Tag: Priority 2

Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film… An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy’s childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.

Director: Alexander Payne
Stars: Holgie Forrester, Charley Hayward, Joe Marinelli
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A lonely photographer gradually develops a rather unhealthy obsession with a young woman he once met by sheer chance.

Director: David Blair
Stars: Father Bessarion, David Blair, William S. Burroughs
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Germany

A man recalls the story of how his bees implanted in him a bee television, causing him to lose all perception of space, time, and self in the deserts of the American West.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Three generations’ responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Director: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang
Stars: Li Gong, Wei Li, Baotian Li
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Japan

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband’s nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband’s heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.

Director: Nietzchka Keene
Stars: Björk, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir, Valdimar Örn Flygenring
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iceland

Margit and her older sister, Katla, flee their homeland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man’s girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.

Director: Jennie Livingston
Stars: Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A chronicle of New York’s drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland | Sweden | Germany | France | UK

After fifteen years’ service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can’t go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished – and there’s no way he can get in touch with the killer…

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Michael Goldsmith, Werner Herzog, Augustine Assemat
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Germany

Documentary examining Bokassa’s rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: UK

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Babak Ahmadpoor, Farhang Akhavan, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Iran

In this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education.

Director: Maurizio Nichetti
Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Caterina Sylos Labini, Federico Rizzo
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

A movie resembling Bicycle Thieves (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes “her arms”.

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria

A European family who plan on escaping to Australia, seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.

Director: Obie Benz, Joshua Waletzky
Stars: David Byrne, Sandra Bernhard, Frances Fisher
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Celebrity confessions about their first sexual experiences.

Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy
Stars: Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union | West Germany | Switzerland

In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum buried under the sea which can only be accessed during low tide.

Director: Brian Gibson
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Renée Soutendijk, Craig T. Nelson
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK | West Germany | Hungary | USA

A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie.

Director: Vasili Pichul
Stars: Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov, Yuriy Nazarov
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | UK

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Grazyna Dylag
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland

A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Léotard
Genre: Biography, Fantasy
Country: France

“I’ll look at you, but not at the camera. It could be a trap,” whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnès Varda’s ear at the start of JANE B. PAR AGNES V. The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and VAGABOND once again paints a portrait of a woman, this time in a marvelously Expressionistic way. “It’s like an imaginary bio-pic,” says Varda. Jane, of course, is the famed singer (“Je t’aime … Moi non plus”), actress (BLOW UP), fashion icon (the Hermes Birkin bag) and longtime muse to Serge Gainsbourg.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Michael Stein, Robert Ridgely, Eddie Delcore
Genre: Short, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The rise and fall of Dirk Diggler.

Director: Guy Maddin
Stars: Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.

Director: Alan Parker
Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | Canada | USA

A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany | Ghana

During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.

Director: Gillian Armstrong
Stars: Judy Davis, Jan Adele, Claudia Karvan
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

Director: David Hugh Jones
Stars: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

Director: Laurens C. Postma
Stars: David Cronenberg, Jeff Goldblum, Stephen King
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

Documentary about the career of director David Cronenberg, with clips from his films and interviews with friends, colleagues, film critics and Cronenberg himself.

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France | Italy

A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Rosette, Pascal Greggory
Genre: Short, Comedy, Music
Country: France

Set to music, a couple’s struggle with rising in the morning for coffee.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.

Director: Werner Nekes
Stars: Werner Nekes
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

What really happened between the pictures?

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | Italy | France

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father’s land caused his death years earlier.

Director: John Heyn, Jeff Krulik
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA

A look at the wild scene outside a Judas Priest concert.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn’t even speak any English and finds Walt really strange and undesirable.

Director: Jûzô Itami
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Werner Herzog, Yûharu Atsuta
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | West Germany

Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu’s films.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

Director: Alex Cox
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A young punk recruited by a car repossession agency finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu that is wanted for a $20,000 bounty – and has something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Philip Baker Hall
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career – and the “true” reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Isidro Puig Boada, Antoni Gaudí, Seiji Miyaguchi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

Hiroshi Teshigahara’s camera takes us over, under, around, and into buildings and a park designed by Antonio Gaudí (1852 – 1926), Catalan architect, ceramist, and sculptor.

Director: Michael Radford
Stars: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | West Germany

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg’s “A Dream Play.” She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler’s star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna’s mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | Australia

A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.

Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK | USA

A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: Italy | France

In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer’s many eccentric friends and admirers.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband. In the present day, the castle is being used as an alternative school and, in the summer holidays, for an educational conference. At the conference, the American Nora Winkle bets Claudine that the ernest public school teacher Elisabeth Rousseau will be enticed into the bed of Robert Dufresne, even though the principal speaker, Walter Guarini, is obviously interested in Elisabeth. Meanwhile, the children staying at the castle over the holidays invent their own medieval tale about freeing prisoners from the dungeons.

Director: Michael Verhoeven
Stars: Lena Stolze, Martin Benrath, Wulf Kessler
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany’s Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the “White Rose” after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.

Director: Wayne Wang
Stars: Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Two cab drivers search San Francisco’s Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo.

Director: Uli Edel
Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany

A teen girl in 1970’s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

Director: Michael Mann
Stars: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Coming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the Mafia, who has other plans for him.

Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Australia

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland

A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut’s son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.

Director: Joe Dante
Stars: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Wife and husband, both actors, play a couple in love from the Victorian era. Soon they begin to feel that fiction interweaves into reality.

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

At only 13, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a large family. She appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognizes his wife’s musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. At 18, the busy mother of four children still finds time to write and sing songs at small fairs and local honky-tonks. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the grueling, tumultuous path to superstardom and country-music greatness.

Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

Director: Dennis Hopper
Stars: Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Werner Herzog, Tom Luddy, Michael Goodwin
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

A short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe.

Director: Suzan Pitt
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: USA

An animated, surreal, visually stunning as well as rather uniquely imaginative candy-colored nightmare from indie artist Suzan Pitt.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.

Director: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

On the eve of their children’s marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Irene Broman, Per Broman
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

Fårö Document 1979 is the ten-year followup to the first documentary Bergman made about his adopted home, Fårö, where he filmed many of his best works and lived until the end of his life.

Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Mary Valenti
Genre: Horror, Short
Country: USA

While spending a weekend at a remote cabin, Bruce desecrates an Indian burial ground and becomes re-animated; making way to kill his friends.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | West Germany

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry ‘Dutch’ Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Italy | West Germany

An orchestra assmbles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.

Director: Wolfgang Büld
Stars: Gaye Advert, Jack Airport, Arturo Bassick
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: West Germany

A contemporary documentary covering the Great British punk rock explosion of 1977.

Director: James Benning
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | USA

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between permanence and impermanence.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany | France

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Director: Marcel Ophüls
Stars: Yehudi Menuhin, Noël Favrelières, Anthony Herbert
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK | West Germany | USA | France

Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden

A married couple of psychiatrists has their relationship tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany | France

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous “Ruby Glass.”

Director: Stuart Cooper
Stars: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

Director: Dario Argento
Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy

A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ulrik Cold, Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Sweden

A production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” is presented, this film which blurs the lines of it as a stage production – not only with aspects of the theater stage shown, but also the occasional shot of the audience members watching it, and the performers going through their backstage routines during intermission – and a movie as the set moves out from the confines of the stage.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide.

Director: Bernard Queysanne
Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Tunisia

A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

In 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A swindler’s activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.

Director: Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick
Stars: Mary Brunner, Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce Davis
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

Documentary on Charles Manson and his family. Has a number of insightful interviews with many family members most notably Squeaky and Sandy (Blue and Red). There is also a history of Manson from his birth to the family formation to the Tate/La Bianca murders. Plenty of footage of the family playing at Spahn Ranch.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium | USA

Hotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual place as well as the people who live there, from the reception up to the last story.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.