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Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

The turn of the seasons in the forest is depicted in relation to a decomposing dog corpse.

Director: Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK | USA

The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi (Franca Valeri) who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

Director: John Boulting
Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis, Sylviane Margollé
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France

Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier’s lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people’s behavior can be adjusted at will.

Director: Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Stars: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.

Director: Konrad Wolf
Stars: Sasha Krusharska, Jürgen Frohriep, Erik S. Klein
Genre: War, Drama
Country: East Germany | Bulgaria

The tragic love of the Jewish girl and the Nazi officer is presented as a symbol of human purity defeated by fascism and racial prejudice.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A promising lawyer tries to handle his social and professional problems while climbing the ranks in Philadelphia.

Director: Henry Levin
Stars: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer’s trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth’s center.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Anne Collette, Nicole Berger
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: France

Two French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

As a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang’s rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Natale Rossi, Roberto Seveso, Paolo Quadrubbi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the valley to spend Christmas vacation with his family he is temporarily replaced with an adolescent boy.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigret does not believe in this.

Director: Valerio Zurlini
Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lilla Brignone
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy | France

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Short, Romance
Country: USA

We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home. It’s night, she sees his reflection in the window, she closes the drapes.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys’ room. Spence’s crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father’s attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.’s Civil Rights Era.

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Noriko Kitazawa, Katsuko Wakasugi
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan

The ghost of a samurai’s wife takes revenge on her husband.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Takeshi Okimura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Set during Japan’s depression years in the 50s, Nianchan (read: My Second Brother) tells the story about a family of 4 orphans, who are forced by circumstances to fend for themselves.

Director: Margot Benacerraf
Stars: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff
Genre: Documentary
Country: Venezuela | France

“Araya” is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the “salineros” and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.

Director: Bert Stern
Stars: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town’s folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

Director: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden
Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, realizing that he can exploit his secret.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A man and a woman who share a party line cannot stand each other, but he has fun romancing her with his voice disguised.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Myrrena Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Stan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: West Germany

A miniature epic set in Ancient Rome and “inspired” by the then popular television series 77 Sunset Strip (1958).

Director: Frank Wisbar
Stars: Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss
Genre: War, Drama
Country: West Germany

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal’s Native American wife.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Gérard Philipe, María Félix, Jean Servais
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Mexico

Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor’s post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A police detective and his team attempt to solve two crimes committed within a day of each other in neighboring apartment rooms.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | USA

A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Kim Novak, Glenda Farrell, Jan Norris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA

During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Laura Adani, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Barbara Lass, Roman Polanski, Henryk Kluba
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland

A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men’s lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out — of illness, assignation, and routine — a few tips her only acknowledgment.

Director: Jirí Trnka
Stars: Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Richard Burton
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Robert Dalban
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Fifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Castille.

Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Ireland | USA

In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being lead by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.

Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An aspiring journalist’s story of his aged uncle doctor leads to the uncle’s life being profiled on TV.

Director: Grigoriy Chukhray
Stars: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union

Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime..

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
Genre: Adventure, Romance, War
Country: USA

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit’s doctor cause frictions within ranks.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A flashback story of a young man, from his disgraced birth ,his harsh life and his forbidden love, until when broken-hearted, can break out in search of a place where to live means more than being alive.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Roman Polanski
Genre: Short, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland

In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday’s end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop’s seemingly lifeless denizens?

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital owned by Dr. Varmont, a supporter of traditional treatments, in constant conflict with Dr. Emery, whose therapy takes the psychology of patients into account.

Director: Renato Castellani
Stars: Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Story concerns a young girl who comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.

Director: Henry Barakat
Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt

This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family’s honor.

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union

The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory…

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan

In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK

In British India, a young prince must be taken to safey across rebel-held territory, and an old train is the only way to do it.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: UK

In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
Stars: Ligia Branice
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Poland

A short film in which a woman living alone in an apartment has a series of bizarre hallucinations.

Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Stars: Jacques Charrier, Charles Aznavour, Dany Robin
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. They confront every possible difficulty.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor’s vassal, prefers Ouso’s stepbrother Waka, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father’s castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA

Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s’ Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Machiko Kyô, Ganjirô Nakamura, Junko Kanô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard’s prime suspect.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Paul Meurisse, Charles Blavette, André Brunot
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. His wealthy household (his family owns chemical corporations that will profit from his ideas) is stiff, intellectual, and sterile. To celebrate his engagement to a German cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself.

Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Madeleine Robinson, Antonella Lualdi, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A wealthy wine grower has trouble with his wife, his children, his best friend, and his mistress across the way, who is murdered.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy | France

The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Two detectives seek a stripper’s killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don’t go according to plan.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.

Director: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A bounty hunter escorts a killer to be tried for murder, but allows the man’s outlaw brother to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.

Director: William Castle
Stars: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Dave Burke hires two very different debt-burdened men for a bank robbery. Suspicion and prejudice threaten to end their partnership.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty
Genre: Drama
Country: India

This final installment in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy follows Apu’s life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.

Director: Guru Dutt
Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Kumari Naaz
Genre: Romance
Country: India

Suresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his career.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Devis, Lisbeth Persson
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A residential area schoolboy discovers the odd universe of the Parisian metro. At a time, he glimpses the beautiful face of a blond-haired little girl. Later on, he falls asleep and dreams his first love dream…

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Chikage Awashima, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won’t leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Pascale Petit, Andréa Parisy, Jacques Charrier
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bob is invited to a party and becomes Clo’s lover, a rich heiress.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | UK

Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond’s old love interest, comes to Raymond’s villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Georges Rouquier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Chris Marker travelogue in Siberia.

Director: Philip Dunne
Stars: Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

At her father’s funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that there was in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA

When ranch hand Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of a powerful rancher, he panics and flees, but the rancher and his vengeful crew hunt Tod down.

Director: Robert Hossein
Stars: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Odile Versois
Genre: Mystery
Country: France | Italy

One dark night, in the deserted streets of Nice, an American car slowly drives past Victor Menda, then slowly pulls up. A come on from the mysterious blonde at the wheel leads to Victor finds himself kissing and making love to the gorgeous creature. But as soon as the embrace is over the mantis-like beauty rejects him and, under the threat of a gun, makes him leave the car.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other while in a maternity ward together, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.

Director: Seth Holt, Basil Dearden
Stars: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | USA

In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at “Separate Tables.”

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA

Jacobowsky, a Jewish refugee, flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic, anti-semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. Jurgens learns to appreciate Kaye, despite their competition for the same woman, and together they outwit their pursuers.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA | West Germany

On the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn’t the same country he left behind.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Roger Coggio, Anne Olivier, Jacopo Nizi
Genre: Documentary, Short, History
Country: France

A humorous travelogue of the French Riviera.

Director: Ivan Pyrev
Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Yuliya Borisova, Nikita Podgorny
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Upon Prince Myshkin’s return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK

During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.

Director: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK

During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette (Dorothy Tutin) falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay (Paul Guers), who’s hiding his true identity and purpose.

Director: Leslie Norman
Stars: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force’s 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Mercedes Quadros, Míka van Bloemen, Helen Ulman
Genre: Short
Country: UK

A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Osamu Abe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies’ plans.

Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

At Kimberley Prescott’s villa, a stranger shows-up and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A Confederate veteran living in the Yankee North struggles with his son’s shock induced muteness and the hate of the Northerners.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Franca Bettoia
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the metal shop… While visiting his family, Andrea notices a young woman on the beach with her soldier boyfriend.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Goichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temple that was owned by his father, through a series of flashbacks, framed as a police interrogation, Mizoguchi unravels the story of his obsession with the temple beginning with his childhood.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK

During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town’s jail, but they escape to Mexico.

Director: John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

An old Cuban fisherman’s dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea. Based on Ernest Hemingway’s story.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tony Britton, Carl Möhner
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death of their patient through neglect.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Tulsi Chakraborty, Kali Bannerjee, Ranibala
Genre: Crime
Country: India

An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a ‘parash pathar’, a stone that changes iron to gold on touch.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A serial killer is targeting women in the seedy district of Montmartre.

Director: Irving Lerner
Stars: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer – until he finds his next target is a woman.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Misako Watanabe, Kô Nishimura
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan

A real gem from Imamura. A very dark crime comedy.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Dorothée Blanck, Antoine Bourseiller, André Rousselet
Genre: Short, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

Director: Denys de La Patellière
Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Ducaux, Jean Desailly
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. He manages his financial and commercial concerns with an iron grip, leaving little room for his son François to prove himself.

Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA

Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he’s driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

WW2 drama that follows the lives of three young men, one German and two Americans, during wartime.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Switzerland

Ina time before the New Wave,when aspiring French cineastes could only hope to make shorts, due to restrictions on career advancement, Godard ,working in Switzerland, funded, wrote, and directed a look at the construction of a dam there.

Director: Wojciech Has
Stars: Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Slaska, Teresa Szmigielówna
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

One day in the life of an alcohol addict. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when she’s at work, Kuba is home alone, and it becomes hard not to resist the temptation.

Director: Kåre Bergstrøm
Stars: André Bjerke, Bjørg Engh, Henki Kolstad
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Norway

A group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It’s a rumor that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity after she walks out of a mental institution.

Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA

Thornton Wilder’s tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she’s supposed to be pairing with another woman.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Sô Yamamura, Kyôko Kagawa, Isao Kimura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Kyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer. However, her husband’s difficulties with his writing and his resentment over her father cause deep strains in the marriage.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Athena Michaelidou, Eleni Zafeiriou
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.

Director: Andrzej Munk
Stars: Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz
Genre: Drama
Country: France

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Richard Jaeckel
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Stars: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, René Fleur
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | East Germany

Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert.

Director: Daniel Mann, George Cukor
Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it’s slowly falling apart, a fact she’s trying to ignore. Her cheating husband’s birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA

A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
Stars: Minoru Ôki, Takahiro Tamura, Seiji Miyaguchi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

Two cops on stakeout wait for a murderer.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Don Freisinger, Richard Sandifer, Patricia Ferrier
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman’s husband dies suddenly.

Director: José Ferrer
Stars: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

In 1894 France, a Jewish officer in the French Army is falsely accused of spying for Germany.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: M.E. Clifton James, John Mills, Cecil Parker
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

During World War II, a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German intelligence.

Director: Ladislao Vajda
Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Switzerland | West Germany | Spain

Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK | USA

This movie is based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland’s autobiography “The London Cage”. The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland’s experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.

Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Lawyer Tommy Farrell is a defender of crooks. Vicki Gaye encourages him to go straight, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.

Director: Stanley Donen
Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK

An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him…even though he’s already married.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

Director: Jean Rouch
Stars: Oumarou Ganda, Gambi, Petit Touré
Genre: Drama
Country: France

“I, a Negro” depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

Director: Saul Gilbert, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ruth Michelly
Stars: Denise Brossot, Rolande Polya, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Genre: Short
Country: France

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.

Director: Ken Annakin
Stars: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Bernard Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A wealthy businessman attempts to run to Mexico to escape capture for embezzlement. On the way, he switches identities for a visa but that only complicates matters.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Nikola Todorow
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

A man walks down the exterior staircase of building of flats; he’s dressed to go out, taking care to wrap a scarf around his neck. He pauses as he passes a small window that’s about eye high. He ventures to look in, and there a young woman stands at a washbasin, drying her hair, the towel that obscures her face her only covering.

Director: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O’Sullivan
Genre: Romance, Thriller, Western
Country: USA

An independent former ranch foreman is kidnapped along with an heiress, who is being held for ransom by trio of ruthless outlaws.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Daisuke Katô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK

A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.

Director: Mark Robson
Stars: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland

In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw’s sewer system to escape the German encirclement.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Dany Carrel, Jacques Duby
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital. His first attempts are not too successful though as he is rebuffed by Valérie Vabre, the neurotic wife of the landlord of the block of flats he is accommodated in. As for the affair he starts with Caroline Hédouin, the married owner of “Au Bonheur des Dames”, the shop where he works, the least we can say is that it lacks passion.

Director: Sergey Gerasimov
Stars: Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kirienko
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union

A six-hour long epic (original director’s cut) about the life of Don Cossacs in a village in southern Russia between 1912 and 1922. The leading character Grigori Melekhov is a rugged Cossac, who is torn between his first and true love Aksiniya, and his wife Natalya. Grigori Melekhov’s personal life is shown as a rough journey through the experience of World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | USA

An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail, and murder.

Director: Shirô Toyoda
Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Kaoru Yachigusa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

After WW1,ordinary citizens of a small Greek village plays the Passion Play in order to rebel against Turkish rulers during Turkish-Greek relations in 1920’s.

Director: Joseph Pevney
Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA

During World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another as the two hope for a rescue.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Kenji Sugawara
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Claus Holm, Annemarie Düringer, Mario Adorf
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany

A serial killer strikes again during WWII in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer. But justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.

Director: Charles Vidor
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

Frank Sinatra plays Joe E. Lewis, a famous comedian of the 1930s-50s. When the movie opens, Lewis is a young, talented singer who performs in speakeasies. When he bolts one job for another, the mob boss who owns the first speakeasy has his thugs try to kill Lewis.

Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Ex-con trucker tries to expose his boss’ rackets.

Director: Joshua Logan
Stars: Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Jacques Dumesnil
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures and how humanity remembers itself.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

An old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed “The Flea Pit”, and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Tomoko Naraoka, Sofu Teshigahara
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Japan

The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director’s father Sofu Teshigahara worked as the grand master of the school.

Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Stars: Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times.

Director: Arnold Laven
Stars: Gillo Pontecorvo, Maleno Malenotti
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France | West Germany | Yugoslavia

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs.

Director: Arnold Laven
Stars: Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A brave longshoreman lingers on after being gunned down by 3 racketeers, as a determined assistant D.A. searches hard for fearful witnesses against the men.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Anthony Franciosa
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her, she becomes involved with his trusted assistant.

Director: Robert Altman, George W. George
Stars: Martin Gabel, James Dean, Lew Bracker
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean’s death, looks at Dean’s life through the use of still photographs with narration, and interviews with many of the people involved in his short life.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK | USA

In 1905, Lord Henry Loam, his family and his servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.

Director: Robert Stevenson
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by all.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

Youths get ready for a party, decorating the dance floor, cleaning out the fountain of a pond. That evening, the party starts and guests arrive: everyone has a ticket, and a guy at the gate, wearing a formal shirt, tails, and shorts, makes sure only those with tickets gain entrance.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Story of a young couple whose fathers are prison bound.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Richard Bakalyan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.

Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A seasick sea Captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.

Director: Raymond Rouleau
Stars: Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | East Germany

Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Korean War veteran’s morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

Director: Jack Webb
Stars: Jack Webb, Don Dubbins, Jackie Loughery
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A no-nonsense Drill Instructor is convinced that he can make a recruit, that is haunted by his family combat history and who falters under pressure, into a Marine.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A humble clerk courts a woman who night after night awaits for the return of her lover.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA

Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade’s gang tries to free him.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Crime
Country: Poland

The camera shows us a door handle and the door’s striker plate; from this angle, they form a cross. The door opens and in steps someone in a dark trench coat.

Director: Jean Cocteau, Hans Richter
Stars: Jean Arp, Paul Bowles, Ceal Bryson
Genre: Music
Country: USA

It is a fairy tale for the subconscious based on the game of chess. Partly Sigmund Freud, partly Lewis Carroll.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ineko Arima
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.

Director: Richard Sale
Stars: Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

Ship’s officer finds himself in command of a lifeboat full of survivors of a sunken luxury liner.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In California, four couples who have bought homes and are neighbors face money problems, alcoholism, racism, promiscuity, and discrimination against lack of education, until a tragic event forces them to reassess their lives.

Director: Frank Tashlin
Stars: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Charles ‘Slim’ Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK

Victor Frankenstein builds a creature and brings it to life, but it behaves not as he intended.

Director: Dick Powell
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

During World War II, an American destroyer meets a German U-Boat. Both captains are experts, and so begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

Showdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fist rancher who controls the territory.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Director: Mehboob Khan
Stars: Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar
Genre: Drama, Musical, Family
Country: India

In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.

Director: Guru Dutt
Stars: Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India

A talented but indigent poet Vijay struggles for love and recognition in this selfish world.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Pierre Mondy
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Mid-aged married truck driver falls in love with a young waitress he meets while making a break on a long trip. They try to make it work, but she can’t get a decent job or place to stay in his town. Things get worse when the man gets fired and his family find out. And there’s more complications to follow for both of them…

Director: Robert Day, Basil Dearden
Stars: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.

Director: James Algar
Stars: Winston Hibler
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA

A feature-length documentary showing the changing world of nature, the sky, the sea, the sun, planets, insects and volcanic action. A story of nature’s strange and intricate designs for survival and her many methods of perpetuating life.

Director: Grigoriy Chukhray
Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Genre: War, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

Director: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA

A former sheriff blames himself for his wife’s death during a Wells Fargo robbery and vows to track down and kill the seven men responsible.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life, finally finds a man she believes truly loves her, but she snaps when she finds out that he, too, is cheating on her, and she kills her boyfriend’s mistress.

Director: R.G. Springsteen
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In 1920s Arkansas, after a 12 year absence, reformed alcoholic Matt Ballot returns to his abandoned family but has to win them back and regain his hometown’s respect too.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A blind American writer living in London stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy involving kidnapping and extortion.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France | Mexico

Chark, an adventurer, comes to a small village near a diamond miners’ camp. He is arrested by the local police who accuse him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town.

Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Police drama. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Eleni Zafeiriou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece

Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love’s unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK

Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Magali Noël
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor’s wife.

Director: Rudolph Maté
Stars: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.

Director: Jean Masson
Stars: Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Tamara Toumanova
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: France | Monaco | USA

A tribute to the wedding of Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier of Monaco, with lots of music, ballet, and fireworks.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Virginie Vitry, Anne Doat, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Genre: Short, Comedy, Romance
Country: France

When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat’s true origins.

Director: Kô Nakahira
Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.

Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Stars: Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence and passion for their future as they get on the bus for Tsukishima and get off at Suzaki. Across the bridge they see the sign for Suzaki Paradise, a red-light district where Tsutae once worked as a prostitute. Tsutae spots an ad for a waitress at a bar near the bridge and she rushes in to get the job. The kind hearted madam, Tokuko, helps them out by hiring Tsutae and finding work for Yoshiji delivering noodles.

Director: Nikos Koundouros
Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Giannis Argyris
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as “the dragon”, a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Maria Schell, François Périer, Jany Holt
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
Genre: War, Drama
Country: UK | USA

True story of a British attempt to trick the enemy into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack, using a dead man with faked papers.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizô Kawasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan

Nothing less than a phenomenal, astonishing and pioneering film. This spectacle of an angry, ego-driven youth tormented by his own emotional impotence, low self-esteem and resentment towards his parents.

Director: Charles Lamont
Stars: Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Ma and the kids head back to the Ozarks for a visit with Pa’s brother Uncle Sedge. He’s working his way through a twenty years long relationship with Miss Bedelia Baines.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Polish countess Elena falls in love to a French radical party’s candidate, a general, in pre-World War I Paris, but another officer pines for her.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Japan

In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.

Director: Roger Vadim
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop.She arranges a loan when her rigid family won’t help and then her husband becomes jealous of the loan officer.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi, Gastone Renzelli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher’s wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.

Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

During the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster.

Director: Joshua Logan
Stars: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Emotions are ignited amongst the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labour Day picnic.

Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Police drama. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Ôki
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to his team.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

The wife of a physician who diligently cares for the poor, grows weary of their dull South France factory town and pressures her older husband to move to glorious Nice, on the Mediterranean. Dr. Valerio particularly empathizes with Sandro, the farm foreman for the town’s wealthy factory owner, Gorzone. Sandro’s preoccupation with caring for his ill wife, Magda, angers Gorzone.

Director: José Ferrer
Stars: José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.

Director: Robert D. Webb
Stars: Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Marshal Cass Silver has to deal with his old nemesis, a corrupt gambler, and his hired guns come to town as well as recurring bouts of blindness.

Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle
Stars: Frédéric Dumas, Albert Falco, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Italy

This pioneering nature documentary investigates aquatic habitats in various locations around the world. It doesn’t shy away from the brutality present in the natural world, but it also paints a fascinating picture of underwater exploration.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures – until they are arrested by the police.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.

Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Edmond O’Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: António Cruz
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Portugal

A painter wanders around the city of Oporto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Gilles Quéant
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking, a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Kô Mishima, Torahiko Hamada, Keiko Kishi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

Director: Hugo del Carril
Stars: Laura Hidalgo, Hugo del Carril, Pedro Laxalt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina

A man who deeply loves his wife, tears before his death by disease. After falling into despair, she embarks on a journey trying to forget but, in Paris, he meets a look-alike of his beloved.

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

In 1883 South Dakota, two buffalo hunters start a personal feud over a captured squaw and a stand-off with a Dakota raiding party over some stolen horses.

Director: Lionel Rogosin
Stars: Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

At the time of this film, the Bowery was a neighborhood in New York City populated largely by the down and out, and largely by transients. Those that can work generally can only find short term employment on a day to day basis, their daily earnings which primarily go into booze. Those that can’t or won’t work generally sponge off whoever they can, especially for that next drink. New to the neighborhood is Ray, who most recently had been working the rails in New Jersey. He is one of those who can and still does work, but like the others spends what little money he has on booze, which means he usually sleeps on the streets in a drunken stupor.

Director: Jack Lee
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK

A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A new senior at a boy’s prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach’s wife.

Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Judy Holliday, John Williams, Paul Douglas
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.

Director: Nunnally Johnson
Stars: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

Boxer Rocky Graziano’s biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.

Director: Russell Rouse
Stars: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

In the western frontier town of Cross Creek storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past.When three bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses George Temple’s past comes back to haunt him.

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short, Comedy
Country: UK

Documentary on a famous amusement park, showing the irony of its manufactured fun.

Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Yves Demy, Georges Rouquier
Genre: Documentary, Short, Drama
Country: France

This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker’s meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Shûji Sano, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

This wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Robert Arnoux
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France

André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André left more than twenty years before. As Gabrielle has just died, André accepts to accommodate Catherine first, then gives her a job in his restaurant before finally marrying her. But the angel-faced young lady might well be a devil in disguise.

Director: Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer
Stars: Nina Ivanova, Nikolay Rybnikov, Vladimir Gulyaev
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.

Director: Robert D. Webb
Stars: Guy Madison, Virginia Leith, John Hodiak
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Scientist is sent to investigate a faulty ejector seat, then sent into space to test it, showing an assortment of human weaknesses and strengths. Basically this is about the human predicament and drama, not space.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Sylva Koscina
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud with his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former railroad man Ugo. Andrea is married with Sara and his young son Sandro is very close to him; however Andrea has issues with his unemployed son Marcello and with his pregnant daughter Giulia, whose boy-friend Renato Borghi was forced to marry her.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year’s time.

Director: Walter Lang
Stars: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam’s children.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain’s self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA | Italy

Napoleon’s (Herbert Lom’s) tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chikage Awashima, Ryô Ikebe, Teiji Takahashi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Albin Skoda, Oskar Werner, Lotte Tobisch
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany | Austria

The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich during World War 2.

Director: Eric Fawcett
Stars: Alfie Bass, David Kossoff, Alan Tilvern
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: UK

The ghost of a poor warehouse clerk who died from the cold persuades a tailor to steal a coat.

Director: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The emotional story of a lifelong friendship between a Boston rookie cop and a young street-wise delinquent.

Director: Laurence Olivier
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

Shakespeare’s powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

Director: Helmut Käutner
Stars: Curd Jürgens, Viktor de Kowa, Karl John
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany

1941, the Third Reich seems to be winning the war. Luftwaffe (air force) general Harry Harras enjoys the good life as highly respected technician and Berlin ministry/ HQ official. However his outspoken critical attitude at social occasions awakes hopes from opposition and suspicion from the Nazi party.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Don Redlich, Lee Cole, Helen England
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA

An experimental film by Stan Brakhage documenting a series of male and female relationships.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.

Director: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
Stars: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA

In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the “backwater” areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.

Director: Russell Rouse
Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A top syndicate crime boss and his corrupt politicians, make multi-million deals and order murders , until the vicious pattern finally catches up to him.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

In early 1900s England, a maid tries to blackmail her master into romancing her when she discovers he murdered his wife.

Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Stars: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.

Director: Willard Maas, Ben Moore
Stars: Michael Crane, Nina Glenn
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A film poem; a zither plays. A woman lies naked in bed. A man removes his clothes, joins her, and they kiss. Images fill the frame, at first still lifes of common objects: a door knob, glasses, a cactus, a lamp. Then simple actions: a drawer pulled out, a letter mailed.

Director: Lewis R. Foster
Stars: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: France | Spain | Switzerland

An American adventurer investigates the past of the mysterious tycoon Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), placing himself in grave danger.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Mihashi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

At the end of Meiji era a young student befriend an older man who as a proof of trust but also as a kind of exorcism entrust him his secret, a story about jealousy, betrayal, shame and guilt.

Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an “escape-proof” German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

Director: Edvin Laine
Stars: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland

The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna’s book of the same name.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Maria Lysandre, Roland Tolmatchoff, Carmen Mirando
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: Switzerland

A young woman is tempted to flirt with a stranger.

Director: Kurt Hoffmann
Stars: Paul Dahlke, Günther Lüders, Claus Biederstaedt
Genre: Comedy
Country: Austria

A rich man wins a vacation at a hotel but takes it in the disguise of a poor man under the supervision of his butler. The hotel manager gets tipped off about the plot, but misidentifies a money-less doctor as the eccentric.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland

Story of youths during the German occupation of Poland in the World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity.

Director: Yorgos Tzavellas
Stars: Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece

Pivoting around a shiny counterfeit gold sovereign freshly milled from the clandestine workshop of an otherwise honest goldsmith, four brief vignettes of human imperfection; seduction; fate; desire, and devotion inextricably interweave.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

A British fortune-hunter playboy is killing his rich wives in order to inherit their wealth.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

Three Devil’s Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.

Director: Jesse Hibbs
Stars: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.

Director: Helmut Käutner
Stars: Erik Schumann, Eva Kotthaus, Georg Thomalla
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: West Germany

A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.

Director: Tomu Uchida
Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Chizuru Kitagawa
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

A samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Narutoshi Hayashi, Raizô Ichikawa, Tatsuya Ishiguro
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan

After his father is not rewarded for his military achievements, Taira Kiyomori rebels against the court and the monks who rule the country. He also falls in love with Tokiko and discovers unsettling revelations about his parentage.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece

Proud and independent, Stella, an unconventional Rebetico singer who cherishes her freedom, finds herself in an intense whirlwind romance. Everything points to a tragic ending, and in the aftermath of passion, there can be no winners.

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a Prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war, and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to another totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to get a confession of guilt against the state from the strong willed man, and thus destroy his power over his people.