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- DirectorAleksandr SolovyovStarsAleksandr IstominMatvei LyarovRaisa Rami-ShorBandits descend on a Jewish village and threaten to destroy it if they're not given five beauties in wedding dresses.
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsJacqueline FrancellAlice TissotColette DarfeuilIn this fast-moving fantasy, an unsophisticated student escapes from a boarding school to become, after many trials and tribulations, the "toast of Paris."
- DirectorPéter BacsóStarsIstván GyarmatiLajos SzabóPéter HaumannIn this naturalistic satire enriched with burlesque, Boróka, the hair-cutting artist once cuts a hair so, that the customer has to be shaved bald. Sajtár Dezso wants to kill the barber, who feels to be a victim himself immediately. In his anguish he mixes up his apartment, his wife and everything in the uniform world of the block of flats and like a maniac, tries to find after his pursuer. They find each other at a neurological clinic.
- DirectorGeorge GittoesStarsGeorge GittoesJaved MusazaiAustralia's most daring artist takes on the Taliban.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsMari TörőcsikÉva VassÉva PapMail to author for translation Mikor a zarda fonoknoje meghal, az utodlas kerdeseben ket partra szakad a kolostor. Virginianak lenne a legtobb eselye, akit nemcsak a fiatalok, hanem a konzervativabb apacak is tamogatnak. De Virginia bizonytalan, szemelyes erzelmei is befolyasoljak egyik tarsa irant, vegul az eloallt helyzet sulya alatt osszeroppan.
- DirectorEdmond T. GrévilleStarsJeanne BoitelJean GallandMaurice MaillotThe happiness of a newly-married couple, Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair, is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident. The wife still loves him, although he is incapable of any physical love. She is slowly drawn into a short-lived affair with a handsome athlete, Robert Vanier. When the husband learns of the affair, he commits suicide. But the wife cannot forget him and she sends her lover away.
- DirectorPavel ArmandLeonids LeimanisStarsZanis KopstalsKarps KletnieksRoberts MustapsEnd of 19th century. Maidservant Madara loves farmhand Andris but due to the property she marries a rich and old household owner Migla.
- DirectorErich EngelStarsMax HansenJenny JugoOtto WallburgA small time crook keeps trying to reunite with a woman who briefly sheltered him while he was on the run from the law.
- DirectorPeter PewasStarsGisela TroweAlice TreffUrsula VoßErika is 20 lives with her strict parents in a post-war apartment, works as a tiller in a laundry and is always hungry. In her friend Else, she sees how she should do it: Else has caught an older man who provides her with new stockings
- DirectorWilhelm ThieleStarsIgo SymMarietta MillnerLilian Harvey
- DirectorYannick BellonStarsLoleh BellonRoland DubillardHugues QuesterVincent tries to be a novelist, a broker by day and a writer by night, Raphaëlle is an architect. They have lost the enthusiasm of youth. Raphaëlle seeks in vain to escape Vincent's decline, who destroys himself with alcohol.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsPeter UstinovPablito CalvoAroldo TieriA cold-hearted landlord is turned into a dog by a magician, and will remain a dog until he can find someone who loves him.
- DirectorHiroshi ShimizuStarsRyô IkebeIneko ArimaMichiyo KogureA little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of Ginza. A friendly couple, a sign carrier and and a shoe-shine girl, start helping her. The mother is simultaneously looking for the lost child.
- DirectorCarl BoeseStarsLupu PickHedwig WangelMaly DelschaftA taxi driver in Berlin refuses to give up his horse and switch to motor transport.
- DirectorHans Jürgen PohlandStarsLars BrandtPeter BrandtClaudia BremerA film adaptation of the book by the same name written by Günter Grass. Pilenz, the narrator, revisits places of his World War II childhood in Germany, going through memories regarding his relationship to Mahlke, an old "friend" of his.
- DirectorHans-Jürgen SyberbergStarsWalter Sedlmayr
- DirectorLev KuleshovSorok Serdets is a 49 minute politprosvet film centered on electrical power plants, the new beating hearts planned for Soviet society and economy.
- DirectorEsfir ShubSegodnya weaponises images and intertitles to demonstrate the superiority of communism over capitalism.
- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsAlfred AbelAud Egede-NissenEduard RothauserThe "people among us" are Berlin building tenants, a cross section of late 20s society.Among them: a government assessor and his wife,who gives birth while in prison, and a flighty landlady who is swindled by a diamond seller.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsHideyo AmamotoTatsuyoshi EharaAkihiko HirataIn this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.
- DirectorKurt SteinwendnerStarsMaria EisElfe GerhartHeinz MoogAfter the model of the Italian neorealist films, follows the lives of four women and their fates. Using professional actors and laymen, director Kurt Steinwendner presents the four "jealousy dramas" as allegorical episodes.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsDoris DurantiCarlo NinchiAndrea ChecchiReleased from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during his absence, his wife has had business with the Count Paolo. A few days later, at night, a deadly ambush will be prepared. Based on the novel The Trap (1928) by Toscan Delfino Cinelli.
- DirectorMikhail KaufmanMade during the rapid industrialization and collectivization of Stalin's Five-Year Plan. Kaufman countered the poverty of the villages with the geometrical rhythm of mechanized factories; militarization is shown as the next step of the 'unprecedented campaign'. "The proletariat, having become master of one sixth of the globe, frees the rural working people from the kulak oppression...THE PROLETARIAT...engages the peasantry in a joint campaign for Socialism. This is what the film speaks about".
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiValentina CorteseMaria DenisSeven young women in a boarding house in Rome during WWII: their aspirations and future hopes.Several keep memories of soldiers who are no longer alive, while others find new loves: a professor, an industrialist, a blind man.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsAntal PágerNoémi AporLajos BástiA wheelchaired apothecary is summoned to the police station for "a particular matter". The old man is convinced that his sin is revealed, which he had committed during the war. His friends insist that they only wanted to joke with him but his conscience can no longer be silenced.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsSilvana PampaniniCarlo DapportoAve NinchiA singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsGrete MosheimGustav FröhlichMarija LeikoMilada grew up in a brothel on Rothausgasse, but has not yet become a whore herself. Resigned to fate, she has always followed her mother Katherina, an aging whore who was unable to escape this milieu herself. Now this mother is dying and makes her daughter, who is now 17 years old and working as a chambermaid in Mrs. Goldscheider's new "salon", promise to do everything possible to escape from this environment.
- DirectorWilli ForstKarl HartlStarsWilli ForstMaria HolstDora KomarA musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with Maria, the aristocratic opera manager, end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He is quickly engaged by another theatre and will become famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting of operettas, which start their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsGábor KonczVera VenczelIstván O. SzabóZoltán Fábri traces in epic style and more conventional form the fate of the peasants in the period between the wars.
- DirectorReinhold SchünzelStarsRenate MüllerWilly FritschGustav WaldauComedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the fun away from their single parents and make them marry each other.
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsFurankî SakaiKeiko AwajiChitose KobayashiA drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsRaffaele VivianiLeda GloriaSalvatore CostaMarquis Fusaro is a Napoletan nobleman and a chairman of the charity organization which helps the poor. But unbeknownst to his rich friends he himself is also completely broke and has to sell all the valuables from his apartment in order to survive. One day a beggar asks Marquis to safekeep all the money he made through begging in 30 years for him, but when Marquis' friends arrive for a visit they see the beggar's money on Marquis' table and think this money is Marquis' donation to their charity organization and take it. Marquis now has to find a quick way to get 7.500 liras and return them to the beggar.
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsGyörgy CserhalmiKároly EperjesHans Christian BlechIn 1958 five men, condemned to death for their roles in the 1956 Hungarian revolt against Soviet rule, relive their recollections and now no-longer realizable aspirations.
- DirectorKarri V. BowmanStarsEmma Caulfield FordElisa DonovanTom LenkCelebrity do-gooder, Emma Caulfield, finally finds her passion.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiAntonio CentaMaria DenisAn elegant woman is mistaken for an aristocrat, in this example of a frivolous white telephone comedy, complete with art deco settings and period popular music.
- DirectorGrigoriy KokhanNikolai MakarenkoStarsLidiya YaremchukLes SerdyukIvan GavrilyukA group of peasant farmers in turn-of-the-century Ukraine leaves home in search of better luck in Siberia. The story follows those who stay behind and their dispute with the landowner, as well as a love triangle involving a local beauty and two young men.
- DirectorToshikazu KônoStarsKôtarô SatomiKôji NanbaraTôru AbeKai Provence, 1572, the Warring States period, Takeda Shingen wants Oda Nobunaga's head. Nobunaga's Iga spies want the head of Takeda's most notorious spy, Chidoken.
- DirectorMarin KarmitzStarsJean-Paul GiquelJuliet BertoDominique Labourier22 year-old- Yan is trying hard to find his way in life: a job he likes, an ideal. In Saint-Nazaire, his home town, he vegetates, just like his father, an unambitious worker. His fiancée, Juliette, has middle class values and dreams of nothing but a comfortable married life. Dissatisfied, he moves to Paris where he becomes an assembly line worker at the Billancourt Renault car factory. Sick of the working conditions he and his fellow workers have to endure there, he soon turns into a leftist activist...
- DirectorRolf ThieleStarsNadja TillerMario AdorfCharles RegnierThe young Marion is arrested by the police for pimping, prostitution and indecent exposure. Reporter Axel Rottmann sense a lucrative story for his newspaper. He makes a deal with Marion, to tell her story.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsJaroslava SchallerováOldrich KaiserMilena DvorskáSixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has been living alone with her divorced pretty mother Eva (Milena Dvorská), a dentist, for many years. Recently, however, Eva met her former school-days love at a graduates' party, nowadays a famous hockey goalkeeper Brukner (Frantisek Velecký). Also his marriage fell apart; he leaves the national team and decides to leave Prague for his home town and to share flat with Eva. He takes with him his son Petr (Oldrich Kaiser), in Andrea's age, who gets his last chance to finish a grammar school in the town.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsWilliam DieterleTheodor LoosEugen BurgSecond of two German silents about the life of Bavarian king Ludwig II, a character who would much later also be the center of a film by Luchino Visconti.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsJirí BartoskaMichal HofbauerMonika HálováTwelve-year-old Alena (Dita Kaplanová) has had to leave the countryside on a blazing hot summer day and come back home to a block of flats on the outskirts of Prague. She spends most of the day on her own, amusing herself daydreaming and imagining, on the blazing hot building roof awaiting the rain. Her mother (Ladislava Kozderková) is at work all day and her friends are still away on holidays. Alena is keen on the actor Budil (Jirí Bartoska) and puts on her best clothes for him each day, running out onto the street carrying her mother's handbag.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsJacqueline BlancMichelle ClairfontLéon MathotA small town during the 15th century. A band of smugglers settle in the abandoned Grey Tower. At a city auction a mysterious stranger buys the tower. Rumors has he is sent by the devil.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsOtto GebührRenate MüllerHans RehmannThe story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka Frederick the Great) of Prussia and his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
- DirectorAlain CavalierStarsIsabelle HoXavier Saint-MacaryCécile Le BaillyA loving couple Martin and Lea have some problems with each other too.
- DirectorClaude GorettaStarsMaurice GarrelFrédérique MeiningerAndré CellierJean-Luc is a happy woodcutter. His wife had made it clear when marrying him that she was in love with another guy, but that other guy had disappeared. Then that other guy shows up again, and Jean-Luc's wife starts seeing him again.