Tag: Priority 3

Director: René Clair
Stars: Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Italy

The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.

Director: Yves Allégret
Stars: Madeleine Robinson, Gérard Philipe, Jean Servais
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Netherlands

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.

Director: Giuseppe De Santis
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective.

Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons – her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.

Director: Anthony Pelissier
Stars: Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Massimo Girotti, Charles Vanel, Jone Salinas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Kathleen Byron
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who’ll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
Country: USA

Because aging boxer Bill Thompson always lost his past fights, his corrupt manager, without telling Thompson, takes bribes from a betting gangster, to ensure Thompson’s pre-arranged dive-loss in the next match.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Doris Svedlund, Birger Malmsten, Eva Henning
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A film director tries to create the best film in history, but finds out that human abilities have their limits.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Fernando Soler, Rosario Granados, Andrés Soler
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico

Concerns a family’s attempts to change the patriarch’s somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men’s planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.

Director: John Berry
Stars: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife’s lover.

Director: Mark Robson
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Country: USA

Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame…mainly by stepping on other people.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.

Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr.
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

Three outlaws on the run find a dying woman in the desert who gives birth to a baby. The mother entrusts the care of the child to the three men.

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O’Herlihy
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Shunsaku Shimamura, Natuski Masako, Gosho Shoichi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Shûji Sano, Chieko Murata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son’s hospital bills.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a ten year old murder case.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

The ups and downs of a Norwegian immigrant family, circa 1910.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Director: John Boulting
Stars: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses and a rival gang.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
Genre: Crime, Western
Country: USA

A pistol-packing tomboy and her grandfather discover a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in the neighboring ghost town.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Fredric March, Edmond O’Brien, Florence Eldridge
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife’s terminal cancer.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.

Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover’s house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.

Director: Robert Rossen
Stars: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Country: USA

A talented boxer’s young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

Director: Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Two cats have a litter of 5 kittens and then nurse, teach and play with them.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Ella Raines, Edmond O’Brien, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer’s life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Director: Henri Decoin
Stars: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Georges Bréhat
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son’s life from afar even as she prospers in business.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France

It’s Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp who may also be Destiny predicts that Jean Diego will fall in love with a beautiful girl. That same evening, Jean meets Malou.

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Stars: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

An ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with “afflictions”; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Director: Emilio Fernández
Stars: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Fernando Fernández
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Mexico

During the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirô Ôkôchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA

A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.

Director: Albert Lewin
Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it’s too late.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.

Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O’Brien, James Craig
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK

The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.

Director: John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife struggles to care for their two daughters – and a pair of lodgers who have moved in – alone.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After being hired to find an ex-con’s former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

Director: Maurice Tourneur
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: France

Roland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

This is a retelling of Tristan and Isolde, set in 1940s France. The script was written by Jean Cocteau.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A group of nurses returning from the war in the Phillippines recall their experiences in combat and in love.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, William Eythe
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A young girl claims to have seen a divine vision, which prompts both a religious phenomenon and extreme skepticism.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA

During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.

Director: Robert Stevenson
Stars: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A mild-mannered school-teacher in a Nazi-occupied town during W.W.II finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Anne-Marie joins a Dominican convent as a novice where she knows Therese. After shooting a man for which she was imprisoned, Therese protests her innocence reluctant to tell her secret.

Director: Zoltan Korda
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.

Director: Alessandro Blasetti
Stars: Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Giuditta Rissone
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she’s in troubles: she’s pregnant, her baby’s father has left her and she doesn’t know how to tell to her parents that she’s not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn-of-the-century.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France

Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Stars: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: UK

An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

When acerbic critic Sheridan Whiteside slips on the front steps of a provincial Ohio businessman’s home and breaks his hip, he and his entourage take over the house indefinitely.

Director: Leo McCarey
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Nazis seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.

Director: John Huston, Raoul Walsh
Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister’s husband; in retaliation, her sister begins seeing the woman’s former fiancé.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Nascimento Fernandes, Vital dos Santos, António Palma
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Portugal

The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has “played it tough” by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Arletty, Marie Déa, Fernand Ledoux
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France

In medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father’s health suddenly improves.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA

British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.

Director: Jack Conway
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A series of misunderstandings on their fourth wedding anniversary lead an architect and his wife to break up, but he pretends to be insane and even poses as his own sister in order to win her back.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Nick and Nora are at their wisecracking best as they investigate murder and racketeering at a local race track.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After being fished out of the sea by a sealer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship’s brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a pact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

When the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he’s really a con man…and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A shoplifter and her prosecutor fall in love, creating tensions for his career and family.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

During World War I, believing her fiance to be dead, a young ballerina loses her job and is forced to turn to prostitution.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A duchess’ irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family’s lives forever.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where later, the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean’s policy against homesteaders.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Victor Francen, Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people’s home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies… A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.

Director: Leo McCarey
Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, after he has had a chance to earn a decent living.

Director: Sidney Lanfield
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife’s affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

When a tycoon is accused of murder, the private eye tracking him finds himself roped in as an accessory and attempts to evade police, kidnapping a poetess along the way.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, after one of them steals their adoptive family’s famous heirloom sapphire.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her music and so they split. She marries a benefactor, but after a joint show, feels music is above marriage.

Director: Arthur B. Woods
Stars: Emlyn Williams, Anna Konstam, Allan Jeayes
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

A convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier
Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Meeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man saw a lots of encouragment for his dreaming carreer as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team. (This is the caracteristic of a schountz: someone who see himself as a born movie comedian and is blind on the critics to his dream) After he has signed a fake contract which he blindly take as genuine even if it is ridiculous, he starts to Paris without money to make his carreer.

Director: Christian-Jaque
Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective – going to America. A night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them see a man coming out from a wall. Then the day after he talks about it, he disappears. Then the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That’s when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.

Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn’t have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France

A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven
Genre: War, Drama
Country: USA

British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.

Director: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Stars: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Raimu, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Renaud
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Germany

A merchant from Toulon (Raimu) of honorable appearance is in fact a receiver for a band of criminals. Threatened with blackmail, he commits a murder for which an innocent man is condemned to the penal colony (Pierre Blanchar). Eight years later, the convict escapes and our trader collects it.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome “tramp” who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur’s uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.

Director: Joe May
Stars: Kay Francis, Basil Rathbone, Ian Hunter
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Aging down on her luck cabaret singer murders a respectable composer. On trial she slowly gives in and explains her crime. They had a complicated history.

Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK

A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

In Victorian London, a Crime Novelist and his Wife fake their disappearance in order to hide from an uptight Anglican Bishop who is leading a campaign against the “evils” of crime fiction.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the ‘kid’ falls for his sister.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Polynesian sailor — unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully — is relentlessly persecuted by his island’s martinet French governor.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Pierre Etchepare
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Germany

Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Gabriel Gabrio, Orane Demazis, Fernandel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

He rebirth of a dead village and the love of the last inhabitant for a wandering girl.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An actor of the stage finds himself pursued by a lovestruck fan while trying to patch up a tempestuous relationship with his actress lover.

Director: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A wealthy banker throws his wife’s expensive fur coat off the roof of a building; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.

Director: Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý
Stars: Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Thrown out of her home after her husband discovers her infidelity, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on revealing her degraded status to her husband and the son she left behind. The son, unaware of her identity, becomes her defense attorney.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Christine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.

Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, May Whitty
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estates hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Sport
Country: USA

A veterinarian posing as a doctor and a race-horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit race-horse.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he’s made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.

Director: John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitô, Michiko Kuwano
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A budding romance between a ballet master and a tap dancer becomes complicated when rumors surface that they’re already married.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Ken Uehara, Ryuji Ishiyama, Einosuke Naka
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Adolphe Borchard, Marcel Lucien
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A charming scoundrel reflects on his exploits, from childhood through to manhood.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Jean Gabin, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Five unemployed penniless workers win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln’s assassin in 1865.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Nick investigates the case of a missing man and later a murder that is connected to Nora’s family.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.

Director: Berthold Viertel
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

The tenants of an old boarding house are terrorized by an evil slumlord. One day a strange man arrives at the house and begins to help them with their problems.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA

Ignoring an ancient prophecy, evil brother Gregor seeks to maintain his feudal power on his his Tyrolean estate by murdering and impersonating his benevolent younger twin.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A meek milquetoast of a clerk’s mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

It’s the early days of the F.B.I. – federal agents working for the Department of Justice. Though they’ve got limited powers – they don’t carry weapons and have to get local police approval for arrests – that doesn’t stop fresh Law School grad Eddie Buchanan from joining up, and he encourages his former roommate James “Brick” Davis (James Cagney) to do so as well.

Director: Lew Landers
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA

A brilliant surgeon obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe saves the life of a beautiful dancer and goes mad when he can’t have her.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Daijirô Natsukawa, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi and Osen, while swindling some Buddhist monks out of their temple treasures. When Kumazawa is arrested, Osen agrees to help Sokichi finance his dream of going to medical school. They live in a humble room, and eventually the only way Osen can find enough money for them is to prostitute herself during the day, without Sokichi knowing.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital’s only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once, it results in the death of Dr. Hudson, a selfless, brilliant surgeon and generous philanthropist. Merrick falls for Hudson’s widow, Helen, though she holds him responsible for her husband’s demise.

Director: Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

In early 19th Century France an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20 year period by an obsessive policeman.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Sachiko Chiba, Yuriko Hanabusa, Toshiko Itô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young woman reaches maturity and yearns to know about her father. Her mother has poisoned her mind about the man who left her for another woman. There is a tender moment when they see each other for the first time. She learns that the man is not as she was told, nor is the woman.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently – like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.

Director: Jacques Feyder
Stars: Françoise Rosay, André Alerme, Jean Murat
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Country: France | Germany

Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: George Raft, Claire Dodd, Edward Arnold
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Ed Beaumont is the personal friend, advisor and bodyguard to Paul Madvig, the political boss of a large city. When a mysterious murder is committed—the son of a Madvig political opponent—Madvig’s enemies try to pin the crime on him because he is waging a clean-up campaign they oppose. Ed risks his life and his reputation to find the killer and clear his friend.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a ‘good fairy’ to strangers makes life awfully complicated.

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Man is haunted by a murder he’s committed.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA

After being wrongly convicted as a traitor, Peter Blood, an English physician, is sent to exile in the British colonies of the Caribbean, where he becomes a pirate.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

Director: Willi Forst
Stars: Paula Wessely, Anton Walbrook, Olga Tschechowa
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Austria | Germany

Vienna 1905: After a carnival party the famous painter Heidenick draws his otherwise engaged girlfriend Anita Helfer with very few clothes on, only blurs her face. The image makes it into the newspaper the next day – but since he can’t tell the model’s name without offending her influential fiancée, he comes up with the fictional name Leopoldine Dur. Unfortunately there is a secretary with that name, who now gets into the focus of high society – and into Heidenick’s, much to Anita’s anger.

Director: William Beaudine
Stars: W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An agitated and desperate man spares no expense in insisting that Mason represent him against a neighbor’s howling dog and act as executor of his will.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra’s desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of George, an old boyfriend whose conduct is never above suspicion, and the overnight presence of two women recently divorced in Reno, who, with a chauffeur, are carrying valuable jewels. George gets wind of the jewels and plays with Olga’s heartstrings to set up a robbery. Myra arranges to sneak off with her beau. It’s hot, and the heat lightening is crackling on the horizon. Is Olga’s life of peace and hard work in the desert about to change for the worse?

Director: Jacques Feyder
Stars: Marie Bell, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A romantic drama set against the background of the French Foreign Legion, and an example of poetic realism in the French cinema.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn’t like to hire married men.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Eight strangers are invited by a mysterious unknown host to spend the night in a penthouse apartment. The eight (5 men, 3 women) are wined, dined, then greeted by their host’s voice via a radio broadcast. The voice announces that before the night is over each one will be systematically murdered unless they manage to outwit their ninth guest Death.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Yûkichi Iwata, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Den Ohinata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two half-brothers try to cope with the loss of their father.

Director: Harold Young
Stars: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man’s current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.

Director: Raymond Bernard
Stars: Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.

Director: Mark SandrichRichard Boleslawski
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

An American woman travels to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband, where she meets – and falls for – a dashing performer.

Director: Mikhail Romm
Stars: Galina Sergeyeva, Andrey Fayt, Anatoliy Goryunov
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A company of French bourgeois travel through the territories occupied by Germans in a stagecoach accompanied by a woman of the oldest profession.

Director: Yonggang Wu
Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang
Genre: Drama
Country: China

Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can’t live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono, Sumiko Mizukubo
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life’s hardships.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi, Takuaki Seiryô
Stars: Tokihiko Okada, Ichirô Sugai, Bontarô Miake
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The tragic tale of a woman who despite doing good where she can gets punished by society.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two schoolgirl friends drift apart when one of them falls for a handsome boy.

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: Kinuyo Tanaka, Jôji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Teruko Kojima, Jun Arai
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son until–her long-lost husband returns.

Director: Paul Sloane
Stars: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

During a three-day pleasure cruise, a murder victim’s friend (John Halliday) tries to trick a new bride (Nancy Carroll) into admitting her guilt.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival’s spy to produce spectacular live “prologues” for movie houses.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank – by gleefully sleeping her way to the top.

Director: Stephen Roberts
Stars: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang’s leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Charles Vanel, Habib Benglia, Gaston Dubosc
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicion spreads not only to the engineer but also to Dainah’s husband. Forward-thinking and absorbing.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saitô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

When a young man inherits his father’s lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Harry Baur, Robert Lynen, Louis Gauthier
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A red-haired boy is his mother’s punching bag ; only his father’s presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew’s thumb.His pain is so great he feels suicidal.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.

Director: Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill
Stars: Walter Huston, Pat O’Brien, Kay Johnson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson’s wife had an affair…all in the same day.

Director: George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston, Anita Page
Genre: Crime, Film Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

Judge and his mistress are investigated on suspicions of corruption.

Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other’s secret.

Director: John Francis Dillon
Stars: Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Sexy Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways.

Director: Jack Conway
Stars: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Lillian relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Anne Shirley
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.

Director: Erich Engel, Fyodor Otsep
Stars: Fritz Kortner, Anna Sten, Fritz Rasp
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo, Hideo Sugawara
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A married Tokyo man faces unemployment after standing up for an older colleague.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Two gold diggers prey on old rich men, but one of them falls in love with a young, rich man.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa, Paul Graetz
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany | UK

A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell’s Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

The adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Germany

In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of the beggars’.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.

Director: Leo McCarey
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Monroe Owsley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Mitsuko Ichimura, Tokihiko Okada, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision.

Director: George W. Hill, Ward Wing
Stars: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A convict falls in love with his new cellmate’s sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.

Director: Man Ray
Stars: Georges Auric, Jacques-André Boiffard, Le Comte de Beaumont
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice. A castle is perched on a hilltop. Below it, a posh, modern villa. Meanwhile, far from Paris, two men with masked faces play dice in a bar. They decide to drive to Paris. Country roads, hills, fences. The posh “chateau” appears again: meticulous garden, fancy interior, odd sculptures. And at home? “No one, NO ONE.” For the next two days, masked figures play dice, frolic by the pool, perform exercises with a ball. Two new figures arrive. Masked. They search and find the dice. They dance. Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

When three men rob a bank, a guard is killed and the three bandits escape into the desert where they lose their horses in a storm. Finding a woman who gives birth, they are made godfathers only to learn that the baby’s father was the man they killed in the holdup. When the woman dies they head back, but they have little water and it is 40 miles.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim’s former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.

Director: Joe May
Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Joe May’s sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.

Director: Jacques Feyder
Stars: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA

An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.

Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union

A soldier returns to Kiev after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Director: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Ichirô Yûki, Tatsuo Saitô, Junko Matsui
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

Two friends try and court the same woman.

Director: René Clair
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

The great French filmmaker René Clair crafted this elegant sepia-toned profile of Paris’s iconic landmark almost forty years after the Eiffel Tower took its first bow (at the 1889 Exposition Universelle).

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Gustav Diessl, Brigitte Helm, Hertha von Walther
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin’s nightlife, drugs and flirtations included.

Director: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
Stars: Jules Raucourt, Voya George, Robert Florey
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized (he is identified by the number 9314 written on his forehead), after which he dies and goes on to Heaven where the number is removed.

Director: Hans Richter
Stars: Werner Graeff, Walter Gronostay, Paul Hindemith
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: Germany

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

Director: Germaine Dulac
Stars: Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille
Genre: Short
Country: France

Obsessed with a general’s woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Director: Jean Epstein
Stars: Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy
Genre: Horror
Country: France

Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.

Director: Harry Beaumont
Stars: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A flapper who’s secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins, Pierre Braunberger
Genre: Short, Sci-Fi
Country: France

Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

Director: Paul Leni
Stars: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.

Director: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
Stars: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir
Country: USA

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfriend.

Director: Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A salesgirl with plenty of “it” (sex appeal) pursues a handsome playboy.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife.

Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Stars: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France

A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lestringuez, Jacqueline Forzane
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.

Director: Various
Stars: Various
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 is given to meet the people who make the movies there and see how movies are made.

Director: William Beaudine
Stars: Mary Pickford, William Haines, Walter James
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

The tenements are home to an international community, including the friends and family of a tough young ragamuffin named Annie Rooney, but their neighborhood may be threatened by a dangerous street gang.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

Director: Ewald André Dupont
Stars: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Prologue: The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. “Boss”, a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ”erotic sensations”. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys “Boss'” happiness.

Director: Erich von Stroheim
Stars: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D’Arcy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A prince must woo the now wealthy dancer he once abandoned in order to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Germany

Two couples’ romances are fancifully intertwined.

Director: Robert Wiene
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Austria | Germany

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn’t know they once belonged to a murderer.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.

Director: Hugh Croise, Seymour Hicks, Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Seymour Hicks, Stanley Logan, Gertrude McCoy
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: UK

Two couples, the Hawkes and the Chessons, engage in an affair.

Director: Jean Epstein
Stars: Léon Mathot, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two occasions, but Paul retains a hold over her. Marie has a baby who falls ill and as time goes on Jean and a crippled neighbor try to help the child. Paul nearly causes the death of the child whilst in a drunken stupor and in a final struggle that occurs, the crippled woman seizes Paul’s gun and shoots him dead.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Germany

When a woman’s fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Hildur Carlberg, Einar Röd, Greta Almroth
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Sweden

A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems–first, the widow is old enough to be his grandmother, and second, he is already engaged to another woman.

Director: Wallace Worsley
Stars: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.

Director: Geoffrey Malins
Stars: Beauvoir De Lisle
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK

Documentary (with some re-enacted footage) of the British army’s participation in the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.