All I Want for Christmas 1991  G, 92 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Romance
Director: Robert Lieberman
Cast: Ethan Embry, Thora Birch, Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Amy Oberer, Lauren Bacall, Leslie Nielsen, Michael Alaimo, Kevin Nealon, Andrea Martin, Renee Taylor, Felicity LaFortune, Camille Saviola, Joanne Baron, Alan Brooks
All that seven-year-old Hallie (Thora Birch) and her 13-year-old brother, Ethan (Ethan Embry), want for Christmas is to have their divorced parents Catherine and Michael (Harley Jane Kozak and Jamey Sheridan) reconcile. This is the story of how Hallie and Ethan set out to make that happen.
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Appointment with Death 1988  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove, David Soul, Nicholas Guest, John Terlesky
Peter Ustinov stars in this Agatha Christie murder mystery about the murder of a woman in Palestine in 1937.
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 The Big Sleep 1946  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, John Ridgely, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey, Elisha Cook Jr., Bob Steele, Louis Jean Heydt, Ben Welden, Peggy Knudsen, Charles Waldron, Charles D. Brown, Trevor Bardette, Joseph Crehan
Private-eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to investigate the activities of his daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers). At first, Carmen's sister, Vivian (Lauren Bacall), resents Marlowe, but love does enter the picture. Meanwhile, as Marlowe probes into Carmen's activities, the plot thickens, and murders ensue.
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 Birth 2004  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliott, Arliss Howard, Michael Desautels, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine, Cara Seymour, Novella Nelson
Ten-year-old Sean (Cameron Bright) comes to a family gathering and informs Anna (Nicole Kidman) that he is the reincarnation of Anna's deceased husband. The family is shocked at the details Sean relates, but Anna is in awe and begins to re-evaluate her upcoming marriage to Joseph (Danny Huston).
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Blood Alley 1955 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Joy Kim, Berry Kroeger, Mike Mazurki, Anita Ekberg, Henry Nakamura, W.T. Chang, George Chan
Chinese refugees escaping the Communist regime are led to Hong Kong by Merchant Marine Captain Tom Wilder (John Wayne).
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Bright Leaf 1950 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal, Jack Carson, Donald Crisp, Gladys George, Elizabeth Patterson, Jeff Corey, Thurston Hall, Taylor Holmes
Brant Royle (Gary Cooper) discovers love during his revengeful climb to the top in the tobacco industry.
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The Cobweb 1955  N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant, Tommy Rettig, Fay Wray
The cobweb is a mental institution in this film about relationships between various staff members. Susan Strasberg and John Kerr make their screen debuts in this movie.
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 Dark Passage 1947  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea, Clifton Young, Douglas Kennedy, Rory Mallinson, Houseley Stevenson, Richard Walsh
After being wrongly sent to prison for the murder of his wife, Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart) escapes, changes his identity through plastic surgery, and searches for the real killer. Clever direction. Bogart's face is not seen (except in bandages) for the first hour plus.
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Day and Night 1997 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Bernard-Henri Levy
Cast: Alain Delon, Lauren Bacall, Xavier Beauvois, Arielle Dombasle, Marianne Denicourt, Francisco Rabal, Karl Zero, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Vanessa Bauche, Dionisos Espinoza
While the residents of a Mexican town prepare to revolt, life goes on for Parisian author Alexandre (Alain Delon) and his wife (Marianne Denicourt) who appear far-removed from the problems around them. But, they have their own unique set of problems within their small world at their Mexican hacienda.
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Designing Woman 1957 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Sam Levene, Mickey Shaughnessy, Chuck Connors, Tom Helmore, Jesse White, Edward Platt, Alvy Moore
George Wells won the Oscar for Best Story or Screenplay for this tale about a sports writer, Mike (Gregory Peck), who falls in love with and marries a fashion designer, Marilla (Lauren Bacall). After the excitement of courtship ends, Mike and Marilla realize that they face problems combining their very different worlds of sports and fashions.
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 Diamonds 1999 PG-13, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Asher
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd, Corbin Allred, Lauren Bacall, Kurt Fuller, Jenny McCarthy, Mariah O'Brien, June Chadwick, John Landis
A retired prizefighter, Harry Agensky (Kirk Douglas), is recovering from a stroke when he talks his son, Lance (Dan Aykroyd), and grandson Michael (Corbin Allred) into driving him to Reno in search of 13 diamonds Harry insists that he hid in a house many years ago.
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 Dinner at Eight 1989 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Ron Lagomarsino
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Marsha Mason, Charles Durning, Ellen Greene, Harry Hamlin, John Mahoney, Joel Brooks, Tim Kazurinsky, Stacy Edwards, Lenore Kasdorf, Kelly Connell, Jane Alden, Julia Sweeney
This made-for-TV update of the 1933 version, which is based on the George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber play, is adequately done, but the first version certainly is better. It tells the story of a social-climber (Marsha Mason) getting ready to throw an extravagant dinner party for the elite. Lauren Bacall is great as a "trash" novelist.
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Dogville 2003 R, 144 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Harriet Andersson, Patricia Clarkson, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Jean-Marc Barr, James Caan, Blair Brown, Jeremy Davies, Ben Gazzara, Stellan Skarsgard
When a fugitive (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the village of Dogville in the Rocky Mountains, the mayor (Paul Bettany) convinces the citizens to hide her. It works for awhile–until police and gangsters arrive looking for her–and then the villagers turn on her. The symbolism of Americans accepting newcomers at first but exploiting them later prevails throughout this tale.
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The Fan 1981 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Edward Bianchi
Cast: Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Maureen Stapleton, Hector Elizondo, Michael Biehn, Anna Maria Horsford, Kurt Johnson, Dwight Schultz, Dana Delany, Kaiulani Lee, Feiga Martinez, Reed Jones, Charles Blackwell, Terence Marinan, Lesley Rogers
Sally Ross (Lauren Bacall) is a stage star who has a BIG fan, Douglas Breen (Michael Biehn). The trouble is, Douglas is psychotic and is now stalking her since Sally has rejected him. If he can't have her, he will make sure that no one else can, and he attacks her on the subway.
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A Foreign Field 1993 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Lauren Bacall, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Herrmann, John Randolph, Jeanne Moreau, Dorothy Grumbar, Michelle Gheleyns-Hue, Cateline Alteirac
Fifty years after D-Day, British (Alec Guinness and Leo McKern) and American (John Randolph) veterans return to Normandy where they encounter each other while staying at the same hotel. Recalled memories turn animosity into friendship as past secrets are revealed.
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H.E.A.L.T.H. 1979 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Henry Gibson, Paul Dooley, Donald Moffat, Alfre Woodard, Dick Cavett
This satire on politics and "dirty tricks" is underrated with its great cast and is well-worth viewing Set at a health food convention, the acronym stands for Happiness, Energy and Longevity Through Health. If it's Altman, it must be different.
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Harper 1966 N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Strother Martin, Shelley Winters, Robert Wagner, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Webber
Lew Harper (Paul Newman), private eye, has not been enjoying a thriving practice and accepts Mrs. Sampson's (Lauren Bacall) offer to pay him to find her missing husband. During the course of the investigation, Harper uncovers a murder plot. Paul Newman: "The bottom's full of nice people; only cream and bastards rise." There is a sequel: "The Drowning Pool."
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 How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, William Powell, Cameron Mitchell, Alexander D'Arcy, Fred Clark
Loco (Betty Grable), Pola (Marilyn Monroe), and Schatze Page (Lauren Bacall) join forces as they set out to find a marriageable millionaire.
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Howl's Moving Castle 2004  PG, 119 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Jean Simmons, Christian Bale, Blythe Danner, Josh Hutcherson, Billy Crystal, Lauren Bacall, Jean Malone, Daijiro Harada, Crispin Freeman, Mark Silverman, Liliana Mumy
In this animated, English version of the story, after 18-year-old Sophie (voice of Emily Mortimer) is cursed by the Witch of the Waste (voice of Lauren Bacall) who turns her into an ugly old woman, Sophie (now, the voice of Jean Simmons) goes to a magician's castle where she meets Howl (Christian Bale) who sees beyond her ugliness and falls in love with her. The film received and Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.
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 Key Largo 1948 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Jay Silverheels, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, William Haade, John Litel, Pat Flaherty
Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) and his gang have taken over a run-down hotel on Key Largo, Florida. At the same time, Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) has come to visit the hotel owners, who are the father (Lionel Barrymore) and widow (Lauren Bacall) of his war buddy. Frank becomes their reluctant savior. Claire Trevor won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rocco's alcoholic girlfriend. A great John Huston film of Post-World War II American attitudes.
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 Manderlay 2005 N/R, 139 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankole, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Michael Abiteboul, Lauren Bacall, Jeremy Davies, Chloe Sevigny, Udo Kier, Jean-Marc Barr, Geoffrey Bateman, Rik Launspach
In 1933, while traveling through Alabama with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangster cohorts, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers the remains of the Manderlay plantation and finds a group of Black people who appear to be living as slaves from the past with White masters ruling them. The White matriarch (Lauren Bacall) dies, and, after arguing with her father, Grace stays behind to help with the transition from slavery to freedom.
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 The Mirror Has Two Faces 1996 PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Barbra Streisand
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Pierce Brosnan, Brenda Vaccaro, Austin Pendleton, Elle Macpherson, Taina Elg, Ali Marsh, Leslie Stefanson, Lucy Avery Brooks, Thomas Hartman, David Kinzie
Society's obsession with beauty is questioned in this love story about dowdy, English Professor Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) who becomes involved with–and then accepts terms of a platonic marriage to–calculus Professor Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges). The marriage lasts for a while, until Rose wants more. Lauren Bacall was nominated for Best Supporting Actress as Rose's mother, Hannah.
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Misery 1990 R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Frances Sternhagen, Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall, Graham Jarvis, Jerry Potter, Thomas Brunelle, June Christopher, Julie Payne, Archie Hahn III, Gregory Snegoff, Wendy Bowers, Rob Reiner, J.T. Walsh
A famous author, Paul Sheldon (James Caan), has written a series of books with a heroine named Misery Chastain. When he has a car wreck, he is rescued by a mountain resident, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who tends to his injuries. Unfortunately, she is more than a little upset that Paul has ended Misery's life, and she decides to force him to bring Misery back to life in a new book. This movie is from the Stephen King novel by the same name. Kathy Bates won an Oscar for her performance.
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Mr. North 1988 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Danny Huston
Cast: Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, Anjelica Huston, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Stuart Masterson, Virginia Madsen, David Warner, Tammy Grimes, Hunter Carson
Recent Yale graduate Theophilus North accepts a job as tutor in Newport, Rhode Island. While there, he upsets the local doctor by his seemingly magical powers of healing.
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 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 PG, 127 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, Lauren Bacall, Wendy Hiller, Martin Balsam, Richard Widmark, Jean-Pierre Cassel, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Rachel Roberts, Colin Blakely
Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) investigates a murder that takes place on a train trip from Calais to Istanbul. This is an exciting movie with an exceptional cast of characters. Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. There were five other nominations, including Best Actor (Albert Finney).
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My Fellow Americans 1996 PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Lauren Bacall, Sela Ward, Everett McGill, Bradley Whitford, James Rebhorn
President William Haney (Dan Aykroyd) evades charges of his own involvement in a kickback scandal and finds his escape–he lays the blame on two former chief executives who directly preceded him as President. Ex-Presidents Russell P. Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Matt Douglas (James Garner) are political enemies who become objects of Haney's assassination plot and join forces to survive. This film has a silly script but provides amusing political satire.
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The Portrait 1993 TV, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Cecilia Peck, Paul McCrane, Donna Mitchell, Mitchell Laurance, William Prince, Augusta Dabney, John Murphy, John Bennes
Margaret (Cecilia Peck-Gregory's real-life daughter) returns home after a long absence to finish a portrait of her parents (Peck and Bacall). But things are not the way they used to be in her childhood, such as the house being sold and her father showing the effects of aging.
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Presence of Mind 1999 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Antonio Aloy
Cast: Sadie Frost, Lauren Bacall, Harvey Keitel, Nilo Mur, Agustin Villaronga, Dayna Danika, Jack Taylor, Ella Jones, Carmen Pons, Juana Ginzo
Henry James' classic tale "The Turn of the Screw" is again brought to the screen with this production shot in Spain. The guardian (Harvey Keitel) of two children hires a young woman (Sadie Frost) as a governess. The children prove to be difficult, and the housekeeper (Lauren Bacall), who really runs the place, is not pleasant to get along with. It soon becomes evident that the house holds a dark secret. Good performances by Keitel and Bacall.
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Sex and the Single Girl 1964 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer, Edward Everett Horton, Howard St. John, Stubby Kaye, Fran Jeffries, Otto Kruger, Barbara Bouchet, Leslie Parrish, Larry Storch, Max Showalter, Helen Kleeb
This satire on sexual mores is more-or-less based on the Helen Gurley Brown book by the same name. Helen Brown (Natalie Wood) is a 23-year-old therapist who advises women about sex. Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) is a magazine editor planning to write a story in which he will accuse Helen of being a virgin. But everything changes when they meet, and romance is definitely in the air–despite the fact that Bob is married–although maybe not legally–to Sylvia (Lauren Bacall). Problems ensue, which all lead to a wild taxi chase on the freeway where things are finally sorted out.
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The Shootist 1976 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Don Siegel
Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, James Stewart, Ron Howard, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian, Harry Morgan, John Carradine, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney
A gunfighter dying of cancer (John Wayne) is haunted by his own reputation in the search for a way to die. This is Wayne's final film, and it is one of his best.
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 To Have and Have Not 1944 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, Dolores Moran, Sheldon Leonard, Marcel Dalio, Walter Sande, Dan Seymour, Eugene Borden
Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) becomes involved in World War II when he reluctantly aids the French Resistance. In the process, he meets Marie (Lauren Bacall) who helps him in his mission against the Nazis. Based on Ernest Hemingway's novel, this is Lauren Bacall's film debut.
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Two Guys from Milwaukee 1946 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Joan Leslie, Janis Paige, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary DeCamp, S.Z. Sakall, Tom D'Andrea, Franklin Pangborn, Lauren Bacall
Thinking that Prince Henry (Dennis Morgan) is really from his hometown of Milwaukee, taxi driver Buzz Williams (Jack Carson) helps to acclimate the prince to New York.
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The Walker 2007 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin, Moritz Bleibtreu, Mary Beth Hurt, Willem Dafoe, William Hope, Geff Francis, Steven Hartley, Garrick Hagon, Michael J. Reynolds
Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson) is gay and serves as an escort to middle-aged wives–Natalie (Lauren Bacall), Abigail (Lily Tomlin), and Lynn (Kristin Scott Thomas)–of powerful men in Washington, D.C. When he escorts Lynn to a tryst with lobbyist Robbie Kononsberg (Steven Hartley), she discovers Robbie's murdered body. Now Carter tries to protect Lynn and her husband Larry (Willem Dafoe) from the media and, with his photographer lover Ernek (Moritz Bleibtreu), begins an investigation of the murder.
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Woman's World 1954 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Cornel Wilde, Elliott Reid, Margalo Gillmore, Alan Reed
Clifton Webb plays a corporate executive who chooses his new manager from three candidates and decides to base their qualifications on the abilities of their wives.
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Written on the Wind 1956 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Platt, Harry Shannon, John Larch
The Hadleys are a wealthy oil family beset by troubles–son Kyle (Robert Stack) is an alcoholic and daughter Marylee (Dorothy Malone) is a nymphomaniac. Dorothy Malone won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Robert Stack was nominated for Supporting Actor in this soaper that is saved by good acting.
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Young Man with a Horn 1950 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez, Nestor Paiva, Mary Beth Hughes, Jerome Cowan, Walter Reed, Jack Kruschen
Following the demise of his marriage, Rick Martin (Kirk Douglas) has only his trumpet and alcohol for solace. Jo Jordan (Doris Day) is a young singer who helps Martin out of his psychological fog.
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| 1. All I Want for Christmas (1991)
2. Appointment with Death (1988)
3. The Big Sleep (1946)
4. Birth (2004)
5. Blood Alley (1955)
6. Bright Leaf (1950)
7. The Cobweb (1955)
8. Dark Passage (1947)
9. Day and Night (1997)
10. Designing Woman (1957)
11. Diamonds (1999)
12. Dinner at Eight (1989)
13. Dogville (2003)
14. The Fan (1981)
15. A Foreign Field (1993)
16. H.E.A.L.T.H. (1979)
17. Harper (1966)
18. How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
19. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
20. John Huston (1988)
21. Key Largo (1948)
22. Manderlay (2005)
23. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
24. Misery (1990)
25. Mr. North (1988)
26. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
27. My Fellow Americans (1996)
28. The Portrait (1993)
29. Presence of Mind (1999)
30. Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
31. The Shootist (1976)
32. To Have and Have Not (1944)
33. Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)
34. The Walker (2007)
35. Woman's World (1954)
36. Written on the Wind (1956)
37. Young Man with a Horn (1950)
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