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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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Two different women – a young photo model and her boss – dream about a happy life with beloved men. Their dreams are as different as they are.

Director: Rudolph Maté
Stars: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A bitter land dispute causes a Civil War veteran to take extreme action.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A strung-out junkie deals with a demoralizing drug addiction while his crippled wife and card sharks pull him down.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A short film by Stan Brakhage in which New York City’s Third Avenue elevated train is filmed before its destruction.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Marianne Hold, Horst Buchholz, Pierre Vaneck
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France | West Germany

A young man in a Bavarian boarding school falls in love with a mysterious girl.

Director: Leslie Norman
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft’s fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.

Director: Henri Decoin
Stars: Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Lino Ventura
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable – and soon he is master of all links of the organization.

Director: Juan Antonio Bardem
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain | Italy

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort, Marcel Jouet
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.

Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.

Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

The story of how the British attacked German dams in World War II by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A mad doctor attempts to create atomic supermen.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

Director: Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: USA

A short black and white film which documents a decaying mansion, secluded garden, and children playing.

Director: Falk Harnack
Stars: Wolfgang Preiss, Annemarie Düringer, Robert Freitag
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany

A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Alastair Sim
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

This movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his “causes” he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are going to be expelled for fighting, which he finds ironic, in as much as the father is a known pacifist. When they get to the school, their sons have disappeared.

Director: José Ferrer
Stars: José Ferrer, June Allyson, Joy Page
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A successful theatrical director is driven to failure by the machinations of his vengeful wife. Eventually, he lands in a mental hospital where both his wife and his new love, a young actress named Charlotte, are waiting to see him.

Director: John Parker
Stars: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman
Genre: Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman’s nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.

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

Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.

Director: Lewis Allen
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA

The rise of Peter Marshall, from modest Scottish upbringing, to New York seminary, time in Atlanta churches, his marriage, appointment as chaplain of the US Senate, and early death at 46. Based on real events.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Francis
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50-year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A drifter working as foreman for an iron-fist female rancher must chose sides between his attractive employer and the other neighboring settlers who are mistreated by her.

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Stars: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

A young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK | USA

A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Yvonne Lombard
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

After a 15-year marriage, the spouses are going to divorce, but suddenly find out that their feelings have not vanished yet.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit’s funds.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Samson De Brier, Marjorie Cameron, Joan Whitney
Genre: Short, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

A Slavonic Mass by Leos Janácek plays as historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | UK

From the Louis Hemon novel “M. Ripois and His Nemesis” about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London.

Director: Charles Crichton
Stars: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A story of litigation between a birth mother and an adopted family due to a child lost during a war.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Country: Japan

Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | West Germany | Monaco

Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover’s jealous ex-girlfriend. The plot, an experiment in causing fear, drives her into a rage.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: A. Austin, Robert Benson, Yvonne Fair
Genre: Short, Romance
Country: USA

Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. Activities ensue.

Director: Robert Vernay
Stars: Jean Marais, Lia Amanda, Daniel Ivernel
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d’If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of.

Director: Joy Batchelor, John Halas
Stars: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: UK | USA

A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico

A partial retelling of Wuthering Heights in 19th century Mexico.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker’s wife following a murder on a train where they meet.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An amnesiac finally learns his true identity…as a murder suspect. And he doesn’t even know whether he is guilty…

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Hideki Gôko, Itsuo Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sadako Sawamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

Surreal musical about the time of the execution of Joan of Arc.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out about her mother’s profession. Hatsuko is having a discreet love affair with the young Dr. Matoba, who looks after the geisha. The doctor is attracted to Yukiko, who initially despises him and everything connected with the geisha house. However, Yukiko gradually changes her views.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.

Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

When a young girl is found dead an inspector is sent to investigate a prosperous Yorkshire household. It emerges that each member of the family has a guilty secret – each one is partly responsible for her death.

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.

Director: Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton
Stars: Richard Burton
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: UK

The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton’s calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Giorgos Pappas, Dimitris Horn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greek

On a lazy Athenian Sunday, a young and fresh saleswoman loses her soon-to-be winning lottery ticket, only to meet its handsome new owner. Of course, she wants it back; however, what if fortune and ardent Cupid are already on her doorstep?

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Ken Uehara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Totò, Lianella Carell, Pasquale Cennamo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

A portrait of the people, the defects and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA

During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Columba Domínguez, Miguel Torruco, Joaquín Cordero
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Lilia Prado, Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to “take ‘er for one last spin.”

Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A rooming house landlady recalls her past in flashbacks.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Dan O’Herlihy, Jaime Fernández, Felipe de Alba
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico | USA

The classic story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA

The saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880’s Arizona.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy | USA

This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as told by writer/director Harry et al, from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A self-minded adventurer (Jeff Webster) locks horns with a crooked lawman (Mr. Gannon) while driving cattle to Dawson.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend’s death. Len, a petty thief who has just killed a pub owner during a botched robbery, learns of the accident.

Director: Luis García Berlanga
Stars: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain

After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Larry Jordan, Yvonne Fair, Taggart Deike
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: USA

An anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There’s a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the ill-fated ship.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Don Hollenbeck, Paul Hall
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Stanley Kubrick’s first film made in color, lost for over forty years. The documentary extols the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.

Director: Hilton Edwards
Stars: Michael Laurence, Shelah Richards, Helena Hughes
Genre: Short, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland

Orson Welles, on break from filming Othello, relates a tale he heard one spooky Irish midnight not so long ago when, driving through the countryside, he picked up a man with car trouble who told of a strange encounter with two hitchhikers.

Director: Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas
Stars: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Mexico

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse’s adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan
Genre: Thriller, Western
Country: USA

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | West Germany

Czech circus owner-Clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Etchika Choureau, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jacques Sempey
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

Director: Shirô Toyoda
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Jûkichi Uno
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA

Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Carmilla Salvatorelli
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A man dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d’Este.

Director: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Stanley Holloway, Joan Rice, Odile Versois
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.

Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK | Italy | USA

On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen…

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

A truckdriver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti, Gaby Morlay
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is love at first sight. Life is wonderful for a while but André wants to marry her only if she remains at home.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Toshirô Ide, Yôko Mizuki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Uptight man and hot wife rent a room from a laidback colleague. The colleague and wife get on like a house on fire, while the husband is alternately jealous and sulky. Marital strife ensures, culminating in a long overdue house move and an unwelcome pregnancy. Includes general musing on marital politics.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The spectacular but tragically short career of magician and illusionist Harry Houdini whose tricks defied explanation and safety.

Director: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA

An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.

Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Released from prison after twelve years, a wrongfully convicted British man seeks revenge on the witnesses who lied at his trial.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane’s pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.

Director: Ida Lupino
Stars: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Each knows the other isn’t happy, they themselves aren’t happy, but they don’t talk about their problems with each other, each festering in their unhappiness largely so that they will not show especially to their three boarders their problems.

Director: Roy Boulting
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

In 1940, Canadian sailor Andrew Brown is prisoner on a battle damaged German raider and he plans to delay the raider’s at-sea repairs until a British naval task-force can destroy it.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Adrienne Corri
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK

A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War. His son’s death has developed antagonism by MacKenzie toward all Dutchmen, which leads to Harry brawling at school with the son of a Dutchman.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A tough, hard-driving business tycoon suffers a broken leg and is left to die in the desert by his scheming wife and her greedy lover.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Yoshi Katô
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: Japan

A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Arturo Bragaglia
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany | USA

Biopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.

Director: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
Stars: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.

Director: Henry Cornelius
Stars: Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

It’s time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other. Along the way, some old jealousies are kindled to the point where the two men decide to have a “friendly” wager on who will be the first back to London.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A mean bourgeois meets up with his twin brother again .

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Michel Simon, Marguerite Pierry, Laurence Badie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A mean bourgeois meets up with his twin brother again .

Director: John Ford
Stars: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley’s cheating wife Linda.

Director: Charles Walters
Stars: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, Phyllis Kirk
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.

Director: Henry Levin
Stars: Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, John McIntire
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA