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Director: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Stars: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce occurs.

Director: John Boulting
Stars: Robert Donat, Maria Schell, Renée Asherson
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

A chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.

Director: Georges Lacombe
Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Valère, Gérard Oury
Genre: Drama
Country: France

After an accident Raymond has gone blind .His family treats him like a child .But fortunately ,a nun comes to his rescue.She works in a center where blind people learn to read with the Braille alphabet.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France

Through a series of circumstances and plot twists an enterprising man manages to get away with murdering his wife, even though he cheerfully admits his guilt in court.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Mary Herries (Ethel Barrymore) has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Harry Springer Elcott (Maurice Evans), who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in her is to covet everything she has.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Suzanne Cloutier, Jean-Roger Caussimon
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard.

Director: John Berry
Stars: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Fred Stadtmueller, Bob Hite, Pedro
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock with the aid of a monoplane. The priestly pilot is seen dashing from one province to the next at the helm of his trusty Piper Cub administering guidance (his plane, the Flying Padre) to unruly children, sermonizing at funerals and flying a sickly child and its mother to a hospital.

Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Daniel Gélin, Anne Vernon, Elina Labourdette
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Edouard is a pianist, married with Caroline. This evening, they are invited to Claude’s. Claude is the snobbish uncle of Caroline, his son Alain (as snobbish as his father) is in love with Caroline. They spite Edouard a little because he’s poor.

Director: Stephan Streker
Stars: Bea Diallo, Pascal Mercier
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Belgium

In boxing, winning a fight means you’ve taken a step up on the ladder of success. But if you lose, it’s back to rung number one. That day, the day of the fight, can make or break you.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK

During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters.

Director: Norman Foster
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When Frank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder, he’s pursued around scenic San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the murderer.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrew Ray
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

In 1875 London, young Wheeler (who lives by scavenging) finds a cameo of Queen Victoria, which he thinks so beautiful, he risks his life to save it. Possessed of a desire to see the Queen, he slips past the Beefeaters and wanders about Windsor Castle, just when a state dinner is in preparation.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Three women who secretly gave their new-born sons up for adoption in 1945, wonder if the 5-year old survivor of a plane crash, named in the local newspapers, is their long-abandoned son.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals money from the office of a shady lawyer – with catastrophic consequences.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.

Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA

In 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous, that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A small town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor when a human skeleton is found on a Massachusetts beach.

Director: Ken Annakin, Harold French
Stars: James Hayter, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, “The Verger”, “Mr. Know-All”, and “The Sanatorium” are introduced by the author.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Stig Olin, Birger Malmsten
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can’t get along.

Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK

In post-WW2 Europe, when the dictator of a small police state dies during surgery, the operating surgeon, who’s a visiting American doctor, is held captive in order to preserve the terrible state secret.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.

Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Stars: Barry Jones, André Morell, Olive Sloane
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

When a scientist threatens to detonate a powerful bomb in the heart of London, Scotland Yard has just seven days to find him before it is too late.

Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who’s a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.

Director: Yves Allégret
Stars: Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Jacques Baumer
Genre: Drama
Country: France

After having spent all his money to fullfill the smallest wish of his wife Dora, Robert is still madly in love with her. Now, she is at agony, and her mother comes. She will reveal to Robert how he has been fooled. Through some flashbacks, we will see the story through Robert’s or his mother-in-law’s eyes.

Director: Henry Cass
Stars: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

When a lonely, unappreciated farm equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a “posh” resort.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother’s help in hiding the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

After the Civil War, a highly decorated Shoshone Indian veteran plans to raise cattle in Wyoming but white farmers plan to grab fertile tribal lands by pitting the whites against the Indians.

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

While on vacation in a Latin American country, an American neurosurgeon and his wife become tangled in a revolutionary uprising against a tyrannical dictator.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A young trumpeter enjoys highs (musical success, fame, and fortune) and lows (sour marriage, death of his mentor, bout with alcoholism).

Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Signe Hasso, Alf Kjellin, Ulf Palme
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden

A story of two refugees – wife and husband – from the dictatorship. Their quiet life in a new free country is impossible because of the husband’s dark secret.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Claude Revenant, André Soubeyran, Nadine Valence
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

Pierrot waxes romantic, entranced by the moon. Harlequin appears and bullies him, then uses a magic lantern to project an image of Columbine. Pierrot tries to court the illusory Columbine unsuccessfully, then enters a mystical moon-realm from which he returns dead.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad crash victim and starts a new life with the woman’s wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole Courcel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Henri Chatelard is well in his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate women. When he meets Marie, a 18ish stronghead who just lost her father in a small fishermen village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.

Director: Gordon Douglas
Stars: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him.

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Michel Auclair, Antoine Balpêtré, Raymond Bussières
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The Marshal summons the jury and an insight is given into the background of the seven jurors who are to decide on the guilt of the accused, a sick man’s mistress on trail for his mercy killing.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Domineering Harriet Craig holds more regard for her home and its possessions than she does for any person in her life. Among those she treats like household objects are her kind husband Walter, whom she has lied to about her inability to have children; her cousin Claire, whom she treats like a secretary; and her servants whom she treats like slaves.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt’s estate.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A New York socialite climbs the ladder of success man by man until a life among rich gangsters gives her what she thought she always wanted.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.

Director: Byron Haskin
Stars: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.

Director: Emlyn Williams
Stars: Edith Evans, Emlyn Williams, Richard Burton
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A peaceful North Wales village is about to disappear once and for all under the waters of a dam that is about to be built by a powerful water company commanded by a city businessman, at one time a local resident of the place. It’s time for the simple villagers to take action and try to save the only place they know and love.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Ib Koch-Olsen
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Denmark

Documentary short film about the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), one of the most famous Danish sculptors, who spent a good part of his life in Italy.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

Director: Mark Robson
Stars: Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Kent Smith
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An army lieutenant accused of robbery pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief’s fiancee.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An L.A. department store ambitious young model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn’t always a happy one.

Director: Robert Hamer
Stars: Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK

A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Yvonne Marquis
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920s style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are dancing. She picks one – in puce. She puts it on, delighted, adds perfume, languishes on a chaise for a few minutes, then goes for her walk. It all has a 20s feel.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Chao Li Chi
Genre: Short
Country: USA

The setting with the low walls and river views is located in a private area of The Cloisters museum.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A group of sisters experience life’s difficulties and its pleasures while growing up in nineteenth-century America.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

A small town corrupt sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children’s hospital.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

Resentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.

Director: John Farrow
Stars: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Auber, Nicole Courcel
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Suzy Delair, Fernand Ledoux, Paul Bernard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An eccentric man (Paul Bernard) endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend (Suzy Delair) of a saloon keeper (Fernand Ledoux).

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: France

An adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s classic French novel ‘Manon Lescaut’, updated to post-World War II France, in which a former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from villagers who want to lynch her for collaborating with the Nazis. They move to Paris, but their relationship quickly turns stormy after they get involved in profiteering, prostitution and murder.

Director: Don Hartman
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young widow is romanced by a sales clerk whom she inadvertently got fired.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone
Genre: Western
Country: USA

In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.

Director: Henri Decoin
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Robinson, Léo Lapara
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

A police detective with a striking resemblance for a murdered criminal impersonates the deceased to identify his murderer.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart
Genre: History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.

Director: Thorold Dickinson
Stars: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman’s spirit.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The Passionate Friends were in love when young, but separated, and she married an older man. Then Mary Justin (Ann Todd) meets Steven Stratton (Trevor Howard) again and they have one last fling together in the Alps.

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A provincial doctor’s wife’s romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.

Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Geremio, a young Italian immigrant to New York City, works as a bricklayer and is courting an Italian girl, Annunziata, by mail. He lies to her that he owns his own home and, after they are married, has to rent one for their three-day honeymoon.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Kenneth Anger, Gordon Gray, Bill Seltzer
Genre: Short, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A wordless film, save for a voice-over introducing us to the imagery of dreams. A shirtless young man dreams of awakening to finds photographs of a muscular sailor carrying him in his arms.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. He has seen other players come and go, but he was MVP last year and the future looks rosy. But Pete discovers that he has a condition that may end his career and all that he knows is football.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

Whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling trip to teach him core life values while First Mate Dan Lunceford is tasked with tutoring Jed.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A beautiful psychology professor tries to hide a self-defense killing.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Stars: Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon
Stars: Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife’s past. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Olof Winnerstrand
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A blind musician falls in love with a kindhearted girl. This love begin to confront with his disease and with his music.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph’s endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.

Director: Bretaigne Windust
Stars: Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A magazine’s staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.

Director: Maurice Tourneur
Stars: Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Marcel Herrand
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Marianne, a stage actress, has decided to give up her career in order to marry a wealthy nobleman, Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and to steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Joe Sullivan has taken the rap for Rick who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.

Director: John Farrow
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

When phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live of anonymity.

Director: H.C. Potter, Walter Lantz
Stars: Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple fiancés embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm
Genre: Action, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

Director: Irving Reis
Stars: David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and the subsequent romance between her and Lark’s nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple don’t make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Fredric March, Dan Duryea, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

This ‘prequel’ to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.

Director: Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ralph Smart
Stars: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Four of W. Somerset Maugham’s short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini, Peparuolo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

In the first episode, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In the second, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

Alison Courtland wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she cannot remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Nine-Christine Jönsson, Bengt Eklund, Mimi Nelson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A suicidal factory girl out of reformatory school, anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can’t forgive her past.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Lana Marconi, Émile Drain
Genre: History
Country: France

From the late 18th thru the early 19th century Talleyrand, known for his skill at compromise, serves 6 regimes.A George Arliss style vehicle gave Guitry, accused of opportunism during the Occupation, a chance to defend himself.

Director: Jean Cocteau
Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Silvia Monfort, Jean Marais
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband’s assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who’s drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums.

Director: Walter Lang
Stars: Robert Young, Maureen O’Hara, Clifton Webb
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA

A family that hires a live-in babysitter is surprised when he turns out to be a man who’s a quirky genius.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.

Director: George Sherman
Stars: John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she’s received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.

Director: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann
Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Director: George Seaton
Stars: Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A retired professor rents his attic apartment to pregnant Peggy and her GI-Bill-student husband. The professor ponders if his life is no longer useful while the young couple faces the challenges shared with many WW II veterans’ families.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA

With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors – one of whom begins to fall for her.

Director: Norman Foster
Stars: Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA

A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of his old friend threatens their burgeoning relationship.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Danny Hawkins, who lives in a psychological shadow because his father died by a hangman’s noose, accidentally kills a man in a fight over a girl, Gilly Johnson, and is afraid to notify the police. He wins the love of the girl but when she tries to influence him to admit his guilt, he runs away.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

Army generals struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing the German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Joseph Koch
Genre: Short, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark

A man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of an hour and the ferry berth is 70 km away.

Director: Lawrence Huntington
Stars: James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Micheline Presle, Marcello Pagliero, Marguerite Moreno
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Two people learn to love each other in the afterlife and get a second chance.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A nightclub singer inspires a doctor to fake his own murder, leading to plenty of complications.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Ronald Colman, Edmond O’Brien, Signe Hasso
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last days, a group of Nazis and sympathizers (a Wehrmacht general; an SS commander and his “assistant”; an Italian industrialist and his wife who is also the general’s lover; a French collaborator) board a submarine that will take them to South America, where they hope to find refuge.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds a particularly potent drink at his local bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow).

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Holger Löwenadler, Anna Lindahl, Birger Malmsten
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Denise Grey
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: France

During World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials..

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After leaving her family’s farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Stars: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic-poem clues to the cops.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Negrete, Meche Barba
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Mexico

A prison escapee becomes involved with an independent oil well owner threatened by corporate thugs, who do their dodgy business in the glamorous Grand Casino.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA

Nick and Nora investigate the murder of a bandleader in New York.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Sô Yamamura, Kikue Môri
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France | USA

1910: A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his young friend Jacques returns from military service complaining his misfortune with women. Once he follows Emile’s advice to have an affair, he meets Lucette and falls in love with her instead.

Director: Jacques Becker
Stars: Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette purchases a winning lottery ticket. But when Antoine loses their ticket out of poverty, their dreams seem like they’ll remain just that.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.

Director: Byron Haskin
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn’t prepare Frankie for Big Business.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt after a young woman that he has just recently met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

Philippa Shelley races against time to clear her husband Nicholas Talbot of a murder he did not commit. While she works on getting proof, the prosecution is doing all it can to force a conviction.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Stars: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: UK

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman’s murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.

Director: Robert Montgomery
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.

Director: Martin Gabel
Stars: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letters.

Director: Chester Erskine
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A financier from New York City rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Nick Bianco is caught during a botched jewellery heist. The prosecution offer him a more lenient sentence if he squeals on his accomplices but he doesn’t roll over on them. Three years into the sentence an event changes his mind.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.

Director: John Brahm
Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After marrying her long lost love, a musician finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

When spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Three strangers, each with a serious problem in their lives, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Célestine (Paulette Goddard), the chambermaid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire (Reginald Owen) is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire (Dame Judith Anderson), helped by the strange valet Joseph (Francis Lederer).

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.

Director: Fred C. Brannon, William Witney
Stars: Charles Quigley, Linda Stirling, Clayton Moore
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA

A criminal mastermind known as the Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical currents on the planet.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

This movie is a story about French railroad workers who were part of organized resistance during the German WW2 occupation.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward
Genre: Action, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850’s Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An American World War I soldier, whose disfigured face is reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons, returns home after twenty years, but no one recognizes him, his widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A secretary tries to help her boss, who is framed for a murder.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.

Director: Frank Launder
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK

A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer’s murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent…aided by the victim’s ex-husband.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten, Gösta Cederlund
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

Young love confronts stupidity and boredom of society.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: Talley Beatty
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A man dances in several locations, edited to have a fluent effect.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Inga Landgré, Stig Olin, Marianne Löfgren
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter’s real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ken’ichi Enomoto
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

A pollster stumbles on a family of murderous hillbillies, and joins in their search for hidden treasure.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

An 18th century London wench gets involved with the nobility.

Director: Compton Bennett
Stars: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Wanda Rothgardt, Georg Rydeberg, Gabriel Alw
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Set entirely in one room, an innocent young man is accused of plagiarizing the work of an old professor. Later, he will be blamed for the professor’s murder.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier’s love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.

Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicates matters.

Director: Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.

Director: Peter Godfrey
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

Director: Hans Burger, Billy Wilder
Stars: Anton Reimer
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.

Director: Alexander Korda
Stars: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.

Director: John Brahm
Stars: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer — and by the strange gaps in his memory.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Stars: Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency, with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. 2 days later, she awakens – in a different house, in different clothes, and with a new identity.

Director: Edward A. Blatt
Stars: John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

Passengers on an ocean liner can’t recall how they got on board or where they are going yet, oddly enough, it soon becomes apparent that they all have something in common.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

The career of a Nazi officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.

Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Nick and Nora visit Nick’s hometown, and end up involved in a murder.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley’s Comet returned.

Director: William Dieterle, George Cukor
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.

Director: Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti
Stars: Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK

A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious.

Director: Clifford Odets
Stars: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas
Genre: Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Mystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued when the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A wealthy woman who lost her hearing to meningitis meets a doctor who is concocting a serum that will cure deafness.

Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA

A cash-strapped theater producer promotes a nine-year-old boy’s dancing caterpillar.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA

In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. The story focuses on one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

When a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Kigoro Ikushima
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to avenge their father’s death. The killers of their father see the sister and brother practicing with Miyamoto, and so enlist the help of another powerful swordsman, Kojiro Sasaki, which gives Sasaki an excuse to battle Miyamoto.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Stanley Wray, Robert Morgan, James A. Verinis
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Bette Davis, John Garfield, The Andrews Sisters
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil’s Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.

Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A widowed matriarch reminisces about her family fortunes, including her romance with a financier/mine owner.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day’s paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

After two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.

Director: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

An American tanker’s sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment; bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.

Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Fitch is on the list, and co-opts Claude Babbington to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.

Director: Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Odette Joyeux, Madeleine Robinson, Marguerite Moreno
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference.

Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Margaret O’Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Alpha’s been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A dead World War II bomber pilot named Pete Sandidge, becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge’s memory.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
Genre: Adventure, History, War
Country: USA

In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Journalist Steve O’Malley wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Steve receives conflicting reports and tales that make him question what the truth about the hero is.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison’s band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don’t swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?

Director: Busby Berkeley
Stars: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly
Genre: Musical, Romance, War
Country: USA

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

Director: Stuart Heisler
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.

Director: Noël Coward, David Lean
Stars: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

This “story of a ship”, the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.

Director: Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen
Stars: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

At an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Andre Laurent, the captain of a tugboat, married Yvonne ten years ago. She has a heart disease but does not want to tell him. She dreams he quits the job for they can live quietly.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.

Director: Harry Lachman
Stars: Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan, Robert Weldon
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie’s search for a murderer on board a docked ship.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia precox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate tragic relationship.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After a newlywed’s husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daijirô Natsukawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi, has an idea for her bus that could avert the dwindling number of passengers.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France

Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until war breaks out and he becomes a soldier.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

1938: A young man arrives in Hitler’s Germany, frantically seeking information about his German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse.

Director: Harry Lachman
Stars: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A rural maiden’s two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe’s most respected news wire service.

Director: Gregory La Cava
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O’Keefe
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.

Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father’s release.

Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Western
Country: USA

The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks.

Director: Joe May
Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder.

Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A best-selling author of women’s issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend’s body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Max Dearly, Elvire Popesco
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

Fast-thinking Guitry contrives a scheme to earn easy money from rich women with expiring visas by marrying them with clochards and at the same time to win the charms of beautiful Polish countess. Everything seems to go wrong when the clochards, once married with the foreigners, want to comply with their marital duties…

Director: Paul L. Stein
Stars: Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as “poison pen letters.”

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell, Micheline Francey
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the “Ghost Wagon.”

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Paul Muni, Una O’Connor, Jane Bryan
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA

A husband hires a lonely pretty young woman to work as a nanny for his son. His wife becomes instantly jealous and things take turn for the worst. In the background, World War II is in the air, and anti-German sentiment is on the rise.

Director: John Brahm
Stars: Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men’s execution date.

Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.

Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.

Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman’s daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man’s death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs—and then find themselves involved in the real thing.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O’Neil
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard, Romney Brent
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.

Director: Irving Cummings
Stars: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

Director: Herbert I. Leeds
Stars: Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

While in Paris for a reunion on the eve of World War II, Charlie finds that the murder of an hated businessman leads him to a conspiracy to smuggle arms to Germany.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

An orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin.

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

The story of married couple Irene Castle and Vernon Castle, sensational ballroom dancers prior to World War I.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A corrupt D.A. with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter who wrote them for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Louis Napoleon III takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg to add Mexico to his empire. of Mexico.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs, including from an agent of Death with the help of a magical apple tree.

Director: Henry King, Otto Brower
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.

Director: John Farrow
Stars: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.

Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

Director: James Whale
Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: USA

Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D’Artagnan.

Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: UK

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.

Director: Henry King, Irving Cummings
Stars: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Director: Zoltan Korda
Stars: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A timid British Army officer has quit and burns his last day summons to a war in Egypt. Calling him a coward, his girl friend and 3 officer friends give him a white feather. In redemption, he shadows his friends in war to save their lives.

Director: Busby Berkeley
Stars: John Garfield, Claude Rains, The Dead End Kids
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Edwige Feuillère, George Rigaud, Daniel Lecourtois
Genre: Drama
Country: France

After an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son.

Director: Gregory Ratoff
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Maureen O’Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton
Genre: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK

In early 19th century Cornwall, a young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are landlords of the Jamaica Inn. Mary soon realises her uncle’s inn serves as the base for a gang of ship wreckers – who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast, and Mary begins to fear for her life.

Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

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

Director: Frank Lloyd
Stars: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee
Genre: Adventure, History
Country: USA

Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.

Director: Busby Berkeley, John Farrow
Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters – Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann – who live with him and his sister, the girls’ Aunt Etta, in the long time family home.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Harry Baur, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years.

Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A young woman at a girl’s school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA

This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

Director: James W. Horne, Ray Taylor
Stars: Warren Hull, Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A crime fighter known as The Spider battles a villain called The Octopus, who is out to sabotage America and install his own government.

Director: Gustaf Molander
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Anders Henrikson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

An embittered woman, leader of a criminal gang, has a change of heart.

Director: Marc Allégret
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Claude Dauphin, Odette Joyeux
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Isabelle, Cécilia and François are drama students at the “Conservatoire d’art dramatique”. Cécilia is in love with François, but the young man is in love with Isabelle instead. Cécilia elaborates a desperate plan to get back at François.

Director: Garson Kanin
Stars: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Doctor John Abbott is a single parent who settles in the town of Westport, with his son Dick, trying to eke out a living for them. He also inherits, by way of his doorstep, an unwanted baby girl, Jean Johnson, whom he adopts into his family, rears and loves as his own.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards… but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA