Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Taming of the Shrew movie storyline. Baptista (Michael Hordern), a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca (Natasha Pyne), will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina (Elizabeth Taylor), a hellish shrew, has wed.
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Fedora movie storyline. One of the great movie stars of the century, the reclusive foreign-born Fedora, is known in Hollywood for inexplicably retaining her youthful beauty over the course of a career spanning decades: she looked no older in her first film than she did in her final one.
Fedora (1978) Read More
The Island of Dr. Moreau movie synopsis. Shipwrecked Andrew Braddock washes ashore on a remote, tropical island in the Pacific. There he is attended to by the seemingly kindly Dr. Moreau and his dour assistant Montgomery.
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) Read More
Great Expectations movie storyline. The story of a young man whose moral progress is shaped and to some extent warped by two crucial childhood experiences.
Great Expectations (1974) Read More
Something for Everyone storyline. Konrad Ludwig, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of widowed Countess Herthe von Ornstein.
Something for Everyone (1970) Read More
Cabaret movie storyline. Set in a cabaret in sexually-charged, decadent, 1930s pre-war Berlin, one of the greatest musicals ever produced, adapted from the Kander-Ebb Broadway stage musical.
Cabaret (1972) Read More
Romeo and Juliet storyline. Adapted in this modern and realistic version by Zefferelli for the first time with two teenaged leads as the youthful, innocent, lovers Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet (1968) Read More