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1. Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Approved | 118 min | Drama, Romance

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver

Votes: 9,228

2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

PG | 129 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 8,413

3. The Good Earth (1937)

Passed | 138 min | Drama, Romance

Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.

Directors: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood | Stars: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch

Votes: 5,413

4. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

When a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.

Directors: Dorothy Arzner, Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field

Votes: 3,085

5. His Brother's Wife (1936)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

Rita Wilson meets epidemiologist Chris Claybourne and they fall in love with each other. When Claybourne leaves for the tropics to find a cure against a disease, Wilson gets her revenge by ... See full summary »

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 665

6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama

The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.

Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker, James Olson, Pamelyn Ferdin

Votes: 132

7. The Bride Wore Red (1937)

Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A lounge singer is sent by a count to pose as a wealthy socialite.

Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Billie Burke

Votes: 1,276

8. The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1957)

60 min | Drama

An anthology of mini-features, new productions largely consisting of hasty retreads of successful 20th Century Fox movies.

Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jesse White, Carl Benton Reid, Grandon Rhodes

Votes: 235

9. Claudia and David (1946)

78 min | Comedy, Drama

The follow-up to the hit film "Claudia" (1943) finds the title character (Dorothy McGuire) and husband David (Robert Young) dealing with the ups and downs of marriage and parenthood in ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Mary Astor, John Sutton

Votes: 245

10. Remember the Day (1941)

Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance, War

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick, Ann E. Todd

Votes: 632

11. Girls' School (1938)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A student monitor at a girls' school faces the scorn of her fellow pupils when she reports one of the popular girls for staying out late.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Moore

Votes: 231

12. Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

Ray Milland and Betty Field play a warring married couple who hope to patch up their differences by adopting a baby. When Milland's ex-flame Patricia Morrison shows up unexpectedly, the fur flies.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Ray Milland, Betty Field, Patricia Morison, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 79

13. The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1957)
Episode: Men in Her Life (1957)

60 min | Drama

The story of Miss Sherwood, a young school teacher, and how her influence over an unruly boy helped him to become a famous man.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Phyllis Kirk, Kendall Scott, Ann Doran, Richard Hale