Les Introuvables
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1. An American Tragedy (1931)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A poor factory worker employed by a wealthy uncle falls in love with a beautiful heiress, but his happiness and promising future are jeopardized by a previous affair with a coworker he impregnated.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel
Votes: 949
2. An Inn at Osaka (1954)
122 min | Drama
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life.
Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Shûji Sano, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Mito, Hiroko Kawasaki
Votes: 295
3. China Express (1929)
62 min | Drama
In a train where social classes are strictly separated (wealthy in the front, poor in the back), a revolt erupts.
Director: Ilya Trauberg | Stars: Sergei Minin, Igor Chernyak, I. Arbenin, Yakov Gudkin
Votes: 142
4. Dark at Noon (1992)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Come to the Village of the Dogs, it's easy to find. Just follow the avenue of crutches and the prosthetic legs hanging from the trees. It's where the Virgin Mary keeps appearing in the sky,... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: John Hurt, Didier Bourdon, Lorraine Evanoff, David Warner
Votes: 148
5. Destination Unknown (1933)
66 min | Drama
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Betty Compson, Alan Hale
Votes: 59
6. 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
7. Fado, Major and Minor (1994)
110 min | Drama
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Melvil Poupaud, Ana Padrão, Jean-Yves Gautier
Votes: 58
8. The Final Chord (1936)
100 min | Music, Drama
A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover, Mária Tasnádi Fekete, Maria Koppenhöfer
Votes: 250
9. Forbidden (1953)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru, Lyle Bettger, Marvin Miller
Votes: 518
10. Fragment of an Empire (1929)
78 min | Drama
A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler | Stars: Emil Gal, Sergey Gerasimov, Yakov Gudkin, Ursula Krug
Votes: 513
11. Hell's Island (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan, Eduardo Noriega
Votes: 417
12. Homunculus, 1. Teil (1916)
69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Foenss, a Danish star, is the perfect creature manufactured in a laboratory by Kuehne. Having discovered his origins, that he has no 'soul' and is incapable of love, he revenges himself on ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Rippert | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Ernst Ludwig, Adolf Paul, Albert Paul
Votes: 118
13. Glow of the Firefly (1958)
123 min | Drama, Romance
Tose got incredibly lucky to go from being the peasants' daughter to the owner of a famous inn. But her husband doesn't support her, they have no children of their own, and there is unrest in the country that threatens their business.
Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Chikage Awashima, Junzaburô Ban, Ayako Wakao, Miki Mori
Votes: 42
14. Victory of Women (1946)
84 min | Drama
A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiko Kuwano, Mitsuko Miura, Shin Tokudaiji
Votes: 174
15. Behold Thy Son (1957)
104 min | Drama
This is the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida, who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film's focus.
Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiko Kuga
Votes: 115
16. It's in the Bag (1932)
45 min | Comedy
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Prévert | Stars: Julien Carette, Anthony Gildès, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Votes: 101
17. Le bel âge (1960)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Paris ,Spring :Jacques ,38 , has just broken up with the beautiful Alexandra.He has bitter memories and he begins to deludes himself.A few months later,in Saint-Tropez ,he watches,amused, ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Kast | Stars: Loleh Bellon, Marcello Pagliero, Ursula Kubler, Boris Vian
Votes: 77
18. Man Afraid (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A burglar is surprised by David and Lisa Collins in their son's room. In the struggle, Lisa's eyes are hurt and David throws an ornament, unintentionally killing the young thief. It's not ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: George Nader, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey, Eduard Franz
Votes: 231
19. Never Say Goodbye (1956)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance
In 1945 Vienna, an American doctor marries an Austrian girl, who later disappears in the Soviet Control Zone during a visit there, forcing everyone to presume her dead.
Directors: Jerry Hopper, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Cornell Borchers, George Sanders, Shelley Fabares
Votes: 735
20. New Year's Eve (1924)
66 min | Drama
The film is set in a bar on New Year's Eve. We see plenty of Germans swilling beer non-stop and the owner of the bar and his wife await the arrival of his mother for a little celebration together.
Director: Lupu Pick | Stars: Eugen Klöpfer, Edith Posca, Frida Richard, Karl Harbacher
Votes: 196
21. Only Yesterday (1933)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke
Votes: 422
22. Road to Life (1931)
Passed | 105 min | Crime, Drama
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly build railroad to that camp.
Director: Nikolai Ekk | Stars: Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 475
23. She Couldn't Take It (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of patriarch Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered, bubble-headed wife has a fondness for ... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Walter Connolly, Billie Burke
Votes: 190
24. The Czech Year (1947)
75 min | Animation
Puppet animation feature consisting of different segments related to the traditions and emotions of the seasons as a typical year passes among the Czech people.
Director: Jirí Trnka
Votes: 121
25. Some Call It Loving (1973)
R | 103 min | Drama
A woman who's been asleep for years is part of a carnival that sells her kisses for a buck. A lonely jazz musician buys her. Once awake, the two of them and his two girlfriends hook up. But sometimes, dreams are better than reality.
Director: James B. Harris | Stars: Zalman King, Carol White, Tisa Farrow, Richard Pryor
Votes: 450
26. Stark Love (1927)
70 min | Drama
A literate young hillbilly plans to attend college to learn about chivalry and escape the brutal, rigid mountain society with the love of his life, but his tyrannical father interferes.
Director: Karl Brown | Stars: Helen Mundy, Forrest James, Reb Grogan, Silas Miracle
Votes: 159
27. Strictly Dishonorable (1931)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A womanizing singer falls for an old-fashioned Southern belle. The problem is, she already has a fiance.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Paul Lukas, Sidney Fox, Lewis Stone, George Meeker
Votes: 242
28. Takekurabe (1955)
95 min | Family
Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Hibari Misora, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Takashi Kitahara, Eijirô Yanagi
Votes: 57
29. The Fixer (1968)
M | 132 min | Drama
In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 1,469
30. The Guns (1964)
80 min | Drama
In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit.
Director: Ruy Guerra | Stars: Átila Iório, Nelson Xavier, Maria Gladys, Leonidas Bayer
Votes: 738
31. The Isle of Lost Ships (1923)
80 min | Drama
The passengers on an ocean steamer guided by a strict captain are shipwrecked. He gives the main woman in the group 24 hours to choose her mate from among the motley community.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Anna Q. Nilsson, Milton Sills, Frank Campeau, Walter Long
Votes: 21
32. Thunderbolt (1929)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. ... See full summary »
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 885
33. Trade Winds (1938)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detective. The two soon develop a shipboard romance.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern
Votes: 705
34. Treasure Island (1920)
76 min | Adventure
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Shirley Mason, Josie Melville, Al W. Filson, Wilton Taylor
Votes: 58
35. Vosstaniye rybakov (1934)
97 min | Drama
Sailors working on the trawlers of the German shipowner Bredel go on a strike. A revolutionary trade union sends the sailor-communist of Hull in a fishing settlement, to heave up fishermen ... See full summary »
Director: Erwin Piscator | Stars: Aleksei Dikij, Dmitri Konsovsky, Nikolai Gladkov, Nikolay Livanov
Votes: 46
36. Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953)
78 min | Comedy
After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert, Alberto Romea
Votes: 4,823
37. Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Votes: 326
38. Crows and Sparrows (1949)
113 min | Drama
A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the original owner and the struggles of the tenants to prevent themselves being thrown onto the street.
Director: Junli Zheng | Stars: Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Votes: 320
39. Zoo in Budapest (1933)
Passed | 94 min | Drama, Romance
An orphan girl escapes her caregivers to be with a young man raised at the zoo whose only previous friends are the animals.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright
Votes: 510
40. Quick Millions (1931)
72 min | Crime, Drama
Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her on her wedding day.
Director: Rowland Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers, Bob Burns
Votes: 405
41. I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Don Castle, Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey, Charles D. Brown
Votes: 878
42. Narkose (1929)
Drama
Director: Alfred Abel | Stars: Renée Héribel, Jack Trevor, Alfred Abel, Fritz Alberti
Votes: 16
43. The Man Is Armed (1956)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Dane Clark, May Wynn, William Talman, Barton MacLane
Votes: 130
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