Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?
With Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks, Gladys Brockwell, Myrna Loy, Maria Casajuana, Sally Rand, William Demarest
Recommended by Arnaud Desplechin
2h18
The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.
With Steven Geray, Hank Worden, Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Jim Davis, Henri Letondal, Robert Hunter, Booth Colman
Recommended by Arnaud Desplechin, Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu
1h54
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Peggy Knudsen
Recommended by Akira Kurosawa, Corneliu Porumboiu
1h42
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
With Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Katharine Hepburn, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Catlett, May Robson
Recommended by Miguel Gomes, Maren Ade, Damien Chazelle, Alice Rohrwacher
1h31
Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
With Steven Geray, Tommy Noonan, Henri Letondal, Norma Varden, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Jane Russell , Elliott Reid, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes, Howard Wendell, Peter Camlin, Leo Mostovoy, Alex Frazer, Marcel Dalio
Recommended by François Truffaut, Patricia Mazuy
2h39
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.
With Gérard Blain, John Wayne, Bruce Cabot, Hardy Krüger, Valentin de Vargas, Michèle Girardon, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons
Recommended by Miguel Gomes, Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
1h32
A classic screwball comedy in which Russell plays reporter Hildy Johnson, who, on the eve of her remarriage, is talked into one more assignment by her editor and ex-husband, Grant. While interviewing a condemned man, Hildy realizes that his hanging is planned as a vote-getting measure. Spontaneously, she helps the man escape.
With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart, Ralph Bellamy, Porter Hall, Helen Mack, Cliff Edwards, Ernest Truex
Recommended by Jacques Audiard, Christoph Hochhäusler, Patricia Mazuy
2h07
The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually incredibly inexperienced when it comes to the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition.
With Roscoe Karns, James Westerfield, Rock Hudson, John McGiver, Norman Alden, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, Charlene Holt
Recommended by Leos Carax
2h01
A two-fisted adventure tale set in South America, ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS stars Cary Grant as the tough-talking head of an air freight service operating in the dangerous Andes Mountains. Jean Arthur co-stars as a vacationing showgirl competing with Rita Hayworth for Grant's affections. A potent combination of humor, romance and action, the film was directed by Howard Hawks, the legendary director responsible for Red River, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, and the original Scarface.
With Richard Barthelmess, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Sig Rumann, Rita Hayworth, Allyn Joslyn, Victor Kilian, John Carroll, Donald Barry, Noah Beery Jr.
Recommended by Arnaud Desplechin, Christophe Gans, Pierre Salvadori, Alain Guiraudie, Wim Wenders, Dominik Moll
1h50
The story of three racing drivers and three women, who constantly have to worry for the lives of their boyfriends. Jim Loomis and Mike Marsh drive for Pat Cassarian. Jim expects his fiancée Holly, but before she arrives, he dies in a race. Since she doesn't have the money to travel back, she stays. The young and very ambitious talent Ned Arp joins the team, and immediately starts wooing Pat's sister Julie. Third on the team is womanizer Dan McCall, who brings with him his current girlfriend Gabrielle from Paris. So the basic theme of this movie is, "Whom with whom?"
With Marianna Hill, James Caan, Norman Alden, Charlene Holt, Laura Devon, Gail Hire, John Robert Crawford, James Ward
Recommended by Leos Carax
2h21
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
With Angie Dickinson, John Wayne, Ward Bond, Walter Brennan, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, John Russell, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Estelita Rodriguez, Claude Akins, Malcolm Atterbury
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Laurent Cantet, Costa Gavras, Sophie Letourneur, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Bruno Podalydès, Jonás Trueba, Xavier Beauvois, Francis Veber
2h13
Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
With John Wayne, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Montgomery Clift, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey Sr.
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Agnès Jaoui, João Pedro Rodrigues
1h33
An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
With Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon
Recommended by François Truffaut, Luc Moullet, Christian Petzold
1h56
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
With Jack Hawkins, James Robertson Justice, Dewey Martin, Alexis Minotis, Joan Collins
Recommended by François Truffaut, Pedro Costa
1h27
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
With Dewey Martin, Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James R. Young
Recommended by Martin Scorsese
1h40
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Walter Molnar, Walter Sande, Dan Seymour, Aldo Nadi, Paul Marion, Patricia Shay, Marcel Dalio
Recommended by Bertrand Tavernier, Christian Petzold
1h53
During WWI, two officers, one a pilot and the other in the navy, compete for the same beautiful young woman.
With Roscoe Karns, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Louise Closser Hale, Hilda Vaughn