Old Acquaintance

Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.

A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.

Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves.

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.

Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.

An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.

Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.