Top Directors and All of their Movies Part II
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1. Woman of the Ganges (1974)
85 min | Drama
A man returns to the places where he lived a passionate love with a woman who has died today. The sensation he feels is so strong that he imagines that she is still alive.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Catherine Sellers, Christian Baltauss, Gérard Depardieu, Dionys Mascolo
Votes: 158
2. Nathalie Granger (1972)
83 min | Drama
This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu, Luce Garcia-Ville
Votes: 664
3. Jaune le soleil (1971)
95 min | Drama
A worker named David, is charged with the killing of a Jew in exchange for dogs owned by the Jew.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Catherine Sellers, Sami Frey, Dionys Mascolo, Diurka
Votes: 50
4. Destroy, She Said (1969)
100 min | Drama
Elizabeth Alione is sinking into a deep melancholy when she drags down the corridors, the park and the dining room of a hotel.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Catherine Sellers, Michael Lonsdale, Henri Garcin, Nicole Hiss
Votes: 288
5. The Plough (2023)
96 min | Drama, Family
Three siblings, a father and a grandmother run a business in the form of a travelling puppet show. When the father dies, the remaining family members try to keep his legacy alive.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Damien Mongin, Esther Garrel, Léna Garrel
Votes: 259
6. The Salt of Tears (2020)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A provincial youngster who travels up to Paris to sit an entrance exam for a "grande école". His path crosses that of a young woman and they strike up a short-lived relationship.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Logann Antuofermo, Oulaya Amamra, André Wilms, Louise Chevillotte
Votes: 916
7. Lover for a Day (2017)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama
A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman her age.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Éric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, Louise Chevillotte, Paul Toucang
Votes: 2,466
8. In the Shadow of Women (2015)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Romance
Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape by with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabeth, he falls for her, but wants to keep Manon at the same time. ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Clotilde Courau, Stanislas Merhar, Lena Paugam, Vimala Pons
Votes: 1,570 | Gross: $0.05M
9. Jealousy (2013)
77 min | Drama
As a man leaves his wife and daughter, a series of brief conversations, observed gestures, chance encounters and impulsive acts, tell the story of the relationships that flounder and thrive in the wake of this decision.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Anna Mouglalis, Rebecca Convenant, Olga Milshtein
Votes: 1,970 | Gross: $0.06M
10. A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
The once-happy marriage between brooding painter Frederic and his movie-star wife Angele hits the rocks when another couple joins them on a Roman holiday.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Céline Sallette, Jérôme Robart
Votes: 2,348
11. Frontier of the Dawn (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Laura Smet, Clémentine Poidatz, Olivier Massart
Votes: 1,292
12. Regular Lovers (2005)
183 min | Drama, Romance
1968 and 1969 in Paris during and after the student and trade-union revolt. 20-year-old François is a poet dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas, Eric Rulliat
Votes: 2,984
13. Wild Innocence (2001)
123 min | Comedy, Drama
A movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Julia Faure, Michel Subor, Mathieu Genet
Votes: 535
14. Night Wind (1999)
95 min | Drama
Hélène is unhappy with her marriage but finds some comfort and relief with young art student Paul. They reflect on their differences in age and background, but also what truly connects them... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Duval, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Lassalle
Votes: 725
15. Le coeur fantôme (1996)
87 min | Drama
Philippe is a middle-aged painter who lives with Annie and they have two kids together. But they break up, and just afterward, Philippe meets Justine and he begins to think about love and ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Luis Rego, Aurélia Alcaïs, Maurice Garrel, Evelyne Didi
Votes: 199
16. The Birth of Love (1993)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
Middle-aged artists provide the focus of this drama. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul, an actor leading a drab directionless existence, has an affair with ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege, Dominique Reymond
Votes: 497
17. I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (1991)
98 min | Drama
For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Benoît Régent, Johanna ter Steege, Yann Collette, Mireille Perrier
Votes: 524 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Emergency Kisses (1989)
90 min | Drama
The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life, and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such a project in which she wanted to play herself.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Brigitte Sy, Philippe Garrel, Louis Garrel, Anémone
Votes: 354
19. She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)
130 min | Drama, Fantasy
A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa (reminds us of the real-life relationship between Garrel and Nico). In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Mireille Perrier, Jacques Bonnaffé, Anne Wiazemsky, Lou Castel
Votes: 297
20. Liberté, la nuit (1984)
82 min | Drama, War
In the midst of the Algerian events, a man finds happiness beside a local woman.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Maurice Garrel, Christine Boisson, László Szabó
Votes: 283
21. Le bleu des origines (1979)
52 min | Drama
At the top of a neo-classical building, a man looks at the sky, a woman reads, hair in the wind.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Nico, Zouzou, Philippe Garrel, Jean Seberg
Votes: 100
22. L'enfant secret (1979)
92 min | Drama
Four chapters based on the birth of a 'secret child', or a film, with chapter titles: "La séction Césarienne" (Caesarian section: a descriptive detail introducing the mother); "Le dernier ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Henri de Maublanc, Xuan Lindenmeyer, Cécile Le Bailly
Votes: 702
23. Voyage au jardin des morts (1978)
55 min | Drama
Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but since she is not, he wishes that she was dead.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Maria Schneider, Laurent Terzieff, Nico
Votes: 26
24. Le berceau de cristal (1976)
80 min | Drama
An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Nico, Dominique Sanda, Anita Pallenberg, Margareth Clémenti
Votes: 130
25. Un ange passe (1975)
79 min | Drama
A woman sitting on a bench, silent, filmed long and closely.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Maurice Garrel, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Nico, Bulle Ogier
Votes: 59
26. The Inner Scar (1972)
60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Nico, Philippe Garrel, Christian Päffgen, Daniel Pommereulle
Votes: 749
27. The Virgin's Bed (1969)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A loose Biblical allegory starring the legendary model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Zouzou, Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel
Votes: 443
28. La concentration (1968)
90 min | Drama
La Concentration features an androgynous young man and woman, dressed only in their underwear, locked in a room with a bed.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Zouzou
Votes: 34
29. Anémone (1968)
60 min | Drama
The portrait of a young girl from the Parisian bourgeoisie.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Anémone, Pascal Laperrousaz, Maurice Garrel, Philippe Garrel
Votes: 55
30. Marie pour mémoire (1968)
74 min | Drama
Parallel lives of two couples destined to suicide, one, and unhappiness, the other.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Zouzou, Didier Léon, Nicole Laguigner, Maurice Garrel
Votes: 133
31. Le révélateur (1968)
67 min | Drama
A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur" describes the procedure to develop or "reveal" film negatives.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Bernadette Lafont, Stanislas Robiolle
Votes: 771
32. The Fox and the Hound (1981)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A fox named Tod and a hound named Copper vow to be best friends forever. But as Copper grows into a hunting dog, their unlikely friendship faces the ultimate test.
Directors: Ted Berman, Richard Rich, Art Stevens, David Hand, Wolfgang Reitherman | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson
Votes: 101,889 | Gross: $63.46M
33. Robin Hood (1973)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The story of the legendary British outlaw portrayed with the characters as anthropomorphic animals.
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, David Hand | Stars: Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Roger Miller, Peter Ustinov
Votes: 138,900 | Gross: $32.06M
34. The Sword in the Stone (1963)
G | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in English history.
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi, David Hand | Stars: Rickie Sorensen, Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews
Votes: 106,463 | Gross: $22.18M
35. Bambi (1942)
G | 69 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.
Directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey, Peter Behn
Votes: 154,048 | Gross: $102.80M
36. Fantasia (1940)
G | 124 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.
Directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Corey Burton
Votes: 103,966 | Gross: $76.41M
37. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Approved | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.
Directors: William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell
Votes: 215,370 | Gross: $184.93M
38. Communists (2014)
70 min | Drama
Composed in six parts, Communists (Kommunisten) re-ignites scenes from the diverse filmography of Straub and Huillet, moving from Switzerland to Italy to Egypt, to chart a story of resistance across the 20th century.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Arnaud Dommerc, Jean-Marie Straub, Gilles Pandel, Barbara Ulrich
Votes: 196
39. Quei loro incontri (2006)
68 min | Drama
This movie is the sequel of Straub and Huillet's Dalla nube alla resistenza and like its prequel is inspired by Cesare Pavese's book Dialoghi con Leucò.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Angela Nugara, Vittorio Vigneri, Grazia Orsi, Romano Guelfi
Votes: 245
40. Operai, contadini (2001)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
A group of men and women of all generations have been brought together in the course of their travels after World War II, when Italy regained its national unity. Amid the ruins of this ... See full summary »
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Angela Nugara, Giacinto Di Pascoli, Gianpaolo Cassarino, Enrico Achilli
Votes: 186
41. Sicily! (1999)
Not Rated | 66 min | Drama
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Gianni Buscarino, Vittorio Vigneri, Angela Nugara, Carmelo Maddio
Votes: 1,266
42. From Today Until Tomorrow (1997)
Not Rated | 62 min | Music, Comedy
It is late at night and a married couple has just returned home from a party, where they met a former school friend of the wife and a famous singer. The husband has been charmed by the ... See full summary »
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Richard Salter, Christine Whittlesey, Annabelle Hahn, Claudia Barainsky
Votes: 174
43. Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag) (1992)
100 min | Drama
A teenaged girl is executed for going against a king's wishes and honoring her brother's death.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Astrid Ofner, Ursula Ofner, Hans Diehl, Kurt Radeke
Votes: 455
44. Der Tod des Empedokles oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt (1987)
132 min | Drama
The tragedy of the death of Empedocles, philosopher in Ancient Greece. Hölderlin's work adapted to cinema by Straub and Huillet.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Martina Baratta, Ute Cremer
Votes: 242
45. Class Relations (1984)
126 min | Drama
After making the domestic servant pregnant, a woman who doubles his age, a young man of only seventeen years from the German bourgeoisie is sent by his family to the United States in order to avoid a huge scandal.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Christian Heinisch, Nazzareno Bianconi, Mario Adorf, Laura Betti
Votes: 767
46. From the Cloud to the Resistance (1979)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò", taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese's novel "La luna e i falò... See full summary »
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Guido Lombardi, Gino Felici, Lori Pelosini
Votes: 483
47. Moses und Aron (1975)
Not Rated | 107 min | Music, Drama
In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God's true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers - in extravagantly choreographed song and dance - towards chaos and sin.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Günter Reich, Louis Devos, Eva Csapo, Roger Lucas
Votes: 508
48. History Lessons (1972)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, History
A shot from a car coursing through Rome in 1972 opens this interpretation of Brecht's unfinished experimental novel The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar. In a second part set in ... See full summary »
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Gottfried Bold, Johann Unterpertinger, Henri Ludwigg, Carl Vaillant
Votes: 318
49. Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970)
88 min | Drama
Pierre Corneille's Othon adapted faithfully to cinema, set in the ruins of the Rome of now-a-days.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Adriano Aprà, Anne Brumagne, Ennio Lauricella, Olimpia Carlisi
Votes: 332
50. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
94 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini, Ernst Castelli
Votes: 1,585 | Gross: $0.02M
51. Not Reconciled (1965)
55 min | Drama, History
An entangled story which details the lives of a German family throughout their various generations.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Heinrich Hargesheimer, Carlheinz Hargesheimer, Martha Staendner, Danièle Huillet
Votes: 806
52. Leonora addio (2022)
90 min | Drama
Three surreal funerals are intertwined by the murder of a Sicilian immigrant boy in Brooklyn.
Director: Paolo Taviani | Stars: Fabrizio Ferracane, Matteo Pittiruti, Dania Marino, Dora Becker
Votes: 608
53. Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017)
84 min | Drama, Romance, War
An Italian partisan torn between the resistance movement and his obsession with a young woman during World War II.
Director: Paolo Taviani | Stars: Luca Marinelli, Lorenzo Richelmy, Valentina Bellè, Francesca Agostini
Votes: 992
54. Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, History
10 young friends hide out from a deadly disease in the countryside during the 1300s.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Lello Arena, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Flavio Parenti
Votes: 995
55. Caesar Must Die (2012)
Unrated | 77 min | Drama
Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca
Votes: 6,812
56. The Lark Farm (2007)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, History
A stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I and a forbidden passion that may be the family's only hope.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Alessandro Preziosi, Ángela Molina
Votes: 2,327
57. Luisa Sanfelice (2004 TV Movie)
200 min | Drama, History, Romance
An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Adriano Giannini, Cecilia Roth, Marie Bäumer
Votes: 106
58. Resurrection (2001 TV Movie)
187 min | Drama, History
At the end of the XIX century in Russia, Prince Dimitri Necklivdov is called as a jury-man in a trial. The defendant is Katiuscia Maslova, accused of murdering a merchant in order to rob ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Stefania Rocca, Timothy Peach, Marie Bäumer, Cécile Bois
Votes: 234
59. You Laugh (1998)
99 min | Drama
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Cederna, Luca Zingaretti, Dario Cantarelli
Votes: 541
60. Elective Affinities (1996)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The novel (1809) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The marriage of Edward and Charlotte gets worse with the arrival at the castle Young Ottilia, grandson of Carlotta, and Brass. Edward is ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marie Gillain
Votes: 671
61. Fiorile (1993)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama
While traveling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted 200 years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan, Lino Capolicchio
Votes: 1,180 | Gross: $0.43M
62. Night Sun (1990)
Unrated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti, Margarita Lozano
Votes: 886
63. Good Morning Babylon (1987)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance, War
After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Désirée Nosbusch
Votes: 1,768 | Gross: $0.18M
64. Kaos (1984)
R | 187 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Margarita Lozano, Orazio Torrisi, Carlo Cartier, Biagio Barone
Votes: 3,136 | Gross: $0.33M
65. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
R | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Massimo Bonetti
Votes: 4,649
66. The Meadow (1979)
115 min | Drama
Giovanni, a Milan youth heads to poverty-plagued Tuscany to sell some property. Giovanni falls in with several small-town rebels.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Michele Placido, Saverio Marconi, Isabella Rossellini, Angela Goodwin
Votes: 414
67. Padre Padrone (1977)
Not Rated | 114 min | Biography, Drama
The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli, Fabrizio Forte
Votes: 4,363
68. Allonsanfan (1974)
115 min | Drama, History
A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Laura Betti
Votes: 1,263
69. St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
90 min | Drama, History
Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Giulio Brogi, Daniele Dublino, Renato Cestiè, Vito Cipolla
Votes: 872
70. Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy
In prehistoric times, a volcano erupts, resulting in loss a whole island under ash and lava. Survivors trying to convince a race (clan) to withdrawal, but something unexpected change their plans.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Lucia Bosè, Giulio Brogi, Samy Pavel
Votes: 238
71. The Subversives (1967)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
This film relates several disparate storylines, each representing a different type of lifestyle within Italian society at the time, through their common impersonal relationship to a social ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Giorgio Arlorio, Giulio Brogi, Pier Paolo Capponi, Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Votes: 211
72. Outlaws of Love (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios with different actors portray realistic ... See full summary »
Directors: Valentino Orsini, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot, Romolo Valli, Didi Perego
Votes: 77
73. A Man for Burning (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Valentino Orsini, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Didi Perego, Spyros Fokas, Lidia Alfonsi
Votes: 201
74. Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat (1969)
94 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cethegus starts the war between the Ostrogoths and their queen, Amalasuntha, and the Byzantine Empire, but when the Byzantine army invades Italy to reconquer Rome, romance prevails and threatens to ruin the plans for Cethegus.
Directors: Robert Siodmak, Andrew Marton, Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Robert Hoffmann
Votes: 258
75. The Last Roman (1968)
Not Rated | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cethegus, leader of the Roman nobility, travels to Bizantium and its leader Justinian, in an attempt to raise an army to march on the Goths under Narses. Cethegus would like to set the two ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Siodmak, Andrew Marton, Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman
Votes: 446
76. Custer of the West (1967)
G | 143 min | Biography, Drama, History
George Armstrong Custer's love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 1,620
77. Treasure of the Aztecs (1965)
101 min | Adventure, Western
Dr. Karl Sternau supports the Mexican national president Juarez against the army of Austrian Maximilian who have occupied the country. Karl and Juarez hope to fund their fight with the recently discovered, legendary treasure of the Aztecs.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lex Barker, Gérard Barray, Rik Battaglia, Michèle Girardon
Votes: 632
78. Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
102 min | Western, Adventure
Crooked Captain Verdoja captures Sternau and tortures him to reveal the whereabouts of the Aztec treasure. At the same time scheming Count Rodriganda has got that information from the rightful heiress and enters the pyramid of the sun god.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lex Barker, Gérard Barray, Rik Battaglia, Michèle Girardon
Votes: 568
79. The Yellow One (1964)
118 min | Adventure
When a villain named "the Shoot" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules. Heroic Kara Ben Nemsi (Lex Barker), and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lex Barker, Marie Versini, Ralf Wolter, Rik Battaglia
Votes: 917
80. Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 1962, a group of East Berliners escapes to West Berlin through a tunnel dug from the basement of a house located near the Berlin Wall.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer, Ingrid van Bergen
Votes: 720
81. The Nina B. Affair (1961)
104 min | Drama
Businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Nadja Tiller, Pierre Brasseur, Walter Giller, Charles Regnier
Votes: 134
82. Mein Schulfreund (1960)
94 min | Drama, Comedy
Theatrical adaptation: In the 3rd Reich a mailman writes Goering,an old school chum, to end the war. To avoid a death sentence, Goering has the man declared insane.Which causes complications years later.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Loni von Friedl, Ernst Schröder, Hertha Feiler
Votes: 217
83. A Matter of Minutes (1959)
106 min | Drama
Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Ruth Leuwerik, Bert Sotlar, Alfred Schieske, Kurt Meisel
Votes: 68
84. Portrait of a Sinner (1959)
96 min | Drama
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix, Natasha Parry
Votes: 204
85. Adorable Sinner (1959)
91 min | Drama
The Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar, Antoine Balpêtré
Votes: 479
86. The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Claus Holm, Mario Adorf, Hannes Messemer, Peter Carsten
Votes: 1,580
87. Mein Vater, der Schauspieler (1956)
105 min | Drama
An actress makes her actor husband aware, shortly before her death in a car accident, that he may not be the real father of her son.The actor, feeling guilty for her death, turns to drink and then tries to kill himself.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: O.W. Fischer, Hilde Krahl, Oliver Grimm, Susanne von Almassy
Votes: 36
88. The Rats (1955)
91 min | Drama
In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 372
89. Flesh and the Woman (1954)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Bankrupt and disbarred, Parisian lawyer Pierre Martel heads for Algiers where he's supposed to rejoin his high-maintenance Italian girlfriend Sylvia but when she fails to show-up a heart-broken Pierre joins the French Foreign Legion.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 155
90. The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher
Votes: 6,986
91. The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Approved | 96 min | Drama
Brad Adams is the new manager of a manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town. He is brought in by owner Mrs. Doubleday to calm labor relations plus layoff employees. Brad manages to also find romance.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Gish, Carleton Carpenter, Murray Hamilton
Votes: 403
92. Deported (1950)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American gangster sent back to his home country falls in love with a widowed countess.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Märta Torén, Jeff Chandler, Claude Dauphin, Marina Berti
Votes: 338
93. The Great Sinner (1949)
Approved | 110 min | Drama
In the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.
Directors: Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston
Votes: 1,621
94. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt's estate.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel
Votes: 3,176
95. Criss Cross (1949)
Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An armored truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally
Votes: 9,597
96. Cry of the City (1948)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters
Votes: 3,735
97. Time Out of Mind (1947)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
The son of a wealthy Maine shipping magnate causes a crisis in the family when he announces that he wants a career in music rather than in the family business.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert
Votes: 186
98. The Dark Mirror (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man is found murdered, and witnesses are sure about the woman they saw leaving his apartment. However, it becomes apparent that the woman has a twin, and finding out which one is the killer seems impossible.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long
Votes: 5,675
99. The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Votes: 11,259
100. The Killers (1946)
Passed | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker
Votes: 23,627
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