Cast: George Coulouris

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Joseph Cotten · Everett Sloane · George Coulouris

Synopsis The story charts the rise and fall of a newpaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolate him in his castle-like refuge. The last word he utters before his death is 'Rosebud', which triggers a mystery. A group of journalists...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · George Sanders · Walter Slezak

Synopsis A mild-mannered schoolteacher in a Nazi occupied town during WWII finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Steve McQueen · Dustin Hoffman · Victor Jory · Don Gordon

Synopsis Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for 'butterfly' (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Bette Davis · Claude Rains · Walter Abel · Richard Waring

Synopsis Whose face ravaged, grotesque is in the mirror? Surely it's not that of Fanny Skeffington, the prettiest woman in New York. Fanny always used her beauty to manipulate her way through life. She's encouraged dozens of suitors, even after her...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Bette Davis · Charles Boyer · Jeffrey Lynn · Barbara O'Neil

Synopsis Bette Davis stars as the lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy in the film version of Rachel Field's epic historical romance novel ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO. Charles Boyer is charming and ultimately heartbreaking as the debonair Duc de Praslin,...

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre · Joan Lorring · George Coulouris

Synopsis Mr. Grodman was a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard until a mistake in an investigation caused the execution of an innocent man...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Claudette Colbert · Robert Cummings · Don Ameche · Rita Johnson

Synopsis Wealthy Sutton Place housewife Alison Courtland wakes up screaming on a train that left New York's Grand Central Station for Boston. The doctor who treats her on the train says it could just be a nightmare. Alison has no idea...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast John Garfield · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Walter Brennan · Faye Emerson

Synopsis Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich young widow, but finds himself falling for her for real, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Paul Muni · Merle Oberon · Cornel Wilde · Stephen Bekassy

Synopsis Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Ralph Richardson · Trevor Howard · Robert Morley · Wendy Hiller

Direction Herman Shumlin

Cast Bette Davis · Paul Lukas · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Lucile Watson

Synopsis Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends...

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Virgilio Teixeira · Maurice Reyna · Marianne Benet · Harold Kasket

Synopsis A young lad working in a bank in Valencia 'borrows' a million pesetas so he can help his dad pay to get his taxi fixed. Instead he finds himself being chased all over town not only by the police but...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Jeffrey Hunter · Hurd Hatfield · Siobhan McKenna · Robert Ryan

Synopsis Epic retelling of Christ's life and the effects of his teachings on those around him.

Direction Herman Shumlin

Cast Charles Boyer · Lauren Bacall · Victor Francen · Wanda Hendrix

Synopsis During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier Louis Denard (Charles Boyer) travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his life is at risk from those on the fascist side....

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Gregory Peck · Sophia Loren · Alan Badel · Kieron Moore

Synopsis Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics. Professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) is an expert in ancient Arabic hieroglyphics. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Ray Milland · Barry Fitzgerald · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Lilli Palmer · Sylvia Syms · Yvonne Mitchell · Ronald Lewis

Synopsis In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Jack Weston · Rita Moreno · Jerry Stiller · Kaye Ballard

Synopsis On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay bathhouse where he is pursued...

Direction Clifford Odets

Cast Cary Grant · Ethel Barrymore · Barry Fitzgerald · June Duprez

Synopsis A sickly English woman runs a store by herself, while her irresponsible son travels aimlessly, refusing to contact her. When told that his mother has cancer, the young man comes home, reforms himself, and helps his mom run the shop....

Direction Edward A. Blatt

Cast John Garfield · Paul Henreid · Sydney Greenstreet · Eleanor Parker

Synopsis Several people are killed in a London air raid. They each awake aboard a strange ship which will deliver each of them either to heaven or hell. Their lives and stories are revealed as they individually begin to realize where...