Cinema releases by week

, 58minutes
Directed by Bruno VeSota
Genres Horror, Crime
Actors Angelo Rossitto, Ed McMahon, Bruno VeSota, Shelley Berman, Shorty Rogers, Jonathan Haze
Rating66%
A young woman awakens from a nightmare in a run down hotel. She leaves the building and wanders through the night, passing a newspaper man. The news headline "Mysterious stabbing" catches her eye, and she quickly leaves. In a dark alley, a wino approaches and grabs her. A policeman rescues her and beats up the drunken man. Shortly later, another man approaches her and talks her into escorting a rich man in a limousine. While they cruise the night, she remembers her unhappy youth with an abusive father, whom she stabbed to death with a switchblade after he had killed her unfaithful mother. The rich man takes her to various clubs and then to his noble apartment. As he ignores her while having an extensive meal, she tries to tempt him. When he advances her, she stabs him with her knife and pushes the dying man out of the window. Before his fall, he grabs her pendant. The woman runs down onto the street and, as the dead man's hand won't relieve her pendant, cuts off the hand while being watched by faceless passersby. Again, the patrol policeman shows up and follows her. She flees and hides the hand in a flower girl's basket. The pimp shows up again and drags her into a night club, where an excited audience watches a jazz band playing. The policeman enters the club, while the rich man, lying at the window, points out his murderess with his bloody stump. The crowd encircles the woman, laughing frantically. The woman wakes up in her hotel room, her encounters have supposedly been a nightmare. In one of her drawers, she discovers her pendant, clutched by the fingers of a severed hand. The camera leaves the hotel room and moves out into the streets, while a desperate cry can be heard.

, 8minutes
Directed by Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Animation, Romance
Actors Daws Butler
Rating69%
Un groupe de souris vivent une vie bien tranquille à l'ombre de ruines déroutantes, et se préparent à fêter Noël, les adultes apprennent une chanson aux petits. Parmi les mots, il y en a un qui les intrigue, car les jeunes n'ont jamais entendu parler de ces hommes dont il est question. Une souris âgée et un prêtre qui a lui connu les humains leur expliquent donc qu'ils étaient des créatures obsédées par la destruction de leur prochain...

Directed by Val Guest
Genres Drama
Actors Terence Morgan, Mai Zetterling, Guy Rolfe, Mandy Miller, Eunyce Gayson, Reginald Beckwith
Rating52%

, 1h25
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas, Walter Abel, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Rating62%
Johnny Hawks is a man who made his name fighting Indians. Returning to the West after the Civil War he must now keep wronged Sioux warriors from massacring the Oregon-bound wagon train he is leading and the nearby fort.

, 2h23
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye
Rating70%
Although there are detail differences between the stage and movie versions, the plot is essentially based on the activities of New York petty criminals and professional gamblers in the late 1940s.

, 1h21
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan, Skip Homeier, Tommy Rettig, John Qualen
Rating62%
Plainview is a peaceful town, all the better for bad man Alvin Dennis and his mean brother Bob to rob the bank there. They figure small-town sheriff Pete MacKay won't pose much of a problem to them.

, 1h24
Directed by Jesse Hibbs
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Britton, John McIntire, Ray Danton
Rating59%
Struggling miners Flapjack and Banty go to the office of Alex McNamara, the new gold commissioner in Nome, Alaska, to complain about claim jumpers. He isn't there, so they drown their sorrows at Cherry Malotte's gambling house and saloon.

, 1h35
Directed by Alessandro Blasetti
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Umberto Melnati, Margherita Bagni, Memmo Carotenuto
Rating67%
Paolo, jeune chauffeur de taxi honnête et sans famille, manque de se faire voler son taxi par deux jeunes vauriens qu'il mène à la mer. Il se rend compte que Lina, la jeune fille qui détournait son attention, est sans doute leur complice. Il la retrouve, veut la dénoncer ainsi que son père et leurs acolytes, mais progressivement tombe amoureux.

, 30minutes
Directed by Winston Hibler
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about nature, Children's films
Actors Winston Hibler
Rating60%

, 1h34
Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans, Ralph Truman
Rating69%
A senior Royal Air Force officer (Michael Redgrave) is at a dinner party in Hong Kong at which one of those present, (Michael Hordern), talks about a dream he had in which the Air Force Officer and a group of 12 companions are flying from Bangkok in a Dakota which crashes on a rocky shore. The Air Marshal is due to fly to Tokyo the following day, but is not disturbed because many of the details differ from his planned voyage, including using a different kind of aircraft, a Consolidated Liberator.

Directed by Herman Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jeff Richards, Dean Jagger, Edmund Gwenn, Eve McVeagh, Vic Morrow, J. M. Kerrigan
Rating65%

, 1h13
Directed by Joseph Calleia, Roberto Gavaldón
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Pedro Armendáriz, Joseph Calleia, Walt Disney, Rodolfo Acosta, José Torvay
Rating60%
Little Pablito is the ten-year-old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican general's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the animal's death. Pablito runs away with the horse, becoming a fugitive. He travels throughout Mexico encountering several fugitives and a priest who tries to help.

, 1h29
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, William Reynolds
Rating75%
Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is an affluent widow in suburban New England, whose social life involves her country club peers, college-age children, and a few men vying for her affection.

, 1h1
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey, Benny Bartlett, Raymond Hatton
Rating60%
An old friend of the boys returns to town and tells them stories of getting rich out west. He proceeds to sell them a uranium mine and they head west. When they arrive, local thugs try to chase them off. When they find out the boys own a mine they decide to let them stay in town with the plans to follow them and take the mine from them. Eventually the boys defeat the thugs and find the uranium, only to discover that it is on an Indian reservation and doesn't belong to them.

, 1h57
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Melodrama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about television
Actors Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Margo, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor
Rating71%
Eight-year-old Lillian Roth (Carole Ann Campbell) is constantly pushed by her domineering stage mom, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), to audition and act even though she is merely a child. One day, Katie finally secures an opportunity in Chicago, which leads to Lillian, now older (Susan Hayward), to having a successful musical career. Even though 20 years have passed, Katie is still managing Lillian as well as running her life and career choices.