Wait Until Dark (
1967) | IMDb:
7.7
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
Starring:
Audrey Hepburn
,
Alan Arkin
,
Richard Crenna
,
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
,
Jack Weston
,
Samantha Jones
The Fall of the Roman Empire (
1964) | IMDb:
6.7
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
Starring:
Sophia Loren
,
Stephen Boyd
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Alec Guinness
,
James Mason
,
Anthony Quayle
The Longest Day (
1962) | IMDb:
7.7
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
War and Peace (
1956) | IMDb:
6.7
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Starring:
Audrey Hepburn
,
Henry Fonda
,
Mel Ferrer
,
Vittorio Gassman
,
Herbert Lom
,
Oskar Homolka
Scaramouche (
1952) | IMDb:
7.5
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
Produced by:
Carey Wilson