Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Devis, Lisbeth Persson
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
A residential area schoolboy discovers the odd universe of the Parisian metro. At a time, he glimpses the beautiful face of a blond-haired little girl. Later on, he falls asleep and dreams his first love dream…
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Chikage Awashima, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won’t leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Pascale Petit, Andréa Parisy, Jacques Charrier
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bob is invited to a party and becomes Clo’s lover, a rich heiress.
Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | UK
Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond’s old love interest, comes to Raymond’s villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Georges Rouquier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Chris Marker travelogue in Siberia.
Director: Philip Dunne
Stars: Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
At her father’s funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that there was in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.
Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
A somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA
When ranch hand Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of a powerful rancher, he panics and flees, but the rancher and his vengeful crew hunt Tod down.
Director: Robert Hossein
Stars: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Odile Versois
Genre: Mystery
Country: France | Italy
One dark night, in the deserted streets of Nice, an American car slowly drives past Victor Menda, then slowly pulls up. A come on from the mysterious blonde at the wheel leads to Victor finds himself kissing and making love to the gorgeous creature. But as soon as the embrace is over the mantis-like beauty rejects him and, under the threat of a gun, makes him leave the car.
Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other while in a maternity ward together, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA
A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
Director: Seth Holt, Basil Dearden
Stars: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | USA
In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code.
Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at “Separate Tables.”
Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Jacobowsky, a Jewish refugee, flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic, anti-semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. Jurgens learns to appreciate Kaye, despite their competition for the same woman, and together they outwit their pursuers.
Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA | West Germany
On the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn’t the same country he left behind.
Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Roger Coggio, Anne Olivier, Jacopo Nizi
Genre: Documentary, Short, History
Country: France
A humorous travelogue of the French Riviera.
Director: Ivan Pyrev
Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Yuliya Borisova, Nikita Podgorny
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Upon Prince Myshkin’s return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.
Director: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette (Dorothy Tutin) falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay (Paul Guers), who’s hiding his true identity and purpose.
Director: Leslie Norman
Stars: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK
A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force’s 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.
Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Mercedes Quadros, Míka van Bloemen, Helen Ulman
Genre: Short
Country: UK
A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Osamu Abe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies’ plans.
Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
At Kimberley Prescott’s villa, a stranger shows-up and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger
Genre: Western
Country: USA
A Confederate veteran living in the Yankee North struggles with his son’s shock induced muteness and the hate of the Northerners.
Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Franca Bettoia
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the metal shop… While visiting his family, Andrea notices a young woman on the beach with her soldier boyfriend.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Goichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temple that was owned by his father, through a series of flashbacks, framed as a police interrogation, Mizoguchi unravels the story of his obsession with the temple beginning with his childhood.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
Director: Henry King
Stars: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
A man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town’s jail, but they escape to Mexico.
Director: John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
An old Cuban fisherman’s dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea. Based on Ernest Hemingway’s story.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tony Britton, Carl Möhner
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death of their patient through neglect.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Tulsi Chakraborty, Kali Bannerjee, Ranibala
Genre: Crime
Country: India
An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a ‘parash pathar’, a stone that changes iron to gold on touch.
Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy
A serial killer is targeting women in the seedy district of Montmartre.
Director: Irving Lerner
Stars: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer – until he finds his next target is a woman.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Misako Watanabe, Kô Nishimura
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
A real gem from Imamura. A very dark crime comedy.
Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Dorothée Blanck, Antoine Bourseiller, André Rousselet
Genre: Short, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
Director: Denys de La Patellière
Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Ducaux, Jean Desailly
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. He manages his financial and commercial concerns with an iron grip, leaving little room for his son François to prove himself.
Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he’s driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
WW2 drama that follows the lives of three young men, one German and two Americans, during wartime.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Switzerland
Ina time before the New Wave,when aspiring French cineastes could only hope to make shorts, due to restrictions on career advancement, Godard ,working in Switzerland, funded, wrote, and directed a look at the construction of a dam there.
Director: Wojciech Has
Stars: Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Slaska, Teresa Szmigielówna
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
One day in the life of an alcohol addict. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when she’s at work, Kuba is home alone, and it becomes hard not to resist the temptation.
Director: Kåre Bergstrøm
Stars: André Bjerke, Bjørg Engh, Henki Kolstad
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Norway
A group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It’s a rumor that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity after she walks out of a mental institution.
Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Thornton Wilder’s tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she’s supposed to be pairing with another woman.
Director: John Ford
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Sô Yamamura, Kyôko Kagawa, Isao Kimura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Kyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer. However, her husband’s difficulties with his writing and his resentment over her father cause deep strains in the marriage.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Athena Michaelidou, Eleni Zafeiriou
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.
Director: Andrzej Munk
Stars: Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz
Genre: Drama
Country: France
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Richard Jaeckel
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Stars: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, René Fleur
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | East Germany
Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert.
Director: Daniel Mann, George Cukor
Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it’s slowly falling apart, a fact she’s trying to ignore. Her cheating husband’s birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant
Genre: Western
Country: USA
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA
A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
Stars: Minoru Ôki, Takahiro Tamura, Seiji Miyaguchi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Two cops on stakeout wait for a murderer.
Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Don Freisinger, Richard Sandifer, Patricia Ferrier
Genre: Short
Country: USA
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman’s husband dies suddenly.
Director: José Ferrer
Stars: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA
In 1894 France, a Jewish officer in the French Army is falsely accused of spying for Germany.
Director: John Guillermin
Stars: M.E. Clifton James, John Mills, Cecil Parker
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
During World War II, a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German intelligence.
Director: Ladislao Vajda
Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Switzerland | West Germany | Spain
Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
Director: André De Toth
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK | USA
This movie is based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland’s autobiography “The London Cage”. The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland’s experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Lawyer Tommy Farrell is a defender of crooks. Vicki Gaye encourages him to go straight, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise.
Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
Director: Stanley Donen
Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him…even though he’s already married.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.
Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.
Director: Jean Rouch
Stars: Oumarou Ganda, Gambi, Petit Touré
Genre: Drama
Country: France
“I, a Negro” depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.