Cinema releases by week

, 1h8
Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey
Rating62%
Slip is a copy boy for a newspaper, but dreams of having his own byline. Sach is an aspiring photographer for the same paper. The two of them come across a plot to fix sporting events and go undercover to expose the gangsters. Gabe, who is working for the gangsters, has a story of Slip's published which brings a libel suit against the paper because of lack of evidence. The lawsuit goes to trial, and at the last minute Gabe, who is feeling remorse, retrieves photographs that would back the story and gets them to Slip in time for them to be presented as evidence.

, 1h9
Directed by W. Lee Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Albert Dekker, Charles Drake, Alan Carney, Linda Stirling, Tom Kennedy, Charles Middleton
Rating63%
The story tells of Kenneth Holden (Dekker), a crooked investment businessman who embezzles a large sum of money from an estate. He hopes to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress Claire Worthington (Craig).

, 1h21
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Ted Donaldson, Robert Paige, Noreen Nash, Jane Darwell, Pierre Watkin, Ray Collins
Rating58%
Joel Curtis (Ted Donaldson) is a young orphan who is living with his grandmother, Aggie Curtis (Jane Darwell), on her ranch. Joel finds an orphaned colt in the nearby woods, and names the horse Red. Joel learns that Grandma Curtis has extensive debts, and will be forced to sell her ranch to pay them off. Joel is friends with Andy McBride (Robert Paige), a ranch hand at the nearby Moresby Farms. Joel convinces Andy to help him train Red as a racehorse, with the intention of selling his beloved horse to pay off his grandmother's debts.

, 1h19
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner, Roland Culver, Richard Haydn, Spring Byington, Thomas Gomez
Rating63%
Pearl smuggler Matt Gordon (MacMurray) finds romance with Linda Grahame (Gardner) just before the start of World War II. He proposes to her, and she accepts. However, when the Japanese attack Singapore, the church where she is waiting to marry him is bombed; Gordon searches frantically in the wreckage, but cannot find her. He is forced to sail away on his schooner.

, 1h6
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Rory Calhoun, Rhonda Fleming, Paul Kelly, John Abbott, Alan Napier, Douglas Spencer
Rating47%
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, 1h26
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly, Sam Levene
Rating72%
After he's called in to investigate the brutal killing of Joseph Samuels (Sam Levene), who was found dead at his home, police investigator Finlay (Robert Young) discovers there may be a murderer among a group of demobilized soldiers, who had been seen with Samuels and his female friend at a hotel bar that night.

, 1h35
Directed by Lewis Allen, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor, Wendell Corey, Kristine Miller
Rating64%
Fritzi Haller (Mary Astor) is the tough owner of a saloon and casino in the small fictional mining town of Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter, Paula Haller (Lizabeth Scott), has just quit school and returned home at the same time that gangster Eddie Bendix (John Hodiak) has returned. He was once involved with Fritzi, but left town under suspicion of murdering his wife.

, 1h11
Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Henry Wilcoxon, Mary Brian, Tom Fadden, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Dale, Don C. Harvey
Rating68%
A dead John Doe is found on the beach and Detective Lieutenant Tony Ricco gets the case to solve. However, there are no clues whatsoever to the dead man's identity and Tony is all out of options to bring the investigation any closer to a finish. An old friend of his from Scotland Yard in London, Geoffrey James, comes to visit him, and Tony asks for some input on the case.

, 1h38
Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling, Flora Robson, Albert Lieven, Barbara Everest
Rating71%
Frieda (Mai Zetterling) is a German woman who helps English airman Robert (David Farrar) to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp as the Second World War nears its end. She loves him; he is only grateful to her. In a church between the Russian-German lines however, Robert marries her, so that she may obtain a British passport. Together they eventually arrive in his Oxfordshire home. Frieda meets his family - his mother, his small stepbrother Tony, Judy (Glynis Johns), the attractive widow of Robert's brother, and Aunt Eleanor (Flora Robson), a figure in local politics and vehemently anti-German.

, 1h24
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Serial killer films
Actors Suzy Delair, Pierre Fresnay, Jean Tissier, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Larquey, Odette Talazac
Rating72%
Inspector Wenceslas Vorobechik (referred to as Wens' for short) receives the case about a serial killer who leaves a calling card with the name Monsieur Durand on his victims. Wens' mistress is the ditsy struggling actress Mila Malou is determined to get noticed as an actress, and attempts to help Wens find the criminal. Wens discovers that Durand is a tenant at a boarding house at No. 21 Avenue Junot. Wens takes a room at the house in disguise as a Protestant minister. The suspect is arrested, but while each is in jail, another Durand murder occurs. Both Mila and Wens discover that there are three killers. As the killers are about to murder Wens, Mila and the police come in and rescue him.