Irving Rapper

Irving Rapper is, in many ways, Hollywood's forgotten man. After getting his start as a "dialogue director" at Warner Bros. in the mid 30's, he became synonymous with the studio's "women's pictures" and rose in prominence as one of Bette Davis's most consistent collaborators, including on her biggest commercial success, Now Voyager (1942). He was a rebel who led the studio in suspensions for chronically refusing to direct the scripts handed to him by the brass, waiting instead for material that better suited his interests and thematic preoccupations. He was also one in a secretive fraternity of gay directors who had to conceal their identities and shield their private lives from potential public ruination. Daniel Kremer takes you through an unexamined and misunderstood life of a man of great artistic inclination who expressed his innermost yearnings covertly through his work in motion pictures.

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.

A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.

After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

In the 1950s, a young American man goes to Denmark and makes headlines for having the first sex-change operation.

Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.

In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.

Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.

An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.

A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise.

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.