Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
A burglar betraying other criminals, prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend that might be as untrustworthy as he.
Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Jacques Dufilho, Yvette Etiévant, Michel Galabru
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France
The school boys of two villages in France are fighting. Their trophy are the buttons they will snatch from the enemy. This fight will bring those kids to everlasting friendship…eventually.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town’s population of lost souls.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Soumitra Chatterjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta
Genre: Drama
Country: India
A taxi driver attempts to introduce his cab service in rural Bengal against many odds.
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from Greenwich Village, and the two try to straighten out their lives together.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
Director: Roberto Farias
Stars: Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria, Jorge Dória
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Eiji Funakoshi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Director: Guy Green
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Upper class Americans Noel and Meg Johnson have a twenty-six year old daughter named Clara Johnson. Clara suffered a head injury as a child which resulted in her being mentally disabled. Clara’s mental capacity is equivalent to that of a ten year old. In many social situations, Clara’s disability can be passed off as a simple joy of life. The issue of Clara’s care has placed a strain between Noel and Meg, the latter who clings to the hope that one day Clara can lead a “normal” life.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Jacques Charrier, Stéphane Audran, Walther Reyer
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
André Mercier, a journalist known as Albin Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer. Sent to cover an event in Germany, he gets to know Andreas Hartmann, another writer who, for his part, has not… failed. The successful Andreas is married to Hélène, a beautiful Frenchwoman. Both attracted to her and jealous of the couple’s happiness, Mercier decides to shatter it.
Director: Jirí Trnka
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Animation, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Trnka’s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships.
Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
In Britain, a high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher but, after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.
Director: Bruce Conner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
Experimental short uses Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a young man prone to heavy bouts with the bottle.
Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend Heavenly, the daughter of the local politician Tom ‘Boss’ Finley, who more or less forced him to leave the town many years ago.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman’s adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.
Director: Kenji Misumi
Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Masayo Banri, Ryûzô Shimada
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.
Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Hubert Deschamps, Claude Berri, Evelyne Ker
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France
Two men are disappointed by women and united by a whore.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK
On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.
Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student for a two-day ride through the Roman and Tuscany countries.
Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jean Bobet
Genre: Documentary, Short, Sport
Country: France
Chronicles the cyclists of the Tour de France and their daily trails along the race.
Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob
Genre: Drama
Country: France
After Thérèse is acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Bernard Desqueyroux, she recalls the events that lead to her being charged.
Director: Hubert Cornfield, Stanley Kramer
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.
Director: David Miller
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
A fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Henryk Kluba, Michal Zolnierkiewicz, Voytek Frykowski
Genre: Comedy, Short
Country: Poland
“Waiting for Godot” on ice and snow, without words.
Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Salvo Randone, Franco Sportelli, Regina Bianchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Anthony Franciosa, Betsy Blair
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France
The place is Trieste and the time is 1927. Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. At least until the day he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful young woman. But the lady is also fickle, wayward and coquettish. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her…
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Chûsha Ichikawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Yûnosuke Itô, Hisano Yamaoka
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
When John Harris’s daughter is badly injured in an boating accident, the hospital tells him that she will need an urgent blood transfusion. Due to his religious beliefs Harris refuses permission, and the child dies. When the inquest clears Harris of all blame, the doctor in charge of the case tries to get the police to press manslaughter charges against Harris.
Director: Georges Lautner
Stars: Bernard Blier, Danièle Delorme, Maurice Biraud
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.
Director: Alberto Lattuada
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades’ old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
After his girlfriend’s pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Robert Benson
Genre: Short
Country: USA
An early experimental black and white animated film from artist Stan Brakhage.
Director: Lev Kulidzhanov
Stars: Inna Gulaya, Yuriy Nikulin, Leonid Kuravlyov
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.
Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France
After the 1st world war, two veterans, starving, but fools, are enlisted with the fascists, where they can eat. But when it comes to killing, they drop out.
Director: Alex Segal
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA
A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.
Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | France | USA
To build bridges with his estranged son, a Greek shipping magnate enlists the help of his second wife, Phaedra. But, in rain-soaked Paris, their passionate affair threatens to destroy his empire. Will the modern temptress accept her fate?
Director: Ray Milland
Stars: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
A family leaves L.A. for a camping trip – just before a nuclear bomb destroys the city. As the city descends into chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive.
Director: Peter Ustinov
Stars: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Billy Budd is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship’s sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Satomi Oka
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France
A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Betsy Blair
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
This movie, based on William Shakespeare’s Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.
Director: Karel Zeman
Stars: Milos Kopecký, Rudolf Jelínek, Jana Brejchová
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.
Director: John Huston
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
An examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud’s career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Director: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.
Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: William Finley, Robin Brooks, Norma Green
Genre: Short, Horror
Country: USA
Woton Wretchichevsky has a disfigured face, dresses in cloak and mask and stalks couples to burn them with a blowtorch. He is also a sculptor of steel and garbage installations. One day one of his creations comes alive in the form of a young woman. She flees him when he tries to express his love by pointing the blowtorch at her. She hides in a house where some kind of orgy or happening is going on
Director: Mikhail Romm
Stars: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
In 1962 London, four troublesome teenagers are charged by the police with robbing a garage and murdering the night watchman.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Jess Hahn, Michèle Girardon, Van Doude
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A French-American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Francesco Ruiu, Giancarlo De Rosa, Vincenzo Ciccora
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
When a woman is killed in a park, the police bring in everyone suspected of being there when the incident occurred and question them. One of them is the killer.
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble–trouble he soon finds he can’t control.
Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
The story of Anne Sullivan’s struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Michael Anderson Jr., Oliver Grimm, Martin Tomlinson
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
During World War II, in a small English coastal town, teenage boys eager to join the army but unable to do so participate in their own homemade private brutal war games with tragic results.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroo Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Husband and wife Gorô and Chiyo, and their only offspring, an infant son named Tarô, go through the ups and downs of family life living in a cramped modern apartment building in suburban Tokyo. Their story is told in Tarô’s second year of life.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sô Yamamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Director: Val Guest
Stars: Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicolas Bataille
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy
When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won’t leave her alone. Her mother’s ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee, Pahadi Sanyal
Genre: Drama
Country: India
An upper-class Bengali family is on vacation in Darjeeling, a popular hill station and resort near Kanchenjungha.
Director: George Seaton
Stars: William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Mountain Rivera, a punchy has-been managed by the unprincipled Maish, is mauled in a fight and forced to quit boxing. Can his devoted cutman and a sympathetic social worker help him find a life outside the ring, or will Maish find a way to exploit him one more time?
Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage.
Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck
Genre: Western
Country: USA
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century – including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
Director: Philippe de Broca, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy, Sylvain Dhomme, Jean-Luc Godard, Édouard Molinaro, Roger Vadim, Max Douy
Stars: Marie-José Nat, Dominique Paturel, Danièle Barraud
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film.
Director: Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini, François Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | Japan | Poland | West Germany
“Love at Twenty” unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20.
Director: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti
Stars: Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy | France
Inspired by Boccaccio’s novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy’s 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck
Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
A Joan of Arc’s trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashion.