Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.
Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Anna Magnani, Totò, Ben Gazzara
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
On New Year’s Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year’s party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally she runs into an old acting acquaintance (Toto), who is helping a professional pickpocket (Ben Gazzara) steal from people during the hustle-bustle of New Year’s Eve festivities.
Director: Robert Day
Stars: Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days’ sentence left, and the perfect alibi, what could possibly go wrong?
Director: Jirí Krejcík
Stars: Frantisek Smolík, Jana Brejchová, Ivan Mistrík
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
The story of High school in Czechoslovakia during occupation by Nazi Germany, where three students are arrested by Gestapo.
Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Jean-Loup Reynold
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: France
A social commentary on post-war France’s urban developments.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA
The World War II story of the Royal Navy’s effort to defeat Nazi Germany’s most powerful warship.
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France
Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when they are married. When the town learns about his trouble they start laughing at him.
Director: Zivorad ‘Zika’ Mitrovic
Stars: Aleksandar Gavric, Petar Prlicko, Dimitar Kostarov
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Lesi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a ruthless, German-trained soldier Kosta and by Ahmet, the brother of the famous Captain.
Director: Francesco Maselli
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Gérard Blain, Anna Maria Ferrero
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Richard Quine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA
A businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France | Yugoslavia
A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
Director: Tomu Uchida
Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Yaeko Mizutani, Isao Kimura
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Yûsuke Kawazu, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jun Fujimaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle’s family – wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer – and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bullied/ fights with local boys, goes to the baths, plays basketball, is befriended by his male cousin and becomes friendly with grade 4 girl who’s the daughter of the innkeeper, who employs his mum and is the longterm mistress of a businessman from another town, who’s the girl’s father and who brings her half sister and brother to meet her but they’re mean to her.
Director: Erwin Leiser
Stars: Paul Klinger, Claude Stephenson, Louis Arbessier
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: Sweden | West Germany
“Mein Kampf” presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life Hitler, which is told since he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of artist living in slums in Austria and Germany, until his suicide in 1945 after being the responsible for the death of million of people, and the destruction of Europe. All the footage is real and belonged to a secret file of Goebbels, inclusive with many very strong scenes filmed by Goebbels himself.
Director: Guy Green
Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do – evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
Director: James Algar
Stars: Winston Hibler
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA
This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.
Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
In this sequel to “Knock On Any Door”, the residents of a Chicago tenement building band together to insure that the son of Nick Romano does not follow in his father’s footsteps…to the electric chair.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczeska
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland
A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her.
Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Danièle Gaubert, Roland Lesaffre, Maurice Caffarelli
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
Young Danny, better known as Tomb, is the toughest in a street gang in Paris. She dresses as a boy and fights like a man.
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Jean Sorel, Lea Massari, Jeanne Valérie
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
The ironic study of a young man’s poignant and sensual adventures based on “Roman Tales” by Alberto Moravia.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
Director: Val Guest
Stars: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
At the height of his fame, Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is (correctly) believed to be a romantic relationship with Queensberry’s son Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”), who is twenty years Wilde’s junior. When Queensberry slanders Wilde, the artist decides to take the matter to court and brings about his own downfall.
Director: David Swift
Stars: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her indominatable will to see the good side of even the worst situations and bring it out for the betterment of all.
Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anne Collette, Gérard Blain
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France
A jilted man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rants at his mostly silent former lover (Anne Collette).
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yôko Tani, Peter O’Toole
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France | UK
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
Director: Ki-young Kim
Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Eun-shim Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
In UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer’s field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and for the money.
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it’s carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Stéphane Audran, Anna Karina
Genre: Comedy, Short, Romance
Country: France
Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous.
Director: Jirí Weiss
Stars: Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the two. He is her only link to the outside world. Then the two are discovered by Pavel’s mother, who forces the residents of the apartment building to decide whether Hana can remain.
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France
Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists’ movement in Japan.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas
Genre: Drama
Country: India
A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.
Director: Cyril Frankel
Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Jean Carter, nine-year-old daughter of the town’s newly-appointed school principal, Peter Carter and his wife Sally, is playing in the woods with her 11-year-old friend Lucille, when Jean discovers she has lost her purse containing her “candy” money. Lucille tells her she knows where they can get sweets for nothing, and leads her to an imposing mansion, from which the owner, Clarence Olderberry, Sr., a tall, gaunt man of 70 has been watching the girls from a window.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Samoylova, Vasiliy Livanov
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.
Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
After World War II, a Highland Regiment’s acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón
Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death.
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Upon entering his fiancée’s family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.
Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Director: Robert Youngson
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Oliver Hardy
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Country: USA
A feature-length documentary devoted to the great clowns of silent comedy.
Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: José Isbert, Pedro Porcel, José Luis López Vázquez
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.
Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Ali, Père Gauthier, Monsieur Klein
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | France
A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.
Director: France Stiglic
Stars: Dusica Zegarac, Boris Dvornik, Branko Tatic
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia | Croatia
In order to save Jewish girl from the Nazis and their colaborators, Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their young son. Young man is displeased with sudden end to his careless youth and he doesn’t seem to like the girl or the whole idea. However, when she gets caught in a street raid, it is too late – he must face the fact that he loves her.
Director: Luigi Comencini
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy | France
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, Bradford Dillman
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Three performers for six roles: this is the game of the film. A melodrama about two love triangles.
Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Director: John Guillermin
Stars: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.
Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.
Director: John Ford
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers
Genre: Crime, Western
Country: USA
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
A liberated small-town girl and the family’s black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?
Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kayoko Honoo, Kôji Nakahara, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
In Osaka’s slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, while being married, is experiencing domestic problems and has moved back in. The latter woman’s husband soon dies however making the move permanent.
Director: Florestano Vancini
Stars: Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman, married to a man bound to a wheelchair, with a desertor from the Italian army, intertwines with that of the grab of power of a very fanatical local fascist leader, who gets the hold with a massacre of Pacific opposers, among them, the father of the young desertor.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France | Italy
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real-life to be inescapable.
Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
Abel Davos is a criminal, hunted in Italy. The police are closing in, so he and his pal Raymond arrange to flee back to France with Abel’s wife, Thérèse, and their two young sons. Abel and Raymond commit a brazen robbery to get funds, killing two men; in the escape, more die.
Director: Robert Montgomery
Stars: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.
Director: John Gilling
Stars: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK
In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.
Director: Jack Cardiff
Stars: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A young man with artistic talent who lives in a close-knit, English coal-mining town during the early 20th Century finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative, domineering mother.
Director: Stanley Donen
Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.
Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision.
Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie (Shirley Knight) is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden (Lee Kinsolving), and his son is a mama’s boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt (Dame Angela Lansbury).
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope’s 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar’s patrons from their “lying pipe dreams.”
Director: Robert Drew
Stars: Robert Drew, Hubert H. Humphrey, Muriel Buck Humphrey
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA
Cinéma vérité feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.
Director: Harry Keller
Stars: Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, Venetia Stevenson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband’s three friends.
Director: John Sturges
Stars: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
Director: René Clément
Stars: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there’s more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father’s suicide.
Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch’s beautiful look-alike descendant, with only the girl’s brother and a handsome doctor standing in her way.
Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country-girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike, under her uncle’s not-so-watchful eye. Can a little girl cause so much chaos in the heart of the city?
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany | France | Italy
In 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse uses hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American industrialist.