Connections: D.O.A.
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1. D.O.A. (1949)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Garland
Votes: 13,070
2. Watch the Birdie (1950)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A cameraman helps an heiress to get rid of her financial adviser, who wants to get her money.
Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames
Votes: 418
Connected to "D.O.A." by Pamela Britton.
3. Inside Straight (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Rip MacCool has learned early in life that "money talks" and after he arrives in San Francisco, he has no qualms about being ruthless in business, and his first fast-deal bilks Ada Stritch ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: David Brian, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Mercedes McCambridge
Votes: 304
Connected to "Watch the Birdie" by Arlene Dahl.
4. Mr. Imperium (1951)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery
A beautiful romance between a singer and a persistent prince
Director: Don Hartman | Stars: Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main, Barry Sullivan
Votes: 565
Connected to "inside Straight" by Barry Sullivan.
5. Strictly Dishonorable (1951)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
An Italian opera singer (Ezio Pinza) has a marriage of convenience with an innocent fan (Janet Leigh) from Mississippi
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell, Gale Robbins
Votes: 210
Connected to "Mr. Imperium" by Ezio Pinza.
6. Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Pittsburgh Pirates' brash and abusive manager receives the help of an angel to win games and become a better person in the process.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Donna Corcoran
Votes: 2,954
Connected to "Strictly Dishonorable" by Janet Leigh.
7. It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern.
Directors: Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor, Don Weis, William A. Wellman | Stars: Ethel Barrymore, Keefe Brasselle, Gary Cooper, Nancy Reagan
Votes: 726
Connected to "Angels in the Outfield" by Keenan Wynne.
8. Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
Passed | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three women in three different situations report for induction at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and end up roommates. What follows is a frothy and fun musical.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine, Barry Sullivan
Votes: 575
Connected to "It's a Big Country" by Keefe Brassel
9. It Grows on Trees (1952)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy
What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Joan Evans, Richard Crenna
Votes: 367
Connected to "Skirts Ahoy" by Joan Evans.
10. The Robe (1953)
Approved | 135 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie
Votes: 11,719 | Gross: $36.00M
Connected to "It Grows on Trees" by Dean Jagger.
11. The Actress (1953)
Passed | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
This is an account of the real life experience of actress/playwright Ruth Gordon.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright, Anthony Perkins
Votes: 1,503
Connected to "The Robe" by Jean Simmons
12. Track of the Cat (1954)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Western
Around the turn of the 20th century, during a harsh northern California winter, members of a ranching family are squabbling among themselves while the two oldest sons go hunting for a panther that is killing their livestock.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter
Votes: 2,466
Connected to "The Actress" by Teresa Wright.
13. An Annapolis Story (1955)
Approved | 81 min | Drama
Two brothers, enrolled at the U.S. Naval Academy on the verge of the Korean War, fall in love with the same girl.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: John Derek, Diana Lynn, Kevin McCarthy, Alvy Moore
Votes: 154
Connected to "Track of the Cat" by Diana Lynn.
14. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan
Votes: 54,670
15. Battle Hell (1957)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, History, War
In 1949, during the Chinese Civil War, British warship H.M.S. Amethyst sails up the Yangtse river but on the return trip, finds its way blocked by a barrage of fire from the Communist Chinese shore batteries.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston
Votes: 771
Connected to "D-Day the Sixth of June" by Richard Todd.
16. Hell Drivers (1957)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A rookie trucker tries to expose his boss' rackets.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan
Votes: 4,046
Connected to "Battle Hell" by William Hartnell.
17. Action of the Tiger (1957)
Approved | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Carson is an American contraband runner approached by Tracy, a French woman who wants him to help rescue her brother from Albania where he is being held as a political prisoner.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Gustavo Rojo
Votes: 420
Connected to "Hell Drivers" by Herbert Lom.
18. The Foxiest Girl in Paris (1957)
95 min | Comedy, Crime
Haute Couture mannequin in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Martine Carol, Mischa Auer, Michel Piccoli, Louis Seigner
Votes: 86
Connected to "Action of the Tiger" by Martine Carol.
19. Tabarin (1958)
110 min | Drama
Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Sylvia Lopez, Sonja Ziemann, Michel Piccoli, Annie Cordy
Votes: 25
Connected to "The Foxiest Girl in Paris" by Mischa Auer.
20. Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women (1958)
90 min | Comedy
Martine runs a sports center for women ,but they are short of the readies .To avoid seizure,she turns her health club into a nightclub with plenty of whiskey and wild women.
Director: Maurice Régamey | Stars: Annie Cordy, Pierre Mondy, Christian Méry, Pierre Doris
Votes: 38
Connected to "Tabarin" by Annie Cordy.
21. Babette Goes to War (1959)
106 min | Comedy, War
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier, Ronald Howard, Michael Cramer
Votes: 450
Connected to "Cigarettes, Whiskey, and Wild Women" by Jean Carmet.
22. La main chaude (1960)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a cattery.The man borrows a hefty sum from her ,to send his sick young son to breathe the fresh air of the country ,or so he said.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Jacques Charrier, Macha Méril, Franca Bettoia, Paulette Dubost
Votes: 22
Connected to "Babette Goes to War" by Jacques Charrier.
23. The Dam on the Yellow River (1960)
95 min | Drama
Anti-Communist propaganda flick, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is seen through the eyes of an American journalist reporting from the Nationalists'side.
Director: Renzo Merusi | Stars: Anita Ekberg, Georges Marchal, Franca Bettoia, George Wang
Votes: 47
Connected to "The Itchy Palm" by Franca Bettoia.
24. Legions of the Nile (1959)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Roman Emperor Octavian rules the empire from Rome, and his rival Marc Antony has taken Egyptian queen Cleopatra as his lover and seized the eastern empire, ruling it from Alexandria. ... See full summary »
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Linda Cristal, Ettore Manni, Georges Marchal, Conrado San Martín
Votes: 274
Connected to "The Dam on the Yellow River" by Georges Marchal.
25. The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
122 min | Drama, History, War
Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale, Leslie Caron
Votes: 977
Connected to "Legions of the Nile" by Ettore Manni.
26. Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
143 min | Comedy
The seven stages of woman - seven stories about French women and love in the sixties.
Directors: Michel Boisrond, Christian-Jaque, René Clair, Henri Decoin, Jean Delannoy, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jacqueline Porel, Pierre-Jean Vaillard, Darry Cowl, Micheline Dax
Votes: 221
Connected to "The Battle of Austerlitz" by Martine Carol.
27. The Great Spy Chase (1964)
84 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Lino Ventura, Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc
Votes: 2,011
Connected to "Love and the Frenchwoman" by Pierre-Jean Vaillard.
28. La bonne occase (1965)
90 min | Comedy
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry.
Director: Michel Drach | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Francis Blanche, Claude Brasseur, Jacques Charrier
Votes: 37
29. Listen, Let's Make Love (1968)
R | 91 min | Drama
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war.
Director: Vittorio Caprioli | Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Beba Loncar, Carlo Caprioli, Edwige Feuillère
Votes: 138
Connected to "The Real Bargain" by Edwige Feuillère.
30. Frame Up (1968)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Henry Silva is a police inspector. A gang of robbers killed his son and he is accused of having killed a police informer and is kicked out of the Department. He will have to do all by himself to discover the truth.
Director: Emilio Miraglia | Stars: Henry Silva, Beba Loncar, Keenan Wynn, Carlo Palmucci
Votes: 121
Connected to "Listen, Let's Make Love" by Beba Loncar.
31. The Monitors (1969)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Larry Storch, Avery Schreiber
Votes: 332
Connected to "The Falling Man" by Keenan Wynne.
32. Ginger in the Morning (1974)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An attractive young hitchhiker named Ginger meets and and takes up with a lonely, middle-aged advertising executive who is recently divorced. He is inspired by her free-spirited ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Monte Markham, Susan Oliver, Mark Miller, Sissy Spacek
Votes: 378
Connected to "The Monitors" by Susan Oliver.
33. Mr. Sycamore (1975)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
Director: Pancho Kohner | Stars: Jason Robards, Sandy Dennis, Jean Simmons, Robert Easton
Votes: 195
Connected to "Ginger in the Morning" by Mark Miller.
34. God Told Me To (1976)
R | 91 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney
Votes: 6,530
Connected to "God Told Me To" by Sandy Dennis.
35. The Sentinel (1977)
R | 92 min | Horror
A young woman moves into an apartment in a building which houses a sinister evil.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Cristina Raines, Ava Gardner, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam
Votes: 11,907
Connected to "God Told Me To" by Deborah Raffin.
36. The Duellists (1977)
PG | 100 min | Drama, War
France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox
Votes: 26,669 | Gross: $0.20M
Connected to "The Sentinal" by Cristina Raines.
37. Blue Collar (1978)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama
When three automotive factory workers who're struggling financially try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption, and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr.
Votes: 10,619
38. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 949,013 | Gross: $78.90M
Connected to "Blue Collar" by Yaphet Kotto.
39. Eyewitness (1981)
R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A janitor who claims he's seen a murder becomes romantically involved with the glamorous TV reporter covering the story.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods
Votes: 5,715 | Gross: $6.40M
40. The Amateur (1981)
R | 112 min | Crime, Thriller
A CIA operative takes justice in his own hands, as his girlfriend is brutally murdered by terrorists. He carefully designs a plan to hunt down the terrorists, after the crime, and executes them one by one.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill
Votes: 902 | Gross: $6.89M
Connected to "Eyewitness" by Christopher Plummer.
41. Red Kiss (1985)
110 min | Drama, Romance
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" ... See full summary »
Director: Véra Belmont | Stars: Charlotte Valandrey, Lambert Wilson, Marthe Keller, Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 334
Connected to "The Amateur" by Marthe Keller.
42. The Belly of an Architect (1987)
R | 119 min | Drama
An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson, Sergio Fantoni
Votes: 6,273 | Gross: $0.29M
Connected to "Red Kiss" by Lambert Wilson.
43. Twins (1988)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Crime
A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb
Votes: 137,011 | Gross: $111.94M
Connected to "The Belly of an Architect" by Chloe Webb.
44. The War of the Roses (1989)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Romance
A married couple tries everything to drive each other out of the house in a vicious divorce battle.
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht
Votes: 57,279 | Gross: $86.89M
Connected to "Twins" by Danny DeVito.
45. V.I. Warshawski (1991)
R | 89 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A female PI babysitting for a boyfriend gets stuck with his daughter and the case of her murdered father.
Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning, Angela Goethals
Votes: 5,505 | Gross: $11.13M
Connected to "The War of the Roses" by Kathleen Turner.
46. Defenseless (1991)
R | 104 min | Mystery, Thriller
A lawyer is hired to defend an old college friend accused of murdering her husband.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh
Votes: 1,165 | Gross: $6.41M
Connected to "V.I. Warshawski" by Jay O. Edwards.
47. Thunderheart (1992)
R | 119 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward
Votes: 17,111 | Gross: $22.66M
Connected to "Defenseless" by Sam Shepard.
48. Rain Without Thunder (1992)
PG-13 | 85 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
It's the year 2042 and the threat is real...women are going to prison for terminating their pregnancies. An investigating reporter is determined to reveal the truth behind the convictions.
Director: Gary O. Bennett | Stars: Betty Buckley, Carolyn McCormick, Iona Morris, Steve Zahn
Votes: 323 | Gross: $0.01M
Connected to "Thunderheart" by Graham Greene. Second Billed was Katharine Crost. As this was her only credited role, here the list ends.
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