'N THE HOOD 1991 John Singleton's tale of young black men

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

1992

Coppola's version of classic horror novel

BREAKER MORANT

1980

Boer War event sparks court-martial

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

1961

Audrey Hepburn classic romance

BREAKING AWAY

1979

comedy about bicycle racing

THE BREAKING POINT 1950 John Garfield & Patricia Neal film noir

BREATHLESS

1959

Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

1935

James Whale's sequel to classic horror film

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK 1968 bride seeks revenge on 5 men who killed groom

THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI

1957

Oscar winner directed by David Lean

THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI

1954

Korean War w/Bill Holden

BRIEF ENCOUNTER 1945 touching romance directed by David Lean

BRIGHT VICTORY

1951

blinded ex-soldier

BRIGHTON ROCK 1948 British film noir with Richard Attenborough

BRINGING UP BABY

1938

Hawks comedy w/Grant-Hepburn

BROADCAST NEWS

1987

satire of TV news w/Hurt & Hunter

BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938

1937

Judy Garland sings to Clark Gable's photo

BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940

1940

Fred Astaire-Eleanor Powell musical

BROKEN BLOSSOMS

1919

D.W. Griffith "silent" classic

BRUBAKER

1980

Robert Redford goes to prison

BRUTE FORCE

1947

Burt Lancaster in prison drama

BUDD BOETTICHER: "A MAN CAN DO THAT"

2005

doc re: "1 of Hollywood's toughest directors"

THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY

1978

Gary Busey as legendary rock 'n' roller

BULLITT

1968

Steve McQueen chases bad guys in SF

BURDEN OF DREAMS 1982 Les Blank's doc about making of FITZCARRALDO

BUS STOP

1956

Marilyn Monroe in adaptation of Inge play

BUSBY BERKELEY: GOING THRU THE ROOF

1998

doc about outrageous choreographer

BUSTER KEATON: A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW

1987

doc on "silent" clown

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

1969

Paul Newman-Robert Redford western

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