14 Movies Starring Audrey Hepburn

Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-09-02

Languages:

English, Italian, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (88920 Reviews)

Director:

William Wyler

Cast:

Writer:

Ian McLellan Hunter (screenplay)

John Dighton (screenplay)

Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)

Dalton Trumbo (story)

Fullplot:

Joe Bradley is a reporter for the American News Service in Rome, a job he doesn't much like as he would rather work for what he considers a real news agency back in the States. He is on the verge of getting fired when he, sleeping in and getting caught in a lie by his boss Hennessy, misses an interview with HRH Princess Ann, who is on a goodwill tour of Europe, Rome only her latest stop. However, he thinks he may have stumbled upon a huge scoop. Princess Ann has officially called off all her Rome engagements due to illness. In reality, he recognizes the photograph of her as being the young well but simply dressed drunk woman he rescued off the street last night (as he didn't want to turn her into the police for being a vagrant), and who is still in his small studio apartment sleeping off her hangover. What Joe doesn't know is that she is really sleeping off the effects of a sedative given to her by her doctor to calm her down after an anxiety attack, that anxiety because she hates her regimented life where she has no freedom and must always do and say the politically correct things, not what is truly on her mind or in her heart. In wanting just a little freedom, she seized upon a chance opportunity to escape from the royal palace where she was staying, albeit with no money in her pockets. Joe believes he can get an exclusive interview with her without she even knowing that he's a reporter or that he's interviewing her. As Joe accompanies "Anya Smith" - her name as she tells him in trying to hide her true identity - around Rome on her incognito day of freedom somewhat unaware that the secret service is searching for her, along for the ride is Joe's photographer friend, Irving Radovich, who Joe has tasked with clandestinely taking photographs of her, those photos to accompany the story. As the day progresses, Joe and Ann slowly start to fall for each other. Their feelings for each other affect what both decide to do, Ann with regard to her royal duties, Joe with regard to the story, and both with regard to if there is a future for them together.

Sabrina

Sabrina

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-10-01

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (40723 Reviews)

Director:

Billy Wilder

Cast:

Writer:

Billy Wilder (written for the screen by)

Samuel A. Taylor (written for the screen by)

Ernest Lehman (written for the screen by)

Samuel A. Taylor (from the play by)

Fullplot:

Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire with no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically employed in the family business but never showing up for work, spending all his time entertaining, and having been married and divorced three times. Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but whom David hardly notices till she goes away to Paris for two years and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds she's captured David's attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself also falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.

War and Peace

War and Peace

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-08-21

Languages:

English, Italian, Russian

Countries:

USA, Italy

Runtime:

208 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (6307 Reviews)

Director:

King Vidor

Cast:

Writer:

Leo Tolstoy (based on the novel by)

Bridget Boland (adaptation)

Robert Westerby (adaptation)

King Vidor (adaptation)

Mario Camerini (adaptation)

Ennio De Concini (adaptation)

Ivo Perilli (adaptation)

Fullplot:

By 1812, Napoleon's forces controlled much of Europe. Russia, one of the few countries still unconquered, prepares to face Napoleon's troops together with Austria. Among the Russian soldiers are Count Nicholas Rostov and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. Count Pierre Bezukhov, a friend of Andrei's and self-styled intellectual who is not interested in fighting. Pierre's life changes when his father dies, leaving him a vast inheritance. He is attracted to Natasha Rostov, Nicholas's sister, but she is too young, so he gives in to baser desires and marries the shallow, manipulative Princess Helene. The marriage ends when Pierre discovers his wife's true nature. Andrei is captured and later released by the French, and returns home only to watch his wife die in childbirth. Months later, Pierre and Andrei meet again. Andrei sees Natasha and falls in love, but his father will only permit the marriage if they postpone it for one year until Natasha turns 17. While Andrei is away on a military mission, Natasha is drawn to Anatole Kuragin, a womanizer. Pierre saves Natasha by telling her of Anatole's past before she can elope with him. Napoleon invades Russia. Pierre visits Andrei on the eve of the battle, and observes the battle that follows. Traumatized by the carnage, he vows to kill Napoleon himself.

Funny Face

Funny Face

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-02-13

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (17074 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Donen

Fullplot:

Fashion photographer Dick Avery, in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton's dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott, the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer.

Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-06-30

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (9215 Reviews)

Director:

Billy Wilder

Cast:

Writer:

Billy Wilder (screenplay)

I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay)

Claude Anet (novel)

Fullplot:

In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. When the husband learns that his suspicions are accurate, he tells Claude of his plan to kill Flannagan. Claude's daughter Ariane overhears the threat and warns Frank of the coming trouble. She then plays the part of a worldly socialite with a list of conquests as long as Flannagan's. The bemused ladies' man returns to America the next day and Ariane, completely in love, follows his romantic escapades in the news. She sees him again in Paris the following year, and resumes her worldly guise, telling tales of former lovers when they meet at his hotel in the afternoon. Frank, amazed by the mystery girl and surprised to find himself jealous of her past, hires Claude to uncover more information about her. When the detective realizes what has happened, he asks Frank not to break his daughter's heart.

The Nun's Story

The Nun's Story

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-07-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

149 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (6462 Reviews)

Director:

Fred Zinnemann

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Anderson (screenplay)

Kathryn Hulme (book)

Fullplot:

In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Pascin Van Der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent, expecting to work as nun in Congo with tropical diseases. She says good-bye to her sisters Louise and Marie; to her brother Pierre; and to her beloved father, and subjects herself to the stringent rules of the retrograde institution, including interior silent and excessive humbleness and humiliation. After a long period working in a mental institution, Gaby is finally assigned to go to Congo, where she works with the Atheist and cynical, but brilliant, Dr. Fortunati. Sister Luke proves to be very efficient nurse and assistant, and Dr. Fortunati miraculous heals her tuberculosis. Years later, she is ordered to return to Belgium and when her motherland is invaded by the Germans, she learns that her beloved father was murdered by the enemy while he was helping wounded members of the resistance. Sister Luke finally decides to leave the religious life since she is not able to feel neutral against the invaders of her country.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-11-04

Languages:

English, Portuguese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (111409 Reviews)

Director:

Blake Edwards

Cast:

Writer:

Truman Capote (based on the novel by)

George Axelrod (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.

The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-12-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (9471 Reviews)

Director:

William Wyler

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Lillian Hellman (play)

John Michael Hayes (screenplay)

Lillian Hellman (adaptation)

Fullplot:

Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are best friends since college and they own the boarding school Wright and Dobie School for Girls with twenty students. They are working hard as headmistresses and teachers to grow the school and make it profitable. Karen is engaged with the local doctor Joe Cardin, who is the nephew of the powerful and influent Mrs. Amelia Tilford. While the spiteful and liar Mary, who is Amelia's granddaughter and a bad influence to the other girls, is punished by Karen after telling a lie, Martha has an argument with her snoopy aunt Lily Mortar in another room. Lily accuses Martha of being jealous and having an unnatural relationship with Karen. Mary's roommate Rosalie Wells overhears the shouting and tells Mary what Mrs. Mortar had said about her niece. The malicious Mary accuses Karen and Martha of being lesbians to her grandmother and Amelia spreads the gossip to the parents of the students that withdraw them from the school. Karen and Martha lose a lawsuit against Amelia and have their lives destroyed. Further, Karen calls off her engagement with Joe when he asks her if what was said about Martha and she was true. The lie ends in a tragedy.

Charade

Charade

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-12-05

Languages:

English, French, German, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(45898 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Donen

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Stone (screenplay)

Peter Stone (story)

Marc Behm (story)

Fullplot:

Regina Lampert, a Paris based American, has decided to divorce her Swiss husband, Charles Lampert, because of the secrets and lies that have pervaded their marriage, she coming to the conclusion that she no longer loves him and really knows nothing about him. Before she can make that request to Charles, he is found dead, seemingly pushed off a Paris to Bordeaux train. While Regina was on holiday in Megève, Charles sold all their possessions making $250,000 in the process, and seemed to be on his way to the coast to leave the country for South America probably for good. The money, however, was not among his possessions on the train, those possessions which are returned to Regina. Regina further learns from Hamilton Bartholomew of the CIA that they were after him, Charles Lampert only the primary alias he has been using of late. During WWII, Charles, a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), absconded with $250,000 worth of their gold bars that were destined for the French Resistance. The US government wants that money back. Charles had a few partners in crime among the OSS, namely four men: Tex Panthollow, Leopold Gideon, Herman Scobie and Carson Dyle. Besides Dyle who died in the war, Regina knows the other three men are still alive, as she recognized them from a photograph as the three unknown men who attended Charles' funeral. They are now after her as they also want the money which they believe she has, and will kill to get it. She knows nothing about the money, but realizes that it is her duty to find it to return it to its rightful owner, namely the US government, and that it may save her life from Charles' partners. Clues to the money's whereabouts may be among those possessions Charles had on the train. Coming to Regina's aid is Peter Joshua, a man she met while she was in Megève. As Peter helps her, she quickly falls in love with him, and he seemingly with her. Shortly thereafter, she also comes to the realization that Peter is keeping as many secrets as Charles did, and as such he is a person she perhaps should not be trusting.

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

170 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (61724 Reviews)

Director:

George Cukor

Cast:

Writer:

Alan Jay Lerner (book)

George Bernard Shaw (from a play by)

Alan Jay Lerner (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady, and fool everyone into thinking she really is one, too! He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he's grown accustomed to her face and can't really live without it.

How to Steal a Million

How to Steal a Million

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-08-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (14966 Reviews)

Director:

William Wyler

Cast:

Writer:

George Bradshaw (based on a story by)

Harry Kurnitz (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Nicole's father, a legendary art collector, lends his prized Cellini Venus to a prestigious Paris museum. Unfortunately, the Venus was *not* sculpted by Cellini but by Nicole's grandfather. (Her father is a forger as well, but his specialty is paintings.) Before tests can be done which would prove the Venus a fake, Nicole enlists the services of "society burglar" Simon Demott to steal the million dollar statue.

Two for the Road

Two for the Road

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-04-27

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (8194 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Donen

Fullplot:

Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect. when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together --- through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood --- all on the road in a variety of cars through a score of time-shifting vignettes.

Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-10-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (18993 Reviews)

Director:

Terence Young

Cast:

Writer:

Frederick Knott (play)

Robert Carrington (screenplay)

Jane-Howard Carrington (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Susy was recently blinded and recently married. Susy's husband, Sam, is asked to hold a doll for a woman he doesn't know as they get off an airplane. The woman disappears. Later, she's found dead by her former associates, Mike and Carlino, small-time hoods, in Susy's basement apartment. (Both occupants of the apartment are then absent.) The doll woman's newer partner in crime, Harry Rote, who murdered her for self-dealing, presses Mike and Carlino into a scheme to recover the doll, which contains a fortune in smuggled heroin. After disposing of the body, the thugs return while Susy is present to continue their search. They assume Susy's blindness will enable them to search her apartment under her very nose for the doll, which contains a fortune in smuggled heroin. In Sam's absence, Mike pretends to be an old friend of Sam's, while the three together spin for Susy a story of a murder investigation of her husband from which only the finding of the missing doll can save him. Rote is a predator, and his stalking of Susy becomes ever more obvious as the blind woman's predicament becomes ever more desperate.

They All Laughed

They All Laughed

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-08-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (1455 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Bogdanovich

Blaine Novak

Fullplot:

New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails Angela Niotes, the elegant wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist, while Charles Rutledge and Arthur Brodsky follow Dolores Martin, the beautiful young wife of a jealous husband. Their respective cases are complicated when John falls for Angela, and Charles falls for Dolores.

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