Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend’s death. Len, a petty thief who has just killed a pub owner during a botched robbery, learns of the accident.
Director: Luis García Berlanga
Stars: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Larry Jordan, Yvonne Fair, Taggart Deike
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: USA
An anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There’s a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls.
Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the ill-fated ship.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Don Hollenbeck, Paul Hall
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA
Stanley Kubrick’s first film made in color, lost for over forty years. The documentary extols the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.
Director: Hilton Edwards
Stars: Michael Laurence, Shelah Richards, Helena Hughes
Genre: Short, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland
Orson Welles, on break from filming Othello, relates a tale he heard one spooky Irish midnight not so long ago when, driving through the countryside, he picked up a man with car trouble who told of a strange encounter with two hitchhikers.
Director: Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas
Stars: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Mexico
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse’s adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds.
Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan
Genre: Thriller, Western
Country: USA
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | West Germany
Czech circus owner-Clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Etchika Choureau, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jacques Sempey
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders.
Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
Director: Shirô Toyoda
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Jûkichi Uno
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires.
Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Carmilla Salvatorelli
Genre: Short
Country: USA
A man dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d’Este.
Director: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Stanley Holloway, Joan Rice, Odile Versois
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
Director: John Huston
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK | Italy | USA
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen…
Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
A truckdriver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail.
Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti, Gaby Morlay
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is love at first sight. Life is wonderful for a while but André wants to marry her only if she remains at home.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Toshirô Ide, Yôko Mizuki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Uptight man and hot wife rent a room from a laidback colleague. The colleague and wife get on like a house on fire, while the husband is alternately jealous and sulky. Marital strife ensures, culminating in a long overdue house move and an unwelcome pregnancy. Includes general musing on marital politics.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.
Director: George Marshall
Stars: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
The spectacular but tragically short career of magician and illusionist Harry Houdini whose tricks defied explanation and safety.
Director: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.
Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Released from prison after twelve years, a wrongfully convicted British man seeks revenge on the witnesses who lied at his trial.
Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane’s pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
Director: Ida Lupino
Stars: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Each knows the other isn’t happy, they themselves aren’t happy, but they don’t talk about their problems with each other, each festering in their unhappiness largely so that they will not show especially to their three boarders their problems.
Director: Roy Boulting
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
In 1940, Canadian sailor Andrew Brown is prisoner on a battle damaged German raider and he plans to delay the raider’s at-sea repairs until a British naval task-force can destroy it.
Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Adrienne Corri
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK
A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War. His son’s death has developed antagonism by MacKenzie toward all Dutchmen, which leads to Harry brawling at school with the son of a Dutchman.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A tough, hard-driving business tycoon suffers a broken leg and is left to die in the desert by his scheming wife and her greedy lover.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Yoshi Katô
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: Japan
A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Arturo Bragaglia
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany | USA
Biopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
Director: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
Stars: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
Director: Henry Cornelius
Stars: Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
It’s time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other. Along the way, some old jealousies are kindled to the point where the two men decide to have a “friendly” wager on who will be the first back to London.
Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.
Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
A mean bourgeois meets up with his twin brother again .
Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Michel Simon, Marguerite Pierry, Laurence Badie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
A mean bourgeois meets up with his twin brother again .
Director: John Ford
Stars: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley’s cheating wife Linda.
Director: Charles Walters
Stars: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.
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: Max Ophüls
Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
The diamond earrings of a French aristocrat, a wedding gift from her husband, cause a series of conflicts as they change hands repeatedly.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France
A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.