Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests'...
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Countess
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1974
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A family's murderous battle over some bayfront property is the subject of director Mario Bava's bloody horror-thriller, which...
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1971
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Based on the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, this film follows a modern-day depiction of selfish,...
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1970
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In this suspense thriller, Stephen Boyd plays Miguel, who is clearly not in his right mind. He remembers killing his...
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1970
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Genre specialist Mario Bava takes a rare trip out to the plains in this rousing comedy-Western that turns the work of iconic...
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Madame
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1970
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The love-hate relationship between a poet and his mistress provides the basis for this metaphorical drama. The trouble seems...
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Mother
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1969
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Caroline (France Anglade) is the heroine who is pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with a lawyer. Unknown to her...
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1968
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A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international...
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1968
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This drama centers upon a female thief and her robber band as they try to hide out from the cops on a deserted island. Their...
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1967
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Despite the silliness of its premise, this Avengers episode is a winner all the way, thanks in no small part to its...
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1967
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This German version of the famed caper, not only examines the detailed planning and precise execution of the famed theft, it...
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1967
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A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes...
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1966
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In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their...
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Duchesse D'Angouleme
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1964
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A fortune in cash is the bait that draws some would-be criminals into a feeding frenzy in this offbeat but stylish crime...
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1964
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Dan Duryea stars in this unsavory British melodrama as a seedy kidnapper who accidentally kills his child victim. The police...
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1964
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Horst Bucholz plays Dino, a painter who realizes he has no artistic vision and decides to move back into his wealthy mother's...
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1963
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The search for the notorious German Field Marshal's legendary treasure forms the basis of this adventure that chronicles the...
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1959
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Director Jacqueline Audry spent her career swimming against the current in the male-dominated film industry, a female...
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Czarina Elizabeth of Russia
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1959
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1957
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Sois Belle et Tais Toi is more popularly known by its American-release title Be Beautiful but Shut Up. Mylene Demongeot plays...
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1957
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A novel by James Hadley Chase was the source for Une Manche et la Belle (Beauty Up His Sleeve). Bank clerk Henri Vidal...
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Betty
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1957
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1955
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Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane...
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Signora Fiorini
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1955
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Gli Sbandati was released worldwide as The Disbanded. Set during WWII, the film is a drama of the Italian resistance, with...
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1955
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Pierre Brasseur plays the "mad monk" Rasputin -- or "Raspoutine" -- in this French historical melodrama. Insinuating himself...
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Empress Alexandra
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1954
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The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous...
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Francoise
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1954
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Helene
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1954
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Mme. Alvaro
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1952
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This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a...
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1951
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Filmed in 1945, the Italian My Widow and I made it to the U.S. five years later. Two of Italy's top box-office draws,...
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Maria Lari
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1950
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An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series...
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The Actress
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1950
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French filmmaker Rene Clement's international reputation was secured with Au Dela des Grilles. A French-Italian production,...
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Marta
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1949
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The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the...
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Marta Larocca
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1949
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1947
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1944
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1942
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British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some...
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Felice Falcon
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1940
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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Anna
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1939
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Le Mensonge de Nina Petrova (The Lie of Nina Petrova) was filmed in 1937, one year before its director, Russian-born...
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Nina Petrovna
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1937
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1937
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Having been showered with critical adulation for his 1935 adaptation of Crime and Punishment, writer-director Pierre Chenal...
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Louise Paleari
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1937
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Du bist Mein Gluck (You Are My Joy) was the third starring feature for the great Operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Gigli's...
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Bianca,Mary Hofer
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1936
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Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as...
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Maria Brunetti
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1936
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Dopo una Notte D'Amore was released in English-speaking countries as After a Night of Love. Per the title, the film takes...
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1935
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Max Ophuls' La Signora di Tutti can be regarded today as a dress rehearsal for his 1955 masterpiece Lola Montes, though it...
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1934
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