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Director: Jean Cocteau
Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Silvia Monfort, Jean Marais
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband’s assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who’s drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a ten year old murder case.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums.

Director: Walter Lang
Stars: Robert Young, Maureen O’Hara, Clifton Webb
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA

A family that hires a live-in babysitter is surprised when he turns out to be a man who’s a quirky genius.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.

Director: George Sherman
Stars: John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she’s received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.

Director: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann
Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

Director: George Seaton
Stars: Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A retired professor rents his attic apartment to pregnant Peggy and her GI-Bill-student husband. The professor ponders if his life is no longer useful while the young couple faces the challenges shared with many WW II veterans’ families.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA

With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors – one of whom begins to fall for her.

Director: Norman Foster
Stars: Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA

A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of his old friend threatens their burgeoning relationship.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Danny Hawkins, who lives in a psychological shadow because his father died by a hangman’s noose, accidentally kills a man in a fight over a girl, Gilly Johnson, and is afraid to notify the police. He wins the love of the girl but when she tries to influence him to admit his guilt, he runs away.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

The ups and downs of a Norwegian immigrant family, circa 1910.

Director: Abraham Polonsky
Stars: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

An unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

Army generals struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing the German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Switzerland | USA

In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Director: John Boulting
Stars: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses and a rival gang.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
Genre: Crime, Western
Country: USA

A pistol-packing tomboy and her grandfather discover a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in the neighboring ghost town.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Joseph Koch
Genre: Short, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark

A man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of an hour and the ferry berth is 70 km away.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Fredric March, Edmond O’Brien, Florence Eldridge
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife’s terminal cancer.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It’s a lot more trouble than they think.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Claude Dauphin
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

The biography of Dutch artist Van Gogh, illustrated only with images of his paintings and drawings, or details of those, and according dramatic musical score.

Director: Laurence Olivier
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, John Laurie
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.

Director: Lawrence Huntington
Stars: James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chôko Iida, Hôhi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan.

Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover’s house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Micheline Presle, Marcello Pagliero, Marguerite Moreno
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Two people learn to love each other in the afterlife and get a second chance.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A nightclub singer inspires a doctor to fake his own murder, leading to plenty of complications.

Director: Robert Rossen
Stars: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Country: USA

A talented boxer’s young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Ronald Colman, Edmond O’Brien, Signe Hasso
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last days, a group of Nazis and sympathizers (a Wehrmacht general; an SS commander and his “assistant”; an Italian industrialist and his wife who is also the general’s lover; a French collaborator) board a submarine that will take them to South America, where they hope to find refuge.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds a particularly potent drink at his local bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow).

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Holger Löwenadler, Anna Lindahl, Birger Malmsten
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Denise Grey
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: France

During World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials..

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After leaving her family’s farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic-poem clues to the cops.

Director: Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Two cats have a litter of 5 kittens and then nurse, teach and play with them.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Negrete, Meche Barba
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Mexico

A prison escapee becomes involved with an independent oil well owner threatened by corporate thugs, who do their dodgy business in the glamorous Grand Casino.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Ella Raines, Edmond O’Brien, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer’s life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA

Nick and Nora investigate the murder of a bandleader in New York.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Sô Yamamura, Kikue Môri
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | USA

1910: A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his young friend Jacques returns from military service complaining his misfortune with women. Once he follows Emile’s advice to have an affair, he meets Lucette and falls in love with her instead.

Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette purchases a winning lottery ticket. But when Antoine loses their ticket out of poverty, their dreams seem like they’ll remain just that.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous man. When he knew Jenny is making eyes at Brignon, an old businessman, in order to get some engagements, he looses his temper and threatens Brignon with death. But Jenny went anyway to a rendez-vous at the old man’s, who is murdered the same evening.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Director: Byron Haskin
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn’t prepare Frankie for Big Business.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.

Director: Henri Decoin
Stars: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Georges Bréhat
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt after a young woman that he has just recently met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Philippa Shelley races against time to clear her husband Nicholas Talbot of a murder he did not commit. While she works on getting proof, the prosecution is doing all it can to force a conviction.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Stars: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: UK

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman’s murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.

Director: Robert Montgomery
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.

Director: Martin Gabel
Stars: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letters.

Director: Chester Erskine
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A financier from New York City rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Nick Bianco is caught during a botched jewellery heist. The prosecution offer him a more lenient sentence if he squeals on his accomplices but he doesn’t roll over on them. Three years into the sentence an event changes his mind.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Genre: Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The true story of a prosecutor’s fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

On America’s frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

An angel in human form enters the life of a bishop in order to help him build a new cathedral and repair his fractured marriage.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.

Director: John Brahm
Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After marrying her long lost love, a musician finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

When spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Three strangers, each with a serious problem in their lives, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Rita Christiani, Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Célestine (Paulette Goddard), the chambermaid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire (Reginald Owen) is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire (Dame Judith Anderson), helped by the strange valet Joseph (Francis Lederer).

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son’s life from afar even as she prospers in business.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France

It’s Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp who may also be Destiny predicts that Jean Diego will fall in love with a beautiful girl. That same evening, Jean meets Malou.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Stars: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.

Director: Fred C. Brannon, William Witney
Stars: Charles Quigley, Linda Stirling, Clayton Moore
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA

A criminal mastermind known as the Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical currents on the planet.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

An ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

This movie is a story about French railroad workers who were part of organized resistance during the German WW2 occupation.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward
Genre: Action, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850’s Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An American World War I soldier, whose disfigured face is reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons, returns home after twenty years, but no one recognizes him, his widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A secretary tries to help her boss, who is framed for a murder.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.

Director: Frank Launder
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK

A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer’s murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent…aided by the victim’s ex-husband.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten, Gösta Cederlund
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

Young love confronts stupidity and boredom of society.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with “afflictions”; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Talley Beatty
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A man dances in several locations, edited to have a fluent effect.

Director: Emilio Fernández
Stars: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Fernando Fernández
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Mexico

During the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirô Ôkôchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA

A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Inga Landgré, Stig Olin, Marianne Löfgren
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter’s real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ken’ichi Enomoto
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

A pollster stumbles on a family of murderous hillbillies, and joins in their search for hidden treasure.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

An 18th century London wench gets involved with the nobility.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love.

Director: Compton Bennett
Stars: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Wanda Rothgardt, Georg Rydeberg, Gabriel Alw
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Set entirely in one room, an innocent young man is accused of plagiarizing the work of an old professor. Later, he will be blamed for the professor’s murder.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier’s love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.

Director: Albert Lewin
Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.

Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicates matters.

Director: Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.

Director: Peter Godfrey
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it’s too late.

Director: Hans Burger, Billy Wilder
Stars: Anton Reimer
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.

Director: Alexander Korda
Stars: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.

Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O’Brien, James Craig
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.

Director: John Brahm
Stars: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer — and by the strange gaps in his memory.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Stars: Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency, with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. 2 days later, she awakens – in a different house, in different clothes, and with a new identity.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK

The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK

Charles and his second wife Ruth are haunted by the spirit of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost.

Director: Edward A. Blatt
Stars: John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

Passengers on an ocean liner can’t recall how they got on board or where they are going yet, oddly enough, it soon becomes apparent that they all have something in common.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

The career of a Nazi officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.

Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Nick and Nora visit Nick’s hometown, and end up involved in a murder.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley’s Comet returned.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.

Director: William Dieterle, George Cukor
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.

Director: Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti
Stars: Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK

A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious.

Director: Clifford Odets
Stars: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas
Genre: Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Mystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued when the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A wealthy woman who lost her hearing to meningitis meets a doctor who is concocting a serum that will cure deafness.

Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA

A cash-strapped theater producer promotes a nine-year-old boy’s dancing caterpillar.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA

In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. The story focuses on one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

When a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.

Director: John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife struggles to care for their two daughters – and a pair of lodgers who have moved in – alone.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Marcel Duchamp, Pajorita Matta
Genre: Short, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Kigoro Ikushima
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to avenge their father’s death. The killers of their father see the sister and brother practicing with Miyamoto, and so enlist the help of another powerful swordsman, Kojiro Sasaki, which gives Sasaki an excuse to battle Miyamoto.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Stanley Wray, Robert Morgan, James A. Verinis
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Bette Davis, John Garfield, The Andrews Sisters
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil’s Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After being hired to find an ex-con’s former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.

Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A widowed matriarch reminisces about her family fortunes, including her romance with a financier/mine owner.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day’s paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA

Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War 2 in England when he stumbles on a deadly Nazi spy plot by accident, and tries to stop it.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They lead an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A four-year old boy, Pricò, becomes the subject of emotional folly by his fluctuant parents and inattentive relatives.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

After two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

Director: Maurice Tourneur
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: France

Roland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.

Director: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

An American tanker’s sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment; bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.

Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Fitch is on the list, and co-opts Claude Babbington to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

This is a retelling of Tristan and Isolde, set in 1940s France. The script was written by Jean Cocteau.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A group of nurses returning from the war in the Phillippines recall their experiences in combat and in love.

Director: Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Odette Joyeux, Madeleine Robinson, Marguerite Moreno
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference.

Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Margaret O’Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Alpha’s been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A dead World War II bomber pilot named Pete Sandidge, becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge’s memory.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, William Eythe
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A young girl claims to have seen a divine vision, which prompts both a religious phenomenon and extreme skepticism.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA

During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.

Director: Robert Stevenson
Stars: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A mild-mannered school-teacher in a Nazi-occupied town during W.W.II finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Anne-Marie joins a Dominican convent as a novice where she knows Therese. After shooting a man for which she was imprisoned, Therese protests her innocence reluctant to tell her secret.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
Genre: Adventure, History, War
Country: USA

In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.

Director: Zoltan Korda
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA

During World War II, an undercover British soldier tries get word to the Allies that the Germans have tons of supplies buried in five excavations across Egypt.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Journalist Steve O’Malley wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Steve receives conflicting reports and tales that make him question what the truth about the hero is.

Director: Alessandro Blasetti
Stars: Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Giuditta Rissone
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she’s in troubles: she’s pregnant, her baby’s father has left her and she doesn’t know how to tell to her parents that she’s not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn-of-the-century.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France

Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison’s band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don’t swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Stars: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: UK

An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.

Director: Busby Berkeley
Stars: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly
Genre: Musical, Romance, War
Country: USA

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

When acerbic critic Sheridan Whiteside slips on the front steps of a provincial Ohio businessman’s home and breaks his hip, he and his entourage take over the house indefinitely.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shûji Sano, Shin Saburi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Director: Leo McCarey
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Nazis seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.

Director: John Huston, Raoul Walsh
Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister’s husband; in retaliation, her sister begins seeing the woman’s former fiancé.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

Director: Stuart Heisler
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Nascimento Fernandes, Vital dos Santos, António Palma
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Portugal

The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has “played it tough” by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Arletty, Marie Déa, Fernand Ledoux
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France

In medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim.

Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.

Director: Noël Coward, David Lean
Stars: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

This “story of a ship”, the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.

Director: Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen
Stars: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

At an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi
Stars: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: USA

The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess’ hectic lifestyle.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An escaped prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA

An aircraft factory worker goes on the run after being wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Andre Laurent, the captain of a tugboat, married Yvonne ten years ago. She has a heart disease but does not want to tell him. She dreams he quits the job for they can live quietly.

Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.

Director: Harry Lachman
Stars: Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan, Robert Weldon
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie’s search for a murderer on board a docked ship.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father’s health suddenly improves.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA

British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia precox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate tragic relationship.

Director: Jack Conway
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A series of misunderstandings on their fourth wedding anniversary lead an architect and his wife to break up, but he pretends to be insane and even poses as his own sister in order to win her back.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Nick and Nora are at their wisecracking best as they investigate murder and racketeering at a local race track.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left her with nothing but debt and married children who are unwilling to support her–except for her most thoughtful son, just returned from China.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After being fished out of the sea by a sealer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship’s brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After a newlywed’s husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daijirô Natsukawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi, has an idea for her bus that could avert the dwindling number of passengers.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a pact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun’s palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano’s vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord.

Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France

Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until war breaks out and he becomes a soldier.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

1938: A young man arrives in Hitler’s Germany, frantically seeking information about his German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse.

Director: Harry Lachman
Stars: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A rural maiden’s two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe’s most respected news wire service.

Director: Gregory La Cava
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O’Keefe
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.

Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father’s release.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

When the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?

Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Western
Country: USA

The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he’s really a con man…and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Director: Joe May
Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder.

Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A best-selling author of women’s issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A shoplifter and her prosecutor fall in love, creating tensions for his career and family.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

During World War I, believing her fiance to be dead, a young ballerina loses her job and is forced to turn to prostitution.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend’s body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A duchess’ irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family’s lives forever.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where later, the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean’s policy against homesteaders.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers’ Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.

Director: King Vidor. Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers’ Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.

Director: Edward F. Cline
Stars: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Henpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A hard-working, white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Max Dearly, Elvire Popesco
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

Fast-thinking Guitry contrives a scheme to earn easy money from rich women with expiring visas by marrying them with clochards and at the same time to win the charms of beautiful Polish countess. Everything seems to go wrong when the clochards, once married with the foreigners, want to comply with their marital duties…

Director: Paul L. Stein
Stars: Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as “poison pen letters.”

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell, Micheline Francey
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the “Ghost Wagon.”

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Paul Muni, Una O’Connor, Jane Bryan
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA

A husband hires a lonely pretty young woman to work as a nanny for his son. His wife becomes instantly jealous and things take turn for the worst. In the background, World War II is in the air, and anti-German sentiment is on the rise.

Director: John Brahm
Stars: Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men’s execution date.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Victor Francen, Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people’s home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies… A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.

Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.

Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.

Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman’s daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man’s death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs—and then find themselves involved in the real thing.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O’Neil
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

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

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard, Romney Brent
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.

Director: Irving Cummings
Stars: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

Director: Herbert I. Leeds
Stars: Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

While in Paris for a reunion on the eve of World War II, Charlie finds that the murder of an hated businessman leads him to a conspiracy to smuggle arms to Germany.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

An orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

The story of married couple Irene Castle and Vernon Castle, sensational ballroom dancers prior to World War I.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A corrupt D.A. with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter who wrote them for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Louis Napoleon III takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg to add Mexico to his empire. of Mexico.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs, including from an agent of Death with the help of a magical apple tree.

Director: Henry King, Otto Brower
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.

Director: John Farrow
Stars: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.

Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

Director: James Whale
Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: USA

Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D’Artagnan.

Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: UK