Director: George Cukor
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Journalist Steve O’Malley wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Steve receives conflicting reports and tales that make him question what the truth about the hero is.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti
Stars: Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Giuditta Rissone
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she’s in troubles: she’s pregnant, her baby’s father has left her and she doesn’t know how to tell to her parents that she’s not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts.
Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn-of-the-century.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.
Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison’s band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don’t swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Stars: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: UK
An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
Director: Busby Berkeley
Stars: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly
Genre: Musical, Romance, War
Country: USA
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
Director: William Keighley
Stars: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
When acerbic critic Sheridan Whiteside slips on the front steps of a provincial Ohio businessman’s home and breaks his hip, he and his entourage take over the house indefinitely.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shûji Sano, Shin Saburi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
Director: Leo McCarey
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
In Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Nazis seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.
Director: John Huston, Raoul Walsh
Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister’s husband; in retaliation, her sister begins seeing the woman’s former fiancé.
Director: René Clair
Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Nascimento Fernandes, Vital dos Santos, António Palma
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Portugal
The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has “played it tough” by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.
Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Arletty, Marie Déa, Fernand Ledoux
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
In medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim.
Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.
Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.
Director: Noël Coward, David Lean
Stars: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
This “story of a ship”, the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
Director: Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen
Stars: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
At an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi
Stars: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: USA
The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.
Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
Director: George Stevens
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess’ hectic lifestyle.
Director: George Stevens
Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
An escaped prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA
An aircraft factory worker goes on the run after being wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.