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Origin USAGenres Documentary,
MusicalThemes Films about music and musicians,
Documentary films about music and musicians,
Documentaire sur une personnalité,
Documentary films about cities,
Jazz films,
Musical filmsActors Melinda DillonRating61%
The Cry of Jazz is set in Chicago at the meeting of a jazz appreciation club of musicians and intellectuals, both Black and White. It is broken up into seven parts. Parts one, three, five, and seven center around conversations between the jazz club members. Parts two, four, and six are done in a documentary style and utilize footage of life in Chicago as well as of Sun Ra’s band performing the music. Alex, the film’s main character, serves as narrator during these sections. Although the film is nominally about jazz, jazz is utilized primaily as a metaphor through which to understand the African American experience., 2h1
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Mafia films,
Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Rail transport films,
Musical films,
Gangster films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Marilyn Monroe,
Tony Curtis,
Jack Lemmon,
George Raft,
Joe E. Brown,
Pat O'BrienRating81%
It is February 1929 in the city of Chicago, Joe (Tony Curtis) is an irresponsible jazz saxophone player, gambler and ladies' man; his friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) is a sensible jazz double-bass player. They accidentally witness the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. When the gangsters, led by "Spats" Colombo (George Raft), spot them, the two run for their lives. Penniless and in a mad rush to get out of town, the two musicians take a job with Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee) and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to Miami. Disguised as women and renaming themselves Josephine and Daphne, they board a train with the band and their male manager, Bienstock. Before they board the train, Joe and Jerry notice Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), the band's vocalist and ukulele player., 2h55
Directed by Nina Foch,
George Stevens,
David S. HallOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about religion,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Films based on plays,
Children's filmsActors Douglas Spencer,
Millie Perkins,
Lou Jacobi,
Joseph Schildkraut,
Shelley Winters,
Richard BeymerRating73%
In 1945, as a truckload of war survivors stops in front of an Amsterdam factory at the end of World War II, Otto Frank (Joseph Schildkraut) gets out and walks inside. After climbing the stairs to a deserted garret, Otto finds a girl's discarded glove and sobs, then is joined and comforted by Miep Gies (Dodie Heath) and Mr. Kraler (Douglas Spencer), factory workers who shielded him from the Nazis. After stating that he is now all alone, Otto begins to search for the diary written by his youngest daughter, Anne. Miep promptly retrieves the journal for Otto, and he receives solace reading the words written by his young daughter three years earlier., 1h11
Directed by Frank Tuttle,
Frank TuttleOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Venetia Stevenson,
John Smith,
Alan Napier,
Diane Jergens,
Gavin Muir,
Jeff RichardsRating51%
, 1h44
Directed by Charles Barton,
Arthur J. VitarelliOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
FantasyThemes Films about animals,
Films about dogs,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Fred MacMurray,
Jean Hagen,
Tommy Kirk,
Annette Funicello,
Tim Considine,
Cecil KellawayRating63%
Wilbur "Wilby" Daniels is a boy who is misunderstood by his father, Wilson. Wilson thinks Wilby is crazy half the time because of his elder son's often dangerous inventions. As a retired mailman who often ran afoul of canines, he is allergic to dogs, and he simply cannot understand why his younger son, Montgomery "Moochie" would want a dog., 2h21
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Romance,
WesternThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Buddy filmsActors John Wayne,
Dean Martin,
Angie Dickinson,
Rick Nelson,
Walter Brennan,
Ward BondRating79%
In the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, sheriff's deputy Dude (Dean Martin), who has acquired the contemptuous nickname Borrachón ([bo.raˈtʃon], Spanish for "drunk"), enters a saloon but can't afford a drink. Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), brother of rancher Nathan Burdette, tosses a silver dollar into a spittoon. Presidio County, Texas Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) appears and kicks the spittoon away, looking at Dude with disgust. Dude is shamed by his plight and takes out his anger on Chance, knocking him out with an ax handle. Joe begins punching Dude, then shoots and kills an unarmed bystander who tries to intervene., 1h44
Directed by Mel FerrerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Indiens d'AmazonieActors Anthony Perkins,
Audrey Hepburn,
Lee J. Cobb,
Sessue Hayakawa,
Henry Silva,
Nehemiah PersoffRating53%
A young man named Abel (Anthony Perkins) narrowly escapes Caracas, Venezuela after it is overtaken by rebels. He decides to seek revenge, as his father, the former Minister of War, was killed. After getting supplies, he takes a canoe to the far shore, where he is nearly killed by a leopard, but is saved by the native, Indian-like people., 1h32
Directed by Norman Z. McLeodOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Action,
WesternThemes Films about families,
Jesse James,
Gangster filmsActors Bob Hope,
Rhonda Fleming,
Will Wright,
Wendell Corey,
Jim Davis,
Mary YoungRating63%
Milford Farnsworth (Hope) is a bumbling insurance agent who unknowingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey). Farnsworth is sent out West to protect the insurance company's investment by "protecting" James.