1.Gone With the Wind
Starring - Vivian Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel.
Release Date - December 15, 1939.
Synopsis - Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O?Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes. Smug, rebellious, honest blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. Ashley, who is also in love with Scarlett, marries his genteel cousin Melanie because he believes that their quiet similarities will create a better marriage than Scarlett?s passion. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Rhett and Scarlett at their first encounter and continue throughout Scarlett?s first two marriages. Scarlett and Rhett finally wed, but Scarlett continues to pine for her beloved Ashley. Set against the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, this tragic love quadrangle offers the burning of Atlanta and fields of wounded Confederates as part of its lush scenery. Meticulous backdrops, glorious sunsets, numerous silhouettes, and the ultrasaturated Technicolor film create a hyperreal vision. The romantic score is every bit as lush and dramatic as the photography, borrowing folk melodies from the Old South to make the tragic war concrete. Heavy nostalgic tones pervade the often witty dialogue and larger-than-life charms and faults of the leads. GONE WITH THE WIND stands among the greatest epic dramas ever filmed.
2.Casablanca
Starring - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson.Release Date - January 1, 1942.
Synopsis - The time: World War II. The place: Morocco. The film: Casablanca, perhaps the most legendary achievement in cinematic history. Suspenseful, gloriously romantic and filled with unforgettable dialog, this winner of three Oscars continues to top critics' lists of all-time favorite films, for as Roger Ebert so aptly put it: “Casablanca is the movie!” Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen as Rick and Ilsa, former lovers briefly reunited in the chaos of war. He is a world-weary nightclub owner who “sticks his neck out for nobody” and she, a beautiful woman fleeing the Nazis with her Resistance-hero husband. Only Rick can help the pair escape... and only if Ilsa can reawaken the idealism she killed in him when she left him long ago. Bogie and Bergman are incomparable as the star-crossed lovers who'll “always have Paris” - and Casablanca is the quintessential, eminently quotable film you'll watch again and again “as time goes by”.
3. Roman Holiday
Starring - Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Hartley power, Harcourt Williams, Margaret Rawlings, Tullio Carminati.
Release Date - January 1, 1953.
Synopsis - Roman Holiday was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and Audrey Hepburn captured an Oscar for her portrayal of a modern-day princess, rebelling against the royal obligations, who explores Rome on her own. She meets Gregory Peck, an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her true identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love. Eddie Albert contributes to the fun as Peck's carefree cameraman pal. Stylishly directed by William Wyler, this romantic comedy ranks as one of the most enjoyable films of all times.
4.Breakfast at Tiffany's
Starring: Audrey HepburnGeorge Peppard, Andy Rooney, Orangey
Synopsis -Truman Capote's wonderful tale of singles life in New York casts Holly Go Lightly played by Audrey Hepburn as the ultimate scatter-brained party-girl who makes her living by earning $50 every time she goes to the restroom on a date and by carrying coded messages to a mobster in prison. She is set on marrying wealthy but ends up falling for kept man and starving author whom she calls Fred, but is actually Paul.
Confused, frightened and terrified to commit, Holly won't even name her cat because this would mean they were responsible for each other. The last scene is one you'll remember and cry over as in the pouring rain she searches for Cat after abandoning him and opens her eyes to true love in a rain drenched kiss.
This film touches a nerve with anyone whom has ever been afraid to love yet desperately longs for it. Audrey Hepburn is at her absolute best and turns a somewhat narcissistic character into a woman most men would long to love.
5.Doctor Zhivago
Starring - Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Gunness, Tom Courtenay.Release Date - December 22, 1965.
Synopsis - Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother's lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can't compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago who also loves his wife. Lara is the one who inspires poetry. The story is narrated by Zhivago's half brother Yevgraf, who has made his career in the Soviet Army. At the beginning of the film he is about to meet a young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and Zhivago.
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