Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Pierre Mondy
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Mid-aged married truck driver falls in love with a young waitress he meets while making a break on a long trip. They try to make it work, but she can’t get a decent job or place to stay in his town. Things get worse when the man gets fired and his family find out. And there’s more complications to follow for both of them…
Director: Robert Day, Basil Dearden
Stars: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.
Director: James Algar
Stars: Winston Hibler
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA
A feature-length documentary showing the changing world of nature, the sky, the sea, the sun, planets, insects and volcanic action. A story of nature’s strange and intricate designs for survival and her many methods of perpetuating life.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray
Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Genre: War, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
Director: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
A former sheriff blames himself for his wife’s death during a Wells Fargo robbery and vows to track down and kill the seven men responsible.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life, finally finds a man she believes truly loves her, but she snaps when she finds out that he, too, is cheating on her, and she kills her boyfriend’s mistress.
Director: R.G. Springsteen
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
In 1920s Arkansas, after a 12 year absence, reformed alcoholic Matt Ballot returns to his abandoned family but has to win them back and regain his hometown’s respect too.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
A blind American writer living in London stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy involving kidnapping and extortion.
Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France | Mexico
Chark, an adventurer, comes to a small village near a diamond miners’ camp. He is arrested by the local police who accuse him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town.
Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Police drama. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Eleni Zafeiriou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love’s unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2.
Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Magali Noël
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor’s wife.
Director: Rudolph Maté
Stars: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Director: Jean Masson
Stars: Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Tamara Toumanova
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: France | Monaco | USA
A tribute to the wedding of Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier of Monaco, with lots of music, ballet, and fireworks.
Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Virginie Vitry, Anne Doat, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Genre: Short, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat’s true origins.
Director: Kô Nakahira
Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Stars: Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence and passion for their future as they get on the bus for Tsukishima and get off at Suzaki. Across the bridge they see the sign for Suzaki Paradise, a red-light district where Tsutae once worked as a prostitute. Tsutae spots an ad for a waitress at a bar near the bridge and she rushes in to get the job. The kind hearted madam, Tokuko, helps them out by hiring Tsutae and finding work for Yoshiji delivering noodles.
Director: Nikos Koundouros
Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Giannis Argyris
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as “the dragon”, a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.
Director: René Clément
Stars: Maria Schell, François Périer, Jany Holt
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society.
Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
Genre: War, Drama
Country: UK | USA
True story of a British attempt to trick the enemy into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack, using a dead man with faked papers.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizô Kawasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Nothing less than a phenomenal, astonishing and pioneering film. This spectacle of an angry, ego-driven youth tormented by his own emotional impotence, low self-esteem and resentment towards his parents.
Director: Charles Lamont
Stars: Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Ma and the kids head back to the Ozarks for a visit with Pa’s brother Uncle Sedge. He’s working his way through a twenty years long relationship with Miss Bedelia Baines.
Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
Polish countess Elena falls in love to a French radical party’s candidate, a general, in pre-World War I Paris, but another officer pines for her.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Japan
In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.
Director: Roger Vadim
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop.She arranges a loan when her rigid family won’t help and then her husband becomes jealous of the loan officer.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi, Gastone Renzelli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.
Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher’s wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.
Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA
During the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster.
Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Police drama. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Ôki
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to his team.
Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
The wife of a physician who diligently cares for the poor, grows weary of their dull South France factory town and pressures her older husband to move to glorious Nice, on the Mediterranean. Dr. Valerio particularly empathizes with Sandro, the farm foreman for the town’s wealthy factory owner, Gorzone. Sandro’s preoccupation with caring for his ill wife, Magda, angers Gorzone.
Director: José Ferrer
Stars: José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.
Director: Robert D. Webb
Stars: Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Marshal Cass Silver has to deal with his old nemesis, a corrupt gambler, and his hired guns come to town as well as recurring bouts of blindness.
Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle
Stars: Frédéric Dumas, Albert Falco, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Italy
This pioneering nature documentary investigates aquatic habitats in various locations around the world. It doesn’t shy away from the brutality present in the natural world, but it also paints a fascinating picture of underwater exploration.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures – until they are arrested by the police.
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.
Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Edmond O’Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: António Cruz
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Portugal
A painter wanders around the city of Oporto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing.
Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Gilles Quéant
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France
Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking, a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Kô Mishima, Torahiko Hamada, Keiko Kishi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Director: Hugo del Carril
Stars: Laura Hidalgo, Hugo del Carril, Pedro Laxalt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
A man who deeply loves his wife, tears before his death by disease. After falling into despair, she embarks on a journey trying to forget but, in Paris, he meets a look-alike of his beloved.
Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
In 1883 South Dakota, two buffalo hunters start a personal feud over a captured squaw and a stand-off with a Dakota raiding party over some stolen horses.
Director: Lionel Rogosin
Stars: Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA
At the time of this film, the Bowery was a neighborhood in New York City populated largely by the down and out, and largely by transients. Those that can work generally can only find short term employment on a day to day basis, their daily earnings which primarily go into booze. Those that can’t or won’t work generally sponge off whoever they can, especially for that next drink. New to the neighborhood is Ray, who most recently had been working the rails in New Jersey. He is one of those who can and still does work, but like the others spends what little money he has on booze, which means he usually sleeps on the streets in a drunken stupor.
Director: Jack Lee
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A new senior at a boy’s prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach’s wife.
Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Judy Holliday, John Williams, Paul Douglas
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Stars: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Boxer Rocky Graziano’s biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.
Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
Director: Russell Rouse
Stars: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
In the western frontier town of Cross Creek storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past.When three bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses George Temple’s past comes back to haunt him.
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short, Comedy
Country: UK
Documentary on a famous amusement park, showing the irony of its manufactured fun.
Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Yves Demy, Georges Rouquier
Genre: Documentary, Short, Drama
Country: France
This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker’s meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Shûji Sano, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
This wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Robert Arnoux
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André left more than twenty years before. As Gabrielle has just died, André accepts to accommodate Catherine first, then gives her a job in his restaurant before finally marrying her. But the angel-faced young lady might well be a devil in disguise.
Director: Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer
Stars: Nina Ivanova, Nikolay Rybnikov, Vladimir Gulyaev
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
A newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.
Director: Robert D. Webb
Stars: Guy Madison, Virginia Leith, John Hodiak
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Scientist is sent to investigate a faulty ejector seat, then sent into space to test it, showing an assortment of human weaknesses and strengths. Basically this is about the human predicament and drama, not space.
Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Sylva Koscina
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud with his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former railroad man Ugo. Andrea is married with Sara and his young son Sandro is very close to him; however Andrea has issues with his unemployed son Marcello and with his pregnant daughter Giulia, whose boy-friend Renato Borghi was forced to marry her.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year’s time.
Director: Walter Lang
Stars: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam’s children.
Director: John Huston
Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain’s self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Director: King Vidor
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA | Italy
Napoleon’s (Herbert Lom’s) tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chikage Awashima, Ryô Ikebe, Teiji Takahashi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.