In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister’s death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor. Year 1961.
| Generes: Drama, Horror, Mystery |
| Director: Roger Corman |
| Writer: Richard Matheson (screenplay), Edgar Allan Poe (story “The Pit and the Pendulum”) |
| Actors: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders |
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate. Year 1935.
| Generes: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi |
| Director: James Whale |
| Writer: Mary Shelley (suggested by: the original story written in 1816 by), William Hurlbut (adapted by), John L. Balderston (adapted by), William Hurlbut (screenplay) |
| Actors: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger |
This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams… Year 1977.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Tengiz Abuladze |
| Writer: Tengiz Abuladze, Revaz Inanishvili, Giorgi Leonidze (story) |
| Actors: Lika Kavzharadze, Soso Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili, Kote Daushvili |
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. Year 1987.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Steven Spielberg |
| Writer: Tom Stoppard (screenplay), J.G. Ballard (novel) |
| Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers |
After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR – Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a … Year 1979–.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Director: N/A |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Vladimir Vysotskiy, Vladimir Konkin, Sergey Yurskiy, Aleksandr Belyavskiy |
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy. Year 1959.
| Generes: Action, Drama, Western |
| Director: Howard Hawks |
| Writer: Jules Furthman (screenplay), Leigh Brackett (screenplay), B.H. McCampbell (short story) |
| Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson |
If money can’t buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. … Year 1993.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Fei Xie |
| Writer: Fei Xie, Daxin Zhou (story) |
| Actors: Gaowa Siqin, Yujuan Wu, Baoguo Chen, Kesheng Lei |
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn’t go as planned. Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi |
| Director: Stanley Kubrick |
| Writer: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Anthony Burgess (novel) |
| Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke |
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative. Year 1964.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Robert Aldrich |
| Writer: Henry Farrell (screenplay), Lukas Heller (screenplay), Henry Farrell (story) |
| Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead |
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? Year 1946.
| Generes: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller |
| Director: Alfred Hitchcock |
| Writer: Ben Hecht |
| Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern |
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. Year 1967.
| Generes: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Arthur Penn |
| Writer: David Newman, Robert Benton |
| Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman |
In the spring of 1945, the German troops are practically defeated, and the battalion of Kowalski, major general von Plönnies and Asch is left to its own devices to a large extent. Year 1955.
| Generes: Drama, War |
| Director: Paul May |
| Writer: Hans Hellmut Kirst (novel), Ernst von Salomon |
| Actors: O.E. Hasse, Hannes Schiel, Gustav Knuth, Emmerich Schrenk |
An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator. Year 1944.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Billy Wilder |
| Writer: Billy Wilder (screenplay), Raymond Chandler (screenplay), James M. Cain (from the novel by) |
| Actors: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall |
German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy. Year 1951.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War |
| Director: Peter Lorre |
| Writer: Axel Eggebrecht (screenplay), Peter Lorre (novel), Peter Lorre (screenplay), Benno Vigny (screenplay) |
| Actors: Peter Lorre, Karl John, Helmuth Rudolph, Johanna Hofer |
In 1999, Claire’s life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and starts traveling around the world with him. Writer Eugene follows them and writes their story, as a way of recording dreams is being invented. Year 1991.
| Generes: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Director: Wim Wenders |
| Writer: Peter Carey (screenplay), Wim Wenders (screenplay), Wim Wenders (original idea by), Solveig Dommartin (original idea by), Michael Almereyda |
| Actors: Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin, Chick Ortega |
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend’s daughter. Year 1987.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: John Woo |
| Writer: Hark Tsui (story), John Woo |
| Actors: Lung Ti, Yun-Fat Chow, Leslie Cheung, Dean Shek |