Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
[6] In this supernatural romantic comedy -- a rarity in its time -- James Stewart plays a New York publisher who becomes the object of affection for a young woman who runs a curio shop. Kim Novak plays the shop…
The Great Man’s Lady (1941)
[6] Barbara Stanwyck stars as a 100-year-old woman who recalls her frontier pioneering days to a young biographer (K.T. Stevens) inquiring about her late husband, Ethan Hoyt (Joel McCrea), the man who founded the city they live in and for…
Starman (1984)
[7] Director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) takes a break from the horror genre for this sensitive sci-fi romance starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen. Bridges plays an alien who takes the form of Allen's deceased husband. After the initial…
The Remains of the Day (1993)
[8] Anthony Hopkins stars as Stevens, an emotionally repressed English butler working for an influential Lord in the years leading up to World War II. When he hires a new head housekeeper, Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), the two slowly develop…
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
[8] Gary Cooper (Friendly Persuasion, Ball of Fire) stars as Longfellow Deeds, a small-town idealist who inherits twenty million dollars and moves to New York City, where he becomes increasingly frustrated with the myriad people who try to take advantage…
Wings in the Dark (1935)
[5] Myrna Loy and Cary Grant play competing pilots-for-hire who fall in love after Grant's character is blinded in a workshop accident. Grant's blindness sends him into frustration and depression, but Loy does her best to give him reasons to…
Sunflower (1970)
[5] Sophia Loren stars in the final film from director Vittorio de Sica, about an Italian woman despondently searching for her soldier husband (Marcello Mastroianni) in the fallout of World War II. Unable to learn from the government whether he's…
Belizaire the Cajun (1986)
[5] Armand Assante plays the title character in this 'cajun western' about a medicine man who tries to hold his 1800s Louisiana bayou community together while one half tries to run the other out of town. I had a hard…
Big Night (1996)
[7] In 1950s New Jersey, two Italian brothers struggle to keep their restaurant open as a rival eatery woos their clientele. Part of the problem is a philosophical rift between the brothers, played by Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub. Tucci…
You Can’t Take It With You (1938)
[7] James Stewart plays the son of a Wall Street tycoon whose father (Edward Arnold) is trying to force an eccentric family out of their home so he can pursue a major real estate development deal. Things get more complicated…