PAISAN

1946

Rossellini's WWII Italian masterpiece

PAKEEZAH

1971

classic of Indian commercial cinema

PAL JOEY

1957

Sinatra in Rodgers & Hart musical

PALE RIDER

1985

Eastwood directs & stars in western

THE PALM BEACH STORY

1942

Preston Sturges' screwball comedy

PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN 1951 romance & mythology merge in Ava Gardner

PANDORA'S BOX

1929

"silent" German classic w/L. Brooks

PANIC IN THE STREETS 1950 criminals expose city to plague in exciting film noir

THE PAPER CHASE

1973

law students vs. professor

PAPER MOON

1973

Ryan & Tatum O'Neal as con artists

PAPILLON

1973

Steve McQueen escapes Devil's Island

THE PARADINE CASE

1948

Hitchcock courtroom drama w/Greg Peck

PARAGRAPH 175 2000 documentary about elimination of homosexuals by Nazis
PARK ROW 1952 Sam Fuller's early film about the newspaper business

THE PARSON'S WIDOW

1920

Carl Dreyer early work

A PASSAGE TO INDIA 1984 David Lean's Oscar-winning adaptation of Forster's novel

PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE

1944

Bogart stars in WWII actioner

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

1928

"silent" masterpiece by Carl Dreyer

PASSPORT TO PIMLICO

1949

British comedy w/Stanley Holloway

PAT AND MIKE

1952

George Cukor directs Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn

A PATCH OF BLUE

1965

Sidney Poitier drama

PATHER PANCHALI 1955 Satyajit Ray's tale of impoverished family in India

PATHS OF GLORY

1957

Stanley Kubrick anti-war film

PATTON

1970

George C. Scott as famed general

THE PAWNBROKER

1965

Rod Steiger as WWII camp survivor

PEEPING TOM

1960

Michael Powell psych-horror classic

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN

1981

unusual musical w/Steve Martin

PEOPLE WILL TALK

1951

Mankiewicz social comedy w/Grant

PEPE LE MOKO 1937 Jean Gabin as title thief & charmer living in Casbah

PERSONA

1966

Ingmar Bergman drama w/Liv Ullmann

A PERSONAL JOURNEY WITH MARTIN SCORSESE THROUGH AMERICAN MOVIES

1995

famed director talks about his favorite films in 3-part doc

THE PETRIFIED FOREST

1936

Robert Sherwood's play w/Bette Davis

PEYTON PLACE

1957

soaper w/Lana Turner set in small town

PHANTOM

1922

F.W. Murnau "silent" w/Alfred Abel

PHANTOM LADY

1944

surperior film noir w/Ella Raines

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

1925

"silent" classic w/Lon Chaney

THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH

1970

live-action & animated kids' classic

PHILADELPHIA 1993 Tom Hanks in groundbreaking AIDS-themed film

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

1940

comedy w/Grant, K.Hepburn, J.Stewart

THE PIANO 1993 Jane Campion's Oscar winning film with Holly Hunter
PICKPOCKET 1959 Robert Bresson study of man released from jail
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET 1953 director Samuel Fuller takes on the Commies!

PICNIC

1955

Wm.Inge play about drifter Wm. Holden

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

1975

dreamlike Australian film by Peter Weir

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

1945

Oscar Wilde story of man who doesn't age

PILLOW TALK

1959

Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedy

THE PINK PANTHER

1964

Peter Sellers as bumbler Inspector Closeau

PINKY

1949

Elia Kazan's film about racial prejudice

THE PIRATE

1948

Judy Garland-Gene Kelly musical

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM 1961 Vincent Price in Roger Corman's Poe tale

A PLACE IN THE SUN

1951

Montgomery Clift & Liz Taylor tragedy

PLANET OF THE APES

1968

Serling scripted sci-fi w/Heston

PLATINUM BLONDE

1931

Jean Harlow in early Capra comedy

PLATOON

1986

Oliver Stone's Vietnam War

THE PLAYER

1992

R.Altman's take on modern H'wood

PLEASANTVILLE 1998 two 1990s teens find themselves in 1950s sitcom

THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS

1936

Pare Lorentz doc re: dust bowl crisis

POINT BLANK

1967

Lee Marvin gangster drama

POINT OF ORDER

1964

doc about Army-McCarthy hearings

PORK CHOP HILL

1959

Gregory Peck Korean War actioner

PORTRAIT OF JENNIE

1948

Jennifer Jones in fantasy drama

POSSESSED

1947

Joan Crawford as a schizophrenic

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

1990

Carrie Fisher tale: drugs & Hollywood

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

1946

J. Garfield, Lana Turner plot murder

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

1940

Garson & Olivier do Jane Austen

PRIDE OF THE MARINES

1945

John Garfield as soldier blinded in WWII

PRIDE OF THE YANKEES

1942

Gary Cooper as baseball great Lou Gehrig

PRIMARY

1960

doc on presidential primary w/JFK,HHH

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

1969

Maggie Smith's Oscar performance

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

1937

Mark Twain's story of ID switch w/Flynn

THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL

1957

Monroe & Olivier in London

THE PRINCESS BRIDE

1987

Rob Reiner's fun adventure-satire

PRINCESS MONONOKE

1997

Miyazaki's animated modern masterpiece

PRINCESS TAM TAM

1935

Josephine Baker musical

THE PRISONER OF ZENDA

1937

Ronald Colman in costume romance

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

1970

Billy Wilder's view of famed detective

PRIVATE LIVES

1931

Noel Coward's stage comedy

PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX

1939

Bette Davis & Erroll Flynn star

PRIZZI'S HONOR

1985

Jack Nicholson in John Huston noir

PROCES DE JEANNE D'ARC

1962

Robert Bresson's tale of Joan of Arc

THE PRODUCERS

1967

zany Mel Brooks comedy

PSYCHO

1960

Hitchcock's horror masterpiece

THE PUBLIC ENEMY

1931

Cagney as Prohibition gangster

PULP FICTION

1994

Quentin Tranatino's L.A. crime dream

THE PUMPKIN EATER 1964 Domestic drama with Anne Bancroft & Peter Finch

THE PURCHASE PRICE

1932

Barbara Stanwyck pre-code melodrama

PURLIE VICTORIOUS 1963 Ossie Davis takes swipe at racism

PYGMALION

1938

Shaw comedy with Wendy Hiller & Leslie Howard

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