Judgment at Nuremberg (
1961) | IMDb:
8.3
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Starring:
Spencer Tracy
,
Burt Lancaster
,
Richard Widmark
,
Marlene Dietrich
,
Maximilian Schell
,
Judy Garland
The Misfits (
1961) | IMDb:
7.2
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
Starring:
Marilyn Monroe
,
Clark Gable
,
Eli Wallach
,
Montgomery Clift
,
Thelma Ritter
,
James Barton
Suddenly, Last Summer (
1959) | IMDb:
7.5
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Katharine Hepburn
,
Montgomery Clift
,
Albert Dekker
,
Mercedes McCambridge
,
Gary Raymond
The Young Lions (
1958) | IMDb:
7.1
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Raintree County (
1957) | IMDb:
6.3
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Montgomery Clift
,
Eva Marie Saint
,
Nigel Patrick
,
Lee Marvin
,
Rod Taylor
A Place in the Sun (
1951) | IMDb:
7.7
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Starring:
Montgomery Clift
,
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Shelley Winters
,
Anne Revere
,
Keefe Brasselle
,
Fred Clark
The Heiress (
1949) | IMDb:
8.1
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
Starring:
Olivia de Havilland
,
Montgomery Clift
,
Ralph Richardson
,
Miriam Hopkins
,
Vanessa Brown
,
Mona Freeman
Red River (
1948) | IMDb:
7.8
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.