Tag: Priority 4

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: William Redfield, Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A director tries to film a group of junkies in Leach’s room while they are waiting for Cowboy to bring their heroin connection.

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it’s too late.

Director: Allen Baron
Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Having been ‘away’ for some time, professional killer Frankie Bono returns to New York to do another job: assassinate some mid-level mobster. Although intending to avoid unnecessary ‘contact’ while carefully stalking his victim, Bono is recognized by an old fellow from the orphanage, whose calm and unambitious citizen’s life and happy marriage contrast heavily with Bono’s solitary and haunted existence.

Director: David Swift
Stars: Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Stars: Brad Harris, Sergio Ciani, Mara Berni
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Country: Italy | France

While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power.

Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in the gang start to turn on each other.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Sensitive story of a British girl’s awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend’s party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend Juan, a Spanish activist who had recently broken up with Terry.

Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Anna Magnani, Totò, Ben Gazzara
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

On New Year’s Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year’s party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally she runs into an old acting acquaintance (Toto), who is helping a professional pickpocket (Ben Gazzara) steal from people during the hustle-bustle of New Year’s Eve festivities.

Director: Robert Day
Stars: Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days’ sentence left, and the perfect alibi, what could possibly go wrong?

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Jean-Loup Reynold
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: France

A social commentary on post-war France’s urban developments.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

The World War II story of the Royal Navy’s effort to defeat Nazi Germany’s most powerful warship.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when they are married. When the town learns about his trouble they start laughing at him.

Director: Zivorad ‘Zika’ Mitrovic
Stars: Aleksandar Gavric, Petar Prlicko, Dimitar Kostarov
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Lesi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a ruthless, German-trained soldier Kosta and by Ahmet, the brother of the famous Captain.

Director: Francesco Maselli
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Gérard Blain, Anna Maria Ferrero
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Richard Quine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

A businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Yûsuke Kawazu, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jun Fujimaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle’s family – wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer – and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bullied/ fights with local boys, goes to the baths, plays basketball, is befriended by his male cousin and becomes friendly with grade 4 girl who’s the daughter of the innkeeper, who employs his mum and is the longterm mistress of a businessman from another town, who’s the girl’s father and who brings her half sister and brother to meet her but they’re mean to her.

Director: Erwin Leiser
Stars: Paul Klinger, Claude Stephenson, Louis Arbessier
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: Sweden | West Germany

“Mein Kampf” presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life Hitler, which is told since he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of artist living in slums in Austria and Germany, until his suicide in 1945 after being the responsible for the death of million of people, and the destruction of Europe. All the footage is real and belonged to a secret file of Goebbels, inclusive with many very strong scenes filmed by Goebbels himself.

Director: Guy Green
Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.

Director: James Algar
Stars: Winston Hibler
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA

This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In this sequel to “Knock On Any Door”, the residents of a Chicago tenement building band together to insure that the son of Nick Romano does not follow in his father’s footsteps…to the electric chair.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Danièle Gaubert, Roland Lesaffre, Maurice Caffarelli
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Young Danny, better known as Tomb, is the toughest in a street gang in Paris. She dresses as a boy and fights like a man.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Jean Sorel, Lea Massari, Jeanne Valérie
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

The ironic study of a young man’s poignant and sensual adventures based on “Roman Tales” by Alberto Moravia.

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

At the height of his fame, Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is (correctly) believed to be a romantic relationship with Queensberry’s son Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”), who is twenty years Wilde’s junior. When Queensberry slanders Wilde, the artist decides to take the matter to court and brings about his own downfall.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yôko Tani, Peter O’Toole
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France | UK

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

In UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer’s field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and for the money.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it’s carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France

Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists’ movement in Japan.

Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Samoylova, Vasiliy Livanov
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: José Isbert, Pedro Porcel, José Luis López Vázquez
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Ali, Père Gauthier, Monsieur Klein
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | France

A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, Bradford Dillman
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Three performers for six roles: this is the game of the film. A melodrama about two love triangles.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kayoko Honoo, Kôji Nakahara, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

In Osaka’s slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, while being married, is experiencing domestic problems and has moved back in. The latter woman’s husband soon dies however making the move permanent.

Director: Robert Montgomery
Stars: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA

A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.

Director: John Gilling
Stars: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK

In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.

Director: Stanley Donen
Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.

Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie (Shirley Knight) is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden (Lee Kinsolving), and his son is a mama’s boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt (Dame Angela Lansbury).

Director: Robert Drew
Stars: Robert Drew, Hubert H. Humphrey, Muriel Buck Humphrey
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA

Cinéma vérité feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.

Director: Harry Keller
Stars: Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, Venetia Stevenson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

In World War II, during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the lost remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ, led by the ruthless Captain Alan Langford, escapes through the jungle toward the British lines.

Director: Clifford Odets
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) and hard drinking photographer Delmas (Pierre Grasset) on an assignment to find him. Their only lead is a picture of three women.

Director: Bernhard Wicki
Stars: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany

In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

The turn of the seasons in the forest is depicted in relation to a decomposing dog corpse.

Director: Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK | USA

The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi (Franca Valeri) who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis, Sylviane Margollé
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France

Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier’s lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people’s behavior can be adjusted at will.

Director: Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.

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

As a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang’s rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigret does not believe in this.

Director: Valerio Zurlini
Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lilla Brignone
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy | France

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys’ room. Spence’s crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father’s attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.’s Civil Rights Era.

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Noriko Kitazawa, Katsuko Wakasugi
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan

The ghost of a samurai’s wife takes revenge on her husband.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.

Director: Margot Benacerraf
Stars: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff
Genre: Documentary
Country: Venezuela | France

“Araya” is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the “salineros” and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.

Director: Bert Stern
Stars: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town’s folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

Director: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden
Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, realizing that he can exploit his secret.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A man and a woman who share a party line cannot stand each other, but he has fun romancing her with his voice disguised.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Myrrena Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Stan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: West Germany

A miniature epic set in Ancient Rome and “inspired” by the then popular television series 77 Sunset Strip (1958).

Director: Frank Wisbar
Stars: Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss
Genre: War, Drama
Country: West Germany

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.

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

Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Gérard Philipe, María Félix, Jean Servais
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Mexico

Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor’s post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | USA

A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Kim Novak, Glenda Farrell, Jan Norris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Laura Adani, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Barbara Lass, Roman Polanski, Henryk Kluba
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland

A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men’s lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out — of illness, assignation, and routine — a few tips her only acknowledgment.

Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Ireland | USA

In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being lead by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.

Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An aspiring journalist’s story of his aged uncle doctor leads to the uncle’s life being profiled on TV.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
Genre: Adventure, Romance, War
Country: USA

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit’s doctor cause frictions within ranks.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A flashback story of a young man, from his disgraced birth ,his harsh life and his forbidden love, until when broken-hearted, can break out in search of a place where to live means more than being alive.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Roman Polanski
Genre: Short, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland

In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday’s end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop’s seemingly lifeless denizens?

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital owned by Dr. Varmont, a supporter of traditional treatments, in constant conflict with Dr. Emery, whose therapy takes the psychology of patients into account.

Director: Renato Castellani
Stars: Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Story concerns a young girl who comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.

Director: Henry Barakat
Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt

This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family’s honor.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK

In British India, a young prince must be taken to safey across rebel-held territory, and an old train is the only way to do it.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: UK

In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
Stars: Ligia Branice
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Poland

A short film in which a woman living alone in an apartment has a series of bizarre hallucinations.

Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Stars: Jacques Charrier, Charles Aznavour, Dany Robin
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. They confront every possible difficulty.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor’s vassal, prefers Ouso’s stepbrother Waka, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father’s castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA

Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s’ Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Machiko Kyô, Ganjirô Nakamura, Junko Kanô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard’s prime suspect.

Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Madeleine Robinson, Antonella Lualdi, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A wealthy wine grower has trouble with his wife, his children, his best friend, and his mistress across the way, who is murdered.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Two detectives seek a stripper’s killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship.

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don’t go according to plan.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Pascale Petit, Andréa Parisy, Jacques Charrier
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bob is invited to a party and becomes Clo’s lover, a rich heiress.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | UK

Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond’s old love interest, comes to Raymond’s villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Georges Rouquier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Chris Marker travelogue in Siberia.

Director: Philip Dunne
Stars: Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

At her father’s funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that there was in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA

When ranch hand Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of a powerful rancher, he panics and flees, but the rancher and his vengeful crew hunt Tod down.

Director: Robert Hossein
Stars: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Odile Versois
Genre: Mystery
Country: France | Italy

One dark night, in the deserted streets of Nice, an American car slowly drives past Victor Menda, then slowly pulls up. A come on from the mysterious blonde at the wheel leads to Victor finds himself kissing and making love to the gorgeous creature. But as soon as the embrace is over the mantis-like beauty rejects him and, under the threat of a gun, makes him leave the car.

Director: Seth Holt, Basil Dearden
Stars: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | USA

In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code.

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA

Jacobowsky, a Jewish refugee, flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic, anti-semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. Jurgens learns to appreciate Kaye, despite their competition for the same woman, and together they outwit their pursuers.

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.

Director: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK

During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette (Dorothy Tutin) falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay (Paul Guers), who’s hiding his true identity and purpose.

Director: Leslie Norman
Stars: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force’s 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Mercedes Quadros, Míka van Bloemen, Helen Ulman
Genre: Short
Country: UK

A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building.

Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

At Kimberley Prescott’s villa, a stranger shows-up and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A Confederate veteran living in the Yankee North struggles with his son’s shock induced muteness and the hate of the Northerners.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Franca Bettoia
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the metal shop… While visiting his family, Andrea notices a young woman on the beach with her soldier boyfriend.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Goichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temple that was owned by his father, through a series of flashbacks, framed as a police interrogation, Mizoguchi unravels the story of his obsession with the temple beginning with his childhood.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK

During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town’s jail, but they escape to Mexico.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tony Britton, Carl Möhner
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death of their patient through neglect.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Misako Watanabe, Kô Nishimura
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan

A real gem from Imamura. A very dark crime comedy.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Dorothée Blanck, Antoine Bourseiller, André Rousselet
Genre: Short, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

Director: Denys de La Patellière
Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Ducaux, Jean Desailly
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. He manages his financial and commercial concerns with an iron grip, leaving little room for his son François to prove himself.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA

Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he’s driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

WW2 drama that follows the lives of three young men, one German and two Americans, during wartime.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Switzerland

Ina time before the New Wave,when aspiring French cineastes could only hope to make shorts, due to restrictions on career advancement, Godard ,working in Switzerland, funded, wrote, and directed a look at the construction of a dam there.

Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA

Thornton Wilder’s tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she’s supposed to be pairing with another woman.

Director: Andrzej Munk
Stars: Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II.

Director: Daniel Mann, George Cukor
Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it’s slowly falling apart, a fact she’s trying to ignore. Her cheating husband’s birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA

A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
Stars: Minoru Ôki, Takahiro Tamura, Seiji Miyaguchi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

Two cops on stakeout wait for a murderer.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: M.E. Clifton James, John Mills, Cecil Parker
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

During World War II, a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German intelligence.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK | USA

This movie is based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland’s autobiography “The London Cage”. The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland’s experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.

Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Lawyer Tommy Farrell is a defender of crooks. Vicki Gaye encourages him to go straight, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.

Director: Saul Gilbert, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ruth Michelly
Stars: Denise Brossot, Rolande Polya, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Genre: Short
Country: France

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.

Director: Ken Annakin
Stars: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Bernard Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A wealthy businessman attempts to run to Mexico to escape capture for embezzlement. On the way, he switches identities for a visa but that only complicates matters.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Nikola Todorow
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

A man walks down the exterior staircase of building of flats; he’s dressed to go out, taking care to wrap a scarf around his neck. He pauses as he passes a small window that’s about eye high. He ventures to look in, and there a young woman stands at a washbasin, drying her hair, the towel that obscures her face her only covering.

Director: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O’Sullivan
Genre: Romance, Thriller, Western
Country: USA

An independent former ranch foreman is kidnapped along with an heiress, who is being held for ransom by trio of ruthless outlaws.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Daisuke Katô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK

A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Dany Carrel, Jacques Duby
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital. His first attempts are not too successful though as he is rebuffed by Valérie Vabre, the neurotic wife of the landlord of the block of flats he is accommodated in. As for the affair he starts with Caroline Hédouin, the married owner of “Au Bonheur des Dames”, the shop where he works, the least we can say is that it lacks passion.

Director: Sergey Gerasimov
Stars: Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kirienko
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union

A six-hour long epic (original director’s cut) about the life of Don Cossacs in a village in southern Russia between 1912 and 1922. The leading character Grigori Melekhov is a rugged Cossac, who is torn between his first and true love Aksiniya, and his wife Natalya. Grigori Melekhov’s personal life is shown as a rough journey through the experience of World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | USA

An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail, and murder.

Director: Shirô Toyoda
Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Kaoru Yachigusa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA

During World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another as the two hope for a rescue.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Kenji Sugawara
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.

Director: Charles Vidor
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

Frank Sinatra plays Joe E. Lewis, a famous comedian of the 1930s-50s. When the movie opens, Lewis is a young, talented singer who performs in speakeasies. When he bolts one job for another, the mob boss who owns the first speakeasy has his thugs try to kill Lewis.

Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Ex-con trucker tries to expose his boss’ rackets.

Director: Joshua Logan
Stars: Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

An old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed “The Flea Pit”, and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief.

Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Stars: Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times.

Director: Arnold Laven
Stars: Gillo Pontecorvo, Maleno Malenotti
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France | West Germany | Yugoslavia

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs.

Director: Arnold Laven
Stars: Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A brave longshoreman lingers on after being gunned down by 3 racketeers, as a determined assistant D.A. searches hard for fearful witnesses against the men.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Anthony Franciosa
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her, she becomes involved with his trusted assistant.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK | USA

In 1905, Lord Henry Loam, his family and his servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

Youths get ready for a party, decorating the dance floor, cleaning out the fountain of a pond. That evening, the party starts and guests arrive: everyone has a ticket, and a guy at the gate, wearing a formal shirt, tails, and shorts, makes sure only those with tickets gain entrance.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Richard Bakalyan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.

Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A seasick sea Captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.

Director: Jack Webb
Stars: Jack Webb, Don Dubbins, Jackie Loughery
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A no-nonsense Drill Instructor is convinced that he can make a recruit, that is haunted by his family combat history and who falters under pressure, into a Marine.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Crime
Country: Poland

The camera shows us a door handle and the door’s striker plate; from this angle, they form a cross. The door opens and in steps someone in a dark trench coat.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In California, four couples who have bought homes and are neighbors face money problems, alcoholism, racism, promiscuity, and discrimination against lack of education, until a tragic event forces them to reassess their lives.

Director: Frank Tashlin
Stars: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Pierre Mondy
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Mid-aged married truck driver falls in love with a young waitress he meets while making a break on a long trip. They try to make it work, but she can’t get a decent job or place to stay in his town. Things get worse when the man gets fired and his family find out. And there’s more complications to follow for both of them…

Director: Robert Day, Basil Dearden
Stars: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.

Director: James Algar
Stars: Winston Hibler
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA

A feature-length documentary showing the changing world of nature, the sky, the sea, the sun, planets, insects and volcanic action. A story of nature’s strange and intricate designs for survival and her many methods of perpetuating life.

Director: Grigoriy Chukhray
Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Genre: War, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

Director: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA

A former sheriff blames himself for his wife’s death during a Wells Fargo robbery and vows to track down and kill the seven men responsible.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life, finally finds a man she believes truly loves her, but she snaps when she finds out that he, too, is cheating on her, and she kills her boyfriend’s mistress.

Director: R.G. Springsteen
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In 1920s Arkansas, after a 12 year absence, reformed alcoholic Matt Ballot returns to his abandoned family but has to win them back and regain his hometown’s respect too.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A blind American writer living in London stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy involving kidnapping and extortion.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France | Mexico

Chark, an adventurer, comes to a small village near a diamond miners’ camp. He is arrested by the local police who accuse him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town.

Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Police drama. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Eleni Zafeiriou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece

Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love’s unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK

Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Magali Noël
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor’s wife.

Director: Rudolph Maté
Stars: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.

Director: Charles Lamont
Stars: Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Ma and the kids head back to the Ozarks for a visit with Pa’s brother Uncle Sedge. He’s working his way through a twenty years long relationship with Miss Bedelia Baines.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Polish countess Elena falls in love to a French radical party’s candidate, a general, in pre-World War I Paris, but another officer pines for her.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.

Director: Roger Vadim
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop.She arranges a loan when her rigid family won’t help and then her husband becomes jealous of the loan officer.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher’s wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.

Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

During the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster.

Director: Joshua Logan
Stars: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Emotions are ignited amongst the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labour Day picnic.

Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Police drama. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Ôki
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to his team.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

The wife of a physician who diligently cares for the poor, grows weary of their dull South France factory town and pressures her older husband to move to glorious Nice, on the Mediterranean. Dr. Valerio particularly empathizes with Sandro, the farm foreman for the town’s wealthy factory owner, Gorzone. Sandro’s preoccupation with caring for his ill wife, Magda, angers Gorzone.

Director: José Ferrer
Stars: José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.

Director: Robert D. Webb
Stars: Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Marshal Cass Silver has to deal with his old nemesis, a corrupt gambler, and his hired guns come to town as well as recurring bouts of blindness.

Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle
Stars: Frédéric Dumas, Albert Falco, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Italy

This pioneering nature documentary investigates aquatic habitats in various locations around the world. It doesn’t shy away from the brutality present in the natural world, but it also paints a fascinating picture of underwater exploration.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: António Cruz
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Portugal

A painter wanders around the city of Oporto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Gilles Quéant
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking, a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Kô Mishima, Torahiko Hamada, Keiko Kishi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

Director: Hugo del Carril
Stars: Laura Hidalgo, Hugo del Carril, Pedro Laxalt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina

A man who deeply loves his wife, tears before his death by disease. After falling into despair, she embarks on a journey trying to forget but, in Paris, he meets a look-alike of his beloved.

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

In 1883 South Dakota, two buffalo hunters start a personal feud over a captured squaw and a stand-off with a Dakota raiding party over some stolen horses.

Director: Lionel Rogosin
Stars: Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

At the time of this film, the Bowery was a neighborhood in New York City populated largely by the down and out, and largely by transients. Those that can work generally can only find short term employment on a day to day basis, their daily earnings which primarily go into booze. Those that can’t or won’t work generally sponge off whoever they can, especially for that next drink. New to the neighborhood is Ray, who most recently had been working the rails in New Jersey. He is one of those who can and still does work, but like the others spends what little money he has on booze, which means he usually sleeps on the streets in a drunken stupor.

Director: Jack Lee
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK

A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.

Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Judy Holliday, John Williams, Paul Douglas
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.

Director: Russell Rouse
Stars: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

In the western frontier town of Cross Creek storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past.When three bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses George Temple’s past comes back to haunt him.

Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Yves Demy, Georges Rouquier
Genre: Documentary, Short, Drama
Country: France

This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker’s meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.

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

Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year’s time.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Albin Skoda, Oskar Werner, Lotte Tobisch
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany | Austria

The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich during World War 2.

Director: Eric Fawcett
Stars: Alfie Bass, David Kossoff, Alan Tilvern
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: UK

The ghost of a poor warehouse clerk who died from the cold persuades a tailor to steal a coat.

Director: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The emotional story of a lifelong friendship between a Boston rookie cop and a young street-wise delinquent.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

Director: Helmut Käutner
Stars: Curd Jürgens, Viktor de Kowa, Karl John
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany

1941, the Third Reich seems to be winning the war. Luftwaffe (air force) general Harry Harras enjoys the good life as highly respected technician and Berlin ministry/ HQ official. However his outspoken critical attitude at social occasions awakes hopes from opposition and suspicion from the Nazi party.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Don Redlich, Lee Cole, Helen England
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA

An experimental film by Stan Brakhage documenting a series of male and female relationships.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.

Director: Russell Rouse
Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A top syndicate crime boss and his corrupt politicians, make multi-million deals and order murders , until the vicious pattern finally catches up to him.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

In early 1900s England, a maid tries to blackmail her master into romancing her when she discovers he murdered his wife.

Director: Lewis R. Foster
Stars: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: France | Spain | Switzerland

An American adventurer investigates the past of the mysterious tycoon Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), placing himself in grave danger.

Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an “escape-proof” German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

Director: Kurt Hoffmann
Stars: Paul Dahlke, Günther Lüders, Claus Biederstaedt
Genre: Comedy
Country: Austria

A rich man wins a vacation at a hotel but takes it in the disguise of a poor man under the supervision of his butler. The hotel manager gets tipped off about the plot, but misidentifies a money-less doctor as the eccentric.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland

Story of youths during the German occupation of Poland in the World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

A British fortune-hunter playboy is killing his rich wives in order to inherit their wealth.

Director: Jesse Hibbs
Stars: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.

Director: Helmut Käutner
Stars: Erik Schumann, Eva Kotthaus, Georg Thomalla
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: West Germany

A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.

Director: Tomu Uchida
Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Chizuru Kitagawa
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

A samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Narutoshi Hayashi, Raizô Ichikawa, Tatsuya Ishiguro
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan

After his father is not rewarded for his military achievements, Taira Kiyomori rebels against the court and the monks who rule the country. He also falls in love with Tokiko and discovers unsettling revelations about his parentage.

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a Prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war, and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to another totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to get a confession of guilt against the state from the strong willed man, and thus destroy his power over his people.

Director: Rudolph Maté
Stars: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A bitter land dispute causes a Civil War veteran to take extreme action.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A short film by Stan Brakhage in which New York City’s Third Avenue elevated train is filmed before its destruction.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Marianne Hold, Horst Buchholz, Pierre Vaneck
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France | West Germany

A young man in a Bavarian boarding school falls in love with a mysterious girl.

Director: Leslie Norman
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft’s fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.

Director: Henri Decoin
Stars: Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Lino Ventura
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable – and soon he is master of all links of the organization.

Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.

Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

The story of how the British attacked German dams in World War II by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A mad doctor attempts to create atomic supermen.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

Director: Falk Harnack
Stars: Wolfgang Preiss, Annemarie Düringer, Robert Freitag
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany

A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Alastair Sim
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

This movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his “causes” he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are going to be expelled for fighting, which he finds ironic, in as much as the father is a known pacifist. When they get to the school, their sons have disappeared.

Director: José Ferrer
Stars: José Ferrer, June Allyson, Joy Page
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A successful theatrical director is driven to failure by the machinations of his vengeful wife. Eventually, he lands in a mental hospital where both his wife and his new love, a young actress named Charlotte, are waiting to see him.

Director: Lewis Allen
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA

The rise of Peter Marshall, from modest Scottish upbringing, to New York seminary, time in Atlanta churches, his marriage, appointment as chaplain of the US Senate, and early death at 46. Based on real events.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Francis
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50-year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A drifter working as foreman for an iron-fist female rancher must chose sides between his attractive employer and the other neighboring settlers who are mistreated by her.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit’s funds.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | UK

From the Louis Hemon novel “M. Ripois and His Nemesis” about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London.

Director: Charles Crichton
Stars: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A story of litigation between a birth mother and an adopted family due to a child lost during a war.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | West Germany | Monaco

Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover’s jealous ex-girlfriend. The plot, an experiment in causing fear, drives her into a rage.

Director: Robert Vernay
Stars: Jean Marais, Lia Amanda, Daniel Ivernel
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d’If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico

A partial retelling of Wuthering Heights in 19th century Mexico.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker’s wife following a murder on a train where they meet.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An amnesiac finally learns his true identity…as a murder suspect. And he doesn’t even know whether he is guilty…

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.

Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

When a young girl is found dead an inspector is sent to investigate a prosperous Yorkshire household. It emerges that each member of the family has a guilty secret – each one is partly responsible for her death.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Totò, Lianella Carell, Pasquale Cennamo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

A portrait of the people, the defects and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA

During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Columba Domínguez, Miguel Torruco, Joaquín Cordero
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village.

Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A rooming house landlady recalls her past in flashbacks.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Dan O’Herlihy, Jaime Fernández, Felipe de Alba
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico | USA

The classic story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA

The saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880’s Arizona.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend’s death. Len, a petty thief who has just killed a pub owner during a botched robbery, learns of the accident.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Larry Jordan, Yvonne Fair, Taggart Deike
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: USA

An anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There’s a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the ill-fated ship.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Don Hollenbeck, Paul Hall
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Stanley Kubrick’s first film made in color, lost for over forty years. The documentary extols the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.

Director: Hilton Edwards
Stars: Michael Laurence, Shelah Richards, Helena Hughes
Genre: Short, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland

Orson Welles, on break from filming Othello, relates a tale he heard one spooky Irish midnight not so long ago when, driving through the countryside, he picked up a man with car trouble who told of a strange encounter with two hitchhikers.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Etchika Choureau, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jacques Sempey
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA

Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Carmilla Salvatorelli
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A man dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d’Este.

Director: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Stanley Holloway, Joan Rice, Odile Versois
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.

Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK | Italy | USA

On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen…

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

A truckdriver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti, Gaby Morlay
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is love at first sight. Life is wonderful for a while but André wants to marry her only if she remains at home.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Toshirô Ide, Yôko Mizuki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Uptight man and hot wife rent a room from a laidback colleague. The colleague and wife get on like a house on fire, while the husband is alternately jealous and sulky. Marital strife ensures, culminating in a long overdue house move and an unwelcome pregnancy. Includes general musing on marital politics.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The spectacular but tragically short career of magician and illusionist Harry Houdini whose tricks defied explanation and safety.

Director: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA

An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.

Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Released from prison after twelve years, a wrongfully convicted British man seeks revenge on the witnesses who lied at his trial.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane’s pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.

Director: Ida Lupino
Stars: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.

Director: Roy Boulting
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

In 1940, Canadian sailor Andrew Brown is prisoner on a battle damaged German raider and he plans to delay the raider’s at-sea repairs until a British naval task-force can destroy it.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Adrienne Corri
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK

A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War. His son’s death has developed antagonism by MacKenzie toward all Dutchmen, which leads to Harry brawling at school with the son of a Dutchman.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A tough, hard-driving business tycoon suffers a broken leg and is left to die in the desert by his scheming wife and her greedy lover.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Arturo Bragaglia
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany | USA

Biopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.

Director: Henry Cornelius
Stars: Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

It’s time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other. Along the way, some old jealousies are kindled to the point where the two men decide to have a “friendly” wager on who will be the first back to London.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A mean bourgeois meets up with his twin brother again .

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Michel Simon, Marguerite Pierry, Laurence Badie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A mean bourgeois meets up with his twin brother again .

Director: John Ford
Stars: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley’s cheating wife Linda.

Director: Charles Walters
Stars: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

Director: Henry Levin
Stars: Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, John McIntire
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, the film begins when he meets Rachel Donaldson Robards. The plot concentrates on the scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Keiko Awaji, Motoji Fujiwara, Chieko Higashiyama
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A young student (Akira Inshihama) falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to an invalid girl (Keiko Awaji) whom he can only see from afar.

Director: George More O’Ferrall
Stars: Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

An unhappily married British security officer stationed in Sierra Leone during World War II falls in love with a young Austrian woman and starts an affair. He soon starts feeling guilty.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: UK

In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West-Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet-sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smuggler.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | USA

Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome’s Stazione Termini.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: UK

The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.

Director: Joseph M. Newman
Stars: Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Max Showalter
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

When a beautiful bride boards an ocean liner with her new husband, he goes into hiding, and she becomes the target of a murder conspiracy.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Eddie Byrne, Jane Barrett, Robert Brown
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Because of its high productivity and “almost” 100 per cent employment, the village of Little Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The “almost” is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Arthur Franz, Adolphe Menjou, Gerald Mohr
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Walter Newcomb, Janice Hubka
Genre: Drama, Short, Romance
Country: USA

A young man strolls through a city. He walks under a bridge toward a rail yard. A young woman sees him and walks beside him. They cross the tracks and walk into the countryside. They stop at a river. They hold hands. It starts to rain; it’s a downpour. They seek shelter in an abandoned shack. They kiss, long and hard. It stops raining; they leave together but seem alone. They part at the railroad tracks. She watches him go, but he doesn’t look back

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Dany Robin, Michel Auclair, Hildegard Knef
Genre: Comedy
Country: France