Movies
The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales."
Stars: Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire, Joseph Walsh, Philip Tonge, John Qualen, Charles Vidor, Moss Hart
A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.
A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron. Stars: Kirk Douglas Eve Miller Patrice Wymore Edgar Buchanan Alan Hale Jr. Charles Meredith Felix E. Feist John Twist Bert Glennon
A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kumeko Urabe, Eiko Miyoshi, Yûnosuke Itô, Haruo Tanaka, Akira Kurosawa, Fumio Hayasaka
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Martin Corona (Infante) and Eulalio Gonzalez "Piporro" are local heroes that help the poor, the unfortunate and women in need. But Carmen Linares and Rosario Medina - double character - performed in by Sara Montiel won't fall for Martin Corona's charms. Infante sings "Cuando el destino", "Copa tras copa" and "Carta a Eufemia".
Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.
Stars: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern, George Cole, Ernest Thesiger, Brian Desmond Hurst, Charles Dickens, Noel Langley, Richard Addinsell
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.
Stars: Van Johnson (I), Lane Nakano, Henry Nakamura, Gianna Maria Canale, John Banner, Frank Wilcox (I), Robert Pirosh, Alberto Colombo (I)
A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other.
Shortly after coming to terms with his daughter's marriage, a father faces the prospect of becoming a grandfather.
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Billie Burke, Moroni Olsen, Vincente Minnelli, Albert Hackett, Albert Sendrey
In WWI Africa, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.
Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Michael Gordon
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter, Walter Hampden, Randy Stuart, Craig Hill, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mary Orr
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Franklyn Farnum, Larry J. Blake, Cecil B. DeMille, Buster Keaton, H.B. Warner, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.
After taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control.
Stars: Mickey Roonie, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre, Jack Elam, Irving Pichel, Robert Smith, Louis Gruenberg
A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
A strict patriarch exercises almost absolute control over his family and uses it to impose his vision of order and conservative family values. However, the budding sexuality of some of his children causes the union to unravel.
Stars: Fernando Soler (I), David Silva, Carlos Riquelme, Eugenia Galindo, Martha Roth (I), Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Alejandro Galindo, Raúl Lavista
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Stars: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Gino Saltamerenda, Giulio Chiari, Vittorio Antonucci, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Alessandro Cicognini
The abbreviated life of the 15th-century French heroine.
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Selena Royle, Robert Barrat, Jimmy Lydon, Rand Brooks, Roman Bohnen, Irene Rich, José Ferrer, Nestor Paiva, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart, Leif Erickson, Victor Fleming, Maxwell Anderson, Hugo Friedhofer
D'Artagnan and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
Stars: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson
Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
Stars: Jean Simmons, John Laurie, Esmond Knight, Anthony Quayle, Niall MacGinnis, Laurence Olivier, William Shakespeare
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.
Stars: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Elisha Cook Jr., Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, Robert Wise , Eve Greene, Paul Sawtell