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.