Tag: Priority 3

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anne Collette, Gérard Blain
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France

A jilted man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rants at his mostly silent former lover (Anne Collette).

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.

Director: Ki-young Kim
Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Eun-shim Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea

A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Stéphane Audran, Anna Karina
Genre: Comedy, Short, Romance
Country: France

Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous.

Director: Jirí Weiss
Stars: Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the two. He is her only link to the outside world. Then the two are discovered by Pavel’s mother, who forces the residents of the apartment building to decide whether Hana can remain.

Director: Cyril Frankel
Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

Jean Carter, nine-year-old daughter of the town’s newly-appointed school principal, Peter Carter and his wife Sally, is playing in the woods with her 11-year-old friend Lucille, when Jean discovers she has lost her purse containing her “candy” money. Lucille tells her she knows where they can get sweets for nothing, and leads her to an imposing mansion, from which the owner, Clarence Olderberry, Sr., a tall, gaunt man of 70 has been watching the girls from a window.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

After World War II, a Highland Regiment’s acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

Director: Roberto Gavaldón
Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Mexico

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Upon entering his fiancée’s family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.

Director: Robert Youngson
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Oliver Hardy
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Country: USA

A feature-length documentary devoted to the great clowns of silent comedy.

Director: France Stiglic
Stars: Dusica Zegarac, Boris Dvornik, Branko Tatic
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia | Croatia

In order to save Jewish girl from the Nazis and their colaborators, Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their young son. Young man is displeased with sudden end to his careless youth and he doesn’t seem to like the girl or the whole idea. However, when she gets caught in a street raid, it is too late – he must face the fact that he loves her.

Director: Luigi Comencini
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy | France

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers
Genre: Crime, Western
Country: USA

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

A liberated small-town girl and the family’s black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.

Director: Florestano Vancini
Stars: Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy

In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman, married to a man bound to a wheelchair, with a desertor from the Italian army, intertwines with that of the grab of power of a very fanatical local fascist leader, who gets the hold with a massacre of Pacific opposers, among them, the father of the young desertor.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real-life to be inescapable.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Abel Davos is a criminal, hunted in Italy. The police are closing in, so he and his pal Raymond arrange to flee back to France with Abel’s wife, Thérèse, and their two young sons. Abel and Raymond commit a brazen robbery to get funds, killing two men; in the escape, more die.

Director: Jack Cardiff
Stars: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A young man with artistic talent who lives in a close-knit, English coal-mining town during the early 20th Century finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative, domineering mother.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope’s 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar’s patrons from their “lying pipe dreams.”

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Stars: Martin Held, Walter Giller, Ingrid van Bergen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany

April 1945. Because he stole two boxes of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute due to an air force attack, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Alec Guinness, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK

Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.

Director: John Boulting
Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Stars: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.

Director: Konrad Wolf
Stars: Sasha Krusharska, Jürgen Frohriep, Erik S. Klein
Genre: War, Drama
Country: East Germany | Bulgaria

The tragic love of the Jewish girl and the Nazi officer is presented as a symbol of human purity defeated by fascism and racial prejudice.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A promising lawyer tries to handle his social and professional problems while climbing the ranks in Philadelphia.

Director: Henry Levin
Stars: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer’s trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth’s center.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Anne Collette, Nicole Berger
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: France

Two French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Natale Rossi, Roberto Seveso, Paolo Quadrubbi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the valley to spend Christmas vacation with his family he is temporarily replaced with an adolescent boy.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Short, Romance
Country: USA

We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home. It’s night, she sees his reflection in the window, she closes the drapes.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Takeshi Okimura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Set during Japan’s depression years in the 50s, Nianchan (read: My Second Brother) tells the story about a family of 4 orphans, who are forced by circumstances to fend for themselves.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal’s Native American wife.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A police detective and his team attempt to solve two crimes committed within a day of each other in neighboring apartment rooms.

Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA

During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Director: Jirí Trnka
Stars: Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Richard Burton
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Robert Dalban
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Fifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Castille.

Director: Grigoriy Chukhray
Stars: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union

Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime..

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union

The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory…

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Paul Meurisse, Charles Blavette, André Brunot
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. His wealthy household (his family owns chemical corporations that will profit from his ideas) is stiff, intellectual, and sterile. To celebrate his engagement to a German cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy | France

The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Devis, Lisbeth Persson
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A residential area schoolboy discovers the odd universe of the Parisian metro. At a time, he glimpses the beautiful face of a blond-haired little girl. Later on, he falls asleep and dreams his first love dream…

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Chikage Awashima, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won’t leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other while in a maternity ward together, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at “Separate Tables.”

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA | West Germany

On the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn’t the same country he left behind.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Roger Coggio, Anne Olivier, Jacopo Nizi
Genre: Documentary, Short, History
Country: France

A humorous travelogue of the French Riviera.

Director: Ivan Pyrev
Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Yuliya Borisova, Nikita Podgorny
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Upon Prince Myshkin’s return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK

During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Osamu Abe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies’ plans.

Director: John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

An old Cuban fisherman’s dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea. Based on Ernest Hemingway’s story.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Tulsi Chakraborty, Kali Bannerjee, Ranibala
Genre: Crime
Country: India

An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a ‘parash pathar’, a stone that changes iron to gold on touch.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A serial killer is targeting women in the seedy district of Montmartre.

Director: Irving Lerner
Stars: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer – until he finds his next target is a woman.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help.

Director: Wojciech Has
Stars: Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Slaska, Teresa Szmigielówna
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

One day in the life of an alcohol addict. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when she’s at work, Kuba is home alone, and it becomes hard not to resist the temptation.

Director: Kåre Bergstrøm
Stars: André Bjerke, Bjørg Engh, Henki Kolstad
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Norway

A group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It’s a rumor that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity after she walks out of a mental institution.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Sô Yamamura, Kyôko Kagawa, Isao Kimura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Kyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer. However, her husband’s difficulties with his writing and his resentment over her father cause deep strains in the marriage.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Athena Michaelidou, Eleni Zafeiriou
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz
Genre: Drama
Country: France

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Richard Jaeckel
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Stars: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, René Fleur
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | East Germany

Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Don Freisinger, Richard Sandifer, Patricia Ferrier
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman’s husband dies suddenly.

Director: José Ferrer
Stars: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

In 1894 France, a Jewish officer in the French Army is falsely accused of spying for Germany.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.

Director: Mark Robson
Stars: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

After WW1,ordinary citizens of a small Greek village plays the Passion Play in order to rebel against Turkish rulers during Turkish-Greek relations in 1920’s.

Director: Joseph Pevney
Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Claus Holm, Annemarie Düringer, Mario Adorf
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany

A serial killer strikes again during WWII in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer. But justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Tomoko Naraoka, Sofu Teshigahara
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Japan

The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director’s father Sofu Teshigahara worked as the grand master of the school.

Director: Robert Altman, George W. George
Stars: Martin Gabel, James Dean, Lew Bracker
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean’s death, looks at Dean’s life through the use of still photographs with narration, and interviews with many of the people involved in his short life.

Director: Robert Stevenson
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by all.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Story of a young couple whose fathers are prison bound.

Director: Raymond Rouleau
Stars: Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | East Germany

Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Korean War veteran’s morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ineko Arima
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.

Director: Richard Sale
Stars: Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

Ship’s officer finds himself in command of a lifeboat full of survivors of a sunken luxury liner.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Charles ‘Slim’ Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK

Victor Frankenstein builds a creature and brings it to life, but it behaves not as he intended.

Director: Jean Masson
Stars: Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Tamara Toumanova
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: France | Monaco | USA

A tribute to the wedding of Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier of Monaco, with lots of music, ballet, and fireworks.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Virginie Vitry, Anne Doat, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Genre: Short, Comedy, Romance
Country: France

When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat’s true origins.

Director: Kô Nakahira
Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.

Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Stars: Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence and passion for their future as they get on the bus for Tsukishima and get off at Suzaki. Across the bridge they see the sign for Suzaki Paradise, a red-light district where Tsutae once worked as a prostitute. Tsutae spots an ad for a waitress at a bar near the bridge and she rushes in to get the job. The kind hearted madam, Tokuko, helps them out by hiring Tsutae and finding work for Yoshiji delivering noodles.

Director: Nikos Koundouros
Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Giannis Argyris
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as “the dragon”, a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Maria Schell, François Périer, Jany Holt
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
Genre: War, Drama
Country: UK | USA

True story of a British attempt to trick the enemy into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack, using a dead man with faked papers.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizô Kawasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan

Nothing less than a phenomenal, astonishing and pioneering film. This spectacle of an angry, ego-driven youth tormented by his own emotional impotence, low self-esteem and resentment towards his parents.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi, Gastone Renzelli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures – until they are arrested by the police.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.

Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Edmond O’Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

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

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A new senior at a boy’s prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach’s wife.

Director: Nunnally Johnson
Stars: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

Boxer Rocky Graziano’s biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short, Comedy
Country: UK

Documentary on a famous amusement park, showing the irony of its manufactured fun.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Shûji Sano, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

This wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Robert Arnoux
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France

André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André left more than twenty years before. As Gabrielle has just died, André accepts to accommodate Catherine first, then gives her a job in his restaurant before finally marrying her. But the angel-faced young lady might well be a devil in disguise.

Director: Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer
Stars: Nina Ivanova, Nikolay Rybnikov, Vladimir Gulyaev
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.

Director: Robert D. Webb
Stars: Guy Madison, Virginia Leith, John Hodiak
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Scientist is sent to investigate a faulty ejector seat, then sent into space to test it, showing an assortment of human weaknesses and strengths. Basically this is about the human predicament and drama, not space.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Sylva Koscina
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud with his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former railroad man Ugo. Andrea is married with Sara and his young son Sandro is very close to him; however Andrea has issues with his unemployed son Marcello and with his pregnant daughter Giulia, whose boy-friend Renato Borghi was forced to marry her.

Director: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
Stars: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA

In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the “backwater” areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.

Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Stars: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Mihashi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

At the end of Meiji era a young student befriend an older man who as a proof of trust but also as a kind of exorcism entrust him his secret, a story about jealousy, betrayal, shame and guilt.

Director: Edvin Laine
Stars: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland

The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna’s book of the same name.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Maria Lysandre, Roland Tolmatchoff, Carmen Mirando
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: Switzerland

A young woman is tempted to flirt with a stranger.

Director: Yorgos Tzavellas
Stars: Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece

Pivoting around a shiny counterfeit gold sovereign freshly milled from the clandestine workshop of an otherwise honest goldsmith, four brief vignettes of human imperfection; seduction; fate; desire, and devotion inextricably interweave.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

Three Devil’s Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece

Proud and independent, Stella, an unconventional Rebetico singer who cherishes her freedom, finds herself in an intense whirlwind romance. Everything points to a tragic ending, and in the aftermath of passion, there can be no winners.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Two different women – a young photo model and her boss – dream about a happy life with beloved men. Their dreams are as different as they are.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A strung-out junkie deals with a demoralizing drug addiction while his crippled wife and card sharks pull him down.

Director: Juan Antonio Bardem
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain | Italy

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort, Marcel Jouet
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.

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

A short black and white film which documents a decaying mansion, secluded garden, and children playing.

Director: John Parker
Stars: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman
Genre: Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman’s nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Country: Japan

Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Stars: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Yvonne Lombard
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

After a 15-year marriage, the spouses are going to divorce, but suddenly find out that their feelings have not vanished yet.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Samson De Brier, Marjorie Cameron, Joan Whitney
Genre: Short, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

A Slavonic Mass by Leos Janácek plays as historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Country: Japan

Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: A. Austin, Robert Benson, Yvonne Fair
Genre: Short, Romance
Country: USA

Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. Activities ensue.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Hideki Gôko, Itsuo Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sadako Sawamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

Surreal musical about the time of the execution of Joan of Arc.

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.

Director: Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton
Stars: Richard Burton
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: UK

The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton’s calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Giorgos Pappas, Dimitris Horn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greek

On a lazy Athenian Sunday, a young and fresh saleswoman loses her soon-to-be winning lottery ticket, only to meet its handsome new owner. Of course, she wants it back; however, what if fortune and ardent Cupid are already on her doorstep?

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Lilia Prado, Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to “take ‘er for one last spin.”

Director: Luis García Berlanga
Stars: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain

After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.

Director: Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas
Stars: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Mexico

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse’s adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan
Genre: Thriller, Western
Country: USA

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | West Germany

Czech circus owner-Clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Director: Shirô Toyoda
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Jûkichi Uno
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Each knows the other isn’t happy, they themselves aren’t happy, but they don’t talk about their problems with each other, each festering in their unhappiness largely so that they will not show especially to their three boarders their problems.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Yoshi Katô
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: Japan

A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, Phyllis Kirk
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Yûko Mochizuki, Yôko Katsuragi, Masami Taura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it’s clear that the children, as they enter adulthood, want little to do with their mother. They have a different view of their childhood and her sacrifices: in their eyes, she abandoned them to live a life of pleasure.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In post-war Japan, sixteen-year-old Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion, in Kyoto asking her to be a maiko (geisha apprentice). Eiko explains that her mother – who was a geisha and Miyoharu’s friend – has just died, her father Sawamoto has failed in business, and her uncle is harassing her. Miyoharu is a warm-hearted woman and accepts to train her.

Director: Gregg G. Tallas
Stars: Maria Kosti, Nikos Fermas, Vasileios Fragedakis
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece | USA

A young survivor of WWII and former member of the reputed “Barefoot Battalion”, a close-knit pack of disciplined orphaned boys, recounts the story of the one hundred sixty orphans who aided the Resistance, to a homeless street urchin.

Director: Martin Fric
Stars: Jan Werich, Marie Vásová, Natasa Gollová
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Rudolph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, does not have a simple life. And yet he manages to complicate it even more with his frequent outbursts of anger. While he searches for a mythical Golem, an animated clay statue, Matthew the Baker is thrown into the dungeon for selling the special buns for the emperor to people. Matthew is accidentally mistaken for the emperor and takes his place. And when the Golem is finally found, it will complicate things beyond comprehension.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.

Director: Alberto Lattuada
Stars: Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Giulio Stival
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy

Based on Nikolai Gogol’s story with the location changed from Russia to Italy and the time changed to the present (1952), the story is about a poor city-hall clerk (Renato Rascel) whose only desire is for a new overcoat.

Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A fairly well-to-do family takes in two troubled orphans.

Director: David Miller
Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
Genre: Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Mandy Garland was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life. Her parents believe she is able to speak if she can only be taught and enroll her with a special teacher.

Director: Charles Crichton
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Lilia Prado, Carmelita González, Esteban Mayo
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico

A newly-wed country boy receives the terrible news that his mother is dying, and takes a long and dangerous bus trip to the city to contact a notary for her last will and testament. Will he resist temptation and do the right thing?

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Eiji Okada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother’s attempt to sustain her family.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Edmond Ardisson, Henri Arius, Charles Blavette
Genre: Drama
Country: France

To revenge her father’s death, Manon blocks the source from which the village gets water.

Director: George More O’Ferrall
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Their story includes a remembrance of their World War II trials.

Director: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

Director: Rudolph Maté
Stars: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

As a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically work to complete the rocket which will take them to their new home.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Cynthia Barret, Terry Chapman, Frank Ionson
Genre: Short
Country: Canada

Maya Deren’s unfinished short film from 1951, “Ensemble for Somnambulists”, set to DeVotchKa’s “How It Ends”.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently began settling there.

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Stars: Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: East Germany

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below.

Director: Roberto Gavaldón
Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Leticia Palma, Ramón Gay
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico

A fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the errors of his ways.

Director: Isidore Isou
Stars: Isidore Isou, Jean-Louis Barrault, Blanchette Brunoy
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.

Director: Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. However, Mary’s brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.

Director: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher
Stars: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Vicky Barton visits Paris with her brother Johnny, only to discover the following morning he has gone missing and the hotel staff have no recollection of his presence.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit. She’s always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko’s sister) tries to reunite them, although secretly she loves him too.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiko Kuga, Ken Uehara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Young servant girl Hamako has just started working for her personal heroine, Madame Yuki. Her romanticized view of the Madame is broken immediately, as she is introduced with a list of the Madame’s personal problems.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A black doctor is assigned to treat two white racist suspects who are brothers, and when one dies, it causes tension that could start a race riot.

Director: Thor Heyerdahl
Stars: Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway | Sweden

A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Saro Urzì
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy

The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.

Director: Hasse Ekman
Stars: Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Birgit Tengroth
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden

The young Dagmar Brink commits suicide. Her belongings are inherited by the resident caretaker in the house she lived in. The caretaker, who never knew her, wonders why and make contact with the people who knew her to find out why she killed herself.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A naive nineteen year old widow becomes coarsened and cynical when she is sent to a woman’s prison and is exposed to hardened criminals and sadistic guards.

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.