Soundtrack: Maurice Jarre

Direction David Lean

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins

Plot While working on the staff of the British Intelligence in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to a mission to establish contact with Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness), leader...

Direction David Lean

Cast Omar Sharif · Julie Christie · Geraldine Chaplin · Alec Guinness

Plot Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago" covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri...

Direction John Huston

Cast Sean Connery · Michael Caine · Christopher Plummer · Saeed Jaffrey

Plot The film begins with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his office, his privacy is broken by the arrival of a dishevelled old acquaintance and fellow Freemason, Peachy Carnahan...

Direction David Lean

Cast Sarah Miles · Robert Mitchum · Christopher Jones · Trevor Howard

Plot Set during the Irish Rebellion of 1916, it tells the story of Charles Shaughnessy (Robert Mitchum), a kind and gentle widower, who falls in love with and marries the much...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Scofield · Jeanne Moreau · Michel Simon

Plot Oberst von Waldheim wants to bring modern paintings, the ones the Nazis called "degenerate", out of Paris before the Allied Forces liberate Paris. He is able to persuade his bosses...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Terence Stamp · Samantha Eggar · Mona Washbourne · Maurice Dallimore

Plot Freddie Clegg isn't sure if he can carry out his plan for "her" until he stumbles across an isolated house for sale in the English countryside, the house he spots...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Robin Williams · Robert Sean Leonard · Ethan Hawke · Josh Charles

Plot Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the...

Direction Frédéric Rossif

Cast Francisco Franco · José Millán Astray · Adolf Hitler · Benito Mussolini

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Ingrid Thulin · Helmut Griem · Helmut Berger

Plot A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti....

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Burt Lancaster · Lee Marvin · Robert Ryan · Jack Palance

Plot Wealthy J.W. Grant hires Henry Fardan, Jake Sharp, Hans Ehrengard, and Bill Dolworth, each a specialist in his own field, to go into Mexico to bring back his wife, who...

Direction Moustapha Akkad

Cast Abdallah Gheith · Mouna Wasef · Hamdi Geiss · Ali Achmed Taram

Plot Akkad shot it in two versions, one in English with Anthony Quinn, "The Message", and this one, in Arabic version.

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Pierre Brasseur · Alida Valli · Juliette Mayniel · Edith Scob

Plot A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter...

Direction Ken Annakin · Andrew Marton · Bernhard Wicki

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · Henry Fonda · Richard Burton

Plot England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their destination while paratroopers...

Direction Paul Newman

Cast Joanne Woodward · Neil Potts · Roberta Wallach · Judith Lowry

Plot A drama based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel. The story centers around eccentric young Matilda and her depressed family. Matilda is preparing her experiment for the...

Direction Serge Bourguignon

Cast Hardy Krüger · Patricia Gozzi · Nicole Courcel · Daniel Ivernel

Plot After killing a child and crash his plane on a routine bombing mission in Vietnam, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, the traumatized Pierre leads...

Direction Alain Resnais

Plot Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material,...

Direction David Lean

Cast Judy Davis · Victor Banerjee · Peggy Ashcroft · James Fox

Plot Circa 1920, during the Indian British rule, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed was born and brought up in India. He is proficient in English, and wears Western style clothing. He meets...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Tom Courtenay · Donald Pleasence

Plot In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up...

Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker

Cast Val Kilmer · Lucy Gutteridge · Omar Sharif · Christopher Villiers

Plot Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker--of AIRPLANE! and NAKED GUN fame--wrote and directed this genre-hopping slapstick juggernaut which lampoons World War II spy films and Elvis movies, making many other satirical stops...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Philippe Noiret · Edith Scob · Sami Frey

Plot After Thérèse is acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Bernard Desqueyroux, she recalls the events that lead to her being charged. At the beginning of her marriage to Bernard,...