==1. Mostra Venice 1-15th (1932-1954)
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- DirectorKarel Plicka
- DirectorRené ClairStarsRaymond CordyHenri MarchandRolla FranceSeeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsMarcelle ChantalRégine DancourtGabriel GabrioA policeman is killed when he tries to investigate a case involving cocaine traffic. The only evidence of the crime is a white female's bloodstained glove found in an abandoned taxi and a revolver. After thorough researches, the police will be tightening the circle around a woman of Polish origin.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsHarry BaurPaule AndralJackie MonnierDavid is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsLisette LanvinRaymond GalleChristian CasadesusAt the Sorbonne University in Paris, Odette, a young student, is courted by two sympathetic students. She gives in to the advances of the most charming, Jacques, and finds herself pregnant. Maxime, who has obtained nothing from her, immediately offers to become her husband, but she don't want him. Jacques, when he finds out about the situation, finally decides to marry Odette, much to Maxime's disappointment.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlBéla BalázsStarsLeni RiefenstahlMathias WiemanBeni FührerWhen the moon is full, young men die attempting to reach the mysterious blue light in the mountains.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsJan KiepuraMagda SchneiderFritz SchulzOpera star Enrico Ferraro, tired of his stressful schedule, changes trains for a Swiss vacation. When his presence is discovered at the peaceful lakeside resort, he changes places with a new friend pretending he is his secretary. Free at last he explores the country and meets a beautiful girl.
- DirectorErik CharellStarsLilian HarveyWilly FritschOtto WallburgVienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
- DirectorLeontine SaganCarl FroelichStarsDorothea WieckHertha ThieleEmilia UndaAt an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsCharlotte SusaGustav FröhlichFriedrich KayßlerA man in the Tylorean Alps gives up his sweetheart and becomes a priest, after his fanatic mother has died trying to convince him to sacrifice his life for God.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsHerbert MarshallEdna BestAnne GreyA naval officer is forced to leave his girlfriend behind and they lose touch. Years later, when he is engaged to a society girl, his daughter by his now-deceased first love visits him.
- DirectorAldo Vergano
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsLia FrancaVittorio De SicaCesare ZoppettiBruno, a young Milanese driver, falls in love with Mariuccia, dependent on a perfumery. Wanting to impress her, he shows up for their first date, in his employer's car.
- DirectorMario Costa
- DirectorMannus FrankenJoris IvensRegen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
- DirectorAdam KrzeptowskiStarsAndrzej KrzeptowskiJanina FischerStanislaw SieczkaOne day Hanka and Andrzej go for a walk up to the mountains but an avalanche will interfere with their idyll; Jasiek will try to rescue the unfortunate couple but he only will find Andrzej but no trace of Hanka. When Andrzej realizes that Hanka has not been found, he will try to find her alone but without success; the next day he will be rescued in an unconscious state by Zoska and brought to his home where he will find that Hanka is safe and waiting for him. Jasiek sees this happy Polish love scene and realizes that he will never get the love of Hanka so he goes by white track to look for peace and tranquility in the Polish mountains.
- DirectorNikolai EkkStarsNikolay BatalovYvan KyrlyaMikhail DzhagofarovYoung hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly build railroad to that camp.
- DirectorIvan PravovOlga PreobrazhenskayaMikhail ProvorStarsNikolay PodgornyAndrei AbrikosovEmma TsesarskayaThe first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the subsequent Civil War between Reds and Whites. The main character.an antihero,is the violent, impetuous, unreliable Melekhov.
- DirectorClyde E. ElliottStarsFrank BuckAmerican animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters just north of Singapore, Frank, Ali and a team of native helpers roam the area from Northern Johore to Perak in search of interesting wild animals, reptiles and birds. Hoping to find a tiger, Buck captures a monitor lizard and a black leopard, while another black leopard narrowly escapes an encounter with a giant python and then battles a bigger and stronger tiger. After trapping a spotted leopard, Frank adopts a baby honey bear and a baby elephant. The team catches an orangutan, but the tiger eludes their camouflaged pit. Meanwhile, Frank visits the "bathing festival" of a local tribe and watches as tribesmen kill an intruding spotted leopard with blow darts. The tiger then meets an enormous regal python, who has just crushed a crocodile, and fights to a draw with it.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsLionel BarrymoreNancy CarrollPhillips HolmesFrench soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsFredric MarchMiriam HopkinsRose HobartDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckAdolphe MenjouRalph BellamyA librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGreta GarboJohn BarrymoreJoan CrawfordA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsColin CliveMae ClarkeBoris KarloffDr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsNorma ShearerClark GableAlexander KirklandAfter Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsWallace BeeryJackie CooperIrene RichAn alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellAnn DvorakRace car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsRonald ColmanLoretta YoungFrederick KerrSpendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time, he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
- DirectorEdgar SelwynStarsHelen HayesLewis StoneNeil HamiltonOut of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
- DirectorWilli ForstStarsPaula WesselyAnton WalbrookOlga TschechowaVienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.
- DirectorGustav MachatýStarsHedy LamarrZvonimir RogozAribert MogEva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
- DirectorJosef RovenskýStarsJarmila BeránkováVasa JalovecJaroslav VojtaPoetic folk tale, set in the beautiful Czech countryside, of two 14-year-olds who fall in love.
- DirectorKarel PlickaDocumentary of a village in the Carpathian mountains of Slovakia, following the work, festivals and religious events through the seasons of one year.
- DirectorFriedrich DalsheimStarsThorvald StauningHerluf ZahleThe story tells of two Greenlandic men who are competing for the love of one woman.
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsMarcelle ChantalJean YonnelValéry InkijinoffDr. Holk leads a lonely life in a small dutch colony in the tropics. Fled from love and civilisation his only companions are alcohol and his work, which takes him to the villages ravaged by dirt, fever, fear and a strange illness turning innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day he receives a visit by the young and beautiful Hèlène Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover's child before her husband returns. Even though Holk is infatuated by her seductive beauty, he haughtily refuses her request. Hélène seeks help from a Chinese practitioner. When Holk - driven by his fevered love and agony - finds her again in a dirty dive, it is already too late.
- DirectorGeorges LacombeStarsRobert ArnouxLisette LanvinJean ServaisAfter being saved from suicide due to an unhappy marriage, Marie hesitates between two other men, but lands up rejoining her husband in the colonies as she now expects a baby.
- DirectorMarcel de Hubsch
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsMarie BellPierre Richard-WillmCharles VanelPierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement (Charles Vanel). Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche (Françoise Rosay) who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma (Marie Bell), one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre. Near the end of his contract with the Legion, Pierre receives news from France. He has inherited a fortune. He asks Irma to come to France with him, and they make plans. But Clement tries to rape Irma and Pierre has to kill him.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsAlbert PréjeanPierre LaurelMartial RèbeBastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They wait for the departure of their ship in a hotel recommended by Hidoux, an old porter that they met at the station. They drink around town and Bastien meets Émilienne in a bar while Ségard falls in love with the hotel servant girl Thérèse. When the day of the departure comes, the ship's engine break soon after they leave the port. Forced to stay one more week in the Hotel, they find a temporary job. One night, Bastien offers Thérèse some champagne and the two end up making love on the beach. When the engine is fixed, Bastien decides to stay with Thérèse and writes a letter to Ségard about it. Ségard, disappointed, boards the ship alone.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerCarmen seduces a soldier. She takes him home to the Gypsy camp, and while he sleeps, she steals his clothes and weapons. She trades them for an elegant dress, but even with fine clothes, she can't get the time of day from the toreador. She goes to the bullfight, where the soldier tries to come after her with a dagger. She gets into the ring and manages to seduce the bull, who takes a rose from her mouth. She rides off on the bull with her man.
- DirectorWilfried BasseA recounting of the social, economic and political conditions in Germany up until the Nazi takeover in 1933.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsHans AlbersKäthe von NagyEugen KlöpferPropaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsHeinrich GeorgePeter VoßHertha ThieleEmotional upheavals transpire when three girls enter a boys' school, to study for an important exam: a teacher and a student both fall in love with one of them.
- DirectorOskar FischingerIn Fischinger's study No. 7, the shapes of Study No. 6 move to the 5th Hungarian dance by Johannes Brahms.
- DirectorOskar Fischinger
- DirectorOskar Fischinger
- StarsHatsue Yuasa
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsRichard TauberJane BaxterCarl EsmondThe film spotlights famed composer Franz Schubert, who loves a woman from afar. He stands by in quiet desperation as his beloved is married to a dashing military officer, then pours his sorrow (and his love) into his work. To avoid royalty payments, most of the Sigmund Romberg score is jettisoned, replaced by authentic Schubert themes.
- DirectorPaul Rotha
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsColman 'Tiger' KingMaggie DirraneMichael DirraneIn this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsDouglas FairbanksMerle OberonBruce WinstonAfter having faked his own death and escaped Seville, aging lothario Don Juan returns, only to find that he has been promptly forgotten; perhaps a raven-haired beauty can coax him back into business.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsIsa MirandaMemo BenassiTatyana PavlovaGaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
- DirectorGoffredo AlessandriniStarsSergio TofanoDina PerbelliniMaria DenisFilm set in the 1910s, in an Italian school. A male school teacher falls in love with the female gymnastics teacher at the school. She is attracted to him, but their students attempt to sabotage the prospective romance.
- DirectorPietro Francisci
- DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsEmma GuerraMaria ArcioneGiorgio CensiScenes of healthy young Italians enjoying the fresh air playing rugby in different contests are combined with a subplot of romantic intrigue and psychology.
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsMarta AbbaNerio BernardiLuigi Cimara"Loyalty of Love" - In 1821 Count Federico Confalonieri was arrested by the Austrians for conspiracy and sentenced to the halter. His wife, Teresa Casati , with great difficulty manages to obtain the grace from the emperor of Austria and the death penalty is changed to life imprisonment to be served in the Spielberg where he will remain until 1835.
- DirectorGerard RuttenStarsJan MuschTheo de MaalBetsy Ranucci-BeckmanAfter building a dam, closing off the Zuiderzee from the sea, it effectively turns the former sea into a lake and the fishermen call it "dead water". They desperately attack the dam with spades and even explosives, culminating in tragedy.
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsJoris IvensThe film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer).
- DirectorJoris IvensA commissioned documentary short showing the effort over several years to close off a shallow bay in the northwest Netherlands from the rest of the North Sea by engineering a dyke,with an area later turned into land after drainage.
- DirectorBenito PerojoStarsPilar AguirreIsa AlmarPilar Arroyo
- DirectorGustaf MolanderStarsTutta RolfMargit ManstadErnst EklundDiddi Werner is an orphan and has been raised by her aunts Lotten and Amalia. Amalia wants her to study further after graduation while Lotten wants her to get married. Lotten predicts her future and see a dark, older man in the cards.
- DirectorAugust KernAnton KutterAlfred ZeislerStarsGustav DiesslHertha ThieleBeni FührerJakob, skilled mountain guide, is the only one who dares climbing a mountain at night to dynamite and redirect the snow, thus preventing an avalanche over the new luxurious hotel; yet he must keep it a secret. His strong character and independent ways make him unpopular among his neighbor villagers, except for Monika. Even more when lands and a missing will are at stake. That he gives money to Monika does not help at all. The only way out is to be the first one to climb Monte Verità, as the one who succeeds will win the land.
- DirectorMuhsin ErtugrulStarsBehzat ButakVasfi Riza ZobuFerdi TayfurThe love story of rich Hursit and Fadime, the daughter of a roasted chickpea maker.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsFranciska GaalWolf Albach-RettyPaul HörbigerSpring is in the air. Simple-minded and good-spirited Marika travels from her Hungarian hamlet to Vienna, where she gets a job at her aunt's bakery, selling Salzbröthchen to the Emperor. She meets a very nice soldier who is composing a march, yet she is expecting the wealthy man a fortune-teller did promise. Anyway, to help him she puts the march in the Emperor's brötchen. The military Spring parade (Frühjahrsparade) is approaching.
- DirectorYakov Poselsky
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsAlla TarasovaIvan ChuvelyovMikhail TsaryovEvents take place in the first half of the XIX century in the invented small town Kalinov. Here family of Kobanovy lives: merchant mother-woman, her adult children - Tikhon and Varvara, Katerina are a young wife of Tikhon. Stuffily Katerina in this family, severely. A husband she does not love, a mother requires him from all implicit submission, presses all and tyrannizes. And Katerina, on trouble it, fell in love Boris.
- DirectorGrigoriy RoshalVera StroyevaStarsBoris DobronravovKseniya TarasovaLyubov OrlovaYegor Efimov, a talented violinist, wants to get to St. Petersburg. Released by the landowner Valemirov, he goes to the capital, but gets stuck in a county town on the way.
- DirectorDziga VertovStarsDolores IbárruriNadezhda KrupskayaVladimir LeninThree anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovStarsLeonid UtyosovLyubov OrlovaMariya StrelkovaA musically talented shepherd gets his big chance when he is mistaken for a famous conductor.
- DirectorHarry SchenckStarsHarry SchenckJoan BaldwinJohn MartinThe record of an expedition deep into the Malayan jungle.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsRandolph ScottMartha SleeperBeryl MercerMedical intern Robert is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue medicine.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsElissa LandiPaul LukasNils AstherBeautiful woman mistakes a prince's butler for the prince.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsFredric MarchEvelyn VenableGuy StandingThe Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenMary ModerWe see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsMarion DaviesBing CrosbyFifi D'OrsayA love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood.
- StarsJames A. FitzPatrick
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsKatharine HepburnJoan BennettPaul LukasA chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.
- DirectorJames Sibley WatsonMelville WebberStarsFriedrich HaakHildegarde WatsonDorthea HouseLot in Sodom is a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanales devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to sins of the flesh. Digitally mastered from excellent 35mm elements. Lot In Sodom has its original experimental soundtrack by Alec Wilder.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerWilliam PennellBonnie PoeIn her only color cartoon, Betty Boop goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother; later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsGreta GarboJohn GilbertIan KeithQueen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsPinto ColvigA statue of Pan seeks to break up a pair of lovers.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsDorothy ComptonPinto ColvigWhen a lazy grasshopper prefers to sing and dance rather than forage like his friends the ants, he learns to regret it when winter approaches. The ants save his life and in return he entertains them with his music.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsClaude RainsGloria StuartWilliam HarriganA scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsMadeleine CarrollFranchot ToneReginald DennyRichard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.
- DirectorBurt GillettStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigDorothy ComptonThe Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn BarrymoreCarole LombardWalter ConnollyA flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
- DirectorJack ConwayHoward HawksWilliam A. WellmanStarsWallace BeeryFay WrayLeo CarrilloAfter enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
- DirectorLois WeberStarsVirginia CherrillMona MarisHardie AlbrightPlantation owner William Hawkes (David Newell) doesn't approve of the fact that most of the white men on the island have married, or are living with native girls. He doesn't approve of mixed marriages and is equally opposed to accepting the "gifts of love" offered to him by the native girls. One night, after several hours of hard drinking, he sees Leilani (Mona Maris) bathing on the beach, and he watches her until he can resist his craving no longer. He catches her in his arms and she willingly accepts his embraces. She comes to live with him and waits on him hand and foot. Hawkes goes to San Francisco for a planter's convention and, when he returns, brings back society girl Lucille Cheney (Virginia Cherrill) as his wife. Leilana is heart-broken, while Lucille becomes quickly bored with her husband and Hawaii. Her boredom ends when Chandler Morris (Hardie Albright) sails into port on his yacht and he and Lucille begin an affair. Hawks drinks to forget. He catches Lucille and Chandler together and a fight ensues, Lucille, in an effort, to save her lover throws a kerosene lamp into the ripe sugar cane and fire spreads in all directions.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsAl JolsonKay FrancisDolores Del RíoHarry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane she kills him.
- DirectorAntonio Leonviola
- DirectorVernon StallingsStarsCharles J. CorrellFreeman F. GosdenAndy agrees to become a circus lion tamer, believing that the "wild animal" he's taming is actually a man wearing an animal skin. However, he soon finds out differently. Complications ensue.
- DirectorWalter ReischStarsPaula WesselyKarl Ludwig DiehlOtto TreßlerWhen a young woman loses her mother's money due to a bank failure, a middle aged benefactor comes to her protection.But the man has hired an attractive ex officer to tutor his sons.
- DirectorGustav UcickyEmil JanningsStarsEmil JanningsFriedrich KayßlerMax GülstorffThe man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
- DirectorErich EngelStarsRudolf ForsterChristl MardaynPaul WegenerThe actor Florian Reiter flirts with the countess Beate against the etiquette of the 18th century. She arrives at the court of the duke, who delegates his affairs to unscrupulous minister von Creven.