Goldener Bar 1951-1959
Movies to watch awarded or nominated in the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin during the '50s
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- DirectorLeopold LindtbergStarsViveca LindforsRalph MeekerYossi YadinSoviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsEdvin AdolphsonUlla JacobssonJohn ElfströmAfter graduation, a Swedish youth goes to live with his uncle in the countryside and immediately takes a liking to a local girl.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsCharles LaughtonJohn MillsBrenda de BanzieWidower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsMaria SchellCurd JürgensHeidemarie HatheyerIn the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to become a mother but hasn't been able to. Paulines child is born and the two women agree that Anna John will keep the newborn as her own baby. As Pauline is going to move to West Germany, she wants to see her child once again for the last time but Anna John refuses. Pauline panics and kidnaps by mistake the terminally ill kid of the neighbor woman. Meanwhile Anna John instructs her brother Bruno (Curd Jürgens) to get rid of Pauline but Bruno stumbles and kills himself with his own knife before he could find Pauline.
- DirectorGene KellyJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsGene KellyIgor YouskevitchClaire SombertThree different stories are told through a notably unusual way - no words, just dance.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaLee J. CobbMartin BalsamThe jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsVictor SjöströmBibi AnderssonIngrid ThulinAfter living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsGérard BlainJean-Claude BrialyJuliette MaynielA pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsPierre FresnayMadeleine RobinsonDaniel GélinThe island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany. A crude population lives here on these windy shores, estranged from the rest of the world.
- DirectorRolf HansenStarsMaria SchellDieter BorscheHeidemarie HatheyerA doctor marries, out of pity, the invalid daughter of a wealthy industrialist.Though the doctor has helped to cure her, he expects she will not live much longer.
- DirectorAlfredo B. CrevennaStarsMarga LópezAlicia CaroRosaura RevueltasIrasema Dilián stars as the orphan Manuela whose passionate crush on her teacher Lucila (Marga Lopez) scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school. An exceptional Mexican remake of the 1931 German original, Maedchen in Uniform.
- DirectorJean-Paul Le ChanoisStarsBernard BlierDanièle DelormePierre TrabaudThérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as she told him that she was expecting his baby. To trace her unworthy lover, she boards a taxi driven by friendly cabdriver Emile Gauthier, who agrees to help her. But street after street, district after district, the seducer is nowhere to be found in Paris. And when she finally achieves the end of her quest, there is no Holy Grail. She learns that the rotter is already married. Fortunately, Emile has a heart of gold.
- DirectorGöran GenteleStarsIngrid ThulinPer OscarssonGunvor PonténA young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat.
- DirectorYves CiampiStarsPierre FresnayRenée DevillersJean-Claude PascalProfessor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually such a great man? To fight desperation he decides to take in the deceased child while devoting more time to Florence, his hitherto neglected wife.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsGino CerviGina LollobrigidaNadia GrayA poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
- DirectorErich EngelStarsMichel AuclairGisela TroweHanna RuckerWhen a composer is murdered and leaves his work unfinished, his apprentice and a singer must decide who is to blame.
- DirectorAugusto GeninaStarsLia AmandaIsa PolaBruno VecchiWhile recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe.
- DirectorLeopold LindtbergStarsJohn JustinEva DahlbeckSigfrit SteinerThis film deals with war orphans following WWII at a children's village in the Swiss Alps where over 200 children from all parts of Europe are gathered. The subplots involve a romance between two of the teachers, the grim decision of Red Poland to quit the experiment, and the problem of the German children being viewed as symbols of oppression rather than as victims the same as the children from other countries. The last credit line is for the Teachers and Children of Pestalozzi Village.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsFredric MarchTerry MooreGloria GrahameA Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAmedeo NazzariSilvana PampaniniPaolo StoppaTurn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated. Many people are questioned, even those apparently above suspicion. Deciding to get to the bottom of the matter, the judge keeps all the suspects under arrest, causing a backlash of public opinion. But in the face of passive resistance which he finds everywhere, even from his own colleagues and family, he begins to feel discouraged and is about to give up the investigation when a new piece of evidence comes to light. The information causes the death of an innocent man, but it revives in the judge the conscience of his own responsibility. He carries on with the case regardless, even if it means placing under house arrest the entire city.
- DirectorRudolf JugertStarsO.W. FischerRuth LeuwerikCarl WeryA man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. Once he is married to her, he comes to love her passionately and cannot bear the thought of losing her. In an effort to save her life, he spends all their money, but to no avail. His wife dies and he is once again penniless. However, he is a changed man.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsAldo FabriziPina RenziEnzo StaiolaA number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneRentarô MikuniDanshirô IchikawaThe adventures of a few brave men and women who are scattered around Japan after the siege of a castle, during the wars of the Sengoku period.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraNobuo KanekoShin'ichi HimoriA bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsLois MaxwellRenato BaldiniCarlo BelliniDuring WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore.
- DirectorLéo JoannonStarsPierre FresnayPierre TrabaudNicole StéphaneIn a prison camp, Gérard Lacassagne meets Maurice Morand, a mysterious, anticlerical officer. Lacassagne, who aspires to enter religion, discovers that Morand himself was a priest. He swears to bring him back into the fold of the Church.
- DirectorTom PayneOswaldo SampaioStarsEliane LageAnselmo DuarteEsther GuimarãesIn 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsEva BartokCurd JürgensBernhard WickiThe German language version of Carnival Story, shot simultaneously by director Kurt Neumann.
- DirectorVictor VicasStarsIvan DesnyRuth NiehausRené DeltgenIn 1945, Mischa, a Red Army officer, discovers a frightened German girl, Anna, huddled in a Berlin cellar. He gives her a safe escort home and wins her gratitude. Seven years later, Mischa returns to Berlin as a civilian engineer in charge of factory production. He remembers Anna and searches for her in the western sector, where he is observed by the Secret Police. He is instructed to report to the police chief, Kazanow, who reprimands him for leaving the eastern zone. While there, Mischa discovers that Anna is Kazanow's secretary. Factory manager Schultz resents the Russians and attempts to murder Mischa, who is seriously injured but recovers and wins Schultz's respect and confidence. Schultz tells Mischa he is planning to escape to the western zone, and Mischa gives him the address of a contact in free Germany. Schultz's plan is uncovered by the police and he commits suicide. When they find the contact's address, Mischa and Anna, now deeply in love, are forced to flee. There, the Russian secret police trick Anna into a car and start the drive back to the eastern zone from which there is no way out.
- DirectorFalk HarnackStarsWolfgang PreissAnnemarie DüringerRobert FreitagA disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsJoan CrawfordCliff RobertsonVera MilesA lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.
- DirectorAlfonso Corona BlakeStarsMario Humberto Jiménez PonsIgnacio García TorresRogelio 'Frijolitos' Jiménez PonsPortrait of the lives of marginalized children in Mexico City, through three juvenile criminals. One killed his stepfather to protect his mother, another blinded his guardian to ward off his abuses, and a third had to steal in order to eat.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsHelle VirknerHenning MoritzenAngelo BruunWhen a young woman falls in love with a gown in a shop window it leads to adventure and romance exceeding even her own vivid imagination.
- DirectorAndré MichelStarsMarina VladyMaurice RonetNicole CourcelBrulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, tries to convert her to "civilization", but ends up getting her killed by superstitious villagers instead.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsPablito CalvoAntonio VicoJosé Marco DavóJacinto, a retired bullfighter who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter in which he is informed that, according to an old agreement, he must participate in a mock bullfight that will be celebrated that day in Las Ventas bullring. The letter seems to him a joke in bad taste, since he has not signed any contract; but while Jacinto is picking up cigarette butts around, he checks that his name is on the poster.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsVittorio De SicaSophia LorenLea PadovaniReturning to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsKosti KlemeläHeikki SavolainenReino TolvanenThe tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsJack HawkinsJohn StrattonDorothy AlisonThe sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsBurt LancasterTony CurtisGina LollobrigidaA crippled circus acrobat is torn emotionally between two ambitious young trapeze artists, one a talented young American and a less-gifted but beautiful Italian.
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsFrancisco RabalLuis PeñaAlberto FarneseSet in rural South of Spain in the 19th century, tells the story of group of outlaws, from very different origins, trying to survive, hiding from the law enforcement officers in caves in a hilly area, and their struggle against the evil mining company that exploits the poor people of their home village.
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsChishû RyûKinuyo TanakaDaisuke KatôDuring the Taisho era, a widower tries to bring up his two young boys without a mother.
- DirectorRolf HansenStarsO.E. HasseUlla JacobssonMaximilian SchellAdaptation of a short Galsworthy play: The brother of a high ranking lawyer has killed the husband of a Polish woman, with whom he is having an affair. Can the counsel help his brother without getting himself involved in scandal?
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFarid ShawqiTahiyyah KaryukaZaki RostomA fresh man came from outskirt to Cairo to look for work ; He meets a tycoon and creates a struggle between them .
- DirectorFrancis LauricStarsMario FortunaAntonia HerreroEnrique ChaicoA man searches for a valuable lottery ticket, which was in a straw sombrero his wife mistakenly sold, and the hat keeps finding new owners.
- DirectorPhani MajumdarStarsP. RamleeSaadiahNordin AhmadBollywood style Malay film about a popular Renaissance era admiral who fought under the Malacca Sultanate, and his rivalry with a close friend.
- DirectorAnnelise HovmandStarsEva CohnLily WeidingHans KurtThe eight year old girl, Lene, feels neglected by her loving, but busy parents. One day when she is once again let down, she run away from home. On her adventure she meets new people, buys a dog and see the ocean.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsFernandelJacques DubyJean RigauxIn the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrives after a crime. Observed by some people leaving the scene of the crime covered by his raincoat, he became the only suspect for the police. His only hope is to discover the murderer before is name is mentioned publicly, especially in front of his wife.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsGiulia RubiniGastone RenzelliPierre TrabaudA man has problems connecting with his son after coming home from work in Africa, after his wife's death.
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsRobert LamoureuxLiselotte PulverO.E. HasseSuave gentleman thief Arsène Lupin blends within the French and German upper crust, stealing whatever he wants whenever he wants, and no one can touch him.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsTrevor HowardPedro ArmendárizElsa MartinelliA middle-aged steamboat Captain who believes in a rigorous self-control when it comes to needs, desires and emotions, slowly falls for a pretty female stowaway.
- DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsBoris BuzancicMira NikolicZlata PerlicSoon after coming to small village, young doctor must fight against strong local superstitions.
- DirectorYannis PetropoulakisStarsRena VlahopoulouStefanos StratigosStavros IatridisTwo young girls from Corfu, go to Athens to live with their rich uncle. He turns them into real city girls, in order to get them married.
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsFrançoise ArnoulChristian MarquandRobert HosseinIn Venice, a French agent tries to recover printing plates, used to print fake currency, from an ex-Nazi who stole them during WW2.
- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsEva DahlbeckHarriet AnderssonBibi AnderssonAbout the life of the student, Bo Dahlin. Bo's parents are divorced. Both have been unfaithful. Bo is engaged with Kerstin, but only have eyes for Anita. Anita is filled with self-disgust.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsDirk BogardeJon WhiteleyMichael HordernRather undiplomatic British diplomat Harrington Brande (Sir Michael Hordern) takes up his new post in Spain accompanied by his son Nicholas (Jon Whiteley). The posting is something of a disappointment to Harrington, who was hoping for a promotion. That his wife had left him seems to have affected his career. Nicholas sees it all as something of an adventure, and soon becomes fast friends with the new gardener, José (Sir Dirk Bogarde). The apparently "delicate" Nicholas becomes attached to José, and Harrington's jealousy leads him to bar Nicholas from even speaking to José. As tensions mount, another servant frames José for theft, forcing everyone to review the situation.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsMarlon BrandoGlenn FordMachiko KyôIn post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
- DirectorVictor VicasStarsJoan CollinsJayne MansfieldDan DaileyThree strangers - a stripper, an alcoholic wife and a travelling salesman - embark on a life-changing journey. As the road presents challenges, each character faces his or her own shortcomings, not knowing where life will lead next.
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsMaría FélixPedro InfanteAndrés SolerA white woman enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian. The racial barriers between the lovers prove to be insurmountable, resulting in tragedy.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsYvonne MitchellAnthony QuayleSylvia SymsA middle-aged married woman is shocked to discover that her husband, whom she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and plans to leave his family for her.
- DirectorFranz SchnyderStarsEmil HegetschweilerHeinz ReinckeLinda GeiserOn May 10, 1940, at 03:00 a.m., the Western Front begins to move. The German Wehrmacht invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg to roll up the Maginot Line. On his round of checks, the Swiss railroad guard Tschumi meets the dripping wet German refugee Werner Kramer who has swum across the Rhine. Kramer hopes that the "Heftis", old and wealthy friends of Zurich, will help him. But the news of the German invasion has a shock effect on the Swiss, changing their situation and mood. A truck driver takes Kramer with him for a while and even gives him lunch, but then suddenly leaves him sitting there. In Zurich, the refugee learns that the Heftis have set off for Central Switzerland. At the station, chance brings him together with the tailor Anna Marti, whom he has known since childhood. Anna gives him shelter in the studio and takes him home in the evening. But that doesn't suit her partner, the widowed brother-in-law Albert Widmer, at all. He even thinks about denouncing Kramer. But Kramer realizes for himself that he won't make any progress. He turns himself into the police. After a long night at the police station, he is left with the anxious question of what his prospects are for an asylum application.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsHeinz RühmannSigfrit SteinerSiegfried LowitzHaving doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsAxel BangHenny Lindorff BuckhøjVerner TholsgaardOn the idyllic Birkø lives Christian a parish executive officer. He is a brave and honest man, happily married to Martha, and this couple has a son called Theo and he will once take over the farm.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsJohn MillsAnthony QuayleSylvia SymsDuring World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsTotòFernandelNino BesozziAssola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFarid ShawqiHind RustumYoussef ChahineA newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
- DirectorWilliam MarkusStarsAnneli SauliIrma SeikkulaPentti SiimesAfter her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. Miriam and Hans fall in love. But the Hans mother is jealous and disapprove.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsMaría FélixArturo de CórdovaVíctor JuncoA prostitute falls in love with an older man, who was a young priest during the Cristero War in Mexico in 1926-29.
- DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsLilli PalmerRomy SchneiderTherese GiehseIn a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsTitos VandisPetros FyssounAnestis VlahosSome months before the outbreak of the Greek Civil War three outlaws struggle for survival in the mountains.
- DirectorSamuel KhachikianMushegh SarvariStarsReza Arham SadrRufiaEzzatollah VosooghHajji Jabbar is a miser, greedy and disliked businessman. He tries to make more money by any means even by forcing her daughter to marry a rich old man rather than let her marry her cousin Hamid that she loves. Jabbar suddenly becomes sick and sees grim reaper who takes him to see hell in a long sequence. When Hajji Jabbar awakes he changes and tries to redeem himself.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsSilvia PinalCarlos López MoctezumaJaime FernándezFrom the legendary director, Emilio El Indio Fernandez, a powerful film of a woman fighting her rich established family to marry the man she loves. Starring Silvia Pinal, Amalia Mendoza and Carlos Lopez Moctezuma. Dirigida por el legendario Emilio El Indio Fernandez, esta historia esta basada en una novela donde una mujer confronta a su rica y establecida familia para casarse con el hombre a quien ella ama. Protagonizada por una contelacion de estrellas Mexicanas, Incluyendo: Silvia Pinal, Amalia Mendoza y Carlos Lopez Moctezuma.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsPaquita RicoManolo MoránMiguel GilaA civil servant quits his job and engages with his family in a circus life, searching for fun and excitement. There they will find out that some such artists long for a different, less adventurous life.
- DirectorGilles GrangierStarsJean GabinDarry CowlBernard BlierBum Archimede wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsHenning MoritzenHelle VirknerOve SprogøeThe Poet and Little Mom buy a cottage with a large poets' grant. The creditor gets mortgage and demands his money by New Year's Eve or they lose the cottage. It's time to earn money.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsVeikko SinisaloEdvin LaineFanni HalonenSven Tuuva, the simple son of an elderly sergeant, takes part in the battles of the Finnish war with General Sandels.
- DirectorDinos DimopoulosStarsAliki VougiouklakiTitos VandisDimitris PapamichaelAstero, the beautiful step-daughter of a wealthy herder, falls in love with his handsome son, Thimios, whom his father wants to marry off to an affluent shepherdess. Now, she's on the brink of insanity. Can true love set her free?
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsHayley MillsHorst BuchholzJohn MillsA twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsMaría FélixJack PalancePedro ArmendárizIn a Mexican fishing village, gringo Jim Gatsby hatches an illegal shrimp-catching scheme and runs afoul of local authorities as well as of jealous Mexican fisherman Pepe Gamboa who suspects his wife Magdalena of infidelity.
- DirectorJosé Luis Sáenz de HerediaStarsFrancisco RabalEttore ManniRosita ArenasDuring the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is arrested. When condemned, he claims he only wanted to see his newborn baby.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsDavid NivenShirley MacLaineGig YoungA salesgirl falls for the younger of two brothers who run a company. The elder falls for her but plans to help her get his brother because he doesn't know he's in love.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsHardy KrügerPeter van EyckIngrid AndreeAn interpretation of Hamlet finds the heir Claudius Steel Works struggling with his mother's to uncle Van Eyk in a sterile industrial post-WW2 West Germany.
- DirectorFons RademakersStarsMax CroisetMary DresselhuysBernard DroogAn independent-thinking doctor in a rural community with his own ideas of how medicine should be practiced begins to find himself ostracized from the community after one of his patients commits suicide.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsMuharram FuadSuad HusniMahmoud El-SabbaaA love story similar to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet taking place in the Egyptian Countryside.
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsClaes GillWenche FossGeorg LøkkebergAfter the play by Alexander Kielland about a bishop, Sigurd Helmer, which is accused of foul play after writing anonymous letters smearing his opponent. The accuser is his main rival and daughter's chosen fiancée.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsWalter MackenEileen CroweArthur KennedyA man returns to his Irish town after being in jail for five years for murder. His friends try to help him fit in again, but he refuses and secludes himself from the world. Only a pretty girl and his crippled son can still reach him.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsGeorge FantUlla JacobssonAnita BjörkThe third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. He will now face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielDuilio MarzioLautaro MurúaAlbertina, a pretty but wet university student, is hired by a bedridden widow to take care of her and her four children. Helping out around the house she soon discovers the kids live a life of their own, independent of their mother, who neglects them. The atmosphere of the place is both fascinating and unhealthy and Albertina gradually finds herself stuck in it so that although a young lawyer falls for her, she won't follow him out of the house...
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsSophia LorenTab HunterJack WardenIn 1944, on a Miami to New York train, two paratroopers on furlough meet and fall in love with two 'kept women' who are on their way to meet their 'sugar-daddies'.
- DirectorHarry WattStarsAldo RayHeather SearsNeil McCallumThree men attempt a prison break, but their plan derails when their boat falters near an island, where the caretaker recognizes the convict. A hostage situation erupts, leading to a tense standoff with authorities.
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenStarsSusana FreyreJardel FilhoDomingo AlzugarayAs a prize for winning a TV quiz show, an Argentinean girl gets a ticket to Rio de Janeiro, where she stays for one week. During this time, she meets three suitors, and her heart has to choose one of them.
- DirectorSilvio AmadioStarsMassimo GirottiFolco LulliJean-Marc BoryItalian submariners trapped in their damaged boat on the ocean floor.
- DirectorT.J. SärkkäStarsÅke LindmanAnneli SauliTure AraPastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierCedric HardwickeNicholas HannenShakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsPatricia WaltersNora SwinburneEsmond KnightThe growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.