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.