Mickey Kuhn

Mary Treen

Charles Boyer

Barbara O'Neil

Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philippe Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date to go sailing, arriving at Philippe's country home just as a storm is breaking. Helen learns who he is for the first time - a celebrated and famous concert pianist. Falling in love with him, she decides to leave before matters go further. A hurricane hits and their car is crippled by a falling tree. Rising water forces them to seek shelter in the choir loft of a church, where they spend the night. They are rescued in the morning and Helen meets Philippe's wife and learns their story. Helen and Philippe meet again, and Philippe sails to Europe with his wife but promises to come back someday.—Les Adams

When Tomorrow Comes

When Tomorrow Comes (1939)

Gérard Depardieu

Michael Lonsdale

Niels Arestrup

Irrestisible charm and talent help Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even the most influential members of the French industrial and political elite during the early '30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed, the result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.—Dragan Antulov

Stavisky

Stavisky (1974)

Leila Hyams

Jean Harlow

Una Merkel

Lil (Jean Harlow) works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill (Chester Morris) to divorce Irene (Leila Hyams) and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste (Henry Stevenson) and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. She has another affair with the chauffeur Albert (Charles Boyer).—Ed Stephan

Red-Headed Woman

Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Robert Taylor

The film follows the WWII exploits of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) (unidentified in the film), in its first major operations following its commissioning in 1943. The life of the crew is documented from July 1943 to June 1944, from its passage through the Panama Canal through assaults on Marcus, Kwajalein, Truk and Tinian Islands, and culminating with the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Spectacular 16mm Kodachrome footage of combat operations and naval aviation is prominent throughout.—scgary66

The Fighting Lady

The Fighting Lady (1944)

Vladimir Sokoloff

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry no weight. He agrees to marry a princess to sire an heir, then spends his nights as a playboy. In 1888, he meets Marie Vetsera, 17, a baroness's daughter. She is resolute, smitten, and wants nothing in return for her love. The Prime Minister is alarmed; he contrives to have her sent away. Rudolf sinks into dissipation. When she returns, how will the lovers handle the opposition of society and their families? Can Rudolf find a way for them to be together?—

Mayerling

Mayerling (1936)

Peter Lorre

Lieutenant Droste wants to build an air station in the middle of the ocean to allow pilots on intercontinental flights to refuel and repair any damage to their aircraft. With the help of the pilot Ellissen, he manages to win the support of the Lennartz-Werke for the project. Ellissen, who has taken up with the owner's sister Claire Lennartz, shies away from marriage and seeks new adventure. After two years, the platform has become a city on the ocean, with runways, hangars, hotels, and shopping centers. During a storm, the connection to the platform is severed. The last sounds to come over the telephone were gunshots and screams. The weather clears and the best pilots immediately head for F.P.1. Ellissen, in a lovesick depression, is convinced by Claire to accompany her to the platform. Their plane crashes on the island but they survive. The crew of F.P.1 has been the victim of a saboteur, who knocked them out with gas. Before chief engineer Damsky fled in a boat, he opened the valves, causing a danger that F.P.1 will sink. Claire finds the badly injured Droste and takes care of him. Ellissen has to recognize that Claire is slipping away from him. After a short time, he pulls himself together and takes a plane out to get help. He sees a ship, jumps from his plane, is taken aboard the ship, and calls for help via radio. A fleet of ships and planes are sent to rescue F.P.1.

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)

Acts of slow down and sabotage announce that French railway men don't accept the presence of the "Boche" willingly. . Trains are misdirected, rails are damaged. Jews are helped to escape. Resistance fighters and their messages are smuggled from place to place. We learn that there are "good guys" and "bad guys" among the French rail employees. The "trade craft" of espionage is practiced as French rail workers fight the twilight struggle against collaborators and the German oppressors. Not every character is who he seems. After the D-Day landings the tempo of resistance escalates. Tension mounts as the Germans desperately try to bring tanks and men into battle to throw back the invaders. The light infantry of the Maquis fights a pitched battle with an armored rail convoy of Germans on their way to Normandy. After initial German successes the Resistance wins, but at a high price. French morale is the intended object of this record of heroic resistance against odds. The black and white of the film is matched by the "black and white" of collaborators and "La Resistance."

The Battle of the Rails

The Battle of the Rails (1946)

Colin Clive

Jean Arthur

Dennis O'Keefe

The obsessive and jealous shipowner Bruce Vail does not accept the divorce his wife Irene Vail is seeking to make final, so he hires his chauffeur Michael Browsky to forge adultery with Irene in Paris to make the provisional decree she has achieved there null. However, she is rescued by the headwaiter Paul Dumond, who punches Michael and locks Bruce and his private eyes in a closet. The pair then escapes and spends a wonderful night together in the restaurant Chateau Bleu, where Paul and his best friend Chef Cesare work, and fall in love with eachother. Meanwhile, Bruce murders Michael and blackmails Irene, blaming Paul and forcing her to travel with him to New York. But Paul does not give up on Irene, and follows her to New York with Cesare trying to become reunited with his love.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

History Is Made at Night

History Is Made at Night (1937)

Vittorio De Sica

In the Paris of the late 19th century, Louise, wife of a general, sells the earrings her husband gave her as a wedding gift: she needs money to cover her debts. The general secretly buys the earrings again and gives them to his mistress, Lola, leaving to go to Constantinople. Where an Italian diplomat, Baron Donati, buys them. Back to Paris, Donati meets Louise... So now Louise discovers love and becomes much less frivolous.—Yepok

The Earrings of Madame De...

The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)

Audrey Hepburn

Peter O'Toole

Eli Wallach

In Paris, wealthy Charles Bonnet is well known in the art world as a collector of rare pieces, mostly of the impressionist masters. He will on occasion sell paintings from his collection at auction. In reality, he is an art forger, he only reproducing those pieces known to have gone missing. His daughter, Nicole Bonnet, wants him to stop this business fearing that some day soon he will get caught. She is most concerned about he loaning out his Cellini Venus statue to the Kléber-Lafayette Museum, as she knows that technology can now test for things such as material age which would prove that the statue and by association he is a fraud. He ends up causing a problem for himself when he signs a $1 million insurance policy for the statue for the museum, which unwittingly allows them to test the piece for its authenticity. To save her father from jail, Nicole feels the only thing she can do is try to steal the statue from the gallery which may not be the easiest thing to do especially as the museum has installed an electronic security system around the piece to protect it above and beyond the regular security. She contacts the only person she knows who she believes can help her, namely a burglar named Simon Dermott. Nicole and Simon had only recently met when he broke into the Bonnet mansion to steal a Van Gogh painting, Nicole catching him in the process. Nicole could not call the police to report him for fear that her father's fraudulent life would be uncovered. Nicole not only has to convince Simon to help her without actually divulging the reason why she wants to steal her own statue, but they also have to come up with a plan to steal it. Complicating matters is an American art collector named Davis Leland who is not only wooing Nicole, but wants to add many of M. Bonnet's pieces to his own collection, most specifically the Venus. Within this collective, not all is as it appears on the surface.—Huggo

How to Steal a Million

How to Steal a Million (1966)

Leslie Caron

Horst Buchholz

Maurice Chevalier

At almost 19, Marius feels in a rut in Marseille, where his life has been planned out for him by his cafe'-owning father, while he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves and letting him live the life he seems to want.—John Oswalt

Fanny

Fanny (1961)

6.7 / 10

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6.5 / 10

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7 / 10

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7.1 / 10

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7 / 10

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Romance

6.2 / 10

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7 / 10

Drama
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7.3 / 10

Action
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7.9 / 10

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7.5 / 10

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6.8 / 10

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