Topic: Jealousy

Direction Erich von Stroheim

Cast Gibson Gowland · ZaSu Pitts · Jean Hersholt · Chester Conklin

Plot Miner-turned-dentist McTeague wins young Trina Sieppe away from her cousin Marcus, McTeague's friend. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a lottery, Marcus accuses McTeague of marrying her for her...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Delia Garcés · Aurora Walker · Carlos Martínez Baena

Plot Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Hideko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Tatsuo Saito · Sanae Takasugi

Plot Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to...

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · George Macready · Joseph Calleia

Plot Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Glenn Ford · Gloria Grahame · Broderick Crawford · Edgar Buchanan

Plot A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder.

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jean Simmons · Mona Freeman · Herbert Marshall

Plot Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne, who remarried a wealthy woman, Diane Treymayne's...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ann Sothern · Linda Darnell · Paul Douglas

Plot Three wives in spats with their husbands receive a note from a former friend that she has run off with one of their spouses. Trapped on a boat for a...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Claude Dauphin · Raymond Bussières

Plot In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of them, Marie, aka "Casque d'Or" (Golden Helmet) meets Manda, a carpenter. Her man...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chikage Awashima · Ryo Ikebe · Teiji Takahashi · Keiko Kishi

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Tim Holt · Joseph Cotten · Dolores Costello · Agnes Moorehead

Plot The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Walter Miller · Sylvia Sidney · William Collier Jr. · Estelle Taylor

Plot Based on the pullitzer prize winning broadway play, Street scene is a study in the daily lives of people...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Suzanne Cloutier · Micheál MacLiammóir · Robert Coote

Plot The story of a man driven mad by the power of his self-contained emotion. A Shakespearean classic. Orson Welles' production began in 1948 but with money in short supply the...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Gene Tierney · Cornel Wilde · Jeanne Crain · Vincent Price

Plot Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets and falls desperately in love with Richard Harland (Cornell Wilde), an author who resembles her late father. Ellen is pathologically possessive of Richard, jealous of...

Direction René Clément

Cast Alain Delon · Maurice Ronet · Billy Kearns · Marie Laforêt

Plot René Clément's thriller Purple Noon stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, an American who travels to Europe on an all-expenses-paid mission to convince his friend, the errant playboy Philippe Greenleaf...

Direction Icíar Bollaín

Cast Laia Marull · Luis Tosar · Candela Peña · Rosa María Sardà

Plot Winner of Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 2003 San Sebastian Film Festival, Iciar Bollain's stirring drama takes an intimate and clear-eyed look at a relationship ripped apart...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ingrid Bergman · George Sanders · Maria Mauban · Paul Muller

Plot When a quarrelsome married couple travels to Italy to explore a posh estate they've inherited, temptations and trials await them. Eventually, both experience a profound physical and psychological transformation amid...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Michel Piccoli · Jack Palance · Georgia Moll

Plot French playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is hired by the arrogant American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rewrite the screenplay of a commercial version of Ulysses and his Odyssey,...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Rey · Ángela Molina · Carole Bouquet · Julien Bertheau

Plot Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Ewa Blaszczyk · Piotr Machalica · Artur Barcis · Jan Jankowski

Plot "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife". Roman, after discovering his impotence, urges his wife Hanka to take a lover. She reluctantly complies, and Roman, despite his earlier words, becomes...

Direction Emilio Maillé · Patricia Arriaga-Jordán · Rodrigo Curiel

Cast Juan Carlos Barreto · Eduardo Arroyuelo · Javier Díaz Dueñas · Claudio Lafarga