Recommended by David Bordwell

An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.

Flashbacks in a courtroom drama give different points of view on the events, anticipating the classic Japanese film Rashomon.

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him.