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, 1h28
Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Edward de Souza, Jennifer Daniel, Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Barry Warren, Brian Oulton
Rating61%
Gerald (Edward de Souza) and Marianne Harcourt (Jennifer Daniel), are a honeymooning couple in early 20th-century Bavaria who become caught up in a vampire cult led by Dr. Ravna (Noel Willman) and his two children Carl (Barry Warren) and Sabena (Jacquie Wallis). The cult abducts Marianne, and contrive to make it appear that Harcourt was traveling alone and that his wife never existed. Harcourt gets help from hard-drinking savant Professor Zimmer (Clifford Evans), who lost his daughter to the cult and who finally destroys the vampires through an arcane ritual that releases a swarm of bats from hell.

, 1h29
Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Murray Hamilton, Hugh Marlowe, Khigh Dhiegh, Norma Varden, Alexandra Bastedo, Lynne Sue Moon
Rating52%
After a 16-year-old girl develops a crush on an intelligence agent, she helps him to uncover a plot against the United States.

, 1h34
Directed by Richard Rush
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Merle Oberon, Curd Jürgens, Steve Cochran, John Agar, Steve Brodie, Eduardo Noriega
Rating50%
American engineer Steve Corey moves to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. He finally is introduced to Katherine, and the man that he is taking over for, Bill Maxton, informs tells him that Katherine is his for the taking: "All you have to do is touch her---she goes off like fireworks. There were plenty of guys before me, and there'll be plenty after me."

, 1h28
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, John Karlsen, Maria Grazia Buccella
Rating70%
Giovanni Alberti, a small building contractor in the years of boom, is heavily in debt because of his poor skills in business but above all because of its high standard of living, which he strives to maintain at all costs, even pressured by his beautiful and frivolous wife Silvia (Gianna Maria Canale), whom he loves deeply. After Giovanni, who was unable to repay a large loan, called for financial support to family and friends getting alleged derogatory waste (his mother is the only person who would be willing to help him, but she is not rich enough to do it), suddenly the wife of a rich manufacturer, Mrs. Bausetti, gives him a private appointment advancing an attractive deal. Giovanni even suspect that the elderly lady wishes to be his lover, but in fact Mrs. Bausetti, used to getting all that she wants with her money and her cold, dismissive and seemingly conciliatory manner, wants Giovanni to sell a cornea to her husband, who long before had been blinded in one eye by an accident with quicklime. They could afford to, the woman calmly explains, so not worth the cornea implant of a dead stranger, but it is preferable to propose such an arrangement, though obviously illegal, to a young and healthy man in need of money.

Directed by Ken Hughes
Genres Drama
Actors Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens, Wilfrid Brambell, Warren Mitchell, Miriam Karlin
Rating70%

, 1h46
Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Nouvel an
Actors Totò, Anna Magnani, Ben Gazzara, Fred Clark, Edy Vessel, Carlo Pisacane
Rating72%
Two friends (Toto and Magnani) live by their wits working as comedians and cabaret at Cinecittà, before being invited to friends' parties or masked balls during New Year's Eve in Rome. The two, however, even though they make people laugh all the time in public, live an inner conflict, namely that the two have always to be aware to give a smile to someone, but they can never be rich and happy because they are street artists and with a precarious wage.

, 1h33
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere, Ofelia Montesco, Claudio Brook, José Baviera
Rating79%
During a formal dinner party at the lavish mansion of Señor Edmundo Nobile and his wife, Lucia, the servants unaccountably leave their posts until only the major-domo is left. After dinner the guests adjourn to the music room, where one of the women, Blanca, plays a piano sonata. Later, when they might normally be expected to return home, the guests unaccountably remove their jackets, loosen their gowns, and settle down for the night on couches, chairs and the floor.

, 2h15
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Films about suicide, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarō Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Kei Satō, Hisashi Igawa, Yoshio Inaba
Rating85%
Edo, 1630. Tsugumo Hanshirō arrives at the estate of the Ii clan and says that he wishes to commit seppuku within the courtyard of the palace. To deter him Saitō Kageyu (Rentarō Mikuni), the Daimyo's senior counselor, tells Hanshirō the story of another rōnin, Chijiiwa Motome – formerly of the same clan as Hanshirō.

, 1h26
Directed by Philip Leacock
Genres Drama
Actors Harry Andrews, Kay Walsh, Michael Anderson Jr., Michael Trubshawe, Arthur Hewlett, Cameron Hall
Rating70%
A group of boys, evacuated during World War II from London to a coastal town, form a gang and play war games. Too young to fight in the war and afraid it will be over by the time they come of age, the group members, who are also in the school's Army Cadet Force initiate a battle with the local teenagers. Curlew, a local youth, invites an Austrian Jewish refugee with whom he has formed a close relationship to take part in the shenanigans. At first the Jewish boy, Stein, is scorned because of his "Germanic" heritage but is later allowed to join. When Stein runs off during a fight, the youths decide to give him a fake court-martial and execution, but real bullets are used by a freak mistake and Stein is killed.