Cities of the World
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1. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 605,720 | Gross: $1.02M
2. Saigon (1947)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After WW2, two army buddies, one of them terminally-ill, embark on a series of adventures in South-East Asia and run across a dangerous criminal and his pretty secretary.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell
Votes: 371
3. Lisbon (1956)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal. A smuggler is hired to kidnap the rich husband of an American woman who's just arrived in Lisbon, Portugal.
Director: Ray Milland | Stars: Ray Milland, Maureen O'Hara, Claude Rains, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 658
4. Singapore (1947)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After WW2, an American skipper returns to Singapore to retrieve his hidden stash of pearls and finds his lost fiancée who now has amnesia.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner, Roland Culver, Richard Haydn
Votes: 787
5. Calcutta (1946)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. After their buddy Bill is murdered, they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez
Votes: 726
6. Istanbul (1985)
90 min | Thriller, Drama
While traveling through Belgium, an American named Martin befriends a waiter named Willy when he saves Willy from a fight with a customer. They get drunk together and Martin invites Willy ... See full synopsis »
Director: Marc Didden | Stars: Brad Dourif, Dominique Deruddere, Ingrid De Vos, François Beukelaers
Votes: 260
7. Shanghai (1935)
75 min | Drama, Romance
While she is in Shanghai visiting her sick aunt, young New York socialite Barbara Howard falls in love with Russian banker Dmitri Koslov. Everything would be for the best, if only Dmitri ... See full summary »
Director: James Flood | Stars: Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Warner Oland, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 156
8. Rio (1939)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A crazed man escapes from prison to kill his wife's lover.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen, Sigrid Gurie, Robert Cummings
Votes: 195
9. Timbuktu (1958)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
In 1940, in the colony of French Sudan, a Tuareg uprising is being instigated by an evil emir but the French Army, aided by an American gun-runner, intends to pacify the region.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Victor Mature, Yvonne De Carlo, George Dolenz, John Dehner
Votes: 410
10. Maracaibo (1958)
88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In Venezuela during the 1950s, a vacationing Texas oilman is asked to help extinguish an oil derrick fire and he succumbs to the charms of a visiting New York novelist.
Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Abbe Lane, Francis Lederer
Votes: 115
11. Havana (I) (1990)
R | 144 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian
Votes: 8,505 | Gross: $9.24M
12. Bagdad (1949)
Passed | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An English-educated Bedouin princess returns to Bagdad to find her father murdered, a corrupt ruling Pasha in charge and various local factions warring for control of the Caliphate.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Paul Hubschmid, Vincent Price, John Sutton
Votes: 450
13. Hiroshima (1953)
TV-PG | 85 min | Drama, War
Brilliant and extremely realistic retelling of the day in Hiroshima that the bomb dropped and following days.
Director: Hideo Sekigawa | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Eiji Okada, Yoshi Katô, Yumeji Tsukioka
Votes: 647
14. Stalingrad (1993)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, War
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph
Votes: 37,694 | Gross: $0.08M
15. Khartoum (1966)
Approved | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier).
Directors: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon | Stars: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 8,263 | Gross: $6.54M
16. Macao (1952)
Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?
Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer, Nicholas Ray, Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez
Votes: 3,799
17. Algiers (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 3,244
18. Tripoli (1950)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Adventure, History
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag
Director: Will Price | Stars: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed
Votes: 517
19. Hong Kong (1952)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The theft of a jeweled treasure is within an adventurer's grasp when he is restrained by his love for a good woman. Now he must help her and the kid he was hired to rob escape as the Chinese Civil War nears Hong Kong.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce, Marvin Miller
Votes: 253
20. Mandalay (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 1,124
21. Teheran (1946)
86 min | Drama
A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.
Directors: William Freshman, Giacomo Gentilomo | Stars: Derek Farr, Marta Labarr, Manning Whiley, Pamela Stirling
Votes: 38
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