The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story.

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.

An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.

The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.

In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.