Cast: Akim Tamiroff

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Charlton Heston · Janet Leigh · Orson Welles · Marlene Dietrich

Plot An unseen man sets the timer on an explosive device. The clock starts ticking down as soon as he stashes it in the boot of a fancy-looking car. Immediately afterwards,...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Greta Garbo · John Gilbert · Ian Keith · Lewis Stone

Plot Young Christina ascends to the Swedish throne at age 5. While she is queen, Sweden becomes a dominant European power at the end of the Thirty Years War. Like England's...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Lodge · Louise Dresser · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot In this re-imagining of Catherine the Great’s life story, filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and star Marlene Dietrich supply some of the most eye-popping images and outrageously decadent antics in early...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Anthony Perkins · Romy Schneider · Jeanne Moreau · Orson Welles

Plot Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Franchot Tone · Erich von Stroheim · Anne Baxter · Akim Tamiroff

Plot June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border--Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel...soon to be...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton · Diana Lynn · William Demarest

Plot Preston Sturges directs THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, about Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) a party girl who wakes up one morning to find she's married and pregnant, but she cannot...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Brian Donlevy · Muriel Angelus · Akim Tamiroff · Allyn Joslyn

Plot Writer-director Preston Sturges first film tells of the rise and fall of Dan McGinty which begins when he endears himself to the political machine by voting 37 times in a...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · Franchot Tone · Richard Cromwell · Guy Standing

Plot Sweeping adventure set in India of a gallant trio ordered into border warfare with Afghans and guerillas.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Edward Everett Horton · Una Merkel

Plot Sonia is an immensely wealthy widow from Marshovia, a small country where she controls half the wealth. The country depends on her spending her money there and when she moves...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Gary Cooper · John Halliday · William Frawley

Plot Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to spain, to get the pearls out of France, but getting...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Robert Arden · Orson Welles · Paola Mori · Akim Tamiroff

Plot Orson Welles’s "Mr. Arkadin" tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past. Welles missed the editing deadline, so the producer handed over...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Akim Tamiroff · Robert Preston

Plot This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Eddie Constantine · Anna Karina · Akim Tamiroff · Valérie Boisgel

Plot Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Maximilian Schell · Ricardo Montalban · Lea Padovani · Akim Tamiroff

Plot The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa (Maximilian Schell) is sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Signe Hasso · Carole Landis · Akim Tamiroff

Plot The autobiography of elegant criminal, François Eugène Vidocq, from his birth in a French jail in 1775 to his appointment as chief of police of Paris where he intends to...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Alberto Sordi · Fernandel · Nino Manfredi

Plot One morning, over the heavens of Naples, a mysterious voice announces that the God's Last Judgement will arrive that evening, and then the story follows various denizens as they struggle...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Yul Brynner · Helen Hayes · Akim Tamiroff

Plot 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...

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Joan Crawford · Gene Raymond · Franchot Tone · Edward Arnold

Plot The life of Sadie McKee takes many twists and turns. She starts as the daughter of the cook for the well off Alderson family. Lawyer Michael Alderson likes Sadie but...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Josephine Hutchinson · Anita Louise · Donald Woods

Plot In 1860, having helped France solve the problem of sour wine, chemist Louis Pasteur turns to the dangers of childbirth: 20,000 Paris women were dying annually. His germ theory and...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Peter O'Toole · James Mason · Curd Jürgens · Eli Wallach

Plot After distinguishing himself as a midshipman in the British merchant marine, Jim rapidly rises to the rank of second in command of a ship. But because of a broken foot...