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

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

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

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

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

The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, the film begins when he meets Rachel Donaldson Robards. The plot concentrates on the scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Yûko Mochizuki, Yôko Katsuragi, Masami Taura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it’s clear that the children, as they enter adulthood, want little to do with their mother. They have a different view of their childhood and her sacrifices: in their eyes, she abandoned them to live a life of pleasure.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In post-war Japan, sixteen-year-old Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion, in Kyoto asking her to be a maiko (geisha apprentice). Eiko explains that her mother – who was a geisha and Miyoharu’s friend – has just died, her father Sawamoto has failed in business, and her uncle is harassing her. Miyoharu is a warm-hearted woman and accepts to train her.

Director: Gregg G. Tallas
Stars: Maria Kosti, Nikos Fermas, Vasileios Fragedakis
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece | USA

A young survivor of WWII and former member of the reputed “Barefoot Battalion”, a close-knit pack of disciplined orphaned boys, recounts the story of the one hundred sixty orphans who aided the Resistance, to a homeless street urchin.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Keiko Awaji, Motoji Fujiwara, Chieko Higashiyama
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A young student (Akira Inshihama) falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to an invalid girl (Keiko Awaji) whom he can only see from afar.

Director: George More O’Ferrall
Stars: Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

An unhappily married British security officer stationed in Sierra Leone during World War II falls in love with a young Austrian woman and starts an affair. He soon starts feeling guilty.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: UK

In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West-Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet-sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smuggler.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | USA

Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome’s Stazione Termini.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: UK

The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.

Director: Joseph M. Newman
Stars: Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Max Showalter
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

When a beautiful bride boards an ocean liner with her new husband, he goes into hiding, and she becomes the target of a murder conspiracy.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | Canada

A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.

Director: Byron Haskin
Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.

Director: Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Stars: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

A documentary of black art.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Eddie Byrne, Jane Barrett, Robert Brown
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Because of its high productivity and “almost” 100 per cent employment, the village of Little Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The “almost” is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Arthur Franz, Adolphe Menjou, Gerald Mohr
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Walter Newcomb, Janice Hubka
Genre: Drama, Short, Romance
Country: USA

A young man strolls through a city. He walks under a bridge toward a rail yard. A young woman sees him and walks beside him. They cross the tracks and walk into the countryside. They stop at a river. They hold hands. It starts to rain; it’s a downpour. They seek shelter in an abandoned shack. They kiss, long and hard. It stops raining; they leave together but seem alone. They part at the railroad tracks. She watches him go, but he doesn’t look back

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Dany Robin, Michel Auclair, Hildegard Knef
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

After the rejection of their latest – and preposterous – scenario, two script writers get back to basics to prepare a new movie. The new scenario centers on Henriette, a pretty, lively Parisian, and how she spends the 14th of July in Paris with her fiancé.

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Jehanne d’Alcy, André Méliès, Marie-Georges Méliès
Genre: Short, Biography, Drama
Country: France

A biography of the pioneer film director Georges Méliès, featuring his son André playing Georges, and with shots of his second wife, aged 90.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Jean Peters, David Wayne, Hugh Marlowe
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

At the fiftieth anniversary of his town’s founding, the town’s first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and others.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing, some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.

Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.

Director: Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco
Stars: Fred Allen, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

John Steinbeck introduces a quintet of five of O. Henry’s most celebrated stories from his New York Period (1902-1910) in this anthology film.

Director: Hugo del Carril
Stars: Hugo del Carril, Adriana Benetti, Raúl del Valle
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Parana. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.

Director: Giuseppe De Santis
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Carla Del Poggio, Maria Grazia Francia
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls (told in a slow beginning) who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy morning in Rome in 1951.

Director: Martin Fric
Stars: Jan Werich, Marie Vásová, Natasa Gollová
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Rudolph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, does not have a simple life. And yet he manages to complicate it even more with his frequent outbursts of anger. While he searches for a mythical Golem, an animated clay statue, Matthew the Baker is thrown into the dungeon for selling the special buns for the emperor to people. Matthew is accidentally mistaken for the emperor and takes his place. And when the Golem is finally found, it will complicate things beyond comprehension.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Director: John Huston
Stars: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK

Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.

Director: Alberto Lattuada
Stars: Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Giulio Stival
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy

Based on Nikolai Gogol’s story with the location changed from Russia to Italy and the time changed to the present (1952), the story is about a poor city-hall clerk (Renato Rascel) whose only desire is for a new overcoat.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd, William Tubbs
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy

A demon bestows on a self-righteous working photographer’s camera the power to smite from the Earth “evil-doers”. Naturally, the indignant photographer turns his new weapon on, one by one, his entire village, beginning with the wealthy or illustrious. Soon, the poor he is so supposedly so enamored of become his victims too, so rife with impatience and contempt is he, that the slightest flaw is cause for smiting.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA

In San Francisco in 1850, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska.

Director: Renato Castellani
Stars: Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Filomena Russo
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy

The story concerns the romance between Carmela and Antonio. The ardor is one-sided at first, but Carmela is a determined young woman, willing to scale and conquer any obstacle in pursuing her heart’s desire. Once he’s “hooked,” Antonio scurries from job to job to prove his financial viability. Faced with the hostility of their parents, Carmela and Antonio symbolically shed themselves of all responsibilities to others in a climactic act of stark-naked bravado.

Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A fairly well-to-do family takes in two troubled orphans.

Director: Norman McLaren
Stars: Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Canada

A surreal story of two neighbours’ destructive feud over a flower.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had hoping that the marriage can be saved.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Michael Denison
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA | UK

During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo.

Director: David Miller
Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
Genre: Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead friends.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

A determined priest and a Communist mayor develop a grudging friendship in spite of their official rivalry.

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

With his newspaper about to be sold, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson tries to complete an exposé on gangster Rienzi.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Mandy Garland was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life. Her parents believe she is able to speak if she can only be taught and enroll her with a special teacher.

Director: Ralph Richardson
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

David Preston, a bank official, goes missing for twenty-four hours and has no memory of the lost time. When he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has been found murdered, Preston finds he has no alibi. The police want him to account for the lost hours.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young girl from a provincial town learns the bitter reality of a big city and great love.

Director: Charles Crichton
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Bela Kovacs
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

The Globe is a small, but visionary newspaper started by Phineas Mitchell, an editor recently fired by The Star. The two newspapers become enemies, and the Star’s ruthless heiress Charity Hackett decides to eliminate the competition.

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Michel Simon
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I’s armor to Guynemer’s airplane, to Napoleon’s and Marshall Foch’s tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing – at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath.

Director: Stuart Heisler
Stars: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a comeback.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Lilia Prado, Carmelita González, Esteban Mayo
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico

A newly-wed country boy receives the terrible news that his mother is dying, and takes a long and dangerous bus trip to the city to contact a notary for her last will and testament. Will he resist temptation and do the right thing?

Director: George Sidney
Stars: Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

In France during the late 18th Century, a man sets out to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of a master swordsman.

Director: Noel Langley
Stars: James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter the friendly but disreputable Mr. Jingle, who becomes a continual source of trouble for all who know him. Pickwick himself is the victim of a number of misunderstandings that bring him both embarrassment and problems with the law.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Eiji Okada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother’s attempt to sustain her family.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry’s friend Earl.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Cosetta Greco, Saro Urzì
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Italy

In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Rosario Granados, Julio Villarreal, Tito Junco
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son’s biological origin.

Director: Compton Bennett
Stars: Maria Schell, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK

During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.

Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA

An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Edmond Ardisson, Henri Arius, Charles Blavette
Genre: Drama
Country: France

To revenge her father’s death, Manon blocks the source from which the village gets water.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Mitsuko Miura, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Poor, pathetic mother Ose (Kumeko Urabe) has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.

Director: George More O’Ferrall
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Their story includes a remembrance of their World War II trials.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Cold War yarn about a US State Department courier who tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan

Post war Hiroshima: It’s been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: France | Italy

A young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoine Balpêtré
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Rene is not a bright guy. He was taught to kill by the Resistance. But the WW2 is over and he keeps on killing. He is condemned to death. In jail, expecting the presidential pardon, he mets other condemned men. An anti-capital punishment drama, written and directed by a former lawyer.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city’s lust and the desires it produces.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer
Genre: Western
Country: USA

After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA

When a town boss confiscates homesteader’s supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Yukiko Shimazaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Director: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA | West Germany

As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK | USA

A scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th-century London, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Director: Robert Parrish
Stars: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Johnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force. In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way. Will Johnny be next in line?

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK

In the 1950s, an American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother’s death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid in Nazi-occupied France.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Ellen McNulty loses her hamburger joint and goes to see her son, who marries a socialite at the same time. Due to her modest background and a case of mistaken identity, Ellen poses as the newlyweds’ cook.

Director: Rudolph Maté
Stars: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

As a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically work to complete the rocket which will take them to their new home.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Jeanne Crain, Thelma Ritter, Scott Brady
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients’ affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can’t resist meddling in her life, by disentangling her from a married man and fixing her up with a nice radiologist. Of course things go wrong.

Director: Guy Lefranc
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Jean Brochard, Pierre Renoir
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor’s practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon managed to persuade everyone that they were ill. And not only didn’t they resent him but they even loved their physician, who made a fortune and brought prosperity to the village by turning it into a big hospital.

Director: Zoltan Korda
Stars: Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

Director: Alf Sjöberg
Stars: Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

An heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family’s servants.

Director: Gordon Douglas
Stars: James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics. His boss enlists his help to sober up his nephew, Boyd Copeland, who has married Lew’s old sweetheart. Boyd, who is involved with a cabaret singer and the mob, presents quite a challenge

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yûji Hori
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband’s family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Cynthia Barret, Terry Chapman, Frank Ionson
Genre: Short
Country: Canada

Maya Deren’s unfinished short film from 1951, “Ensemble for Somnambulists”, set to DeVotchKa’s “How It Ends”.

Director: Peter Lorre
Stars: Peter Lorre, Karl John, Helmuth Rudolph
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany

German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.

Director: Robert Parrish
Stars: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Ex-con Rocky Mulloy seeks the real culprit in the crime for which he was framed in a night world of deceptive dames and double crosses.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Forced to retire from an English public school, an unpopular professor must confront his failure as a teacher and husband.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently began settling there.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière, Jacqueline Pagnol
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to “rote” morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze’s naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal…and makes him fair game for the “aunt” of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming “front man.”

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest’s lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

When their ship docks the crew disembark as usual to pick up their lives in postwar London. For one of them his petty smuggling turns more serious when he finds himself caught up with a robbery in the City.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK

A man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port. He’s sacked when he’s caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide, and a Captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading post.

Director: Fletcher Markle
Stars: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Reagan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Stars: Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: East Germany

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below.

Director: Roberto Gavaldón
Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Leticia Palma, Ramón Gay
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico

A fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died.

Director: John Farrow, Richard Fleischer
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
Genre: Action, Crime, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A deported gangster’s plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini, Cosetta Greco
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.

Director: Laslo Benedek
Stars: Harold French, Pat Jackson, Anthony Pelissier
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham comprise this anthology film where the celebrated author introduces each segment of the film in front of the camera.

Director: Laslo Benedek
Stars: Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the errors of his ways.

Director: Mark Robson
Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

After he gets blinded by a German sniper’s bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery.

Director: Leo C. Popkin, Russell Rouse
Stars: Gwendolyn Laster, Richard Rober, Maidie Norman
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A small, racially-mixed American town succumbs to violence and utter mayhem after a white man suspected of kidnapping a missing black girl is released by the white authority.

Director: Isidore Isou
Stars: Isidore Isou, Jean-Louis Barrault, Blanchette Brunoy
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Brigitte Auber, Jean Brochard, René Blancard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane’s novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Stars: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce occurs.

Director: Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. However, Mary’s brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind.

Director: John Boulting
Stars: Robert Donat, Maria Schell, Renée Asherson
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

A chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.

Director: Georges Lacombe
Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Valère, Gérard Oury
Genre: Drama
Country: France

After an accident Raymond has gone blind .His family treats him like a child .But fortunately ,a nun comes to his rescue.She works in a center where blind people learn to read with the Braille alphabet.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France

Through a series of circumstances and plot twists an enterprising man manages to get away with murdering his wife, even though he cheerfully admits his guilt in court.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Mary Herries (Ethel Barrymore) has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Harry Springer Elcott (Maurice Evans), who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in her is to covet everything she has.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Suzanne Cloutier, Jean-Roger Caussimon
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.

Director: John Berry
Stars: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Fred Stadtmueller, Bob Hite, Pedro
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock with the aid of a monoplane. The priestly pilot is seen dashing from one province to the next at the helm of his trusty Piper Cub administering guidance (his plane, the Flying Padre) to unruly children, sermonizing at funerals and flying a sickly child and its mother to a hospital.

Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Daniel Gélin, Anne Vernon, Elina Labourdette
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Edouard is a pianist, married with Caroline. This evening, they are invited to Claude’s. Claude is the snobbish uncle of Caroline, his son Alain (as snobbish as his father) is in love with Caroline. They spite Edouard a little because he’s poor.

Director: Stephan Streker
Stars: Bea Diallo, Pascal Mercier
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Belgium

In boxing, winning a fight means you’ve taken a step up on the ladder of success. But if you lose, it’s back to rung number one. That day, the day of the fight, can make or break you.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK

During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

Director: Charles Crichton
Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Director: Robert Hessens, Alain Resnais
Stars: María Casares, Jacques Pruvost
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo Picasso was shocked and he translated his emotion into a magnificent but terrifying picture bearing the name of the martyred city. This film does not only comment on the painting, it also gives it a new life through frantic camera and sound effects.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the members of the household, until they are virtually fighting with each other.

Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
Genre: Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: UK

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA

Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.

Director: Norman Foster
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When Frank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder, he’s pursued around scenic San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the murderer.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrew Ray
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

In 1875 London, young Wheeler (who lives by scavenging) finds a cameo of Queen Victoria, which he thinks so beautiful, he risks his life to save it. Possessed of a desire to see the Queen, he slips past the Beefeaters and wanders about Windsor Castle, just when a state dinner is in preparation.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Three women who secretly gave their new-born sons up for adoption in 1945, wonder if the 5-year old survivor of a plane crash, named in the local newspapers, is their long-abandoned son.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals money from the office of a shady lawyer – with catastrophic consequences.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.

Director: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher
Stars: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Vicky Barton visits Paris with her brother Johnny, only to discover the following morning he has gone missing and the hotel staff have no recollection of his presence.

Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA

In 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous, that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A small town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor when a human skeleton is found on a Massachusetts beach.

Director: Ken Annakin, Harold French
Stars: James Hayter, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, “The Verger”, “Mr. Know-All”, and “The Sanatorium” are introduced by the author.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn’t want to see him. He hasn’t come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Stig Olin, Birger Malmsten
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can’t get along.

Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit. She’s always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko’s sister) tries to reunite them, although secretly she loves him too.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK

In post-WW2 Europe, when the dictator of a small police state dies during surgery, the operating surgeon, who’s a visiting American doctor, is held captive in order to preserve the terrible state secret.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.

Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Stars: Barry Jones, André Morell, Olive Sloane
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

When a scientist threatens to detonate a powerful bomb in the heart of London, Scotland Yard has just seven days to find him before it is too late.

Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who’s a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiko Kuga, Ken Uehara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Young servant girl Hamako has just started working for her personal heroine, Madame Yuki. Her romanticized view of the Madame is broken immediately, as she is introduced with a list of the Madame’s personal problems.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A black doctor is assigned to treat two white racist suspects who are brothers, and when one dies, it causes tension that could start a race riot.

Director: Yves Allégret
Stars: Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Jacques Baumer
Genre: Drama
Country: France

After having spent all his money to fullfill the smallest wish of his wife Dora, Robert is still madly in love with her. Now, she is at agony, and her mother comes. She will reveal to Robert how he has been fooled. Through some flashbacks, we will see the story through Robert’s or his mother-in-law’s eyes.

Director: Henry Cass
Stars: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

When a lonely, unappreciated farm equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a “posh” resort.

Director: Thor Heyerdahl
Stars: Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway | Sweden

A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother’s help in hiding the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

After the Civil War, a highly decorated Shoshone Indian veteran plans to raise cattle in Wyoming but white farmers plan to grab fertile tribal lands by pitting the whites against the Indians.

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

While on vacation in a Latin American country, an American neurosurgeon and his wife become tangled in a revolutionary uprising against a tyrannical dictator.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A young trumpeter enjoys highs (musical success, fame, and fortune) and lows (sour marriage, death of his mentor, bout with alcoholism).

Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Signe Hasso, Alf Kjellin, Ulf Palme
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden

A story of two refugees – wife and husband – from the dictatorship. Their quiet life in a new free country is impossible because of the husband’s dark secret.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Claude Revenant, André Soubeyran, Nadine Valence
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

Pierrot waxes romantic, entranced by the moon. Harlequin appears and bullies him, then uses a magic lantern to project an image of Columbine. Pierrot tries to court the illusory Columbine unsuccessfully, then enters a mystical moon-realm from which he returns dead.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Saro Urzì
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy

The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad crash victim and starts a new life with the woman’s wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole Courcel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Henri Chatelard is well in his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate women. When he meets Marie, a 18ish stronghead who just lost her father in a small fishermen village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.

Director: Gordon Douglas
Stars: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him.

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Michel Auclair, Antoine Balpêtré, Raymond Bussières
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The Marshal summons the jury and an insight is given into the background of the seven jurors who are to decide on the guilt of the accused, a sick man’s mistress on trail for his mercy killing.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Domineering Harriet Craig holds more regard for her home and its possessions than she does for any person in her life. Among those she treats like household objects are her kind husband Walter, whom she has lied to about her inability to have children; her cousin Claire, whom she treats like a secretary; and her servants whom she treats like slaves.

Director: Hasse Ekman
Stars: Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Birgit Tengroth
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden

The young Dagmar Brink commits suicide. Her belongings are inherited by the resident caretaker in the house she lived in. The caretaker, who never knew her, wonders why and make contact with the people who knew her to find out why she killed herself.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt’s estate.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A New York socialite climbs the ladder of success man by man until a life among rich gangsters gives her what she thought she always wanted.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A naive nineteen year old widow becomes coarsened and cynical when she is sent to a woman’s prison and is exposed to hardened criminals and sadistic guards.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Italy

The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.

Director: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy

A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Vignettes revolving around a circle of interconnected love.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd
Genre: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he’s accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA

The journey of a prized rifle from one ill-fated owner to another parallels a cowboy’s search for a murderous fugitive.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.

Director: Byron Haskin
Stars: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.

Director: Yves Allégret
Stars: Madeleine Robinson, Gérard Philipe, Jean Servais
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Netherlands

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.

Director: Giuseppe De Santis
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

Director: Emlyn Williams
Stars: Edith Evans, Emlyn Williams, Richard Burton
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A peaceful North Wales village is about to disappear once and for all under the waters of a dam that is about to be built by a powerful water company commanded by a city businessman, at one time a local resident of the place. It’s time for the simple villagers to take action and try to save the only place they know and love.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Ib Koch-Olsen
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Denmark

Documentary short film about the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), one of the most famous Danish sculptors, who spent a good part of his life in Italy.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

Director: Mark Robson
Stars: Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Kent Smith
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An army lieutenant accused of robbery pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief’s fiancee.

Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An L.A. department store ambitious young model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn’t always a happy one.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons – her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.

Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK

A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.

Director: Anthony Pelissier
Stars: Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Yvonne Marquis
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920s style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are dancing. She picks one – in puce. She puts it on, delighted, adds perfume, languishes on a chaise for a few minutes, then goes for her walk. It all has a 20s feel.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Chao Li Chi
Genre: Short
Country: USA

The setting with the low walls and river views is located in a private area of The Cloisters museum.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A group of sisters experience life’s difficulties and its pleasures while growing up in nineteenth-century America.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Massimo Girotti, Charles Vanel, Jone Salinas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Kathleen Byron
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who’ll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

A small town corrupt sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children’s hospital.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

Resentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.

Director: John Farrow
Stars: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
Country: USA

Because aging boxer Bill Thompson always lost his past fights, his corrupt manager, without telling Thompson, takes bribes from a betting gangster, to ensure Thompson’s pre-arranged dive-loss in the next match.

Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Auber, Nicole Courcel
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor’s life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn’t destroy others along with him.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Doris Svedlund, Birger Malmsten, Eva Henning
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A film director tries to create the best film in history, but finds out that human abilities have their limits.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Suzy Delair, Fernand Ledoux, Paul Bernard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An eccentric man (Paul Bernard) endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend (Suzy Delair) of a saloon keeper (Fernand Ledoux).

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: France

An adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s classic French novel ‘Manon Lescaut’, updated to post-World War II France, in which a former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from villagers who want to lynch her for collaborating with the Nazis. They move to Paris, but their relationship quickly turns stormy after they get involved in profiteering, prostitution and murder.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France

1941 in a small town in Nazi occupied France. Against the will of its elderly male and his adult niece residents, the Nazis commandeer a house for one of their officers, Lt. Werner von Ebrennac, to live in for as long as he is in the area on Nazi business.

Director: Don Hartman
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young widow is romanced by a sales clerk whom she inadvertently got fired.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Fernando Soler, Rosario Granados, Andrés Soler
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico

Concerns a family’s attempts to change the patriarch’s somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A woman’s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone
Genre: Western
Country: USA

In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.

Director: Henri Decoin
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Robinson, Léo Lapara
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

A police detective with a striking resemblance for a murdered criminal impersonates the deceased to identify his murderer.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men’s planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.

Director: John Berry
Stars: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife’s lover.

Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Stars: Margaret O’Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and…a secret garden.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart
Genre: History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.

Director: Thorold Dickinson
Stars: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman’s spirit.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The Passionate Friends were in love when young, but separated, and she married an older man. Then Mary Justin (Ann Todd) meets Steven Stratton (Trevor Howard) again and they have one last fling together in the Alps.

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A provincial doctor’s wife’s romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.

Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Geremio, a young Italian immigrant to New York City, works as a bricklayer and is courting an Italian girl, Annunziata, by mail. He lies to her that he owns his own home and, after they are married, has to rent one for their three-day honeymoon.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Kenneth Anger, Gordon Gray, Bill Seltzer
Genre: Short, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A wordless film, save for a voice-over introducing us to the imagery of dreams. A shirtless young man dreams of awakening to finds photographs of a muscular sailor carrying him in his arms.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. He has seen other players come and go, but he was MVP last year and the future looks rosy. But Pete discovers that he has a condition that may end his career and all that he knows is football.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

Whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling trip to teach him core life values while First Mate Dan Lunceford is tasked with tutoring Jed.

Director: Mark Robson
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Country: USA

Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame…mainly by stepping on other people.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A beautiful psychology professor tries to hide a self-defense killing.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town ‘Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre’. All inhabitants are scoffing at Francois, the postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff under his direction nearly leads into a catastrophy – but everybody tells him, how important his work is.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Stars: Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon
Stars: Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife’s past. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Olof Winnerstrand
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A blind musician falls in love with a kindhearted girl. This love begin to confront with his disease and with his music.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph’s endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.

Director: Bretaigne Windust
Stars: Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A magazine’s staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.

Director: Maurice Tourneur
Stars: Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Marcel Herrand
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Marianne, a stage actress, has decided to give up her career in order to marry a wealthy nobleman, Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and to steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Joe Sullivan has taken the rap for Rick who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor’s efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

While conducting a symphony orchestra, Sir Alfred De Carter imagines three different ways of dealing with his wife’s suspected infidelity, then tries acting out his fantasies, but things do not go as well in reality as they did in his imagination.

Director: John Farrow
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

When phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live of anonymity.

Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr.
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

Three outlaws on the run find a dying woman in the desert who gives birth to a baby. The mother entrusts the care of the child to the three men.

Director: John Farrow
Stars: Ray Milland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Charles Laughton
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.

Director: H.C. Potter, Walter Lantz
Stars: Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple fiancés embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm
Genre: Action, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O’Herlihy
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Director: Irving Reis
Stars: David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and the subsequent romance between her and Lark’s nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple don’t make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Fredric March, Dan Duryea, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

This ‘prequel’ to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.

Director: Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ralph Smart
Stars: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Four of W. Somerset Maugham’s short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini, Peparuolo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

In the first episode, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In the second, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Shunsaku Shimamura, Natuski Masako, Gosho Shoichi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

Alison Courtland wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she cannot remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Nine-Christine Jönsson, Bengt Eklund, Mimi Nelson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A suicidal factory girl out of reformatory school, anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can’t forgive her past.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Lana Marconi, Émile Drain
Genre: History
Country: France

From the late 18th thru the early 19th century Talleyrand, known for his skill at compromise, serves 6 regimes.A George Arliss style vehicle gave Guitry, accused of opportunism during the Occupation, a chance to defend himself.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Shûji Sano, Chieko Murata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son’s hospital bills.

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..