Released Date:
1939-09-08
Languages:
Swedish
Countries:
Sweden
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (343 Reviews)
Director:
Gustaf MolanderGenres:
DramaFrancis de Croisset (play)
Gèsta Stevens
When she was a child, Anna Holm burned her face. This destroyed her looks, and she has become a mean and bitter woman. She and her 'friends' are black-mailers. One of the victims pay her by letting a plastic surgeon, doctor Wegert, make her beautiful again. Anna becomes a new person and leave the others. She becomes a governess for a young boy, who will inherit a fortune. The boy has an evil uncle, who wants to see the boy dead, so that he will inherit the fortune. He hires Anna's former colleagues as assassins.
Released Date:
1943-01-23
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
8.6 (354005 Reviews)
Director:
Michael CurtizJulius J. Epstein (screenplay)
Philip G. Epstein (screenplay)
Howard Koch (screenplay)
Murray Burnett (play)
Joan Alison (play)
In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining a Czechoslovak underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan....
Released Date:
1944-04-28
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
170 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(5670 Reviews)
Director:
Sam WoodErnest Hemingway (novel)
Dudley Nichols (screenplay)
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era -- like Ernest Hemingway and his friends -- has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a bridge in a cave. Pilar, who is in charge there, has an ability to foretell the future. And so that night she encourages Maria, a young girl ravaged by enemy soldiers, to join Jordan who has decided to spend the night under the stars.
Released Date:
1944-05-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (15625 Reviews)
Director:
George CukorJohn Van Druten (screenplay)
Walter Reisch (screenplay)
John L. Balderston (screenplay)
Patrick Hamilton (play)
Paula's aunt, Alice Alquist, a famous entertainer, is murdered in her home. Paula, who lives with her aunt, finds the body. Police fail to find the killer, and Paula is sent away to school. Ten years later, Paula returns to London with her new husband. They take up residence in her aunt's house, which she has inherited. Paula is increasingly isolated by her husband but does come to the attention of an admirer of her aunt, Mr. Brian Cameron.
Released Date:
1946-02-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
126 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (5116 Reviews)
Director:
Leo McCareyDudley Nichols (screenplay)
Leo McCarey (story)
Father O'Malley, the unconventional priest from 'Going My Way', continues his work for the Catholic Church. This time he is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
Released Date:
1945-12-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (30640 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockBen Hecht (screen play)
Frances Beeding (suggested by novel: "The House of Dr. Edwardes")
Angus MacPhail (adaptation)
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Edwardes arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwardes is in fact a paranoid amnesiac impostor. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.
Released Date:
1946-09-06
Languages:
English, French, Portuguese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (67596 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockFollowing the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.
Released Date:
1949-04-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
145 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1803 Reviews)
Director:
Victor FlemingMaxwell Anderson (play)
Maxwell Anderson (screenplay)
Andrew Solt (screenplay)
In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquerors Orleans. When her army is ready to attack Paris, the corrupt Charles sells his country to England and dismiss the army. Joan is arrested, sold to the Burgundians England and submitted to a shameful political trial in Rouen castle.
Released Date:
1950-02-15
Languages:
Italian, English, Spanish, German, French
Countries:
Italy, USA
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3447 Reviews)
Director:
Roberto RosselliniGenres:
DramaRoberto Rossellini (story)
Sergio Amidei (collaboration)
Gian Paolo Callegari (collaboration)
Art Cohn (collaboration)
Renzo Cesana (collaboration)
Fèlix Morlièn (screenplay)
Karen, a young woman from the baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prisoners camp. But the life in Antonio's village, Stromboli, threatened by the vulcano, is a tough one and Karen can not get used to it.
Released Date:
1949-10-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (4244 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockJohn Colton (play)
Margaret Linden (play)
Helen Simpson (novel)
Hume Cronyn (adaptation)
James Bridie (screenplay)
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness.
Released Date:
1954-11-03
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (1616 Reviews)
Director:
Roberto RosselliniGenres:
DramaRoberto Rossellini (story)
Roberto Rossellini
Sandro De Feo
Mario Pannunzio
Ivo Perilli
Brunello Rondi
Irene Girard is an ambassador's wife and used to always live in luxury. After the dramatic death of her son, she feels guilty of having neglected him and feels compelled to help people in need who cross her path. One day she offers shelter to a man who is evading justice, and she ends being arrested herself. Her husband, for the sake of social propriety, arranges for a doctor to declare her insane. Irene escapes one prison to enter another, and to reflect on what sort of society she lives in.
Released Date:
1954-09-07
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (4561 Reviews)
Director:
Roberto RosselliniVitaliano Brancati (story)
Roberto Rossellini (story)
Colette (novel)
Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. There's a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; although she didn't love him, the memory underscores romance's absence from her life now. She tours the museums of Naples and Pompeii, immersing herself in the Neapolitan fascination with the dead and noticing how many women are pregnant; he idles on Capri, flirting with women but drawing back from adultery. With her, he's sarcastic; with him, she's critical. They talk of divorce. Will this foreign couple find insight and direction in Italy?
Languages:
German
Countries:
West Germany, Italy
Runtime:
84 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (554 Reviews)
Director:
Roberto RosselliniGenres:
DramaStefan Zweig (novel)
Sergio Amidei
Franz von Treuberg
Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover's jealous ex-girlfriend. The plot, an experiment in causing fear, drives her into a rage.
Released Date:
1956-12-13
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (5380 Reviews)
Director:
Anatole LitvakArthur Laurents (screenplay)
Marcelle Maurette (play)
Guy Bolton (play)
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is really Anastasia. In the end the Empress must decide her claim.
Released Date:
1958-05-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (5284 Reviews)
Director:
Stanley DonenNorman Krasna (screenplay)
Norman Krasna (play)
Anna Kalman is a London based actress. She has been unable to find love in her life. The reason why she came home early from a vacation to Majorca fits into that theme, as the man she met there and was initially attracted to ended up not being who she thought he was as a man. Upon her arrival home, she meets the suave Philip Adams, a financier who is a work acquaintance of her brother-in-law, diplomat Alfred Munson. Philip initially states that there is no Mrs. Adams in his life. But when Anna later asks him out, he clarifies that statement in that there is no Mrs. Adams in London, as she is at home in San Francisco. Regardless, Anna decides still to ask him on the date she had intended to the ballet. He accepts, letting her know that whatever happens between the two of them that he will never be able to leave his wife. As time goes on, the two fall in love, their happiness which can only be sustained as long as Philip has his Paris-based contract with NATO. So when Philip announces that he is being transferred to New York for five months, Anna comes to the realization that she truly cannot live without him and wants to marry him. Shortly thereafter, Anna learns something about Philip's background, which not only threatens their relationship, but leads to a night that Anna wants to give him that he will never forget, and not in a good way. But the best laid plans may have a bumpy road to being executed effectively...
Released Date:
1958-12-19
Languages:
English, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Cantonese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
158 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3158 Reviews)
Director:
Mark RobsonIsobel Lennart (screenplay)
Alan Burgess (novel)
All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.
Released Date:
1961-09-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, USA
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1708 Reviews)
Director:
Anatole LitvakFranèoise Sagan (novel)
Samuel A. Taylor (screenplay)
In this adaptation of Franèoise Sagan's best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful and highly successful 40-year-old businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of five years. Roger is a very charming gallant who loves Paula but is too selfish to give up his freedom to be promiscuous. When Paula meets Phillip, the 24-year-old immature lawyer son of one of her rich clients, he falls hopelessly in love with the glamorous, sympathetic older woman and insists that the age difference will be no barrier to a romance. Paula resists the young man's persistent advances, but she finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young Maisies. An affair begins, and society does not approve.
Released Date:
1964-09-11
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA, West Germany, France, Italy
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (913 Reviews)
Director:
Bernhard WickiGenres:
DramaBen Barzman (screenplay)
Friedrich Dèrrenmatt (play)
Maurice Valency (adaptation)
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Released Date:
1965-05-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (2136 Reviews)
Director:
Anthony AsquithThree stories about the lives and loves of those who own a certain yellow Rolls-Royce: **First purchased by the Marquess of Frinton for his wife as a belated anniversary present, the Marchiness finds her own use for the vehicle - one which prompts her husband to sell the car in disgust. **Gangster Paolo Maltese's moll, Mae, thinks the Rolls is a "classy" car in which to tour Paolo's home town in Italy. When Paolo is called away to the States to finish some "business", a bored Mae takes the Rolls on a spin through the country, enjoying both the sights and the handsome Italian photographer who crosses her path. **By the outbreak of World War II, the car has come into the possession of socialite Gerda Millet. While on her way to visit Yugoslavian royalty, Gerda and the Rolls become (at first) unwitting and then (eventually) most willing participants in the Yugoslavian fight.
Released Date:
1969-12-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
M
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (6040 Reviews)
Director:
Gene SaksAbe Burrows (stage play)
Pierre Barillet (play)
Jean-Pierre Grèdy (play)
I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay)
Toni Simmons believes that the only reason her married lover won't leave his wife is because of the children. In truth, her lover, dentist Julian Winston, doesn't have any children. In fact, Julian doesn't even have a wife - he just tells women he does to avoid getting involved. When Julian does decide to take the plunge with Toni she insists on meeting the first wife and Julian enlists the aid of his long-time nurse/receptionist Stephanie Dickinson to play the part.
Released Date:
1974-11-24
Languages:
English, French, German, Turkish, Italian, Swedish
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (33534 Reviews)
Director:
Sidney LumetGenres:
MysteryFamous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating.
Released Date:
1978-10-01
Languages:
Swedish, English
Countries:
France, West Germany, Sweden
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
8.3 (13656 Reviews)
Director:
Ingmar BergmanAfter having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each other.
Released Date:
1982-04-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
200 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (565 Reviews)
Director:
Alan GibsonThe story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Released Date:
2000-09-05
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
68 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (75 Reviews)
Director:
Paquito Del BoscoGenres:
DocumentaryReleased Date:
2015-11-13
Languages:
Swedish
Countries:
Sweden
Runtime:
114 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (150 Reviews)
Director:
Stig BjèrkmanStig Bjèrkman
Dominika Daubenbèchel
Stina Gardell
In spring 2011, director Stig Bjèrkman meets Ingrid Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini and she suggests him to "make a film about Mama". Through Isabella, Stig is able to tell Ingrid's story through her own words and images. Seven time Academy Award-nominee and three time Academy Award-winner Ingrid Bergman was one of the most talented actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age with great performances in films such as CASABLANCA (1942), GASLIGHT (1944) and and AUTUMN SONATA (1978). Through never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews with her children, this documentary presents a personal portrait and captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.
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