Best of Warner Bros 20 Film Collection: Best Pictures For $19.96
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THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929): 100 minutes - Director: Harry Beaumont - Starring: Bessie Love, Anita Page - Genre: Musical, romance - Plot: A film about Broadway, the people who play on it, and the lovers behind the scenes. G
GRAND HOTEL (1932): 112 minutes - Director: Edmund Goulding - Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore - Genre: Drama, romance - Plot: A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. G
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935): 132 minutes - Director: Frank Lloyd - Starring: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton - Genre: History, adventure - Plot: Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors. PG
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937): 116 minutes - Director: William Dieterle - Starring: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard - Genre: Biography, drama - Plot: The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. G
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939): 238 minutes - Director: Victor Fleming - Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable - Genre: Romance, drama - Plot: A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War. PG
CASABLANCA (1942): 102 minutes - Director: Michael Curtiz - Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman - Genre: Romance, drama - Plot: A world-weary American bar owner in WWII-era Casablanca meets a woman out of his past, in Hollywood's greatest tale of love and loss. PG
MRS. MINIVER (1942): 134 minutes - Director: William Wyler - Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon - Genre: Drama, romance - Plot: A British family struggles to survive the early days of World War II. G
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946): 172 minutes - Director: William Wyler - Starring: Frederic March, Dana Andrews - Genre: Drama, romance - Plot: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. G
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951): 113 minutes - Director - Vincente Minelli - Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron - Genre: Musical, romance - Plot: Things get complicated for three friends in Paris when two of them fall in love with the same woman. PG
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956): 175 minutes - Director: Michael Anderson - Starring: David Niven, Cantinflas - Genre: Adventure - Plot: An extremely punctual Victorian gentleman who makes a high stakes bet that he can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Needless to say, complications ensue. G
GIGI (1958): 115 minutes - Director: Vincente Minelli - Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chavalier - Genre: Comedy, musical - Plot: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. G
BEN-HUR (1959): 212 minutes - Director: William Wyler - Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins - Genre: History, adventure - Plot: When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. PG
ONCE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975): 133 minutes - Director: Milos Forman - Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher - Genre: Drama - Plot: A brash rebel leads a revolt against the oppressive nurse who rules a mental institution with an iron fist. R
CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981): 124 minutes - Director: Hugh Hudson- Starring: Ian Charleson, Ben Cross - Genre: Sports, drama - Plot: The true story of two British athletes competing in the 1924 Olympics; one a Jew determined to win, the other a devout Christian who runs like no one has ever seen. PG
AMADEUS (1984): 160 minutes - Director: Milos Forman - Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce - Genre: Drama, biography - Plot: The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. R
DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989): 99 minutes - Director: Bruce Beresford - Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy - Genre: Drama - Plot: A film about the relationship between an old Jewish woman and her colored driver in the American South. PG
UNFORGIVEN (1992): 131 minutes - Director: Clint Eastwood - Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman - Genre: Western, drama - Plot: A retired gunslinger reluctantly takes on one last job against a dangerous mayor, with the help of his old partner and a young man. R
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003): 201 minutes - Director: Peter Jackson - Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen - Genre: Fantasy, adventure - Plot: The epic conclusion to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which the forces of light must face down the forces of Sauron, the Dark Lord. PG-13
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004): 132 minutes - Director: Clint Eastwood - Starring: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood - Genre: Sports, drama - Plot: A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional. PG-13
THE DEPARTED (2006):151 minutes - Director: Martin Scorsese - Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson - Genre: Crime, drama - Plot: Two moles who have infiltrated a mob and the police force race to identify each other before they are discovered. R
