The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story.

A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.

In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.