Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration

Best films, sorted by production date


Do not worry about movies without interests that nobody ever heard of, and focus on the best films! Here are the top films to see :
Sort by
Revenue | Name | Release | Rating | Number of entries
Filter by countries
Filter by genre
Filter by decade
National Velvet, 2h3
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Reginald Owen

National Velvet is the story of a 12-year-old girl, Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives in the small town of Sewels in Sussex, England, who wins a spirited gelding in a raffle and decides to train him for the Grand National steeplechase. She is aided by a penniless young drifter named Mi (or Michael) Taylor (Mickey Rooney), who found Mrs. Brown's name and address among his late father's effects, but is unaware of what it was doing there. Hoping to gain some money from the association, Mi stays at the Browns' home, but Mrs. Brown is unwilling to allow Mi to trade on his father's good name and remains vague about how she knew him. Nevertheless she convinces her husband (Donald Crisp) to hire Mi over his better judgment, and Mi is brought into the home as a hired hand. It is revealed that Mi had been a jockey in Manchester, but his career ended in a collision which resulted in the death of another jockey. Since then Mi has not held a job, and he has come to hate horses. Velvet's horse is named "The Pie," short for "Pirate," the epithet given him by his owner due to the horse jumping clear of his paddock and wrecking things in the village. The man decides to be rid of the Pie, and offers him up in a raffle. Velvet wins The Pie, and on realizing the extent of the horses natural talent, she pleads with Mi to train the horse for the Grand National. He believes it a fools errand, not because of the horse, but because they have no real way to support the effort. He makes his case to Mrs. Brown, but she consents to Velvet's desire to train the horse. Velvet and Mi train the horse and enter him into the race. An experienced jockey is hired to ride him. The night before the race Velvet senses that the jockey hired to ride The Pie has no faith in him, and doesn't believe the horse can win. Velvet convinces Mi to fire the jockey, leaving them without a rider. That night Mi determines to overcome his fears and ride The Pie himself. Instead, he discovers that Velvet has slipped on the jockey's colors, and intends to ride the horse in the race herself. Aware of the dangers of such a race, Mi pleads with Velvet but is unable to dissuade her. As the race unfolds Velvet and The Pie avoid a number of falls, clear all the hurdles and win the race. Elated by their win, Velvet faints and falls off her mount at the finish. As she is revived the race doctor realizes she is not a young man, but a young woman. As such she and The Pie are disqualified, but Velvet knows The Pie proved himself. Velvet becomes a media sensation, declining an offer of £5,000 to travel to Hollywood with The Pie to be filmed. She ran the Pie at the Grand National because he deserved to have a chance. He wasn't an oddity to be stared at. In refusing the offer she states simply: "He wouldn't like being looked at." At the close of the film Mi takes his leave, and Mrs. Brown gives Velvet permission to reveal to him the nature of her relationship with his father. Velvet rides off to catch up with Mi and tell him that his father had been Mrs. Brown's coach when she won the prize as the first woman to swim the English Channel, many years before.
The Last Chance, 1h44
Directed by Leopold Lindtberg
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, War
Actors Luisa Rossi, Romano Calò, Therese Giehse, Leopold Biberti, Jean Martin

Italie, septembre 1943. Un Anglais et un Américain, prisonniers de guerre évadés, sont recueillis par un curé de village qui fait passer en Suisse tous ceux qui fuient les Allemands. Aidés par un aviateur anglais, ils conduisent un groupe de réfugiés de dix nations différentes pour gagner la Suisse par la montagne. Le sacrifice de l'un deux permettra au groupe d'atteindre la liberté.
La route du bagne, 1h44
Directed by Léon Mathot
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Viviane Romance, Clément Duhour, Lucien Coëdel, Paulette Élambert, Paul Amiot, Georges Biscot

Par accident, Manon tue son partenaire, et se retrouve déportée au bagne de Cayenne.
A Cage of Nightingales, 1h30
Directed by Jean Dréville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films
Actors Noël-Noël, Georges Biscot, Micheline Francey, Roger Krebs, René Génin, René Blancard

Clement Mathieu seeks to publish his novel without success. With the help of a friend who is a journalist, his story about the 'Cage of Nightingales' is slipped surreptitiously into a newspaper...
My First Love, 1h25
Directed by André Berthomieu
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jacqueline Delubac, Aimé Clariond, Madeleine Suffel, Jacques Louvigny, Jacques Famery, Charles Bouillaud

Bob, un jeune étudiant, vit avec sa mère, la belle Suzanne, dont il est très proche. Lorsqu'il comprend que Suzanne est sensible au charme du romancier Maurice Fleurville, il vit cela comme une trahison. Il faudra toute l'intelligence des deux adultes pour qu'il change d'attitude.
Resistance
Resistance (1945)
, 1h33
Directed by André Berthomieu, Pierre Chevalier, Raymond Bailly
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Yvonne Gaudeau, Pierre Renoir, Lucien Coëdel, Georges Lannes, Abel Jacquin, Robert Dalban

Un Alsacien, agent du 2e Bureau, commande une unité de la Gestapo. Il renseigne ses chefs français, sauve des patriotes, désorganise le réseau d'espionnage allemand. Découvert, il quitte l'uniforme et fait sauter un dép t de munitions. Arrêté, condamné à mort, il est sauvé par celle qui l'aime.
The Black Rider, 1h21
Directed by Gilles Grangier
Origin France
Genres Adventure, Historical
Actors Georges Guétary, Mila Parély, Jean Tissier, André Alerme, Nicole Maurey, Simone Valère

Pendant le XVIII siècle, dans les Flandres, un jeune seigneur s'amuse sous un nom d'emprunt à berner Monsieur de Saint-Brissac afin de récupérer les domaines dont il fut dépossédé.
The Bells of St. Mary's, 2h6
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Films about religion, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan, Una O'Connor, Ruth Donnelly

The unconventional Father Charles "Chuck" O'Malley (Bing Crosby) is assigned to St. Mary's parish, which includes a run-down inner-city school building on the verge of being condemned. O'Malley is to recommend whether or not the school should be closed and the children sent to another school with modern facilities; but the sisters feel that God will provide for them.
Angel and Sinner, 1h43
Directed by Christian-Jaque
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Micheline Presle, Louis Salou, Berthe Bovy, Alfred Adam, Jean Brochard, Suzet Maïs

Deux épisodes de l'occupation prussienne en 1870. Le film est une adaptation de deux nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant : Boule de Suif et Mademoiselle Fifi. Lors du voyage en diligence d'un groupe apeuré d'habitants de Rouen, Élisabeth Rousset, dite « Boule de Suif », rend à ces gens un signalé service, mais se heurte à leur sottise et à leur suffisance. Un peu plus tard, Boule-de-suif assassine le redoutable lieutenant prussien que ses amis avaient surnommé Fifi et qui étalait sans vergogne son goût du pillage et ses penchants sadiques.
Objective, Burma!, 2h22
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, James Brown, James Brown, George Tyne, George Tobias, William Prince

A group of United States Army paratroopers led by Captain Nelson (Errol Flynn) are dropped into Burma to locate and destroy a camouflaged Japanese Army radar station that is detecting Allied aircraft flying into China. For their mission, they are assigned Gurkha guides, a Chinese Army Captain and an older war correspondent (Henry Hull) whose character is used to explain various procedures to the audience.
Hanged Man's Farm, 1h30
Directed by Jean Dréville
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Charles Vanel, Alfred Adam, Georges Bever, André Bourvil, Léonce Corne, Guy Decomble

Un important fermier interdit le mariage à ses frères et sœurs cadets afin d'éviter le morcellement des terres. L'un d'eux se suicidera ; le fermier finira seul sur ses terrains tant aimés.
Blood on the Sun, 1h34
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford

Nick Condon (James Cagney) is a journalist for the Tokyo Chronicle. He prints a story disclosing Japan's plan to conquer the world. The newspaper is seized by Japanese officers. Condon gets the Tanaka Plan, a paper in which all the plans are described. The Japanese spies who follow him think that Ollie and Edith Miller (Wallace Ford and Rosemary DeCamp) are the ones who discovered the plan because they suddenly have a lot of money and are coming back to the USA. When Condon goes to the ship to bid them farewell, he finds Edith dead. Hearing someone in the adjoining room, he tries to enter, but the intruder escapes. He has only a glimpse of a woman's hand wearing a ring with a huge ruby. Returning home, he finds Ollie, badly beaten. Ollie gives him the Tanaka plan before dying.
Children of Paradise, 3h2
Directed by Pierre Blondy, Marcel Carné
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Maria Casarès, Marcel Herrand, Pierre Renoir

Children of Paradise is divided into two epochs, Boulevard du Crime ("Boulevard of Crime") and L'Homme Blanc ("The Man in White"). The first begins around 1827, the second about seven years later. The action takes place mainly in the neighborhood of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, nicknamed "Boulevard of Crime" because of all the melodramas and bloody scenarios offered to the largely plebeian public each evening. There are two principal theaters: the Théâtre des Funambules ("Theater of Tightrope Walkers") specializes in pantomime, since the authorities do not allow it to use spoken dialogue, which is reserved for the "official" venue, the Grand Theater.
Anchors Aweigh, 2h23
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell, Pamela Britton, José Iturbi

Joe Brady and Clarence Doolittle are Navy sailors who have a four-day leave in Hollywood. Joe has his heart set on spending time with his girl, the unseen Lola. Clarence, the shy choir boy turned sailor, asks Joe to teach him how to get girls. Donald, a little boy who wants to join the navy, is found wandering around the boulevard by a cop, who takes him to the police station. Clarence and Joe end up being picked up by the cops to help convince Donald to go home. After the two sailors wait at home and entertain Donald, Donald's Aunt Susie arrives. Clarence is smitten with her from the beginning. Susan goes on to tell them that she has been trying to find work in music, and longs to perform with José Iturbi. Trying to make Susan impressed with Clarence, Joe tells her that Clarence is a personal friend of Iturbi, and that he has arranged an audition for Susan with him. That night, they go out to a cafe, where Clarence meets a girl from Brooklyn, and they hit it off. The next day, Joe visits Donald's school, and tells the kids the story of how he got his medal, and how he brought happiness to a lonesome king (played by Jerry Mouse of Tom and Jerry), and joy to the forest animals of the kingdom.