Movie Classics: Mostly Sad Stories
An annotated list of the movies we've loved over the decades.
Prepare your handkerchiefs for these touching stories.
- All That Heaven AllowsJane Wyman and Rock Hudson find romance, to the great consternation of everyone around them.
- Anna KareninaTolstoy's epic tale of duty, marriage and a tragic romantic triangle. A Masterpiece Theatre production.
- The Best Years of Our LivesThree WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
- East of EdenJames Dean.
John Steinbeck's story of two boys struggling for the affection of their father. - The Glass MenagerieBased on the play by Tennessee Williams.
Features: performer theatre and film credits, previews for more Broadway Theatre Archive titles, image gallery.
Drama of a strong willed woman who attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life of her reclusive daughter, and how the daughter finds a way of escape.
More Tears
- A long Day's Journey into NightKatharine Hepburn, Jason Robards in Eugene O'Neill's biographical play.
Depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating from alcoholism, drug addiction, and imminent death. - MiddlemarchIn nineteenth-century England, Dorthea Brooke's wishes to defy social conventions are inhibited by the strict nature of her surroundings.
- The Picture of Dorian GrayA corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all. With George Sanders.
