Tag: Priority 2

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kôji Tsuruta
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Mitsuko Miura, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Poor, pathetic mother Ose (Kumeko Urabe) has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan

Post war Hiroshima: It’s been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city’s lust and the desires it produces.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer
Genre: Western
Country: USA

After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA

When a town boss confiscates homesteader’s supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Yukiko Shimazaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yûji Hori
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband’s family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Forced to retire from an English public school, an unpopular professor must confront his failure as a teacher and husband.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.

Director: Charles Crichton
Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Director: Robert Hessens, Alain Resnais
Stars: María Casares, Jacques Pruvost
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo Picasso was shocked and he translated his emotion into a magnificent but terrifying picture bearing the name of the martyred city. This film does not only comment on the painting, it also gives it a new life through frantic camera and sound effects.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the members of the household, until they are virtually fighting with each other.

Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
Genre: Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: UK

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA

Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn’t want to see him. He hasn’t come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.

Director: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy

A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Vignettes revolving around a circle of interconnected love.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd
Genre: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he’s accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA

The journey of a prized rifle from one ill-fated owner to another parallels a cowboy’s search for a murderous fugitive.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor’s life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn’t destroy others along with him.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France

1941 in a small town in Nazi occupied France. Against the will of its elderly male and his adult niece residents, the Nazis commandeer a house for one of their officers, Lt. Werner von Ebrennac, to live in for as long as he is in the area on Nazi business.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A woman’s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.

Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Stars: Margaret O’Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and…a secret garden.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor’s efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

While conducting a symphony orchestra, Sir Alfred De Carter imagines three different ways of dealing with his wife’s suspected infidelity, then tries acting out his fantasies, but things do not go as well in reality as they did in his imagination.

Director: John Farrow
Stars: Ray Milland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Charles Laughton
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

Director: Abraham Polonsky
Stars: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

An unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Switzerland | USA

In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It’s a lot more trouble than they think.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chôko Iida, Hôhi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous man. When he knew Jenny is making eyes at Brignon, an old businessman, in order to get some engagements, he looses his temper and threatens Brignon with death. But Jenny went anyway to a rendez-vous at the old man’s, who is murdered the same evening.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Genre: Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The true story of a prosecutor’s fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

On America’s frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Rita Christiani, Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers. And, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK

Charles and his second wife Ruth are haunted by the spirit of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Marcel Duchamp, Pajorita Matta
Genre: Short, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA

Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War 2 in England when he stumbles on a deadly Nazi spy plot by accident, and tries to stop it.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They lead an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA

During World War II, an undercover British soldier tries get word to the Allies that the Germans have tons of supplies buried in five excavations across Egypt.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shûji Sano, Shin Saburi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi
Stars: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: USA

The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess’ hectic lifestyle.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An escaped prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left her with nothing but debt and married children who are unwilling to support her–except for her most thoughtful son, just returned from China.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers’ Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.

Director: King Vidor. Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers’ Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.

Director: Edward F. Cline
Stars: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Henpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.

Director: Garson Kanin
Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she’ll meet her final days with dignity.

Director: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin
Stars: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two itinerant migrant workers, one mentally disabled and the other his carer, take jobs as ranch hands during the Great Depression to fulfill their shared dream of owning their own ranch.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA

When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Cedric Hardwicke
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

Director: Joseph Cornell
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Director Joseph Cornell evokes the nostalgia of childhood by filming a children’s party.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.

Director: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood
Stars: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.

Director: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chôko Iida, Shin’ichi Himori, Masao Hayama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa, Chiyoko Ôkura
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief’s slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two school teachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Chôko Iida
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn’t keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.

Director: Frank Lloyd
Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A tyrannical ship captain takes his reluctant crew on a two-year voyage that will change British maritime law forever.

Director: Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Director: Karl Freund
Stars: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
Genre: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Paris, France: a demented surgeon’s obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert pianist husband’s train-wreck-mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer. . . with a gift for knife-throwing.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Horror
Country: USA

American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A chronicle of the lives of a group of sisters growing up in nineteenth-century America.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother’s studies at the university. Ryoichi doesn’t know about his sister’s secret life, but he is dating Harue whose brother is a policeman.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Ohinata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune…

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely ill husband’s operation.

Director: Karl Freund
Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

A resurrected Egyptian mummy stalks a beautiful woman he believes to be the reincarnation of his lover and bride.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.

Director: Victor Heerman
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

Director: Ewald André Dupont
Stars: Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: UK

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder.

Director: Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
Stars: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn’t realize is that he is being used to make the actress’ old flame jealous.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Genre: Short, Romance, Art Film, Experimental
Country: USA

Two people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, “Adieu.” Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in a jar, city scenes, newspapers, tugboats. More images: starfish, the girl. “How beautiful she is.” Repeatedly. He advances up the stair, knife in hand, starfish on the step. Three people stand on a road, out of focus. “How beautiful she was.” “How beautiful she is.” “Beautiful.”

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Director: Man Ray
Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Jacques Rigaut
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: France

A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. She descends from the car, again and again. Images: dancing legs, seashore, swimming fish, geometric shapes, cut glass. A man removes his starched collar. It rotates. A girl has garishly painted eyes. No, she’s only fooling. Those were her eyelids.

Director: Jean Epstein
Stars: Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). The intertwinement of several layers of time experience, recollection, telling and showing have been regarded as a source of inspiration of Alain Resnais and this film prefigures his “L’Année dernière à Mariënbad” to a certain extent.

Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

he abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures – could they be vampires?

*Note: This is currently a “lost film.”

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other once fiercely loved.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After having a child out of wedlock, a young Puritan woman is pressured to reveal the name of her lover.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A sideshow ventriloquist, midget, and strongman form a conspiracy known as “The Unholy Three” and commit a series of robberies.

Director: Buster Keaton
Stars: Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Johannes Meyer, Astrid Holm, Karin Nellemose
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Stars: Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid’s clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort, his daughter Greta, who also has lost her job, tries to get some money to get food. She rents a room of the flat she, her young sister and her father are living in to an American Red Cross official, who pays $60 rent, but the money is taken by some of her father’s creditors. But their neighbour, shop owner Mrs Greifer knows how to “help”, she and Mrs. Merkel are running a nightclub with a brothel…

Director: Henry King
Stars: Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Stella, a small town girl, marries socialite Stephen Dallas, a man with whom she has nothing in common. The whole thing is a failure; after the birth of their daughter, Laurel, the Dallases separate, and Stephen returns to New York. As Laurel grows into a young woman, Stella realizes that she can?t provide for her properly and sends her to live with Stephen and his new family. Laurel later marries a pleasant upper class boy as Stella stands in the rain, watching the ceremony through a window.

Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Stars: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Director: King Vidor, George W. Hill
Stars: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany

After Siegfried’s dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that they kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfried, but he is protected by her brothers. A fierce battle begins to force her brothers to give Hagen to her.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor Loos
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany

Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to win Krimhild, a mask that makes him invisible proves to be very useful. But because Brunhild is cursing Kriemhild, she tells her what really happened. Now Brunhild wants Siegfried’s head. Is Gunther going to do her that favor?

Director: René Clair
Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia
Genre: Short
Country: France

An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Sweden

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy’s family finds itself dependent on Terje’s beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson
Genre: Short, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.