In Budapest, in the shop of the unfriendly Mr. Matuschek work Flora, Ilona, Pepi, Vadas, the old Pirovich and Alfred Kralik, the most important shop assistant. One day, Klara Novak enters the shop and gets a job because she manages to sell an item which was considered unsellable. Alfred reveals to Pirovich that he has a pen-girlfriend he has never met in person. When he find...
Deceased turn-of-the-century playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of hell. Though the devil doubts that Henry’s sins qualify him for eternal damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women, his long, happy marriage to Martha (Gene...
Lucy Muir, a beautiful widow, moves with her daughter into a seaside cottage. She soon discovers her new home is haunted by the handsome ghost of a sea captain. When Lucy loses her income, the captain comes up with a solution to her financial woes and, in the process, wins her heart. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and a young Natalie Wood co-star in one of the most romantic g...
A writer meets a young socialite on board a train. The two fall in love and are married soon after, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of both them and everyone else around them. Amazing and sensational drama, perversive and fascinating. Gene Tierney's beauty is breath-taking, as gorgeus is the Oscar winning cinematography by Leon Shamr...
Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura Hunt, found dead on her apartment floor. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love?...
Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) as a murder suspect, Dixon subjects Paine to the third degree -- and accidentally kills him. In disposing of the body, Dixon inadvertently places the blame for the killing on cab driver Jiggs T...
The famous orchestra conductor Sir Alfred De Carter returns to New York after a long journey. His brother-in-law delivers him a report showing that his wife Daphne has betrayed him with his young secretary. During one of his concerts, Alfred begins planning three different ways of solving the problem - uxoricide, forgiveness, duel - setting each to a different classic...
Three ladies receive a letter from their “best friend” Addie Ross, who announces that she is running away with one of their husbands, but she does not say which one. Little by little, through the use of flashbacks we discover the weaknesses of each of the three couples, in a tale of passion, fragility, little tragedies and pettiness, illustrated with a bri...
The Zone is a mysterious region, nobody knows how or when it was formed, the authorities had it evacuated and they keep it under control impeding the entrance to anyone who tries to enter it. The Zone contains a place called "The Room", said to grant the wishes of anyone who steps inside. A writer, who has lost inspiration, and a scientist, who seems self confident about wh...
The film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev (1370-1430), the great 15th-century Russian icon painter and is set during the turbulent period following the Mongol invasion of Russia. Andrej is a young monk, a iconographer, wandering to look for a job around churches and monasteries in Russia. He is convinced that in his life there is only space for art and religion....
