Director: Joshua Logan
Stars: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Emotions are ignited amongst the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labour Day picnic.
Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Albin Skoda, Oskar Werner, Lotte Tobisch
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany | Austria
The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich during World War 2.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
The emotional story of a lifelong friendship between a Boston rookie cop and a young street-wise delinquent.
Director: Laurence Olivier
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Shakespeare’s powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
Director: Helmut Käutner
Stars: Curd Jürgens, Viktor de Kowa, Karl John
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
1941, the Third Reich seems to be winning the war. Luftwaffe (air force) general Harry Harras enjoys the good life as highly respected technician and Berlin ministry/ HQ official. However his outspoken critical attitude at social occasions awakes hopes from opposition and suspicion from the Nazi party.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Don Redlich, Lee Cole, Helen England
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA
An experimental film by Stan Brakhage documenting a series of male and female relationships.
Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
Director: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
Stars: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the “backwater” areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.
Director: Russell Rouse
Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
A top syndicate crime boss and his corrupt politicians, make multi-million deals and order murders , until the vicious pattern finally catches up to him.
Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
In early 1900s England, a maid tries to blackmail her master into romancing her when she discovers he murdered his wife.
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Stars: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.
Director: Willard Maas, Ben Moore
Stars: Michael Crane, Nina Glenn
Genre: Short
Country: USA
A film poem; a zither plays. A woman lies naked in bed. A man removes his clothes, joins her, and they kiss. Images fill the frame, at first still lifes of common objects: a door knob, glasses, a cactus, a lamp. Then simple actions: a drawer pulled out, a letter mailed.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Stars: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.
Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: France | Spain | Switzerland
An American adventurer investigates the past of the mysterious tycoon Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), placing himself in grave danger.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Mihashi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
At the end of Meiji era a young student befriend an older man who as a proof of trust but also as a kind of exorcism entrust him his secret, a story about jealousy, betrayal, shame and guilt.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an “escape-proof” German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.
Director: Edvin Laine
Stars: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna’s book of the same name.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Maria Lysandre, Roland Tolmatchoff, Carmen Mirando
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: Switzerland
A young woman is tempted to flirt with a stranger.
Director: Kurt Hoffmann
Stars: Paul Dahlke, Günther Lüders, Claus Biederstaedt
Genre: Comedy
Country: Austria
A rich man wins a vacation at a hotel but takes it in the disguise of a poor man under the supervision of his butler. The hotel manager gets tipped off about the plot, but misidentifies a money-less doctor as the eccentric.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Story of youths during the German occupation of Poland in the World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity.
Director: Yorgos Tzavellas
Stars: Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Pivoting around a shiny counterfeit gold sovereign freshly milled from the clandestine workshop of an otherwise honest goldsmith, four brief vignettes of human imperfection; seduction; fate; desire, and devotion inextricably interweave.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
A British fortune-hunter playboy is killing his rich wives in order to inherit their wealth.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Three Devil’s Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Stars: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
Director: Helmut Käutner
Stars: Erik Schumann, Eva Kotthaus, Georg Thomalla
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: West Germany
A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
Director: Tomu Uchida
Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Chizuru Kitagawa
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
A samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Narutoshi Hayashi, Raizô Ichikawa, Tatsuya Ishiguro
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
After his father is not rewarded for his military achievements, Taira Kiyomori rebels against the court and the monks who rule the country. He also falls in love with Tokiko and discovers unsettling revelations about his parentage.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Proud and independent, Stella, an unconventional Rebetico singer who cherishes her freedom, finds herself in an intense whirlwind romance. Everything points to a tragic ending, and in the aftermath of passion, there can be no winners.
Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a Prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war, and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to another totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to get a confession of guilt against the state from the strong willed man, and thus destroy his power over his people.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Two different women – a young photo model and her boss – dream about a happy life with beloved men. Their dreams are as different as they are.
Director: Rudolph Maté
Stars: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Genre: Western
Country: USA
A bitter land dispute causes a Civil War veteran to take extreme action.
Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A strung-out junkie deals with a demoralizing drug addiction while his crippled wife and card sharks pull him down.
Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell
Genre: Short
Country: USA
A short film by Stan Brakhage in which New York City’s Third Avenue elevated train is filmed before its destruction.
Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Marianne Hold, Horst Buchholz, Pierre Vaneck
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France | West Germany
A young man in a Bavarian boarding school falls in love with a mysterious girl.
Director: Leslie Norman
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft’s fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.
Director: Henri Decoin
Stars: Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Lino Ventura
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable – and soon he is master of all links of the organization.
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain | Italy
A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort, Marcel Jouet
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.
Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
The story of how the British attacked German dams in World War II by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
A mad doctor attempts to create atomic supermen.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
Director: Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: USA
A short black and white film which documents a decaying mansion, secluded garden, and children playing.
Director: Falk Harnack
Stars: Wolfgang Preiss, Annemarie Düringer, Robert Freitag
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Alastair Sim
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
This movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his “causes” he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are going to be expelled for fighting, which he finds ironic, in as much as the father is a known pacifist. When they get to the school, their sons have disappeared.
Director: José Ferrer
Stars: José Ferrer, June Allyson, Joy Page
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A successful theatrical director is driven to failure by the machinations of his vengeful wife. Eventually, he lands in a mental hospital where both his wife and his new love, a young actress named Charlotte, are waiting to see him.
Director: John Parker
Stars: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman
Genre: Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman’s nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Country: Japan
Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.
Director: Lewis Allen
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.
Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
The rise of Peter Marshall, from modest Scottish upbringing, to New York seminary, time in Atlanta churches, his marriage, appointment as chaplain of the US Senate, and early death at 46. Based on real events.
Director: John Ford
Stars: Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Francis
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50-year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.
Director: King Vidor
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Genre: Western
Country: USA
A drifter working as foreman for an iron-fist female rancher must chose sides between his attractive employer and the other neighboring settlers who are mistreated by her.
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Stars: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
A young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.
Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France
A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.
Director: David Lean
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK | USA
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.
Director: Jean Rouch
Stars: Jean Rouch
Genre: Documentary, Short, Horror
Country: France
A documentary short depicting a Hauka ceremony where young workers are possessed by British colonial officers.