My grandma's favorite movies
by edllada74 | created - 25 Aug 2011 | updated - 25 Aug 2011 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Random Harvest (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Votes: 8,405 | Gross: $10.14M
2. Rebecca (1940)
Approved | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson
Votes: 146,720 | Gross: $4.36M
3. Esa voz es una mina (1956)
85 min | Musical
A young miner faces the hardships of life singing to cheer up all around him. A promoter casually overhears him sing, and offers him a contract to tour the country.
Director: Luis Lucia | Stars: Antonio Molina, Rafael Durán, Delia Luna, Nani Fernández
Votes: 59
4. Gaslight (1944)
Passed | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty
Votes: 33,897
5. The Holy Queen (1947)
110 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A virtuous Spanish princess becomes Queen of Portugal, then troubled by social struggles and court intrigue. She negotiates a truce between the king's and his son's factions; and performs a... See full summary »
Directors: Henrique Campos, Aníbal Contreiras, Rafael Gil | Stars: Maruchi Fresno, Antonio Vilar, Luis Peña, Fernando Rey
Votes: 38
6. The Old Maid (1939)
Approved | 95 min | Drama
The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp
Votes: 4,060
7. Wuthering Heights (1939)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson
Votes: 19,766 | Gross: $0.76M
8. Bend of the River (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams
Votes: 9,898
9. Ronda española (1951)
91 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: José Suárez, Elena Salvador, Manolo Morán, María Esperanza Navarro
Votes: 19
10. Jeromín (1953)
95 min | Drama, History
The story of Juan de Austria, called Jeromín as a child, who unaware of his royal ascent is taken by a nobleman to live near emperor Carlos of Spain.
Director: Luis Lucia | Stars: Ana Mariscal, Rafael Durán, Jaime Blanch, Jesús Tordesillas
Votes: 56
11. The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)
93 min | Comedy
Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Juan Calvo, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 1,281
12. El Cid (1961)
Approved | 182 min | Biography, Drama, History
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page
Votes: 15,679 | Gross: $26.62M
13. El último cuplé (1957)
110 min | Drama, Musical
This is a musical drama featuring a tragic love story that relates a torch singer's rise to fame, and then her downfall because of her lover's death. She manages to return to the stage, but... See full summary »
Director: Juan de Orduña | Stars: Sara Montiel, Armando Calvo, Enrique Vera, Julia Martínez
Votes: 234
14. ¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII? (1959)
110 min | Drama
The youth of Prince Alfonso who would become King Alfonso XII of Spain after Queen Isabel II abdication, centered in his love for his cousin María de las Mercedes. Daughter of one of his ... See full summary »
Director: Luis César Amadori | Stars: Vicente Parra, Paquita Rico, Mercedes Vecino, Tomás Blanco
Votes: 120
15. Alfonso XII y María Cristina: ¿Dónde vas triste de ti? (1960)
99 min | Biography, Drama
Recently widowed from María de las Mercedes, King Alfonso XII of Spain is urged to marry again to secure the restored monarchy and a heir to the throne. He chooses María Cristina de ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfonso Balcázar, Guillermo Cases | Stars: Vicente Parra, Marga López, José Marco Davó, Tomás Blanco
Votes: 66
16. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 334,291 | Gross: $198.68M
17. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,121,457 | Gross: $309.13M
18. The Sound of Music (1965)
G | 172 min | Biography, Drama, Family
A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn
Votes: 261,068 | Gross: $163.21M
19. Sissi (1955)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the first of a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the vibrant young princess catches the eye of her sister's fiancé, Emperor Franz Josef.
Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz
Votes: 9,980
20. Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin (1956)
107 min | Drama, History
The second in a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the film chronicles the married life of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formal and strict life in the palace and an overbearing mother-in-law.
Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 7,355
21. Young Bess (1953)
Approved | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The early life of Elizabeth I, from her childhood until her accession to the throne of England in 1558.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton
Votes: 1,815
22. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 233,298 | Gross: $44.91M
23. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Not Rated | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 55,393 | Gross: $28.90M
24. Nobleza baturra (1935)
85 min | Drama
Pilar, a young Aragonese girl, is loved by two men. The rejected one makes believe she's been dishonest in a way hard to clear out.
Director: Florián Rey | Stars: Imperio Argentina, Miguel Ligero, Juan de Orduña, José Calle
Votes: 105
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