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Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Satomi Oka
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Betsy Blair
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK

This movie, based on William Shakespeare’s Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.

Director: Karel Zeman
Stars: Milos Kopecký, Rudolf Jelínek, Jana Brejchová
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

An examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud’s career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

Director: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: William Finley, Robin Brooks, Norma Green
Genre: Short, Horror
Country: USA

Woton Wretchichevsky has a disfigured face, dresses in cloak and mask and stalks couples to burn them with a blowtorch. He is also a sculptor of steel and garbage installations. One day one of his creations comes alive in the form of a young woman. She flees him when he tries to express his love by pointing the blowtorch at her. She hides in a house where some kind of orgy or happening is going on

Director: Mikhail Romm
Stars: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

In 1962 London, four troublesome teenagers are charged by the police with robbing a garage and murdering the night watchman.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Jess Hahn, Michèle Girardon, Van Doude
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A French-American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Francesco Ruiu, Giancarlo De Rosa, Vincenzo Ciccora
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

When a woman is killed in a park, the police bring in everyone suspected of being there when the incident occurred and question them. One of them is the killer.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble–trouble he soon finds he can’t control.

Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The story of Anne Sullivan’s struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Michael Anderson Jr., Oliver Grimm, Martin Tomlinson
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

During World War II, in a small English coastal town, teenage boys eager to join the army but unable to do so participate in their own homemade private brutal war games with tragic results.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroo Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Husband and wife Gorô and Chiyo, and their only offspring, an infant son named Tarô, go through the ups and downs of family life living in a cramped modern apartment building in suburban Tokyo. Their story is told in Tarô’s second year of life.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sô Yamamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicolas Bataille
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won’t leave her alone. Her mother’s ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee, Pahadi Sanyal
Genre: Drama
Country: India

An upper-class Bengali family is on vacation in Darjeeling, a popular hill station and resort near Kanchenjungha.

Director: George Seaton
Stars: William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

Mountain Rivera, a punchy has-been managed by the unprincipled Maish, is mauled in a fight and forced to quit boxing. Can his devoted cutman and a sympathetic social worker help him find a life outside the ring, or will Maish find a way to exploit him one more time?

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage.

Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century – including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

Director: Philippe de Broca, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy, Sylvain Dhomme, Jean-Luc Godard, Édouard Molinaro, Roger Vadim, Max Douy
Stars: Marie-José Nat, Dominique Paturel, Danièle Barraud
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film.

Director: Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini, François Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | Japan | Poland | West Germany

“Love at Twenty” unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20.

Director: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti
Stars: Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Inspired by Boccaccio’s novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy’s 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.

Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck
Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.

Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France

A Joan of Arc’s trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashion.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Michiko Saga, Teruyo Yamagami
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland

A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK | USA

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, John Gregson
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK

A little Roman Catholic boy and a little Jewish girl become best friends despite the prejudice that surrounds them.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA

Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed “Chief” by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.

Director: Valerio Zurlini
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Lorenzo, who’s 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida’s situation or her prospects?

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Kallol Bose, Subir Bose, Norman Ellis
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: India

This documentary shows the life of the greatest Bengali talent of all time, Rabindranath Tagore. His work in Bengali culture and literature.

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Adolfas Mekas, Frances Stillman, Ben Carruthers
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owners three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Director: Jean Rouch
Stars: Nadine Ballot, Denise, Elola
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Côte d’Ivoire

The arrival of Nadine, a new student, in the Abidjan Lyceum is the starting point for a discussion about interratial relationships.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Italy

Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Eitarô Ozawa
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband’s approval, and this complicates the trial.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Elli Davis, Fernandel
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people’s reactions (or lack there of) to the announcement.

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

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Koyama, Yôko Mihara
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”

Director: Guy Green
Stars: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen
Genre: Short, Adventure, Drama
Country: France

In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.

Director: William Castle
Stars: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Margaret Ashcroft, Gertrude Dickin, Margaret Lacey
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: UK

The movie follows the routine of a busy train station – London’s Waterloo Station – making a brief yet important cultural portrait of 1960s England, mixing reality and fiction.

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a result of his body not being found the latter will have to wait for five years until they can inherit the count’s money.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Pietro Germi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle.

Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A D.A. investigates 3 white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: André Katelbach, Roman Polanski
Genre: Short, Comedy, Music
Country: France

A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps like a madman, wipes his master’s brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella and holds a urinal for him.

Director: Etienne Périer
Stars: Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | USA

Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband’s government.

Director: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

After winning re-election, British Labour Party M.P. Johnnie Byrne faces a series of setbacks in his political career, as well as in his marriage, and must act wisely in order to save both.

Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Everett Chambers
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Ghost is an ideological musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. However, when he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer Jess Polanski, she comes between him and his band members, and he leaves his dreams behind in search of fame.

Director: Seth Holt
Stars: Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK

A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father’s estate after ten years, and although she’s told he’s away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

Director: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Mariko Miyagi, Tamao Nakamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A man has a wife and nine girlfriends, all ten of whom are fed up with his shameless polygamy and plot to kill him. However, this is easier said than done.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard, Emilienne Caille
Genre: Short, Comedy, Romance
Country: France

A subtitle warns, “Beware of dark sunglasses.” Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine.

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy | France

Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police at his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what the investigation is about as we discover details about his life.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | USA

A successful business woman, dissatisfied with her current, philandering lover, starts an affair with a much younger man.

Director: Quentin Lawrence
Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Richard Vernon
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Natalya Arkhangelskaya
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.

Director: René Laloux
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: France

An animated film whose storyline was created by patients in a French mental health clinic. A dentist steals the teeth of poorer patients for rich clientèle until a monkey magician elicits revenge.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
Genre: Japan
Country: France | Italy

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.

Director: Gilles Grangier
Stars: Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Françoise Rosay
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: France | Italy

“Le Dabe” retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan

A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: William Redfield, Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A director tries to film a group of junkies in Leach’s room while they are waiting for Cowboy to bring their heroin connection.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it’s too late.

Director: Allen Baron
Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Having been ‘away’ for some time, professional killer Frankie Bono returns to New York to do another job: assassinate some mid-level mobster. Although intending to avoid unnecessary ‘contact’ while carefully stalking his victim, Bono is recognized by an old fellow from the orphanage, whose calm and unambitious citizen’s life and happy marriage contrast heavily with Bono’s solitary and haunted existence.

Director: David Swift
Stars: Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

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

An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Stars: Brad Harris, Sergio Ciani, Mara Berni
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Country: Italy | France

While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Banerjee, Aparna Sen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India

Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.

Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in the gang start to turn on each other.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Sensitive story of a British girl’s awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend’s party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend Juan, a Spanish activist who had recently broken up with Terry.

Director: Gottfried Reinhardt
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Barbara Rütting, Christine Kaufmann
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland | West Germany | USA

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy | USA

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Director: John Ford
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut
Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Caroline Dim, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Romance, Short
Country: France

A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.

Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Anna Magnani, Totò, Ben Gazzara
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

On New Year’s Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year’s party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally she runs into an old acting acquaintance (Toto), who is helping a professional pickpocket (Ben Gazzara) steal from people during the hustle-bustle of New Year’s Eve festivities.

Director: Robert Day
Stars: Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days’ sentence left, and the perfect alibi, what could possibly go wrong?

Director: Jirí Krejcík
Stars: Frantisek Smolík, Jana Brejchová, Ivan Mistrík
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia

The story of High school in Czechoslovakia during occupation by Nazi Germany, where three students are arrested by Gestapo.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Jean-Loup Reynold
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: France

A social commentary on post-war France’s urban developments.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

The World War II story of the Royal Navy’s effort to defeat Nazi Germany’s most powerful warship.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when they are married. When the town learns about his trouble they start laughing at him.

Director: Zivorad ‘Zika’ Mitrovic
Stars: Aleksandar Gavric, Petar Prlicko, Dimitar Kostarov
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Lesi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a ruthless, German-trained soldier Kosta and by Ahmet, the brother of the famous Captain.

Director: Francesco Maselli
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Gérard Blain, Anna Maria Ferrero
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Richard Quine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

A businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France | Yugoslavia

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Director: Tomu Uchida
Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Yaeko Mizutani, Isao Kimura
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Yûsuke Kawazu, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jun Fujimaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle’s family – wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer – and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bullied/ fights with local boys, goes to the baths, plays basketball, is befriended by his male cousin and becomes friendly with grade 4 girl who’s the daughter of the innkeeper, who employs his mum and is the longterm mistress of a businessman from another town, who’s the girl’s father and who brings her half sister and brother to meet her but they’re mean to her.

Director: Erwin Leiser
Stars: Paul Klinger, Claude Stephenson, Louis Arbessier
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: Sweden | West Germany

“Mein Kampf” presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life Hitler, which is told since he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of artist living in slums in Austria and Germany, until his suicide in 1945 after being the responsible for the death of million of people, and the destruction of Europe. All the footage is real and belonged to a secret file of Goebbels, inclusive with many very strong scenes filmed by Goebbels himself.

Director: Guy Green
Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do – evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.

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

This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In this sequel to “Knock On Any Door”, the residents of a Chicago tenement building band together to insure that the son of Nick Romano does not follow in his father’s footsteps…to the electric chair.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczeska
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland

A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Danièle Gaubert, Roland Lesaffre, Maurice Caffarelli
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Young Danny, better known as Tomb, is the toughest in a street gang in Paris. She dresses as a boy and fights like a man.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Jean Sorel, Lea Massari, Jeanne Valérie
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

The ironic study of a young man’s poignant and sensual adventures based on “Roman Tales” by Alberto Moravia.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

At the height of his fame, Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is (correctly) believed to be a romantic relationship with Queensberry’s son Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”), who is twenty years Wilde’s junior. When Queensberry slanders Wilde, the artist decides to take the matter to court and brings about his own downfall.

Director: David Swift
Stars: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her indominatable will to see the good side of even the worst situations and bring it out for the betterment of all.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anne Collette, Gérard Blain
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France

A jilted man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rants at his mostly silent former lover (Anne Collette).

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.

Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yôko Tani, Peter O’Toole
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France | UK

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

Director: Ki-young Kim
Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Eun-shim Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

In UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer’s field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and for the money.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it’s carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Stéphane Audran, Anna Karina
Genre: Comedy, Short, Romance
Country: France

Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous.

Director: Jirí Weiss
Stars: Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the two. He is her only link to the outside world. Then the two are discovered by Pavel’s mother, who forces the residents of the apartment building to decide whether Hana can remain.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France

Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists’ movement in Japan.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.

Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.

Director: Cyril Frankel
Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

Jean Carter, nine-year-old daughter of the town’s newly-appointed school principal, Peter Carter and his wife Sally, is playing in the woods with her 11-year-old friend Lucille, when Jean discovers she has lost her purse containing her “candy” money. Lucille tells her she knows where they can get sweets for nothing, and leads her to an imposing mansion, from which the owner, Clarence Olderberry, Sr., a tall, gaunt man of 70 has been watching the girls from a window.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Samoylova, Vasiliy Livanov
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

After World War II, a Highland Regiment’s acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

Director: Roberto Gavaldón
Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Mexico

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Upon entering his fiancée’s family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Director: Robert Youngson
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Oliver Hardy
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Country: USA

A feature-length documentary devoted to the great clowns of silent comedy.

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: José Isbert, Pedro Porcel, José Luis López Vázquez
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Ali, Père Gauthier, Monsieur Klein
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | France

A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.

Director: France Stiglic
Stars: Dusica Zegarac, Boris Dvornik, Branko Tatic
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia | Croatia

In order to save Jewish girl from the Nazis and their colaborators, Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their young son. Young man is displeased with sudden end to his careless youth and he doesn’t seem to like the girl or the whole idea. However, when she gets caught in a street raid, it is too late – he must face the fact that he loves her.

Director: Luigi Comencini
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy | France

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, Bradford Dillman
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Three performers for six roles: this is the game of the film. A melodrama about two love triangles.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers
Genre: Crime, Western
Country: USA

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

A liberated small-town girl and the family’s black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kayoko Honoo, Kôji Nakahara, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

In Osaka’s slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, while being married, is experiencing domestic problems and has moved back in. The latter woman’s husband soon dies however making the move permanent.

Director: Florestano Vancini
Stars: Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy

In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman, married to a man bound to a wheelchair, with a desertor from the Italian army, intertwines with that of the grab of power of a very fanatical local fascist leader, who gets the hold with a massacre of Pacific opposers, among them, the father of the young desertor.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real-life to be inescapable.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Abel Davos is a criminal, hunted in Italy. The police are closing in, so he and his pal Raymond arrange to flee back to France with Abel’s wife, Thérèse, and their two young sons. Abel and Raymond commit a brazen robbery to get funds, killing two men; in the escape, more die.

Director: Robert Montgomery
Stars: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA

A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.

Director: John Gilling
Stars: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK

In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.

Director: Jack Cardiff
Stars: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A young man with artistic talent who lives in a close-knit, English coal-mining town during the early 20th Century finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative, domineering mother.

Director: Stanley Donen
Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.

Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie (Shirley Knight) is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden (Lee Kinsolving), and his son is a mama’s boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt (Dame Angela Lansbury).

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope’s 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar’s patrons from their “lying pipe dreams.”

Director: Robert Drew
Stars: Robert Drew, Hubert H. Humphrey, Muriel Buck Humphrey
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA

Cinéma vérité feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.

Director: Harry Keller
Stars: Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, Venetia Stevenson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA

Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father’s suicide.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France

With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country-girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike, under her uncle’s not-so-watchful eye. Can a little girl cause so much chaos in the heart of the city?

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany | France | Italy

In 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse uses hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American industrialist.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

In World War II, during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the lost remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ, led by the ruthless Captain Alan Langford, escapes through the jungle toward the British lines.

Director: Clifford Odets
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman.

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Stars: Martin Held, Walter Giller, Ingrid van Bergen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany

April 1945. Because he stole two boxes of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute due to an air force attack, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) and hard drinking photographer Delmas (Pierre Grasset) on an assignment to find him. Their only lead is a picture of three women.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Alec Guinness, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK

Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.

Director: Bernhard Wicki
Stars: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany

In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.

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: 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