Cinematography: Boris Kaufman

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Henry Fonda · Lee J. Cobb · Jack Warden · E.G. Marshall

Plot Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Eva Marie Saint · Karl Malden · Lee J. Cobb

Plot Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is an ex-prize fighter struggling against union corruption along the New York waterfront. Malloy's battle takes him all the way to the witness stand, where he...

Direction Jean Vigo

Cast Jean Dasté · Dita Parlo · Michel Simon · Gilles Margaritis

Plot When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live on his ship, on board of which are, besides the two of them, only a cabin boy and the strange old second...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Natalie Wood · Warren Beatty · Pat Hingle · Audrey Christie

Plot Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families' disapproval. Coming from radically...

Direction Jean Vigo

Cast Louis Lefebvre · Gilbert Pluchon · Gérard de Bédarieux · Constantin Goldstein-Kehler

Plot So effervescent and charming that one can easily forget its importance in film history, Jean Vigo’s enormously influential portrait of prankish boarding-school students is one of cinema’s great acts of...

Direction Jean Vigo

Plot What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Rod Steiger · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Brock Peters · Jaime Sanchez

Plot The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet, stars Rod Steiger in this grim, dark tale of a Holocaust survivor who runs a pawnshop in Harlem. The film traces his deterioration as...

Direction Alan Schneider

Cast Buster Keaton · Nell Harrison · James Karen · Susan Reed

Plot A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Jason Robards · Ralph Richardson · Dean Stockwell

Plot Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of the screen's most insightful examinations of lives caught in a downward cycle of co-dependency and despair. Working from the highly autobiographical stage...

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Van Heflin · Ed Begley · Everett Sloane · Beatrice Straight

Plot The story of the fierce and corrosive competition that exists in the executive branch of Ramsey & Co., a New York industrial colossus headed by Walter Ramsey, its cold, designing...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Carroll Baker · Karl Malden · Eli Wallach · Mildred Dunnock

Plot Baby Doll Meighan is a pretty, vacuous Southern 'white trash' gal who at 17 still sleeps in a crib and sucks her thumb. She has been married for two years...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Marlon Brando · Anna Magnani · Joanne Woodward · Maureen Stapleton

Plot Valentine Xavier (Marlon Brando) is an "entertainer" in New Orleans - he plays a guitar given to him by Leadbelly - but when he runs afoul of the law one...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Raymond St. Jacques · Ruby Dee · Frank Silvera · Roscoe Lee Browne

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Liza Minnelli · Ken Howard · Robert Moore · James Coco

Plot Junie Moon's face has been disfigured by ill-gotten burns, and depends on her friends and her wit to cope. She, Warren, and Arthur leave the hospital - they yearn for...

Direction Jean Vigo

Cast Jean Taris

Plot Jean Vigo’s second film is partly a homage to French swimming champion Jean Taris (who appears in the film as himself) but mainly as an experiment into the possibilities of...

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Kirk Douglas · Alex Cord · Irene Papas · Luther Adler

Direction Dimitri Kirsanoff

Cast Ninon Vallin

Direction Eugene Deslaw

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Candice Bergen · Joan Hackett · Elizabeth Hartman · Shirley Knight

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Sophia Loren · Tab Hunter · Jack Warden · Barbara Nichols

Plot In 1944, Kay and Jane travel on an overnight train from Miami to New York, accompanied by Harry. Kay is the mistress of "The Man", a rich industrialist, whom they...