Director: Edward A. Blatt
Stars: John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Passengers on an ocean liner can’t recall how they got on board or where they are going yet, oddly enough, it soon becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
Director: André De Toth
Stars: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
The career of a Nazi officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Nick and Nora visit Nick’s hometown, and end up involved in a murder.
Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley’s Comet returned.
Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.
Director: William Dieterle, George Cukor
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.
Director: Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti
Stars: Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious.
Director: Clifford Odets
Stars: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas
Genre: Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family.
Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Mystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued when the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A wealthy woman who lost her hearing to meningitis meets a doctor who is concocting a serum that will cure deafness.
Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
A cash-strapped theater producer promotes a nine-year-old boy’s dancing caterpillar.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. The story focuses on one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross.
Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
When a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
Director: John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife struggles to care for their two daughters – and a pair of lodgers who have moved in – alone.
Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Marcel Duchamp, Pajorita Matta
Genre: Short, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Kigoro Ikushima
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to avenge their father’s death. The killers of their father see the sister and brother practicing with Miyamoto, and so enlist the help of another powerful swordsman, Kojiro Sasaki, which gives Sasaki an excuse to battle Miyamoto.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Stanley Wray, Robert Morgan, James A. Verinis
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA
A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Bette Davis, John Garfield, The Andrews Sisters
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil’s Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
After being hired to find an ex-con’s former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Director: Maya Deren
Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Genre: Short
Country: USA
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A widowed matriarch reminisces about her family fortunes, including her romance with a financier/mine owner.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.
Director: Carol Reed
Stars: David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.
Director: René Clair
Stars: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day’s paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War 2 in England when he stumbles on a deadly Nazi spy plot by accident, and tries to stop it.
Director: David Lean
Stars: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They lead an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
A four-year old boy, Pricò, becomes the subject of emotional folly by his fluctuant parents and inattentive relatives.