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Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia    More Info
Starring: Victor Mature, Rita Gam, Gabriele Ferzetti, Milly Vitale, Rik Battaglia, Franco Silva, Terence Hill, Mirko Ellis, Andrea Aureli, Renzo Cesana

 Hannibal (Victor Mature) has crossed the Alps with his elephants and is advancing on Rome when he captures Sylvia (Rita Gam). The two fall in love, but love will not conquer all as Hannibal's failings prove his undoing–both with Sylvia and with the Romans.

Director: Akira Kurosawa    More Info
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Takeshi Kato, Takashi Shimura, Ko Nishimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kyoko Kagawa, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi

 This indictment of the Japanese approach to business emphasizes the corruption at high levels through the story of a man who marries the boss' daughter to avenge his father's death, which, it becomes apparent, can be traced back to his new father-in-law.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard    More Info
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane Robin, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Louis Richard, Philippe de Broca, Van Doude

 In director Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, the story involves Michel Poiccard's (Jean-Paul Belmondo) run from the police after he kills a policeman and steals a car. His girlfriend is an American student Patricia (Jean Seberg) who joins him on the race against time as Michel tries to collect on a debt that will enable them to escape to Italy. This exciting film introduced the French New Wave to theaters.

Director: Gilberto Gazcon    More Info
Starring: Pedro Armendariz, Agustin de Anda, Sonia Furio, Teresa Velazquez, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Felix Gonzalez, Jose Chavez, Andres Soler

 Wrongfully jailed for murder, Ramon (Agustin de Anda) escapes with persistent and successful tracker Pedro (Pedro Armendariz) hot on his trail across the desert. After the capture, the two begin to understand each other, but will Pedro accept Ramon's story? A good Western.

Director: Richard Pottier    More Info
Starring: Orson Welles, Ivo Payer, Edward Hilton, Massimo Serato, Pierre Cressoy, Umberto Fiz, Luigi Tosi, Gabriele Tinti, Kronos

 This Italian film relates the Bible story about the legendary battle between the giant, Goliath (Kronos), and David (Ivo Payer) who wielded only his trusty slingshot to slay his adversary.

Director: Ingmar Bergman    More Info
Starring: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Stig Jarrel, Nils Poppe, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Stur Lagerwall, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Funkquist, Gunnar Sjoberg, Torsen Winge

 Satan recruits Don Juan (Jarl Kulle) and sends him on a mission of seducing the beautiful virgin, Britt Marie (Bibi Andersson).

Director: Fritz Lang    More Info
Starring: Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters, Andrea Checchi, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Nico Pepe, Rolf Mobius, Howard Vernon

 When visitors turn up dead at Berlin's Hotel Luxor, police suspect that the murderer believes he is the reincarnation of master criminal Dr. Mabuse. Although this film represents Fritz Lang's final effort as a director, five "Dr. Mabuse" sequels followed this very popular film.

Director: Kurt Maetzig    More Info
Starring: Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe, Michail N. Postnikow, Kurt Rackelmann, Gunther Simon, Tang Hua-Ta, Lucyna Winnicka

 An expedition from Earth to Venus sets out to uncover the mystery behind magnetic spots discovered in a construction project at which an alien spaceship crashed years ago.

Director: Valerio Zurlini    More Info
Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo, Corrado Pani, Gian Maria Volonte, Riccardo Garrone, Renato Baldini, Romolo Valli, Elsa Albani, Ciccio Barbi

 After nightclub singer Aida (Claudia Cardinale) is jilted by Marcello (Corrado Pani), she begins a new romance with his 16-years-younger brother, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin). Love blooms–for awhile until Aida falls for a musician and leaves Lorenzo out in the cold.

Director: Vittorio Cottafavi    More Info
Starring: Mark Forest, Broderick Crawford, Gaby Andre, Leonora Ruffo, Philippe Hersent, Sandro Moretti, Federica Ranchi, Giancarlo Sbragia, Wandisa Guida, Carla Calo

 In this cheap rip-off of the "Hercules" series, Goliath (Mark Forest) fights an assortment of cheaply-made (and borrowed footage of) monsters–a fire-breathing, three-headed dog; a giant killer bat; and a dragon–on his way to save his brother from the evil king (Broderick Crawford).

Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia    More Info
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay, Massimo Serato, Tina Gloriani, Rossella Como, Giulio Donnini, Arturo Bragaglia, Andrea Aureli, Andrea Scotti, Moira Orfei

 If you're into three-headed dragons, talking trees, cyclops, and other assorted monsters, this is the film for you. Jayne Mansfield has a duel role of the nice queen and the evil Amazon leader who has great powers. When Hercules (Mickey Hargitay) heads to a Grecian land to take revenge on the gad guys who killed his people, he finds that he must deal with the above monsters to save the queen by defeating the Amazon leader.

Director: Andrzej Wajda    More Info
Starring: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wanda Koczeska, Kalina Jedrusik, Teresa Szmigielowna, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Nowakowski, Jerzy Skolimowski

 Although he is not interested in them, women are very attracted to Dr. Andrzej Bazyli (Tadeusz Lomnicki), and he is getting tired of all the attention. Then, Pelagia (Krystyna Stypulkowska) appears on the scene, and his life picks up as they begin a battle of wits that finally dissolves Bazyli's indifference–at least for awhile.

Director: Federico Fellini    More Info
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Yvonne Furneaux, Lex Barker, Anouk Aimee, Magali Noel, Alain Cuny, Nadia Gray, Jacques Sernas

 This landmark film shows the emotionless world of modern society as seen through the eyes of journalist Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni). It is a prototype of art films.

Director: Jacques Becker    More Info
Starring: Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Marc Michel, Andre Bervil, Eddy Rasimi, Jean-Paul Coquelin, Catherine Spaak, Dominique Zardi

 Director Jacques Becker used non-professional actors in this excellent prison-break story. A man (Marc Michel) awaiting trial for attempting to murder his wife joins a group of men planning a jail break from Sante Prison. The details of the plan are meticulously presented, keeping you on the edge of your seat. His wife drops the attempted murder charge, and he tries to get a further reduction of charges by ratting on his cellmates.

Director: Roberto Gavaldon    More Info
Starring: Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Jose Galvez, Jose Luis Jimenez, Mario Alberto Rodriguez, Eduardo Fajardo, Consuelo Frank, Jose Dupeyron, Celia Tejeda

 An old Mexican fable was the basis for B. Traven's novel "The Third Guest," upon which this film is based. Macario (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives in extreme poverty with his family. He goes on a hunger strike to get sympathy and, hopefully, to get a turkey. His wife (Pina Pellicer) steals a turkey and gives it to him, though the children must go to bed hungry. Just as Macario is about to eat it, he is visited by Death and is convinced to share the turkey in return for the ability to heal–as long as Death agrees with the person to be healed. Fame and fortune follow, but promises are hard to keep, and Death doesn't tolerate broken promises. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

Director: Giorgio Ferroni    More Info
Starring: Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Wolfgang Preiss, Herbert A.E. Bohme, Dany Carrel, Marco Guglielmi, Liana Orfei, Olga Solbelli

 Set in 1912, young art student Hans (Pierre Brice) arrives in a Dutch town to research an old windmill owned by Professor Wahl (Herbert A.E. Bohme), who teaches art and sculpture. The windmill is decorated with moving sculptures of women in various death poses. Hans meets the professor's beautiful daughter, Elfi (Scilla Gabel), who, it appears, has a rare disease. It becomes apparent that there is a connection between Elfi's disease and the sculptures.

Director: Luchino Visconti    More Info
Starring: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin, Paolo Stoppa, Suzy Delair, Claudia Cardinale, Spiros Focas, Max Cartier

 Hoping for a better life, widow Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) moves with her son Rocco (Alain Delon ) and his three brothers to Milano where the family joins a fifth son, Vincenzo (Spiros Focas). When a feud erupts between two of the brothers, each meets a tragic end.

Director: Francois Truffaut    More Info
Starring: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michele Mercier, Albert Remy, Claude Mansard, Richard Kanayan, Jean-Jacques Aslanian, Daniel Boulanger, Serge Davri

 Charlie (Charles Aznavour) plays the piano in a bar where waitress Lena (Marie Dubois) has fallen in love with him. But Charlie has lived a previous life as a famous concert pianist and has given up on his professional and personal lives following his wife's suicide. Now, his brother, Chico (Albert Remy), arrives at the bar with two gangsters, and events turn violent.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky    More Info
Starring: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamansky, Marina Adzhubei, Yuri Brusser, Vyacheslav Borisov, Aleksandr Vitoslavsky, Aleksandr Ilyin, Lyudmila Semyonova, Natalya Arkhangelskaya, Kolya Kozarev

 This is an account of a day in the life of two friends by one of Russia's finest directors. Sasha (Igor Fomchenko) is routinely teased by his fellow students for his violin playing. Sergei (Vladimir Zamansky), a road worker on his tractor, comes to Sasha's rescue when he sees the taunting, and a friendship between the two develops.

Director: Jean Cocteau    More Info
Starring: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean Marais, Francoise Christophe, Maria Casares, Francois Perier, Yul Brynner, Daniel Gelin, Brigitte Bardot

 This is filmmaker, poet, painter, and sculptor Jean Cocteau's farewell, as he brings back memories of his films, stars, and friends. Cocteau plays a dying poet (Cocteau was actually dying) who is after immortality. Beautifully photographed and full of Cocteau's inventive scenes.

Director: Vittorio De Sica    More Info
Starring: Sophia Loren, Eleonora Brown, Raf Vallone, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Renato Salvatori, Pupella Maggio, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi, Emma Baron, Bruna Cealti

 While traveling by train and on foot, widow Cisira (Sophia Loren) tries to protect her 12-year-old daughter Rosetta as they make a daring escape from Rome during World War II. But after they are raped in a church by Allied Moroccan soldiers, Rosetta is traumatized, Cisira suffers a breakdown, and their lives are changed forever. Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in this film.

Director: Ingmar Bergman    More Info
Starring: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson, Gudrun Brost, Allan Edwall, Axel Duberg, Tor Isedal, Oscar Ljung, Axel Slangus

 This film, set in 14th-century Sweden, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. It tells the story of 15-year-old Karin (Birgitta Pettersson) who is brutally raped and killed by bandits. Later, the attackers seek shelter at the home of Karin's parents (Max von Sydow and Birgitta Valberg) who exact revenge.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini    More Info
Starring: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi, Adriana Asti, Renato Capogna, Roberto Scaringella, Mario Cipriani, Luciano Conti, Luciano Gonini

 Pasolini's first feature film is a study of peasants living in the back alleys of Rome. Accattone (Franco Citti) hates work but makes a comfortable living as a pimp and small-time thief. After his partner (Silvana Corsini) is jailed for prostitution, Accattone starts a downward spiral until he meets and falls in love with virtuous Stella (Franca Pasut). He fails in his search for honest work and eventually sinks back into his former life.

Director: Yorgos Tzavellas    More Info
Starring: Irene Papas, Manos Katrakis, Maro Kodou, Nikos Kazis, Ilia Livykou, John Argiris, Byron Pallis, Tzavalas Karoussos, Thodoros Moridis, Giorgos Vlahopoulos

 Sophocles' Greek tragedy is brought to the screen with Irene Papas in the role of Antigone who defies the King of Thebes, Creon (Manos Katrakis), when he refuses to bury her brother, then hangs herself in an act that results in even more tragedies.

Director: Antonio Margheriti    More Info
Starring: Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Umberto Orsini, Maya Brent, Jacqueline Derval, Carlo D'Angelo, Carol Danell, Renzo Palmer, Giuliano Gemma, Joe Pollini

 A planet-like object is hurtling toward Earth, and scientists try to figure out how to stop it from colliding with our planet. But wait! Flying Saucers have been launched from the object and engage Earth's forces. It turns out that the object came from a dead planet where a master computer now rules. How can we possibly win?