Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Director: Val Guest
Stars: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
In World War II, during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the lost remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ, led by the ruthless Captain Alan Langford, escapes through the jungle toward the British lines.
Director: Clifford Odets
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman.
Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Stars: Martin Held, Walter Giller, Ingrid van Bergen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
April 1945. Because he stole two boxes of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute due to an air force attack, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) and hard drinking photographer Delmas (Pierre Grasset) on an assignment to find him. Their only lead is a picture of three women.
Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Alec Guinness, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Stars: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.
Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
The turn of the seasons in the forest is depicted in relation to a decomposing dog corpse.
Director: Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK | USA
The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.
Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi (Franca Valeri) who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
Director: John Boulting
Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis, Sylviane Margollé
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier’s lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people’s behavior can be adjusted at will.
Director: Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Stars: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.
Director: Konrad Wolf
Stars: Sasha Krusharska, Jürgen Frohriep, Erik S. Klein
Genre: War, Drama
Country: East Germany | Bulgaria
The tragic love of the Jewish girl and the Nazi officer is presented as a symbol of human purity defeated by fascism and racial prejudice.
Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A promising lawyer tries to handle his social and professional problems while climbing the ranks in Philadelphia.
Director: Henry Levin
Stars: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer’s trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth’s center.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Anne Collette, Nicole Berger
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: France
Two French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
As a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang’s rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Natale Rossi, Roberto Seveso, Paolo Quadrubbi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the valley to spend Christmas vacation with his family he is temporarily replaced with an adolescent boy.
Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigret does not believe in this.
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lilla Brignone
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy | France
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Short, Romance
Country: USA
We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home. It’s night, she sees his reflection in the window, she closes the drapes.
Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys’ room. Spence’s crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father’s attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.’s Civil Rights Era.
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Noriko Kitazawa, Katsuko Wakasugi
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
The ghost of a samurai’s wife takes revenge on her husband.
Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
A British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.
Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Takeshi Okimura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Set during Japan’s depression years in the 50s, Nianchan (read: My Second Brother) tells the story about a family of 4 orphans, who are forced by circumstances to fend for themselves.
Director: Margot Benacerraf
Stars: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff
Genre: Documentary
Country: Venezuela | France
“Araya” is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the “salineros” and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
Director: Bert Stern
Stars: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town’s folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
Director: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden
Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, realizing that he can exploit his secret.
Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A man and a woman who share a party line cannot stand each other, but he has fun romancing her with his voice disguised.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Myrrena Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA
Stan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: West Germany
A miniature epic set in Ancient Rome and “inspired” by the then popular television series 77 Sunset Strip (1958).
Director: Frank Wisbar
Stars: Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss
Genre: War, Drama
Country: West Germany
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.
Director: John Sturges
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal’s Native American wife.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Short
Country: USA
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up.
Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Gérard Philipe, María Félix, Jean Servais
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Mexico
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor’s post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling.
Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
A police detective and his team attempt to solve two crimes committed within a day of each other in neighboring apartment rooms.
Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | USA
A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.
Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Kim Novak, Glenda Farrell, Jan Norris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
Director: André De Toth
Stars: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA
During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Laura Adani, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Barbara Lass, Roman Polanski, Henryk Kluba
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men’s lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out — of illness, assignation, and routine — a few tips her only acknowledgment.
Director: Jirí Trnka
Stars: Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Richard Burton
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare.
Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Robert Dalban
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Fifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Castille.
Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Ireland | USA
In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being lead by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
An aspiring journalist’s story of his aged uncle doctor leads to the uncle’s life being profiled on TV.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray
Stars: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime..
Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
Genre: Adventure, Romance, War
Country: USA
In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit’s doctor cause frictions within ranks.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A flashback story of a young man, from his disgraced birth ,his harsh life and his forbidden love, until when broken-hearted, can break out in search of a place where to live means more than being alive.
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Roman Polanski
Genre: Short, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland
In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday’s end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop’s seemingly lifeless denizens?
Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Genre: Drama
Country: France
In order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital owned by Dr. Varmont, a supporter of traditional treatments, in constant conflict with Dr. Emery, whose therapy takes the psychology of patients into account.
Director: Renato Castellani
Stars: Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Story concerns a young girl who comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Director: Henry Barakat
Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family’s honor.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory…
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
In British India, a young prince must be taken to safey across rebel-held territory, and an old train is the only way to do it.
Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: UK
In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
Director: George Stevens
Stars: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
Stars: Ligia Branice
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Poland
A short film in which a woman living alone in an apartment has a series of bizarre hallucinations.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Stars: Jacques Charrier, Charles Aznavour, Dany Robin
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. They confront every possible difficulty.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor’s vassal, prefers Ouso’s stepbrother Waka, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father’s castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru.
Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s’ Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Machiko Kyô, Ganjirô Nakamura, Junko Kanô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.
Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard’s prime suspect.
Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Paul Meurisse, Charles Blavette, André Brunot
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. His wealthy household (his family owns chemical corporations that will profit from his ideas) is stiff, intellectual, and sterile. To celebrate his engagement to a German cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself.
Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Madeleine Robinson, Antonella Lualdi, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy
A wealthy wine grower has trouble with his wife, his children, his best friend, and his mistress across the way, who is murdered.
Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy | France
The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Two detectives seek a stripper’s killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship.
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France
Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don’t go according to plan.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | USA
A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
Director: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
A bounty hunter escorts a killer to be tried for murder, but allows the man’s outlaw brother to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.
Director: William Castle
Stars: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Dave Burke hires two very different debt-burdened men for a bank robbery. Suspicion and prejudice threaten to end their partnership.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty
Genre: Drama
Country: India
This final installment in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy follows Apu’s life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.
Director: Guru Dutt
Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Kumari Naaz
Genre: Romance
Country: India
Suresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his career.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.