The Cinema House & the World
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1. Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff, Wally Campo
Votes: 2,300
2. Flight to Fury (1964)
80 min | Adventure
Stolen diamonds spark a deadly drama involving a group of strangers in the Philippine jungle.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Dewey Martin, Fay Spain, Jack Nicholson, Joseph Estrada
Votes: 301
3. Back Door to Hell (1964)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, War
During World War II, a three man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistants, as they try to knock out a Japanese communication center.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Jimmie Rodgers, Jack Nicholson, John Hackett, Annabelle Huggins
Votes: 925
4. La Cecilia (1975)
113 min | Drama
At the end of the nineteenth century, Italian anarchists, ten men, one woman, libertarian, collectivist emigrate to Brazil to start a leaderless community, without hierarchy, without a boss... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Louis Comolli | Stars: Massimo Foschi, Maria Carta, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mario Bussolino
Votes: 87
5. Anatomie d'un rapport (1976)
82 min | Documentary, Drama
A woman's feminist awakening drives a couple to a relationship crisis.
Directors: Luc Moullet, Antonietta Pizzorno | Stars: Luc Moullet, Marie-Christine Questerbert, Antonietta Pizzorno, Viviane Berthommier
Votes: 178
6. Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
G | 82 min | Drama, Western
Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Katherine Squire
Votes: 4,404
7. Twice Upon a Time (1983)
PG | 74 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Two wannabe heroes and their friends must stop a madman from giving everyone nightmares.
Directors: John Korty, Charles Swenson | Stars: Lorenzo Music, Judith Kahan, Marshall Efron, James Cranna
Votes: 1,265
8. I, You, He, She (1974)
86 min | Drama
'Je' is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion
Votes: 2,968
9. The Truck (1977)
76 min | Drama, Romance
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 454
10. Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, Romance
Rachel is a lonely school teacher who lives with her mother. When a man from the big city asks her out, she starts thinking about where she wants her life to go.
Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons
Votes: 4,060
11. Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
PG | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.
Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin
Votes: 4,497 | Gross: $9.20M
12. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
PG | 100 min | Drama
A middle-aged misfit struggles to raise her daughters, one popular and the other a promising science student.
Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach, Judith Lowry
Votes: 2,662 | Gross: $0.18M
13. The Shadow Box (1980 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Three terminally-ill cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds, where they are attended and visited by both family and close friends.
Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Christopher Plummer, Valerie Harper, James Broderick
Votes: 243
14. Harry & Son (1984)
PG | 120 min | Drama
Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.
Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Wilford Brimley
Votes: 2,389
15. The Glass Menagerie (1987)
PG | 134 min | Drama
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton
Votes: 2,243 | Gross: $0.90M
16. The Musician Killer (1975)
124 min | Drama
After the conductor of the orchestra he has been playing in commits suicide, a young clarinettist is left with a quite valuable violin.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Anna Karina, Joël Bion, Philippe March, Hélène Coulomb
Votes: 49
17. Les enfants du placard (1977)
105 min | Drama
Nicolas has an appointment with his sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy secret of childhood: their mother committed suicide while their father had charged Nicolas to keep her. Since ... See full summary »
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel, Georges Marchal
Votes: 82
18. Les ailes de la colombe (1981)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Dominique Sanda, Michele Placido, Loleh Bellon
Votes: 285
19. Le théâtre des matières (1977)
81 min | Drama
In the suburbs of Paris, Hermann, former musician of the Berlin orchestra, directs a small theater troupe: The Theater of Matters. Dorothée, a former harpist employed in a travel agency, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Claude Biette | Stars: Sonia Saviange, Howard Vernon, Philippe Chemin, Martine Simonet
Votes: 67
20. Loin de Manhattan (1981)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Christian takes his friend Ingrid's help to find out more about René, an artist.
Director: Jean-Claude Biette | Stars: Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Howard Vernon, Laura Betti
Votes: 50
21. Le champignon des Carpathes (1989)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter and used to cure an actress.
Director: Jean-Claude Biette | Stars: Tonie Marshall, Valérie Jeannet, Thomas Badek, Laurent Cygler
Votes: 52
22. Chasse gardée (1992)
97 min | Drama
A "three-person relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.
Director: Jean-Claude Biette | Stars: Gérard Blain, Tonie Marshall, Rüdiger Vogler, Serge Dupire
Votes: 22
23. Le complexe de Toulon (1995)
81 min | Comedy
It is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention to theater. Charles, an actor does not want Fredi to write a book on him.
Director: Jean-Claude Biette | Stars: Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Howard Vernon, Ysé Tran, Haydée Caillot
Votes: 29
24. Trois ponts sur la rivière (1999)
117 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of Arthur, a professor living in Paris, changes when Frank comes to live on the same floor of the building where he is residing.
Director: Jean-Claude Biette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Mathieu Amalric, Thomas Badek, André Baptista
Votes: 89
25. Saltimbank (2003)
92 min | Drama, Comedy
The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Claude Biette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Cervo
Votes: 74
26. Not as a Stranger (1955)
Passed | 135 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
An ego-driven, aspiring physician, intolerant of the weaknesses of others, especially those closest to him, comes to grips with his own imperfections.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame
Votes: 2,587
27. The Pride and the Passion (1957)
132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British captain is sent to Spain to help prevent the French from stealing a powerful cannon.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 3,210 | Gross: $8.75M
28. The Defiant Ones (1958)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama
Two chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Cara Williams, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 17,867
29. On the Beach (1959)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins
Votes: 14,427 | Gross: $11.00M
30. Twice Upon a Time (1968)
75 min | Drama
As part of the Zanzibar group of independent French filmmakers starting in 1968, movies mostly in black and white and often silent, this is a woman's experimental assemblage of sequence ... See full summary »
Director: Jackie Raynal | Stars: Jackie Raynal, Francisco Viader, Oscar
Votes: 150
31. Cinétracts (1968)
90 min | Documentary
A series of 41 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Denis Bonan, Gérard Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jacques Loiseleux, Chris Marker, Jackie Raynal, Alain Resnais
Votes: 118
32. Hotel New York (1984)
63 min | Comedy
An expanded version of the short, New York Story, in which we first see the arrival of the Loulou character in the big city, sharing a Soho apartment with three roommates, getting work as a... See full summary »
Director: Jackie Raynal | Stars: Suzanne Fenn, Jackie Raynal, Sid Geffen, Sande Zeig
Votes: 88
33. Tod und Teufel (1974)
92 min | Drama
Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting. The film attempts to display sexual ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Dwoskin | Stars: Charles Regnier, Carola Regnier, Brigitte Rau, Matthias von Spallart
Votes: 40
34. Dyn Amo (1972)
120 min | Drama
The film follows a series of striptease acts performed for an imaginary audience in a seedy club. This mesmerising and challenging film offers no hand to hold as we, the viewers, journey ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Dwoskin | Stars: Jenny Runacre, Pat Ford, Catherine Kessler, Linda Marlowe
Votes: 128
35. Times For (1970)
80 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated man complies with the emotional and erotic wishes of four women, but afterwards he is left even lonelier than before.
Director: Stephen Dwoskin | Stars: Verity Bargate, Maurice Colbourne, Carmel Court, Sally Gidal
Votes: 22
36. Rio Bravo (1959)
Passed | 141 min | Western
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson
Votes: 68,115 | Gross: $12.54M
37. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Mystery
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 71,406 | Gross: $11.90M
38. Advise & Consent (1962)
Not Rated | 139 min | Drama, Thriller
The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon
Votes: 7,514
39. Laura (1944)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
Votes: 51,507 | Gross: $4.36M
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