Melodrama Recommended Viewing List

Stella Dallas (Vidor 1937)
Leave Her To Heaven (Stahl 1945)
Mildred Pierce (Curiz 1945)
All That Heaven Allows (Sirkn 1955)
Written on the Wind (Sirk 1956)
There’s Always Tomorrow (Sirk 1956)
An Affair to Remember (McCarey 1957)
Imitation of Life (Sirk 1959)
Two Weeks in Another Town (Minnelli 1962)
Love Story (Hiller 1970)
Terms of Endearment (Brooks 1983)
Beaches (Marshall 1988)
Sleeping with the Enemy (Ruben 1991)
The Prince of Tides (Streisand 1991)
Message In A Bottle (Mandoki 1999)
Girl, Interrupted (Mangold 1999)
White Oleander (Kosminsky 2002)
Where the Heart Is (Williams 2002)
The Notebook (Cassavetes 2004)
Dear John (Hallstrom 2010)