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- DirectorTerence YoungStarsEric PortmanEdana RomneyBarbara MullenA man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsPer OscarssonGio PetréTor IsedalA lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...
- DirectorHenry KingStarsRonald ColmanBelle BennettAlice JoyceSmall-town girl Stella marries socialite Stephen Dallas, a man with whom she has nothing in common. The whole thing is a failure; after the birth of their daughter Laurel, the Dallases separate and Stephen returns to New York. As Laurel grows into a young woman, Stella realizes that she cannot provide for her properly and sends her to live with Stephen and his new family. Laurel later marries a pleasant upper-class young man as Stella stands in the rain watching the ceremony through a window.
- DirectorChantal AkermanBernard DuboisPhilippe GarrelStarsMaria de MedeirosPascale SalkinJudith AdrienFilm comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsAnne CrawfordSiobhan McKennaMaxwell ReedEmily, a pretty young Irish girl, gets a job on an English farm owned by the Tallent family. The local men take to her but the women don't, objecting to her flirtatious nature with their men and one woman, Bess Stanforth, is especially disturbed by her. When Dan, a man from Emily's past, shows up and accuses her of having tried to kill, him Beth's suspicions are further aroused, and they're confirmed after Dan is found murdered in a local barn. Beth sets out to find out exactly who Emily is and to prove that she murdered Dan.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsJoanne WoodwardRichard BeymerClaire TrevorLila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga's stage shows. When her boyfriend, Rick, runs off with the show's money, Madame Olga and Ronny let Lila go. Lila goes to stay with her old neighbors, Helen Bard and her teenage son, Kenny. Lila decides to go out and get a regular job and try and live a normal life. All seems well, until Lila and Kenny stop fighting their attraction for one another.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsPatricia ConelleDon RobertsArianne UlmerA young American painter and his French wife move with their small daughter to the US when the husband's father dies. His mother takes an instant dislike to the wife, and when she finds out that her daughter-in-law is a nudist who once posed naked for an artist, she declares her son's wife to be an unfit mother and sets out to break up the marriage--which may not be difficult to do, as the son is a weak-willed "mama's boy" who's terrified to stand up against his domineering mother.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsBelinda LeeMichael CraigPatrick McGoohanBrothers compete for a woman's affection while danger lurks at every turn in an African wild game park.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsDolores Del RíoRalph ForbesKarl DaneFortune hunters from all over the country rush to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsVera RalstonJohn CarrollWalter BrennanViolet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder. Delaney manges to steer clear of the sheriff until Violet kills her lawful husband, Henry Vaal, and the sheriff is soon pursuing both Violet and Delaney into the desert.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsGilda GrayAnna May WongJameson ThomasA young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the club's main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love, and murder.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsDonald WoodsKay LinakerCarlyle Moore Jr.Jim Larrabie and Bob Gordon, two reporters, are sent to prison on bogus charges after exposing the corrupt practices of J.W. Moett and Dudley. The two suffer extreme cruelty due to the sadistic behavior of the warden and guards.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsMargaret LockwoodIan HunterBarry K. BarnesBedelia, a newly remarried beautiful widow, is on honeymoon in Monte Carlo. A painter approaches her inquiring about her past. When she and her husband go back to England the artist will soon be there. Danger, crime and truth will follow.
- DirectorMario SchifanoStarsFranco AngeliOtello AngeliAdriano ApràArtists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
- DirectorAlbert FinneyStarsAlbert FinneyColin BlakelyBillie WhitelawA married writer has an affair with his secretary.
- StarsLowell ThomasCollection of the best segments from Cinerama movies, including locations of Rome, Paris, Vienna, Athens, Brazil, Japan, Africa, Israel and New Orleans.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniAnn DvorakBarton MacLaneA small-town doctor gets roped into helping a notorious bank robber.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsGeorge O'BrienVirginia ValliJ. Farrell MacDonaldAfter his mother and stepfather have been killed in a barge accident, John Breen is rescued from some East Side toughs by the Lipvitches. He remains in the city, determined to find his real father, who rejected his mother; and after some success as a prizefighter, he is virtually adopted by Van Horn, a millionaire who actually is his father. Becka Lipvitch renounces his love when Pug Malone advises her that their marriage would endanger his future. John becomes engaged to Josephine, Van Horn's ward, and rejects the boxing ring for an engineering career. While returning from Europe, Van Horn is drowned when his ship sinks; Josephine and Rantoul, finding consolation in each other's love, are rescued and are married. Meanwhile, John rescues Becka from Flash, a nightclub owner and narcotics peddler, and they are reconciled.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsDermot WalshHazel CourtHugh BurdenA luxury ship is haunted by the ghosts of a crew that had disappeared off the ship years before.
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsErich PontoCarl KuhlmannAlbert LippertAnti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
- DirectorLuc MoulletStarsJean-Pierre LéaudRachel KesterberJean ValmontBilly the Kid pursues the witness of a heist in order to eliminate him.
- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsBarbara LaageArmando FrancioliEduardo De FilippoUpdated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
- DirectorJean MamyStarsMaurice RémyGisèle ParryMarcel VibertA French politician in the 1930s is drawn into a huge Masonic conspiracy.