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, 2h4
Directed by Ettore Giannini
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Musicarello
Actors Clelia Matania, Paolo Stoppa, Maria Fiore, Tina Pica, Maria-Pia Casilio, Giacomo Rondinella
Rating60%
Les tribulations d'une famille de chanteurs de rue napolitains, du XVII siècle jusqu'aux années 1950 : sept tableaux racontent, en chansons napolitaines, trois siècles d'histoire de Naples.

, 1h37
Directed by Wolfgang Staudte
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Martin Held, Werner Peters, Ingrid van Bergen, Walter Giller, Camilla Spira, Wolfgang Preiss
Rating72%
Dans les derniers jours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le caporal Rudi Kleinschmidt est accusé par le juge Wilhelm Schramm d'avoir volé du Scho-Ka-Kola. Kleinschmidt affirme l'avoir acheté à des revendeurs du marché noir néerlandais. Schramm demande la peine maximale, la peine de mort, pour le vol et le moral des troupes. Sur le chemin de l'exécution en lisière de la forêt, Stramm signe le jugement quand des avions ennemis attaquent. Schramm et le peloton s'enfuient. Le gardien laisse échapper Kleinschmidt. Dans sa fuite, Kleinschmidt récupère l'ordre d'exécution signé.

, 1h47
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Natalie Schafer
Rating65%
Wealthy department-store heir Paul Saxon has a romantic fling with a Nebraska dress-shop owner, Rae Smith, who breaks it off when she discovers he is married.

, 19minutes
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Yuri Nikulin, Georgy Vitsin, Yevgeny Morgunov
Rating78%
The trio of Fool, Coward, and Experienced decides to get rich with the help of their samogon-making apparatus. The making of samogon goes well, and towards the end of their "work shift", they decide to try some of their product. During dinner, they think that someone had approached their izba (concealed in woods with a false "nature reserve" sign to deter people). While the trio is distracted, their dog smashes some bottles of samogon. The dog also takes the condenser coil, and while being chased by the trio, leads them to the militsiya.

, 1h30
Directed by Gilles Grangier, Jacques Deray
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Paul Frankeur, Hazel Scott, Robert Berri
Rating65%
Georges Vallois (Gabin), a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love -- and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction.

, 2h4
Directed by Elia Kazan, Ulu Grosbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Joanna Roos, Gary Lockwood
Rating76%
1928 Kansas: Wilma Dean "Deanie" Loomis (Natalie Wood) is a teenage girl who follows her mother's advice to resist her desire for sex with her boyfriend, Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty), the son of one of the most prosperous families in town. In turn, Bud reluctantly follows the advice of his father, Ace (Pat Hingle), who suggests that he find another kind of girl with whom to satisfy his desires.

, 1h25
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Ludmila Kassatkina, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Zeldin, Yuri Nikulin, Nikolai Pastukhov
Rating73%

, 2h48
Directed by Nicholas Ray, Noël Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhán McKenna, Robert Ryan, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell, Viveca Lindfors
Rating69%
In 63 BC, Pompey conquers Jerusalem and the city is sacked. He enters the Temple to seize the treasure of Solomon and massacres the priests there. He discovers that the treasure is only a collection of scrolls of the Torah. These he holds over a fire until an old priest reaches for them imploringly. Pompey relents and hands them to the old man.

, 1h45
Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about capital punishment
Actors Kirk Douglas, Christine Kaufmann, E. G. Marshall, Hans Nielsen, Ingrid van Bergen, Richard Jaeckel
Rating71%
Four somewhat drunk American soldiers leave a bar (where "Town Without Pity" is playing on the jukebox) in occupied Germany after World War II. Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Karin Steinhof (Christine Kaufmann) has a quarrel with her 19-year-old boyfriend, Frank Borgmann, in the countryside. She leaves to change out of her wet bikini, and is taken by Sergeant Chuck Snyder (Frank Sutton) and gang raped by him, Corporal Birdwell Scott (Richard Jaeckel), Private Joey Haines (Mal Sondock) and Corporal Jim Larkin (Robert Blake). When Frank hears her screams for help, he runs to her, but is knocked out. After the four men are done, the guilt-ridden Larkin lingers behind; he covers the girl with his shirt before leaving with the others.

Directed by Victor Trivas
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Helmut Schmid, Paul Dahlke, Dieter Eppler, Christiane Maybach
Rating53%
La tête de Michel Simon maintenue en vie sans son corps... Un Dr fou qui crée une « femme parfaite » en greffant la belle tête d'Irene sur le corps splendide d'une danseuse.

, 1h47
Directed by David Miller
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Reginald Gardiner
Rating65%
Paul Saxon, riche héritier d'une chaîne de magasins, rencontre Rae Smith à son retour de guerre. Attendant un avion pour New York, ils passent une journée ensemble et tombent mutuellement amoureux. Rae rate l'avion, et découvre par la suite que Paul est marié. Rae décide de tenter sa chance à New York et trouve du travail auprès du fameux styliste Dalian. Elle rencontre Paul par hasard et ils se rendent compte qu'ils sont encore amoureux l'un de l'autre. Ne voulant pas devenir sa maîtresse cachée, Rae décide alors de fuir et de poursuivre sa carrière à Rome.

, 1h12
Directed by Mikhaïl Naoumovitch Kalik
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, L'action se déroule en une journée
Actors Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Valentin Zubkov, Larissa Loujina
Rating70%