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- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsDavid NivenShirley MacLaineGig YoungA salesgirl falls for the younger of two brothers who run a company. The elder falls for her but plans to help her get his brother because he doesn't know he's in love.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsMaría FélixJack PalancePedro ArmendárizIn a Mexican fishing village, gringo Jim Gatsby hatches an illegal shrimp-catching scheme and runs afoul of local authorities as well as of jealous Mexican fisherman Pepe Gamboa who suspects his wife Magdalena of infidelity.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsHardy KrügerPeter van EyckIngrid AndreeAn interpretation of Hamlet finds the heir Claudius Steel Works struggling with his mother's to uncle Van Eyk in a sterile industrial post-WW2 West Germany.
- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsPierre BrasseurPaul MeurisseJean-Pierre MockyIn order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital owned by Dr. Varmont, a supporter of traditional treatments, in constant conflict with Dr. Emery, whose therapy takes the psychology of patients into account. François soon makes friends with Heurtevent, a sweet epileptic, and both decide to escape from the place. Their attempt is a failure and Heurtevent, unable to get over what he considers a return to hell, commits suicide. But rebellious François tries again and this time around he is successful. He finds shelter at his friend Stephanie's home...
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsClaes GillWenche FossGeorg LøkkebergAfter the play by Alexander Kielland about a bishop, Sigurd Helmer, which is accused of foul play after writing anonymous letters smearing his opponent. The accuser is his main rival and daughter's chosen fiancée.
- DirectorVera StroyevaStarsAleksey KrivchenyaAnton GrigoryevAleksei MaslennikovAn opera about the Moscow uprising of 1682. Reacting against Westernization, boyar Ivan Khovansky raises a rebellion against regent Sofia Alekseyevna and the two young Tsars Peter I and Ivan V.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsCarmen SevillaRaf ValloneJorge MistralIn rural Spain, sister of an ex con convinces him to take revenge against the local who tipped off the authorities about the man's whereabouts, which led to his subsequent arrest. Unfortunately, she soon falls in love with the snitch.
- DirectorSilvio AmadioStarsMassimo GirottiFolco LulliJean-Marc BoryItalian submariners trapped in their damaged boat on the ocean floor.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsSophia LorenTab HunterJack WardenIn 1944, on a Miami to New York train, two paratroopers on furlough meet and fall in love with two 'kept women' who are on their way to meet their 'sugar-daddies'.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDebbie ReynoldsTony RandallPaul DouglasAn uptight IRS agent is ordered to investigate a rural family in debt to the government...but the family - including lovely daughter Mariette - help him loosen up.
- DirectorNorman PanamaStarsRichard WidmarkLee J. CobbTina LouiseIn a remote Californian desert town, a lawyer arranges for a wanted mobster to skip the country via a small airstrip but the local sheriff and his deputy could pose a problem.
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsGary CooperRita HayworthVan HeflinAn army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsRock HudsonJean SimmonsClaude RainsDuring Prohibition, Englishwoman Elizabeth Rambeau joins her winemaking California family, but while some see her as an unwanted "poor relation," others covet her affections, including her troublemaker playboy cousin John Rambeau.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGary CooperCharlton HestonMichael RedgraveA disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsDon MurrayRichard EganLee RemickAn ambitious cowboy will stop at nothing to get what he wants, including using the affections of two women.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsDeborah KerrYul BrynnerJason RobardsA British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsRaj KapoorNutanLalita PawarA poor young man gets employed by a rich man admiring his honesty. But when he gets suspected in a lady's murder case, he need to prove his innocence.
- DirectorErik LøchenStarsRolf SøderBente BørsumTor StokkeTwo men attracted to the same woman are attending a trip with her in the Mountains during the bird hunting season. A triangular love drama ending with tragedy. Or is it, really?
- DirectorFritz LangStarsDebra PagetPaul HubschmidWalther ReyerIn Eschnapur, a local Maharajah and a German architect fall in-love with the same temple dancer.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsDick MillerBarboura MorrisAntony CarboneA dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRichard WidmarkHenry FondaAnthony QuinnA famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsPeppino De FilippoLaura AdaniCristina GaioniIn post-war Italy during the 1950s, finding a house to rent is so difficult that a family ends up living in a former brothel.
- DirectorRanald MacDougallStarsHarry BelafonteInger StevensMel FerrerA miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.
- DirectorMarco FerreriIsidoro M. FerryStarsMary CarrilloJosé Luis López VázquezConcha López SilvaRodolfo and Petrita live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, and each is looking for a little apartment ("pisito" in Spanish dialect), but their low salaries keep them in their old hovels. Rodolfo's co-workers start encouraging him to marry the frail old Doña Martina, the main tenant in his apartment building; according to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's.
- DirectorGilles GrangierStarsJean GabinDarry CowlBernard BlierBum Archimede wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.