Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.
A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth.
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
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 worldview.
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion: avarice.
