Favourable first viewings of 2015
Movies seen for the first time this past year which I would rewatch and recommend. Listed in order seen.
List activity
52 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
122 titles
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsBilly MauchRobert J. MauchDick PurcellThe Mauch Twins return in this fast-paced adventure, the third and final film in the Penrod series, loosely based on the stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsJ. Warren KerriganLois WilsonAlan HaleTwo wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attacks. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?
- DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsBobby DarinStella StevensEverett ChambersGhost is an ideological musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. However, when he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer Jess Polanski, she comes between him and his band members, and he leaves his dreams behind in search of fame.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsRobert AldaJoan LeslieAlexis SmithGeorge Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
- DirectorTorill KoveStarsAndrea Bræin HovigA personal animated story about a girl which wishes for a bicycle from her parents, but gets something completely different, showing the different reality in which children and grown ups live in.
- DirectorHerbert RossStarsRichard BenjaminJames CoburnJames MasonA year after Sheila is killed by a hit-and-run driver, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsJim BrownGeorge KennedyFredric MarchRacial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsLoretta YoungFranchot ToneLewis StoneAn ambitious barrister and his wife are targeted by blackmailers. In trying to save her husband, the wife becomes involved in a murder case her husband is trying. For his part, the husband's actions make him a suspect in a related murder.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJohn BarrymoreMarian MarshCharles ButterworthA crippled man finds a boy and vows to make him a great dancer.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWill Rogers Jr.Nancy OlsonLon Chaney Jr.Corrupt mayor Barney Turlock appoints lawyer-wannabe greenhorn Tom Brewster as sheriff but regrets his choice when Brewster becomes efficient at fighting crime and solves the murder of the previous sheriff.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseVivien OaklandAnn HoweAfter a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalJacqueline AndereEnrique RambalThe guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsMarianne StoneLionel MurtonLisa GastoniAfter heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport. However, one amongst their number is the mastermind behind a bullion robbery at the airport... and particularly keen to escape the fog.
- DirectorEdgar SelwynRichard BoleslawskiStarsRobert MontgomeryElizabeth AllanLewis StoneA jewel thief suspected of being a local serial killer targeting police officers decides to solve the mystery himself to clear his name.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsSpencer TracyVan JohnsonRobert WalkerIn the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsGeorge BrentVirginia MayoTurhan BeySet in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jenson, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on Arthur while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsRichard ConteJulie AdamsRichard EganAn independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleTom HardyAnne HathawayEight years after the Joker's reign of chaos, Batman is coerced out of exile with the assistance of the mysterious Selina Kyle in order to defend Gotham City from the vicious guerrilla terrorist Bane.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsWallace BeeryRichard ArlenLouise BrooksAfter killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred Davis'Snub' PollardA penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance.
- DirectorHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisRoy BrooksA tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
- DirectorHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisFred McPhersonThe comic adventures of a new car owner.
- DirectorHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisNoah YoungComic adventures of newlyweds and children.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsJames MacArthurKim HunterJames DalyAfter a 16-year-old, neglected by his movie producer father, gets in trouble, his father doesn't believe his claim of self-defense.
- DirectorClive BrookStarsClive BrookBeatrice LillieGoogie WithersTwo wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.