A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

A tyrannical ship captain decides to exact revenge on his abused crew after they form a mutiny against him, but the sailor he targets had no hand in it.

A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

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

Father Charles O'Mailey, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior.

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.