Films with: Wyler, William

Ben-Hur

Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive and a quest for vengeance. Judah survives the galleys to become the adopted son of a Roman general, and his triumphant return to Judea permits him to challenge and subsequently confront Messala in a chariot race.

DVD 4554

Best years of our lives

Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives.

DVD 4

Children's hour

When a vindictive little girl is disciplined in an exclusive girl's school, the child twists an overheard comment into slander. She accuses her teachers of lesbianism and her gullible grandmother spreads the gossip. Outraged, Karen and Martha fight back in court, but a child's lie is hard to disprove.

DVD 6411

Dead end

"On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--Container.

DVD 4372

Desperate hours

Three escaped convicts break into a suburban home and hold the family therein hostage.

DVD 8528

Detective story

An embittered cop leads a precinct of characters in their grim battle with the city's lowlife while his wife suffers from neglect. Based on Sydney Kingsley's play.

DVD 4134

Dodsworth

Sam Dodsworth, a recently retired industrialist, sets off to Europe with his young wife. In Paris the wife, Fran, begins an open flirtation with an attractive gentleman and Dodsworth, hurt by his wife's actions, searches for the happiness which has eluded him.

DVD 175

Edna Ferber's Come and get it!

Lumberman Barney Glasgow abandons saloon girl Lotta to marry a timber heiress only to fall for Lotta's beautiful daughter twenty years later. But this time, Barney has a rival for the young woman's love : his own son.--Container.

DVD 12592

Funny girl

A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.

DVD 8074

Heiress

Catherine is the only heir to her stern father's vast estate. When a dashing fortune hunter named Morris Townsend wants her to elope, she is threatened with disinheritance. On the eve of their marriage, he deserts her. Seven years later, Morris returns, and a wiser Catherine plots her revenge.

DVD 5729

How to steal a million

A woman and a burglar hatch a scheme to swipe a forgery from an art museum to conceal her father's art forgeries.

DVD 12838

Jezebel

Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.

DVD 264

Letter

Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.

DVD 2618

Little foxes

Regina Giddens is a woman who will stop at nothing to outwit her brothers in running the family business, even if it means sacrificing the health of her husband or the love of her young daughter.

DVD 419

Mrs. Miniver

"This story of an average English middle-class family begins with the summer of 1939; when the sun shone down on a happy, careless people, who worked and played, reared their children and tended their gardens in that happy, easy-going England that was so soon to be fighting desperately for her way of life and for life itself." -- Title screens. [The film] dramatizes the effect of the Second World War on the English at home. Mrs. Kay Miniver's tranquil domestic existence is torn to shreds by the winds of war: her husband, Clem, disappears on a secret volunteer mission; eldest son, Vin, joins the RAF; and the village faces regular German bombings with a typically British stiff-upper-lip. Embodying understated British courage in the face of danger, Mrs. Miniver's mission is to stay alive, and keep her family together with hope, strength, and dignity.

DVD 10069

Roman holiday

A princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love.

DVD 3278

Wuthering Heights

A tortured love affair ends between Heathcliff and Cathy when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff's savage retaliation upon the woman he loves explodes in a stunning climax.

DVD 32

WWII, the ultimate collection 30 films.

A collection of documentaries on World War II.

DVD 1044