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Compulsion (1959)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:21:35 +0000

1h 43min. // Close friends Judd Steiner (based on Nathan Leopold and played by Dean Stockwell) and Artie Strauss (based on Richard Loeb and played by Bradford Dillman) kill a boy on his way home from school in order to commit the “perfect crime”. Strauss tries to cover it up, but they are caught when police find a key piece of evidence — Steiner’s glasses, which he inadvertently left at the scene of the crime. Famed attorney Jonathan Wilk (based on Clarence Darrow and played by Orson Welles) takes their case, saving them from hanging by making an impassioned closing argument against capital punishment.

Directed by: Richard Fleischer

Writing Credits: Richard Murphy (screenplay), Meyer Levin (novel)

Starring: Orson Welles (as Jonathan Wilk), Dean Stockwell (as Judd Steiner) and Diane Varsi (as Ruth Evans)

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Awards:

WON. Cannes Film Festival 1959. Best Actor. Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles.

NOMINATED. Cannes Film Festival 1959. Palme d’Or. Richard Fleischer.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1960. Best Film from any Source. Richard Fleischer.

NOMINATED. Directors Guild of America, USA 1960. Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Richard Fleischer.

NOMINATED. Laurel Awards 1960. Top Drama (5th place).

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America, USA 1960. Best Written American Drama. Richard Murphy.

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The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:21:17 +0000

2h 36min. // A young peasant girl saw a divine miracle. The phenomenon became widely known and changed the lives of many.

Directed by: Henry King

Writing Credits: George Seaton (screenplay), Franz Werfel (novel)

Starring: Jennifer Jones (as Bernadette Soubirous), Charles Bickford (as Father Peyramale), Vincent Price (as Prosecutor Vital Dutour), Lee J. Cobb (as Dr. Dozous) and Gladys Cooper (as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous)

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Awards:

WON. Golden Globes, USA 1944. Best Picture. Henry King.

WON. Golden Globes, USA 1944. Best Director. Henry King.

WON. Golden Globes, USA 1944. Best Actress. Jennifer Jones.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1944. Top Ten Films.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Jennifer Jones.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Arthur C. Miller.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White. James Basevi, William S. Darling and Thomas Little.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Alfred Newman.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Picture. Henry King.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Charles Bickford.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Gladys Cooper.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Anne Revere.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Director. Henry King.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Writing, Screenplay. George Seaton.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Sound, Recording. Edmund H. Hansen.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Film Editing. Barbara McLean.

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Holy Matrimony (1943)

Charlotte Movies — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:21:02 +0000

1h 27min. // From Arnold Bennett’s novel “Buried Alive”. An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.

Directed by: John M. Stahl

Writing Credits: Arnold Bennett (novel), Nunnally Johnson (screenplay)

Starring: Monty Woolley (as Priam Farll), Gracie Fields (as Alice Chalice) and Laird Cregar (as Clive Oxford)

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1943. Top Ten Films.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1943. Best Actress. Gracie Fields.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1943. Best Actor. Monty Woolley.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1943. Best Actress. Gracie Fields.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1943. Best Film.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Writing, Screenplay. Nunnally Johnson.

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People Will Talk (1951)

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:20:02 +0000

1h 50min. // Dr. Noah Praetorius falls in love with Debra, a student who finds out that she is pregnant by her old boyfriend.

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writing Credits: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay), Curt Goetz (play)

Starring: Cary Grant (as Dr. Noah Praetorius), Jeanne Crain (as Deborah Higgins), Finlay Currie (as Shunderson) and Hume Cronyn (as Prof. Rodney Elwell)

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Awards:

NOMINATED.Writers Guild of America, USA 1952. Best Written American Comedy. Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

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Stalag 17 (1953)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:19:15 +0000

2h. // When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Writing Credits: Billy Wilder (screenplay), Edwin Blum (screenplay)

Starring: William Holden (as Sgt. J.J. Sefton), Don Taylor (as Lt. James Dunbar) and Otto Preminger (as Oberst von Scherbach)

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1953. Top Ten Films.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1954. Best Actor in a Leading Role. William Holden.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1953. Best Actor. William Holden.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1954. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Robert Strauss.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1954. Best Director. Billy Wilder.

NOMINATED. Directors Guild of America, USA 1954. Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Billy Wilder.

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America, USA 1954. Best Written American Comedy. Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum.

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The Steel Helmet (1951)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:19:02 +0000

1h. 25min. // A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Writing Credits: Samuel Fuller

Starring: Gene Evans (as Sgt. Zack), Robert Hutton (as Pvt. Bronte), Steve Brodie (as Lt. Driscoll), James Edwards (as Cpl. Thompson) and Richard Loo (as Sgt. Tanaka).

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Awards:

WON. Writers Guild of America, USA 1952. Best Written American Low-Budget. Samuel Fuller.

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A Star Is Born (1937)

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:18:19 +0000

1h 50min. // Vicki Lester, a young actress, comes to Hollywood with hopes of stardom. There, she meets Norman Maine, an older actor who takes her under his wing. While her career begins to grow, Norman descends into alcoholism, and then she must decide between pursuing her dream or caring for him.

Directed by: William A. Wellman

Writing Credits: Dorothy Parker (screenplay), Alan Campbell (screenplay), Robert Carson (screenplay and story) and William A. Wellman (story)

Starring: Janet Gaynor (as Esther Victoria Blodgett – aka Vicki Lester), Fredric March (as Norman Maine), Adolphe Menjou (as Oliver Niles), May Robson (as Grandmother Lettie Blodgett), Andy Devine (as Danny McGuire) and Lionel Stander (as Matt Libby)

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1937. Top Ten Films.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Honorary Award. W. Howard Greene, for the color photography of A Star Is Born.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Writing, Original Story. Robert Carson and William A. Wellman.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Fredric March.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Janet Gaynor.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Director. William A. Wellman.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Writing, Screenplay. Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Robert Carson.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1938. Best Assistant Director. Eric Stacey.

NOMINATED. Venice Film Festival 1937. Best Foreign Film. William A. Wellman.

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Ladies In Retirement (1941)

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:18:00 +0000

1h 31min. // Ellen Creed, the housekeeper to Miss Leonora Fiske, a retired actress, tries at the same time to look after her own sisters when she receives notice that their landlady in London threatens to call the police to haul them away to an asylum because of their disruptive behavior due to their mentally deranged state. The stay of the sisters at Miss Fiske house will bring dramatic results.

Directed by: Charles Vidor

Writing Credits: Garrett Fort (screenplay), Reginald Denham (screenplay and play), Edward Percy (play)

Starring: Ida Lupino (as Ellen Creed), Louis Hayward (as Albert Feather), Evelyn Keyes (as Lucy), Elsa Lanchester (as Emily Creed), Edith Barrett (as Louisa Creed) and Isobel Elsom (as Leonora Fiske).

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1941. Best Acting. Isobel Elsom.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1942. Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White. Lionel Banks, George Montgomery.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1942. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture. Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch.

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September Affair (1950)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:17:33 +0000

1h. 44min. // An industrialist (Joseph Cotten) and a pianist (Joan Fontaine) meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren’t on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.

Directed by: William Dieterle

Writing Credits: Fritz Rotter (story), Andrew Solt (screenplay), Robert Thoeren (screenplay)

Starring: Joan Fontaine (as Marianne ‘Manina’ Stuart), Joseph Cotten (as David Lawrence) and Françoise Rosay (as Maria Salvatini).

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Awards:

WON. Golden Globes, USA 1952. Best Original Score. Victor Young.

NOMINATED. Venice Film Festival 1950. William Dieterle.

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The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:17:18 +0000

1h. 56min. // A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

Directed by: Ronald Neame

Writing Credits: Muriel Spark (novel), Jay Presson Allen (screenplay)

Starring: Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie), Robert Stephens (as Teddy Lloyd), Pamela Franklin (as Sandy), Gordon Jackson (as Gordon Lowther) and Celia Johnson (as Miss Mackay).

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1970. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Maggie Smith.

WON. Golden Globes, USA 1970. Best Original Song. Rod McKuen for the song “Jean”.

WON. BAFTA Awards 1970. Best Actress. Maggie Smith.

WON. BAFTA Awards 1970. Best Supporting Actress. Celia Johnson.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1970. Best Supporting Actress. Pamela Franklin.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1970. Top Ten Films.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1969. Best Actress. Maggie Smith.

NOMINATED. Cannes Film Festival 1969. Palme d’Or. Ronald Neame.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1970. Best Music, Original Song. Rod McKuen for the song “Jean”.

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1970. Best Motion Picture – Drama.

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1970. Best Actress – Drama. Maggie Smith.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1970. Best Supporting Actress. Pamela Franklin.

NOMINATED. Laurel Awards 1970. Female Dramatic Performance. Maggie Smith.

NOMINATED. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1970. Best Actress. Maggie Smith.

NOMINATED. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1970. Best Supporting Actress. Celia Johnson.

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America, USA 1970. Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium. Jay Presson Allen.