Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
A gun-fighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Director: Conrad Rooks
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Simi Garewal, Romesh Sharma
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India | USA
The story of a young Indian who embarks upon a journey to find the meaning of existence. Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.
Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Director: Perry Henzell
Stars: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica
Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | USA
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father’s body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.
Director: George Roy Hill
Stars: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
A man named Billy Pilgrim tells the story of how he became unstuck in time and was abducted by aliens.
Director: Elaine May
Stars: Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A newlywed man on his honeymoon has second thoughts about his marriage and falls for a different woman.
Director: William Friedkin
Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France
The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.
Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy
Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his usual comical, disastrous style.
Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Minnie breaks up with her married boyfriend and becomes disillusioned. However, she begins to learn that there is hope for love and romance in a desperate world when she meets a crazy car-parker named Seymour.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Lotte Eisner, Eugen Des Montagnes, James William Gledhill
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France | West Germany
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio’s “Decameron”.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Fini Straubinger, M. Baaske, Elsa Fehrer
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Rolf Illig, Werner Herzog, Adolf Ratzka
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany
Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60’s / early 70’s.
Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
The ‘dreamer’ is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she’s contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, and agree to see each other again the next night. Gradually, he discovers that her lover promised to meet her on the bridge that night, and he failed to turn up.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Arvid Andersson, Sven Bernander, Carl Ekman
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden
Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow inhabitants of his adopted home, the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, this documentary investigates the sometimes deleterious effects of the modern world on traditional farming and fishing communities. The young, especially, voice doubts about remaining in such a remote, quiet place.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France | Soviet Union | USA
An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.
Director: Jaromil Jires
Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Inspired by fairytales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood, is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world.
Director: Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He’s a dutiful husband; his wife’s a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He’s a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab’s wife’s expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK | USA
When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.
Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it.
Director: Richard Irving
Stars: Peter Falk, Gene Barry, Katherine Justice
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant (Columbo).
Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: UK
A bizarre comedy short by Terry Gilliam telling various absurdly comic stories.
Director: William Greaves
Stars: Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, Jonathan Gordon
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously shooting the behind-the-scenes drama taking place.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Lefteris Daskalakis, Antonis Papadakis
Genre: Short
Country: West Germany
The story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don’t have much to say except to repeat their tellings over and over again. But the person who has the final word on the matter, the lonely character himself, may not explain anything about his personal reasons for not abandoning the place.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Morocco
Rescued from abandonment and raised by the King and Queen, Oedipus is still haunted by a prophecy–he’ll murder his father and marry his mother.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne’s virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses.
Director: Jan Nemec
Stars: Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusák, Jiri Nemec
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
A small group of adult bourgeois friends are on a day outing in the country, that outing which includes having a picnic. While they are going for a walk after the picnic, they encounter a group of officious looking men who commandeer them to a small clearing. Although there is no direct threat and the picnickers are not scared, they nonetheless feel the need to do what the men say.
Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France
Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.
Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Chris Marker, Kumiko Muraoka
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she’s an intriguing anomaly. He films her around Tokyo, as she speaks of Japan, being Japanese and her unique perspective on life.
Director: Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Éric Rohmer, Jean Rouch
Stars: Jean-Pierre Andréani, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Ira Rubin, Sam DeFazio, Andrea Martin
Genre: Short, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Saro Urzì, Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France
A desperate Sicilian man, whose 15-year-old daughter was seduced and impregnated by his older daughter’s fiancé, tries to find a way to save the family’s honor.
Director: Sergio Leone
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy | Spain | West Germany
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History
Country: UK
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family’s fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States.
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy | France | USA
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring’s rightful owner.
Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Psychologist Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of the Crawthorne State Training Institute, one of the first boarding schools for developmentally challenged children. Dr. Clark is sympathetic but demanding of his teachers and students. His approach of tough love is controversial. He takes a chance at hiring former aspiring concert pianist Jean Hansen as the school’s music teacher, Miss Hansen who has no background in nursing, teaching or dealing with the developmentally challenged.
Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Emiko Aizawa, Setsuko Amamiya, Tomio Aoki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.
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: 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: 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.
Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owners three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Director: John Ford
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones
Genre: Western
Country: USA
A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut
Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Caroline Dim, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Romance, Short
Country: France
A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: William Wyler
Stars: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA
A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
Director: Ladislao Vajda
Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Switzerland | West Germany | Spain
Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw’s sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France
A humble clerk courts a woman who night after night awaits for the return of her lover.
Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade’s gang tries to free him.
Director: Jean Cocteau, Hans Richter
Stars: Jean Arp, Paul Bowles, Ceal Bryson
Genre: Music
Country: USA
It is a fairy tale for the subconscious based on the game of chess. Partly Sigmund Freud, partly Lewis Carroll.
Director: Dick Powell
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
During World War II, an American destroyer meets a German U-Boat. Both captains are experts, and so begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA
Showdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fist rancher who controls the territory.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.
Director: John Sturges
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Japan
In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
Director: Walter Lang
Stars: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam’s children.
Director: John Huston
Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain’s self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Director: King Vidor
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA | Italy
Napoleon’s (Herbert Lom’s) tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Director: Laurence Olivier
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Shakespeare’s powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
Director: Willard Maas, Ben Moore
Stars: Michael Crane, Nina Glenn
Genre: Short
Country: USA
A film poem; a zither plays. A woman lies naked in bed. A man removes his clothes, joins her, and they kiss. Images fill the frame, at first still lifes of common objects: a door knob, glasses, a cactus, a lamp. Then simple actions: a drawer pulled out, a letter mailed.
Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
A young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.
Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France
A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.
Director: David Lean
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK | USA
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.
Director: Joy Batchelor, John Halas
Stars: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: UK | USA
A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out about her mother’s profession. Hatsuko is having a discreet love affair with the young Dr. Matoba, who looks after the geisha. The doctor is attracted to Yukiko, who initially despises him and everything connected with the geisha house. However, Yukiko gradually changes her views.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Ken Uehara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy | USA
This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as told by writer/director Harry et al, from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy.
Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA
A self-minded adventurer (Jeff Webster) locks horns with a crooked lawman (Mr. Gannon) while driving cattle to Dawson.
Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.
Director: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
Stars: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | Canada
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
Director: Byron Haskin
Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
Director: Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Stars: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France
A documentary of black art.
Director: Giuseppe De Santis
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Carla Del Poggio, Maria Grazia Francia
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls (told in a slow beginning) who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy morning in Rome in 1951.
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: 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: 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: 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.