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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineTatsuya NakadaiMasayuki MoriA middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsGabriele FerzettiMonica VittiLea MassariA woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
- DirectorKim Ki-youngStarsKim Jin-kyuJeung-nyeo JuEun-shim LeeA composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsAlec GuinnessJohn MillsSusannah YorkAfter World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira ShearerA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergVan DoudeA small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsAndré BervilJean KeraudyMichel ConstantinDistrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMasayuki MoriKyôko KagawaA vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaTaiji TonoyamaShinji TanakaA family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsZachary ScottBernie HamiltonKey MeersmanA jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsAlain DelonRenato SalvatoriAnnie GirardotHaving recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsSetsuko HaraYôko TsukasaMariko OkadaA widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsJarl KulleBibi AnderssonStig JärrelDon Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission - to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes crazy when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyFredric MarchGene KellyBased on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsBurt LancasterJean SimmonsArthur KennedyA fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowBirgitta ValbergGunnel LindblomIn 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsSusan StrasbergLaurent TerzieffEmmanuelle RivaA young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsAlain DelonMaurice RonetMarie LaforêtTom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsBrigitte BardotPaul MeurisseCharles VanelA liberated small-town girl and the family's black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?
- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsPierre BrasseurAlida ValliJuliette MaynielA surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsAlberto SordiVittorio GassmanNino ManfrediA randomly formed group of Italians gets deeply involved in a crime in Montacarlo.
- DirectorJack CardiffStarsTrevor HowardDean StockwellWendy HillerA young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBarbara SteeleJohn RichardsonAndrea ChecchiA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsIgnacio López TarsoPina PellicerEnrique LuceroPoor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingMartita HuntYvonne MonlaurVampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsDeborah KerrRobert MitchumPeter UstinovIn Australia's Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceMark DamonMyrna FaheyUpon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.
- DirectorRobert HamerHal E. ChesterCyril FrankelStarsIan CarmichaelTerry-ThomasAlastair SimA young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsPeter SellersDavid LodgeBernard CribbinsWhile in prison, Dodger plots the perfect heist: break out, steal diamonds, get back before noticed. With days left on sentence and a solid alibi, he's confident nothing can go wrong.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsSimone SignoretMarcello MastroianniSandra MiloWhen a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsRichard AttenboroughPier AngeliMichael CraigA young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsSilvia PinalAdolfo MarsillachJulia Caba AlbaMarcelino's earnest wish is to marry Maribel, a former prostitute. When she gets to know his elderly mother and aunt, however, strange things concerning Marcelino's first wife start to arise.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneElina PohjanpääMatti RaninA closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
- DirectorPhilippe AgostiniRaymond Leopold BruckbergerStarsJeanne MoreauAlida ValliMadeleine RenaudThis is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.
- DirectorRogelio A. GonzálezStarsArturo de CórdovaAmparo RivellesElda PeraltaA taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after fifteen years of hellish marriage.
- DirectorStanley KubrickAnthony MannStarsKirk DouglasLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsMarlon BrandoJoanne WoodwardAnna MagnaniValentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsRod TaylorAlan YoungYvette MimieuxA man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsCurd JürgensClaire BloomHansjörg FelmyIn 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsBurt LancasterAudrey HepburnAudie MurphyThe neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriJules DassinGiorgos FoundasAn American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
- DirectorWolf RillaStarsGeorge SandersBarbara ShelleyMartin StephensIn the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsPierre BriceGiorgia MollPietro GermiTwelve-year-old Silvana De Carli falls in love with 30-year-old Gino.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsWilliam HoldenNancy KwanSylvia SymsA businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsCary GrantDeborah KerrRobert MitchumVictor and Hilary have guided tours in their English mansion. A US oil tycoon "bumps" into Hilary during a tour and charms his way into her heart. Meanwhile, Hattie pursues Victor.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsLaurence OlivierBrenda de BanzieRoger LiveseyArchie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsTony LeblancMontserrat SalvadorTony SolerA naive lay-brother goes to Madrid to collect alms for his orphanage. On the train he meets a small-time con-man and his troubles begin.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsPierre BriceScilla GabelWolfgang PreissIn 19th century Holland, a professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor's ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsNils AstherKarl-Arne HolmstenBirgitta PetterssonYoung Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsAnthony QuinnYôko TaniPeter O'TooleAn Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRay DantonKaren SteeleElaine StewartNeo-noir about a small-time New York City criminal whose ambition is to become a big-time crime boss during the Prohibition era.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsPaul NewmanEva Marie SaintRalph RichardsonThe State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPeter CushingJune LaverickDonald PleasenceIn 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsJonathan HazeJackie JosephMel WellesA clumsy young man working at an impoverished flower shop discovers that the strange plant he has been nurturing has an insatiable appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPatricia JesselDennis LotisChristopher LeeA young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy HollidayDean MartinFred ClarkA Brooklyn answering service operator becomes involved in the lives of her clients, including a struggling playwright with whom she begins to fall in love.
- DirectorCharles VidorGeorge CukorStarsDirk BogardeCapucineGeneviève PageThe romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Sir Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenJean-Paul BelmondoRaf ValloneIn WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
- DirectorCyril FrankelStarsGwen WatfordPatrick AllenFelix AylmerIn Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancThe sheet music for Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his fellow notes in performing this musical piece, but finds that one of the notes has become drunk after being inside the sheet music for "Little Brown Jug". The drunken note staggers goofily on the staves for the music of "The Blue Danube" and is chased by the conductor.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsRobert PrestonDorothy McGuireEve ArdenIn Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie (Shirley Knight) is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden (Lee Kinsolving), and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt (Dame Angela Lansbury).
- DirectorMelvin FrankStarsBob HopeLucille BallRuth HusseySophisticated comedy with Larry and Kitty leaving their spouses for an interlude together.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsDoris DayRex HarrisonJohn GavinIn London, a recently-wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsJohn MillsDorothy McGuireJames MacArthurA Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
- DirectorDavid SwiftStarsJane WymanHayley MillsRichard EganA young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsTony CurtisDean MartinJanet LeighIll-advised by a pal, a chemistry professor falsely claims to be an undercover FBI agent to cover up his marital infidelity; his wife swallows his life, but it gets him in trouble with the real FBI, the CIA, and the KGB.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsElana EdenStuart WhitmanTom TryonInspired by the scriptural tale. Moabitess priestess Ruth is drawn both to a Judean man and to his talk of a forgiving God. After tragedy strikes, she begins a new life in Bethlehem.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsFrank SinatraShirley MacLaineMaurice ChevalierIn 1896 Paris, a female nightclub proprietor fights against the forces of public morality for the right to feature her performers doing the risqué dance, the Can-Can.
- DirectorBurt BalabanStuart RosenbergStarsStuart WhitmanMay BrittHenry MorganThe rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsEdward G. RobinsonRod SteigerJoan CollinsA motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.
- DirectorArturo Ruiz-CastilloStarsAnna Maria FerreroFernando ReyLina RosalesA director of a theater company prepares the perfect show with his best actors, but crime is also in the play.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMarilyn MonroeYves MontandTony RandallWhen billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsDoris DayDavid NivenJanis PaigeDrama professor turned theater critic balances his home life and career when he moves to the country with his wife and their four sons.
- DirectorRené CardonaStarsMaría Elena MarquésEduardo FajardoLuz María AguilarFelipe and Margarita get married and have a boy named Jorgito. Her uncle Gerardo tell them about a curse that affects the first born boy in the family.
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsLana TurnerAnthony QuinnRichard BasehartAfter a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsClaude DauphinDiane CilentoRonald LewisAfter surviving a traumatic car accident, a race car driver travels to the Cote D'Azur to recover but is plagued by an urge to strangle his wife.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsElizabeth TaylorLaurence HarveyEddie FisherA beautiful New York model and socialite enjoys a very active night-life, but all things change when she falls for a married man and the consequences are tragic.
- DirectorJohn WayneStarsJohn WayneRichard WidmarkLaurence HarveyIn 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
- DirectorMelville ShavelsonStarsClark GableSophia LorenVittorio De SicaDays before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret singer.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsPaul NewmanJoanne WoodwardMyrna LoyAn ambitious young executive chooses a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling personal life in exchange for a successful Wall Street career.
- DirectorWolfgang ReithermanClyde GeronimiDavid HandStarsSterling HollowayBarbara Jo AllenKevin CorcoranGoliath II is a 6-inch-tall elephant (son of the huge Goliath). He's a big disappointment to his father, but mom is proud of Goliath II anyway. Goliath II is constantly getting into trouble because he's so small. In particular, the tiger Raja looks for every opportunity to try a bite-size taste of elephant. After one incident where he ran away and his mother scolded him, he runs away. After he's rescued, the rest of the elephants are terrified of a mouse, but Goliath II stands his ground.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsCharles HerbertJo MorrowMartin MilnerA family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.
- DirectorHarald ReinlStarsJoachim FuchsbergerKarin DorFritz RaspA creepy German-made Wallace thriller about the ghost of a hanged man who returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die.
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsMel FerrerElsa MartinelliAnnette StroybergA young heiress - jealous of her cousin's engagement to another woman - becomes obsessed with the legend of a vampire ancestor, who supposedly murdered the young brides of the man she loved.
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsRobert StackDorothy MaloneGeorge SandersAfter a boiler explosion aboard an aging ocean liner, a man struggles to free his injured wife from the wreckage of their cabin and ensure the safety of their four-year-old daughter as the ship begins to sink.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsMarguerite ChapmanDouglas KennedyJames GriffithA crazed scientist invents an invisibility formula. He plans to use the formula to create an army of invisible zombies.
- DirectorLuis LuciaStarsMarisolAnselmo DuarteMaría MahorA man and woman have secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor, struggling actress and singer. One day, he decides to tell his family that he's married and flies to their home in Italy, but the plane crashes and he dies. When his brother goes to Spain to identify the body, he meets his now-widowed sister-in-law for the first time and discovers that she's pregnant. She asks only that the family finance the child's education. Years later the child, a girl named Marisol, is about to turn 10 years old. Hermother and uncle visit her at her boarding school once a year. Her mother has told her that she is a rich, famous actress so Marisol would not be shy with her friends about her origins, but that means the mother can never take Marisol with her in the summer or she'll know the truth. But Marisol's grandfather, who hates the mother for "stealing his son," wants to meet his granddaughter, so he asks her uncle to bring her to Italy for the summer. When she arrives, the old man and his servants think she is a happiness-bringing angel. As the summer goes by, the old man comes to love her very much. Will he try to keep her from returning to Spain?
- DirectorLeón KlimovskyStarsImperio ArgentinaGermán CobosElena BarriosRosa, a poor and ill widow, has a child and, with her doctor's help, gives him to a rich family who has just lost their baby. When she recovers she enters their service as nanny. As time goes by they have another child whom they spoil and gets in trouble. His step-brother will try to help him and Rosa will try to help his own son in turn.
- DirectorPedro L. RamírezStarsFernando Fernán GómezConcha VelascoRoberto ReyAntonio and Elisa, a newly married couple, head to the Costa Brava to spend their honeymoon. Antonio, who is a crime reporter, is obsessed with the idea of solving a major crime. His wish comes true when the couple reaches their destination: a jeweler from Barcelona, staying in the same hotel as them, is murdered. Elisa, eager for her husband to pay attention to her, will try to find out on her own who is the culprit.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsRichard CarlsonSusan GordonLugene SandersA man lets a former flame fall to her death rather than let her interfere with his new relationship, but her ghost returns to disrupt his impending nuptials.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsSonja ZiemannGunnar MöllerErik SchumannIn 1945 with the advance of the red army millions of refugees fled from the east of Germany. The "Wilhelm Gustloff" loaded with 10,000 civilians and wounded soldiers was sank by a Soviet submarine in less than 55 minutes.
- DirectorVincent J. DonehueStarsRalph BellamyGreer GarsonHume CronynAfter a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJerry LewisJoan BlackmanEarl HollimanThe weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsCantinflasDan DaileyShirley JonesThe young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood director Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.