le cinéma de minuit 1982 - 1987
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1. A Corner in Wheat (1909)
G | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama
An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 2,745
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
2. Her Terrible Ordeal (1910)
10 min | Short, Drama
A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the combination, and he is off on a journey. Can the boss's son locate his absent-minded father before it is too late for the girl?
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Nichols, Owen Moore, Florence Barker, Charles Craig
Votes: 81
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
3. As It Is in Life (1910)
16 min | Drama, Short
A widowed father devotes his life to his daughter, who swears to stay with him forever. Then a handsome young man shows up and sweeps her off her feet.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Nichols, Gladys Egan, Mary Pickford, Marion Leonard
Votes: 252
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
4. A Child's Impulse (1910)
17 min | Short, Drama
Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the several professions, actors, artists, ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Vivian Prescott, Charles West, Mary Pickford, Joseph Graybill
Votes: 83
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
5. Muggsy's First Sweetheart (1910)
16 min | Short, Comedy
Muggsy is in love with his childhood sweetheart. Can varnish and an oversized suit stand in the way of true love?
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Billy Quirk, Mary Pickford, Clara T. Bracy, George Nichols
Votes: 64
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
6. The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, War
A Confederate soldier shames his mother and sister by going AWOL during battle. His sister takes his place, with tragic results, leaving him to live out his life in shame, hiding to protect his family name.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Dorothy West, Grace Henderson, Charles West
Votes: 581
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
7. The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)
17 min | Drama, Short
In a quaint fishing village we see the childhood sweethearts, Bill and Mary, a boy and girl of about ten or eleven years. Constant companions, they hold for each other a regard beyond their... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Edward Dillon, Gladys Egan
Votes: 33
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
8. Rose o' Salem Town (1910)
17 min | Short, Drama
Reliable authority states that nine million human lives were sacrificed through the zeal of fanatical reformers during the Christian epoch. Religious fanaticism was in most cases the cause,... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Dorothy West, Clara T. Bracy, Henry B. Walthall, George Nichols
Votes: 98
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
9. Examination Day at School (1910)
17 min | Short, Comedy
You can catch more flies with honey than will gall, and you rule easier by kindness than by tyranny. This fact is shown in this Biograph pastoral, which indeed might prove a lesson to ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Francis J. Grandon, William J. Butler
Votes: 40
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
10. Sunshine Sue (1910)
17 min | Drama, Short
Sue is the sunshine of the old home, ever smiling, singing, and lifting the burden from her parents' shoulders in their declining years. She is beloved by honest country lad Tom, who is at ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Marion Sunshine, W. Chrystie Miller, Clara T. Bracy, Edward Dillon
Votes: 23
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
11. The Two Paths (1911)
17 min | Short, Drama
Florence and Nellie are dressmakers, sewing to eke an existence. A wealthy woman calls for a gown they have just finished. She is accompanied by an unconscionable profligate, who, tempting ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Adolph Lestina, Grace Henderson
Votes: 31
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
12. Fate's Turning (1911)
17 min | Short, Romance
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman, and before she knows it, she's pregnant.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Stephanie Longfellow, Grace Henderson, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 80
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
13. The Lily of the Tenements (1911)
17 min | Short, Drama
Here we find a youthful toiler at a sewing machine eking the lives of her poor old mother and father. She receives a mere pittance for her labor, and this barely gives them plain food ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Dorothy West, Clara T. Bracy, W. Chrystie Miller, George Nichols
Votes: 24
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
14. The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Unrated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon gets word that the next train will deliver the payroll for a mining ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, George Nichols, Francis J. Grandon, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 1,336
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
15. Fighting Blood (1911)
18 min | Short, Action, Western
An old soldier on the frontier, the father of a dozen children, a staunch patriot himself, brings these children up with rigid military training. He conducts his household as a garrison ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Nichols, Kate Bruce, Robert Harron, Florence La Badie
Votes: 170
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
16. The Last Drop of Water (1911)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Western
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Joseph Graybill, Francis J. Grandon
Votes: 289
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
17. Bobby, the Coward (1911)
18 min | Short, Drama
Bobby's girlfriend thinks he's a coward when he refuses to fight a gang of toughs after they insult him. But when the gang breaks into his apartment, he fights them off, and wins his girlfriend's respect again.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Robert Harron, W. Chrystie Miller, Gladys Egan, Florence La Badie
Votes: 70
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
18. The Adventures of Billy (1911)
18 min | Drama, Short
Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Edna Foster, Donald Crisp, Joseph Graybill, Dell Henderson
Votes: 153
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
19. The Battle (1911)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Action, Drama
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Blanche Sweet, Charles Hill Mailes, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 375
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
20. The Miser's Heart (1911)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a girl who lives in his building.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Adolph Lestina, Ynez Seabury, Wilfred Lucas, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 301
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
21. The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912)
17 min | Short, Romance, Western
The Goddess, the prettiest and best natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her. His chances, however, are... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Dorothy Bernard, W. Chrystie Miller
Votes: 44
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
22. The Female of the Species (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama
Four survivors from an abandoned mining town - a married couple, the wife's sister, and a younger woman - are making a desperate trip to safety across the desert. The wife suspects the ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Claire McDowell, Mary Pickford, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 329
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
23. A Beast at Bay (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama
A young, and fickle girl ( Mary Pickford ) dumps her admiring boyfriend ( Edwin August ) because she views him as a coward. Meanwhile a ruthless convict ( Alfred Paget ) has escaped and ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Edwin August, Alfred Paget, Mae Marsh
Votes: 234
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
24. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller
Votes: 2,490
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
25. The New York Hat (1912)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Drama
A dying mother bequeaths money in trust for her teenage daughter to the pastor. When he buys the girl an expensive new hat, scandal breaks out, as local gossips assume something fishy is going on between the pastor and the pretty girl.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 933
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
26. The Massacre (1912)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Action, War
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Alfred Paget
Votes: 355
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
27. The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913)
17 min | Short, Drama
A telephone operator hears a robbery in progress over the 'phone and goes in search of help.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mae Marsh, Claire McDowell, Alfred Paget, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 104
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
28. The Wanderer (II) (1913)
17 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
This story is somewhat in the nature of a poetical fantasy, and may be construed as the spectator pleases. It is the story of a wanderer who prefers to seek, through his flute, the spirit ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Charles Hill Mailes, Christy Cabanne, Kate Bruce
Votes: 62
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
29. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper
Votes: 26,338 | Gross: $10.00M
Cycle « À la redécouverte de David Wark Griffith »
30. Laura (1944)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
Votes: 51,409 | Gross: $4.36M
Cycle « Gene Tierney »
31. Dragonwyck (1946)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
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: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan
Votes: 5,398
Cycle « Gene Tierney »
32. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
Votes: 14,774
Cycle « Gene Tierney »
33. The Razor's Edge (1946)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Votes: 6,787 | Gross: $5.00M
Cycle « Gene Tierney »
34. The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Shanghai, dragon lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out of business.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson
Votes: 2,967
Cycle « Gene Tierney »
35. Whirlpool (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford
Votes: 4,796
Cycle « Gene Tierney »
36. Anima nera (1962)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A man with a past gets married and it seems that he will be able to start a new life, but an unexpected inheritance gets in the way and deteriorates the relationship with his wife.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Nadja Tiller, Annette Stroyberg, Yvonne Sanson
Votes: 200
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma italien »
37. The Organizer (1963)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, History
A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli
Votes: 3,277
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma italien »
38. Caprice Italian Style (1968)
95 min | Comedy
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Steno, Pino Zac, Franco Rossi | Stars: Totò, Ugo D'Alessio, Regina Seiffert, Dante Maggio
Votes: 632
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma italien »
39. Many Wars Ago (1970)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the Italian troops.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè, Giampiero Albertini
Votes: 1,922
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma italien »
40. The Three Faces (1965)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
A story with three segments that all adhered to the titular theme, The Three Faces of a Woman.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini, Franco Indovina | Stars: Princess Soraya, Richard Harris, Alberto Sordi, Goffredo Alessandrini
Votes: 307
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma italien »
41. Mamma Roma (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini
Votes: 10,470
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma italien »
42. La mia signora (1964)
102 min | Comedy
Five comedic episodes, all starring Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Tinto Brass, Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Claudio Gora, Elena Nicolai
Votes: 207
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma italien »
43. La Habanera (1937)
98 min | Drama
Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Zarah Leander, Julia Serda, Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell
Votes: 635
Cycle « Drames et Mélodrames »
44. The Garden of Allah (1936)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Tilly Losch, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 1,707
Cycle « Drames et Mélodrames »
45. Random Harvest (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Votes: 8,405 | Gross: $10.14M
Cycle « Drames et Mélodrames »
46. Gambling Hell (1942)
61 min | Adventure, Drama
A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Mireille Balin, Henri Guisol, Erich von Stroheim
Votes: 176
Cycle « Drames et Mélodrames »
47. To New Shores (1937)
106 min | Drama
In 1846 the actress Gloria Vane is performing at the Adelphi Theatre, London. She is in love with the destitute nobleman Albert Finsbury, who is shortly departing to Australia to become an ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel, Edwin Jürgensen, Carola Höhn
Votes: 476
Cycle « Drames et Mélodrames »
48. White Cargo (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama
The story takes place at a British plantation in Africa where Tondelayo entices all the Brits, especially Harry Witzel.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson
Votes: 819
Cycle « Drames et Mélodrames »
49. Club de femmes (1936)
81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Deval | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Josette Day, Valentine Tessier, Else Argal
Votes: 139
Cycle « Danielle Darrieux »
50. Abus de confiance (1937)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Imposture helps an orphan girl become a lawyer.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel, Yvette Lebon, Pierre Mingand
Votes: 171
Cycle « Danielle Darrieux »
51. Port Arthur (1936)
81 min | Drama, War
Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer - but war is imminent...
Director: Nicolas Farkas | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Karin Hardt, René Deltgen, Paul Hartmann
Votes: 31
Cycle « Danielle Darrieux »
52. Battement de coeur (1940)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Danielle Darrieux plays an impoverished reform-school escapee who finds a new lease on life when she enrolls in a school for pickpockets run by Fagin-like Saturnin-Fabre.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Claude Dauphin, André Luguet, Junie Astor
Votes: 329
Cycle « Danielle Darrieux »
53. Caprices (1942)
80 min | Comedy
A Cinderella type vehicle for Danielle Darrieux as a struggling actress in a little theater who sells flowers to make a living but meets a rich businessman who may rescue her from her plight.
Director: Léo Joannon | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Albert Préjean, Jean Parédès, Fred Pasquali
Votes: 72
Cycle « Danielle Darrieux »
54. 5 Fingers (1952)
Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden
Votes: 5,467
Cycle « Danielle Darrieux »
55. The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Votes: 11,106
Cycle « Danielle Darrieux »
56. The Tall Target (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson
Votes: 2,338
Cycle « Films noirs et thrillers »
57. The Clock (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 4,045 | Gross: $2.78M
Cycle « Films noirs et thrillers »
58. Border Incident (1949)
Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell
Votes: 2,738
Cycle « Films noirs et thrillers »
59. Black Hand (1950)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Now grown-up, Johnny Columbo returns to New York from Italy having sworn a vendetta against the Black Hand who killed his father years earlier. Becoming romantically involved with a girl ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli, Marc Lawrence
Votes: 952
Cycle « Films noirs et thrillers »
60. Ransom! (1956)
Approved | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After the child of wealthy parents gets abducted, the police and a member of the press intervene to assist the parents in their search but end up complicating their impending decisions.
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 2,329
Cycle « Films noirs et thrillers »
61. Liliom (1934)
Unrated | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a ... See full summary »
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Robert Arnoux, Roland Toutain
Votes: 1,267
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma français d'avant-guerre »
62. The Novel of Werther (1938)
85 min | Drama, Romance
Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay, Jean Galland, Jean Périer
Votes: 267
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma français d'avant-guerre »
63. Caravane (1934)
Approved | 109 min | Musical
Princess Wilma is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. She impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi, offering him a huge sum of money if he'll consent. Swallowing his pride, ... See full summary »
Director: Erik Charell | Stars: Charles Boyer, Annabella, Pierre Brasseur, Conchita Montenegro
Votes: 72
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma français d'avant-guerre »
64. Mr. Flow (1936)
Approved | 80 min | Drama
While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress, married to a rich man, then becomes attracted to the lawyer.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Fernand Gravey, Edwige Feuillère, Jean Périer, Vladimir Sokoloff
Votes: 114
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma français d'avant-guerre »
65. Ultimatum (1938)
73 min | Drama, War
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
Directors: Robert Wiene, Robert Siodmak | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Abel Jacquin, Bernard Lancret, Dita Parlo
Votes: 82
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma français d'avant-guerre »
66. Le voleur (1933)
60 min | Drama
A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Madeleine Renaud, Victor Francen, Jean Worms, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 22
Cycle « Aspects du cinéma français d'avant-guerre »
67. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer
Votes: 27,678 | Gross: $7.57M
Cycle « Vincente Minnelli »
68. Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Musical
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. looks down from Heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
Directors: Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Merrill Pye, Charles Walters | Stars: William Powell, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Fred Astaire
Votes: 3,630 | Gross: $7.93M
Cycle « Vincente Minnelli »
69. Madame Bovary (1949)
Passed | 114 min | Drama, Romance
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: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan
Votes: 2,903
Cycle « Vincente Minnelli »
70. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Approved | 107 min | Drama
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, George Hamilton
Votes: 2,960
Cycle « Vincente Minnelli »
71. The Big Heat (1953)
Passed | 89 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby
Votes: 29,162
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
72. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,799 | Gross: $2.24M
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
73. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Votes: 97,342 | Gross: $0.65M
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
74. Night and the City (1950)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Votes: 15,270 | Gross: $3.60M
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
75. Nightfall (1956)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith, Jocelyn Brando
Votes: 4,562
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
76. Road House (1948)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Film-Noir
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: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark
Votes: 3,162
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
77. Johnny Eager (1941)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
The step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin
Votes: 3,421
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
78. The Beast of the City (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt
Votes: 1,420 | Gross: $0.89M
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
79. The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Detective Philip Marlowe encounters a variety of characters while checking on why Leslie Murdock stole a rare doubloon from his mother.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts
Votes: 1,387
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
80. The Verdict (1946)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After an innocent man is executed in a case for which he was not responsible, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring, George Coulouris
Votes: 2,830
Cycle « Aspects du film noir »
81. Wooden Crosses (1932)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, War
World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos
Votes: 1,691
Cycle « Raymond Bernard »
82. Tartarin de Tarascon (1934)
95 min | Comedy
Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Raimu, Fernand Charpin, Sinoël, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 142
Cycle « Raymond Bernard »
83. Les Misérables (1934)
Not Rated | 281 min | Drama
The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs, Max Dearly
Votes: 1,970
Cycle « Raymond Bernard »
84. Marthe Richard (1937)
95 min | Drama, War
The fictionalized story of Marthe Richard ,a spy in WW1.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Délia Col, Marthe Mellot, Liliane Lesaffre
Votes: 117
Cycle « Raymond Bernard »
85. The Great Sinner (1949)
Approved | 110 min | Drama
In the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.
Directors: Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston
Votes: 1,621
Cycle « Ava Gardner »
86. East Side, West Side (1949)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner
Votes: 2,510
Cycle « Ava Gardner »
87. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
Approved | 124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain.
Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim
Votes: 4,737
Cycle « Ava Gardner »
88. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
Directors: Henry King, Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 5,901 | Gross: $18.05M
Cycle « Ava Gardner »
89. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as told by writer/director Harry Dawes, from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring
Votes: 12,698
Cycle « Ava Gardner »
90. Sandra (1965)
105 min | Drama, Mystery
Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig, Renzo Ricci
Votes: 2,244
Cycle « Cinéma italien »
91. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Not Rated | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante
Votes: 13,705
Cycle « Cinéma italien »
92. The Conjugal Bed (1963)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Marina Vlady, Walter Giller, Linda Sini
Votes: 807
Cycle « Cinéma italien »
93. La marcia su Roma (1962)
94 min | Comedy
After the 1st world war, two veterans, starving, but fools, are enlisted with the fascists, where they can eat. But when it comes to killing, they drop out.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin, Mario Brega
Votes: 736
Cycle « Cinéma italien »
94. The Betrayer (1961)
127 min | Drama
Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Isabelle Corey
Votes: 364
Cycle « Cinéma italien »
95. The Verona Trial (1963)
120 min | Drama
This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Frank Wolff, Vivi Gioi, Françoise Prévost
Votes: 130
Cycle « Cinéma italien »
96. La bugiarda (1965)
97 min | Comedy
Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate deception by impersonating her roommate Silvana... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Catherine Spaak, Enrico Maria Salerno, Marc Michel, Manuel Miranda
Votes: 81
Cycle « Cinéma italien »
97. Bebo's Girl (1964)
106 min | Crime, Drama
A country girl becomes involved with a partisan, follows him, and stands by him even when sentenced for crimes.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, George Chakiris, Marc Michel, Dany París
Votes: 524
Cycle « Cinéma italien »
98. Affaire classée (1932)
24 min | Drama, Short
The owner of a fairground shooting gallery, haunted by the crime he committed ten years before with the complicity of his friend and associate, is ridden with guilt. One day, as he is under... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vanel | Stars: Gabriel Gabrio, Andrée Champeaux, Pierre Larquey, Charles Vanel
Votes: 10
Cycle « Charles Vanel »
99. Au nom de la loi (1932)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Marcelle Chantal, Régine Dancourt, Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Marchat
Votes: 123
Cycle « Charles Vanel »
100. Le grand jeu (1934)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Pierre (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... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Marie Bell, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel, Georges Pitoëff
Votes: 426
Cycle « Charles Vanel »
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