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French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear (1953) and Les Diaboliques (1955), which are critically recognized as among the greatest films of the 1950s. He also directed documentary films, including The Mystery of Picasso (1956), which was declared a national treasure by the government of France.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. He is appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963, including They Live By Night (1948), In A Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956), and King of Kings (1961), as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can’t Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of death.
Nicholas Ray
He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959),[12] The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963) and Charulata (1964) and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy.
Satyajit Ray
1902 film by Georges Melies: Professor Barbenfouillis initiates the idea of travelling to the Moon, and only five astronomers decide to join him on his exciting expedition.
A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune)
Charlie Chaplin’s second film where the Tramp character appeared for the first time in 1914?
Kid Auto Races at Venice (Mabel’s Strange Predicament was filmed before but released after)
Which 1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith was the follow-up to 1915 The Birth of a Nation? the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: first, a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; second, a Judean story: Christ’s mission and death; third, a French story: the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre of 1572; and fourth, a Babylonian story: the fall of the Babylonian Empire to Persia in 539 BC.
Intolerance
1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
He is widely-known for directing the landmark 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist films.
Robert Wiene
Which 1920 film did Buster Keaton first star in a full length comedy?
The Saphead
Who directed 1922 Nosferatu?
FW Murnau
American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first films made in color, and in Douglas Fairbanks’ The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Disappointly got beat to O-Lan role in The Good Earth by Luise Rainer.
Anna May Wong
1924 American silent adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph.
The Thief of Bagdad
1927 British silent thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock’s third feature film. Its plot concerns the hunt for a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer in London.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Who directed Metropolis (1927), M (1931) and Dr Mabuse the Gambler (1922)?
Fritz Lang
first film in the Dr. Mabuse series about the character Doctor Mabuse who featured in the novels of Norbert Jacques. It was directed by Fritz Lang and released in 1922. The film is silent and would be followed by the sound sequels The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960).
Dr Mabuse the Gambler (Der Spieler)
1930 German musical comedy-drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings and Kurt Gerron. Presents the tragic transformation of a respectable professor into a cabaret clown and his descent into madness. Dietrich plays Lola Lola.
The Blue Angel
Who directed the 1903 classic The Great Train Robbery (where gun shot at audience), The Prisoner of Zenda (1913), Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was the first American film to use intertitles which helped the audience?
Edwin S Porter
German Bohemian and American cinematographer and film director. He is best known for photographing Metropolis (1927), Dracula (1931), and television’s I Love Lucy (1951–1957). Freund was an innovator in the field of cinematography, often noted for pioneering the unchained camera technique.
Karl Freund
1904 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by Jules Verne’s 1882 play Journey Through the Impossible, and modeled in style and format on Méliès’s highly successful 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, the film is a satire of scientific exploration in which a group of geographically minded tourists attempt a journey to the Sun using various methods of transportation.
The Impossible Voyage
relating to or characteristic of the end of a century, especially the 19th century. French for end of century.
Fin de siecle
“First Lady of American Cinema”, and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. This included her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). Her other major films and performances from the silent era are: Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921), La Bohème (1926), and The Wind (1928). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Duel in the Sun.
Lillian Gish
1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish (in her final film appearance) as elderly sisters. Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as one of their friends, and Vincent Price as a peripheral member of the former Russian aristocracy. The story is based on the play of the same title by David Berry.
The Whales of August
1946 American epic psychological Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, and starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, and Lionel Barrymore. Based on the 1944 novel of the same name by Niven Busch, it follows a young orphaned Mestiza woman who experiences prejudice and forbidden love, while residing with her white relatives on a large Texas ranch.
Duel in the Sun
1955 American film noir thriller directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The plot involves a serial killer (Mitchum) who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father.
The Night of the Hunter
1924 Austrian silent film of Robert Wiene of namesake concert pianist who loses his hands and gets transplanted those of a serial killer.
The Hands of Orlac
Who plays Dr Caligari in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari?
Werner Krauss
Who plays Count Orlok in Nosferatu 1922?
Max Schreck
Who directed the 2024 upcoming remake of Nosferatu starring Bill Skarsgard as Count Orlok and Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter?
Robert Eggers
2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he wrote with his brother Max Eggers. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson marooned in a storm.
The Lighthouse
2021 folk horror film[6] directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sjón. The film’s plot is about the birth of a human/sheep hybrid of mysterious origin and the couple who adopts the child as their own. Starring Noomi Rapace.
Lamb
Swedish actress.[2] She achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium series (2009): The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.
Noomi Rapace
2022 film by Robert Eggers. It focuses on Amleth, a Viking prince who sets out on a quest to avenge the murder of his father.
The Northman
Icelandic poet, novelist, lyricist, and screenwriter with mononym name meaning sound. frequently collaborates with the singer Björk and has performed with The Sugarcubes as Johnny Triumph. Films include Lamb and The Northman. Done Codex 1962, From the Mouth of the Whale and The Blue Fox?
Sjon
figure in a medieval Scandinavian legend, the direct inspiration of the character of Prince Hamlet, the hero of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Also inspiration for Robert Eggers film The Northman.
Amleth
Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for Babette’s Feast (1987), which he wrote and directed based on novel by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) - first Danish film to win Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Gabriel Axel
Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet epic Battleship Potemkin was dramatization of a mutiny which took place in which year?
1905
1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. The film’s plot follows a married farmer (O’Brien) who falls for a woman vacationing from the city (Livingston), who tries to convince him to murder his wife (Gaynor) in order to be with her.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Firstly, which British anti-vaccine activist was struck off the medical register for his involvement in a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism?
Andrew WAKEFIELD
First name Bobby, which man joined Bill Medley in the original line-up of the American singing duo called The Righteous Brothers?
Bobby HATFIELD
The daughters of a 1960s pop star, what was the shared surname of Shelly and Karen who charted in the 1990s under the group name “Alisha’s Attic”?
Shelly and Karen POOLE (Brian Poole and the Tremeloes)
Amongst many other popular TV roles, which man has played Pete Sutcliffe in Gavin and Stacy since 2007?
Adrian SCARBOROUGH
“How can we be lovers” was one of the first hits in the UK for which American ballad singer?
Michael Bolton
Which American bassist and singer has won 5 grammy awards? The most recent of these was the 2022 Best Jazz vocal grammy for her “Songwriters apothecary lab” album. Debut album Junjo (2006), 12 Little Spells (2018).
Esperanza Spalding
1924 silent movie Buster Keaton stars as Projectionist, who moonlights as an amateur detector. When the cinema is empty, he reads the book How to be a Detective. He is in love with The Girl (Kathryn McGuire) but has a rival, “The Local Sheik” (Ward Crane).
Sherlock, Jr
1928 silent comedy directed by Charles Reisner: The film is known for what may be Keaton’s most famous film stunt: The facade of a house falls around him while he stands in the precise location of an open window to avoid being flattened.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Who plays Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger’s 1957 Saint Joan?
Jean Seberg
Who plays Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc?
Maria Falconetti
Danish film director directed The Passion of Joan of Arc? His other well-known films include Michael (1924), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (The Word) (1955), and Gertrud (1964).
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Born in Ukraine, Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with themes which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959) and homosexuality (Advise & Consent, 1962).
Otto Preminger
Name of film poster and title sequence designer. Among his best known title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict’s arm for Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.
Saul BASS
Starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin, it recounts the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. Sinatra nominated for Oscar.
The Man with the Golden Arm
American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name. The lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir, he is featured in her novel The Mandarins. his novel A Walk on the Wild Side (1956). The latter was adapted as the 1962 film of the same name (directed by Edward Dmytryk, screenplay by John Fante).
Nelson Algren
1959 American courtroom drama starring James Stewart as Paul Biegler. Based on novel by John D Voelker where he was a defence attorney. Directed by Otto Preminger, poster by Saul Bass.
Anatomy of a Murder
Austrian born film director He is best known for his film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s, including the highly regarded Paramount/UFA production The Blue Angel (1930) and also for Morocco (1930 starring Gary Cooper). Also nominated for Oscar for Shanghai Express (1932), seven films with Dietrich in the end.
Josef von Sternberg
Who directed 1948 Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica
1930 German silent drama The film follows a group of residents of Berlin on a summer’s day during the interwar period. Hailed as a work of genius, it is a pivotal film in the development of German cinema and Hollywood. Early work by writer Billy Wilder before he escaped Nazi Germany.
People on Sunday
This was Chaplin’s first full-length film as a director. It was a huge success and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921.
The Kid
1931 film The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin’s Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire (Harry Myers).
City Lights
1936 American part-talkie comedy film produced, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. In Chaplin’s last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in the industrialized world.
Modern Times
an American silent film actress, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films. On screen, she appeared in twelve successful films with Charlie Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, sometimes writing and directing (or co-writing and directing) films featuring Chaplin as her leading man. 1893-1930
MABEL Normand
Born in St Malo 1900, His most memorable role was Henry Frankenstein, the creator of the monster, in the 1931 film Frankenstein and its 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein.
Colin CLIVE
He is best remembered for several horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), all considered classics. Whale also directed films in other genres, including the 1936 film version of the musical Show Boat.
James WHALE
American film director career spanned the silent and sound film eras. He is known as the director of Dracula (1931),[3] Freaks (1932),[4] and his silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean.
Tod Browning
1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir, Renoir’s portrayal of the wise, mournful Octave anchors the fatalistic mood of this pensive comedy of manners. The film depicts members of upper-class French society and their servants just before the beginning of World War II, showing their moral callousness on the eve of destruction. At the time most expensive French film ever made, now critically acclaimed, panned then.
The Rules of the Game
French film director born 1894, His films La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made.
Jean Renoir
1937 French war drama film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are German prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape. Title comes from 1909 book by Nobel Prize winner Normal Angell.
La Grande Illusion
German-born American film director. Among his best known works are Trouble in Paradise (1932), Design for Living (1933), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), To Be or Not to Be (1942) and Heaven Can Wait (1943). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times for The Patriot (1928), The Love Parade (1929), and Heaven Can Wait (1943).
Ernst Lubitsch
American actress. Married to Clark Gable in 1939. To Be or Not To Be (1942), Mr and Mrs Smith (1941), Vigil in the Night (1940). Killed in a plane crash aboard TWA Flight 3 while returning from a war bond tour. She was 33 years old. Today, she is remembered as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy and as an icon of American cinema.
Carole Lombard
1943 Italian crime drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, in his directorial debut. It is an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation of the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by American author James M. Cain, and stars Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, and Juan de Landa in the leading roles.
Ossessione
Following debut Ossessione, best-known films include Senso (1954) and The Leopard[2] (1963); historical melodramas adapted from Italian literary classics, the gritty drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), and his “German Trilogy” – The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973).
Luchino Visconti
Two part 1945 film Set in the theatrical world of 1830s Paris, it tells the story of a courtesan and four men — a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat — who love her in entirely different ways.
Directed by Marcel Carne.
Children of Paradise
French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné’s best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945); the latter has been cited as one of the great films of all time.
Marcel Carne
1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, The film is about three United States servicemen re-adjusting to societal changes and civilian life after coming home from World War II. The three men come from different services with different ranks that do not correspond with their civilian social class backgrounds. Won 7 oscars.
The Best Years of Our Lives
Affecting Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s what did HUAC stand for?
House Un-American Activities Committee.
nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935); Now, Voyager (1942); and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of his popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), and Casablanca (1942), though he did not compose its love theme, “As Time Goes By”. In addition, he scored The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and Gone with the Wind (1939).
Max Steiner
British film director and screenwriter best known for the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets and the now acknowledged 1947 classic It Always Rains on Sunday.
Robert Hamer
English film producer known for his leadership of Ealing Studios in West London from 1938 to 1955.
Michael Balcon
English film director and producer, best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968),[1] for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director.
Carol REED
Born in now Slovakia 1904, international sensation in the Weimar Republic–era film M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls. His second English-language film, following the multiple-language version of M (1931), was Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), made in the United Kingdom. He was later cast playing Mr. Moto, the Japanese detective, in a series of B-pictures. First to play Le Chiffre in tv version of Casino Royale.
Peter Lorre
1944 screwball comedy Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster, directed by Frank Capra. Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they tie the knot on Halloween. When the newlyweds return to their respective family homes to deliver the news, Brewster finds a corpse hidden in a window seat.
Arsenic and Old Lace
1953 American film noir crime film directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando[sister] about a cop Dave Bannion who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city. Famous quote: Debby Marsh: “We’re sisters under the mink”.
The Big Heat
what does murderer whistle in M by Fritz Lang?
In the Hall of the Mountain King from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1
Name of the murderer in Fritz Lang’s M played by Peter Lorre
Hans Beckert
Groucho Marx plays which character in 1933 Duck Soup?
Rufus T Firefly
American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films; Groucho Marx called her “practically the fifth Marx brother.”
Margaret Dumont
Real first name of Chico Marx
Leonard
Real first name of Harpo Marx
Arthur
Real first name of Groucho Marx
Julius
Real first name of Gummo Marx
Milton
Real first name of Herbert Marx
Zeppo
1929 first full length film to star the Marx Brothers?
The Cocoanuts
British animator and special effects creator who created a form of stop motion model animation known as “Dynamation”. His works include the animation for Mighty Joe Young (1949) with his mentor Willis H. O’Brien (for which the latter won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects); his first color film, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); and Jason and the Argonauts (1963), which featured a sword fight with seven skeleton warriors. His last film was Clash of the Titans (1981), after which he retired from filmmaking.
Ray Harryhausen
French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. Noted for two films that affected the future development of both French and world cinema: Zero for Conduct (1933) and L’Atalante (1934). Died of TB in 1934.
Jean Vigo
1930 French surrealist satirical comedy film directed by Luis Buñuel about the insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society, and the value system of the Catholic Church. Much of the story is told with title cards like a predominantly silent film. The screenplay is by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Un Chien Andelou has been released a year earlier.
L’Age d’Or
Blue Moon written by which duo? Other of their many hits include “My Funny Valentine”, “Falling in Love with Love”, “Here In My Arms”, “Mountain Greenery”, “My Heart Stood Still”, “The Blue Room”, “Ten Cents a Dance”, “Dancing on the Ceiling”, “Lover”, “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”, “Mimi”, and “Have You Met Miss Jones?”.
Rodgers and Hart
Who plays Bride of Frankenstein in 1935 Bride of Frankenstein? Also played Anne of Cleves in The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Elsa Lanchester
Who directed The Wizard of Oz? King Vidor filmed a few scenes.
Victor Fleming
Who played the two leads in the original 1937 A Star is Born?
Janet Gaynor and Fredric March
1954 A Star is Born directed by George Cukor starred who in lead roles?
Judy Garland and James Mason
Who plays the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz?
Ray Bolger
Who played the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz?
Jack Haley
Who played Glinda in The Wizard of Oz?
Billie Burke
Hungarian film director. produced many outstanding classics of the British film industry, including The Private Life of Henry VIII, Rembrandt, Things To Come, The Thief of Baghdad and The Third Man. In 1942, he became the first filmmaker to receive a knighthood.
Alexander Korda
Who played Scarlett O’Hara in 1939 Gone with the Wind?
Vivien Leigh
Who says the line “After all… tomorrow is another day” in the movie Gone with the Wind?
Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh)
First British woman to win a Best Actress oscar? Born in Darjeeling in 1913.
Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind
The fourth most-nominated woman for the Best Actress Oscar, won for role of Kay Miniver in Mrs Miniver? Nominated for Goodbye Mr Chips, Blossoms in the Dust, Madame Curie, Mrs Parkington, The Valley of Decision
Greer Garson
Which 1940 film has editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) and ex-wife journalist Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) in the newspaper world while he tries stopping her remarrying? Directed by Howard Hawks.
His Girl Friday
Born USA 1896, director of Rio Bravo (1959), Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), To Have and Have Not (1944) and The Big Sleep (1946)?
Howard Hawks
1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive between the Texas rancher who initiated it (Wayne) and his adopted adult son (Clift).
Red River
1959 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond. the film stars Wayne as a Texan sheriff who arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher for murder and then has to hold the man in jail until a U.S. Marshal can arrive. With the help of a lame old man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter, they hold off the rancher’s gang.
Rio Bravo
1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel Badge of Evil (1956). The cast included Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff and Marlene Dietrich. A story of corruption in a Mexican border town.
Touch of Evil
What newspaper is owned by Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane?
New York Inquirer
American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Won Oscar for this. Has a brother so both names needed.
Herman J Mankiewicz
long Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in consecutive years for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. Has sibling so both names needed.
Joseph L Mankiewicz
American cinematographer known for his innovative use of techniques such as deep focus, examples of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941), William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath, and The Long Voyage Home (both, 1940). He is also known for his work as a director of photography for Wuthering Heights (1939), The Westerner (1940), Ball of Fire (1941), The Outlaw (1943), Song of the South (1946) and The Bishop’s Wife (1947). Won Oscar for Wuthering Heights.
Gregg Toland
first film score was for Welles’s film debut, Citizen Kane (1941), An Academy Award-winner for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), known mostly for association with famous director? Last score was Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.
Bernard Herrmann
achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (1939) and Sabrina Fair (1953). He then gained worldwide fame for his collaborations with Orson Welles on three films, Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943).
Joseph Cotten
Who directed Casablanca in 1942?
Michael Curtiz
Who plays Victor Laszlo in Casablanca?
Paul Henreid
Who plays Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca?
Claude Rains
Name of Rick Blaine’s bar in Casablanca - three word name
Rick’s Cafe Americain
Character Humphrey Bogart played in The African Queen opposite Katherine Hepburn’s Rose Sayer?
Charlie Allnut
1942 American black comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, The plot concerns a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops. The film was released one month after actress Carole Lombard was killed in an airplane crash.
To Be or Not To Be
She was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
Gene Tierney
1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb, New York City Police Department Detective Mark McPherson is investigating the murder of a young, beautiful, highly successful advertising executive killed by a shotgun blast to the face just inside the doorway of her apartment.
Laura
a fashion designer born to an aristocratic Russian family with maternal Italian ancestry born 1913 Paris, He became particularly well known as a designer for Jacqueline Kennedy while she was First Lady of the United States. The “Jackie Look” was to become highly influential and much admired. Married Gene Tierney.
Oleg Cassini
Great apes (including humans), lesser apes, and monkeys belong to the infraorder Simiiformes, one of two infraorders in the superorder Haplorhini. The other infraorder consists solely of which family of mammals, our closest non-simian relatives?
TARSIERS
Often used in indigenous communities what does the ‘2s’ stand for in the acronym 2SLGBT? This phrase is used to describe native people who fulfil a traditional third gender role.
Two Spirit
The 2009 rugby union scandal known as ‘Bloodgate’ involved winger Tom Williams using fake blood capsules while playing for which English club in a European tie against Leinster?
Harlequins
Originally a hit for the Equals in 1968 - in 1994, which singer teamed up with members of UB40 to release a cover version of ‘Baby Come Back’?
Pato BANTON
Soft unpasteurised cheeses and pates are a source of which gram positive bacterium, named after an antiseptic pioneer, which can be fatal to immunocompromised individuals and pregnant women through infiltration of the brainstem and meninges, causing gastroenteritis and meningoencephalitis?
Listeria
The proposed mirorder Primatomorpha comprises the orders Primates and Dermoptera. The latter order consists of a single extant family, Cynocephalidae, which contains the two living species of which arboreal, gliding mammals of southeast Asia, the closest living relatives of the primates?
COLUGOS
The phrase Two Spirit comes from the language of which indigenous community? This group is the 2nd largest First Nation group in Canada behind the Cree.
OBIJWE
Roberto Rojas, the goalkeeper of which country, deliberately cut himself with a razor to feign injury during a World Cup qualifier game at Maracanã Stadium in 1990?
Chile
In 1992, which band reached the top 10 on two separate occasions with dance cover versions? First came a cover of Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, followed by a cover of ‘Never Let Her Slip Away’ by Andrew Gold?
Undercover
Yahima was a two-spirit character in which HBO television series? This series was based on a novel by Matt Ruff.
Lovecraft Country
Originally released in 1979 by KC and the Sunshine Band - in 1993, which band topped the UK singles chart with their cover of ‘Please Don’t Go’? It was a double-A side with ‘Game Boy’.
KWS
The primates and the colugos form two of the three orders that make up the superorder Euarchonta. The other order, Scandentia, contains the two families of which mammals, the next closest relatives of the primates, after the colugos? Also known as banxrings, these small mammals, native to the tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia, were, as their common name suggests, once believed to be members of the order Insectivora.
Treeshrews
Operation Aderlass, known in English as Operation Bloodletting, was a doping investigation sparked by the confession of Johannes Dürr, a competitor in which winter sport? His highest sporting achievement was finishing third in the TdS.
Cross Country Skiing
Caught by exposure to raw meat and cat faeces, and the reason why pregnant women are told to avoid soiled litter trays, which opportunistic protozoan infection produces neuropsychiatric symptoms and visual impairment through invasion of the central nervous system. Its characteristic features are brain abscesses and necrotizing retinitis.
Toxoplasmosis
Rimmel were pressured to drop Kate Moss after her cocaine use became public, but she was defending by other figures in fashion including which designer, who walked out of a fashion show wearing a shirt reading “We love you Kate”? Known for his inclusion of skull motifs in many of his works, he passed away in 2010.
Alexander McQueen
Which artist and illustrator was behind one of the biggest puzzle hunts of the 20th century - his 1979 book Masquerade contained clues to the location of a jewel encrusted golden hare, buried somewhere in Britain?
Kit Williams
Whose only UK top 10 hit was a 1995 dance cover of Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Total Eclipse of The Heart’?
Nicki FRENCH
Filmmaker TJ Cuthand coined which alternative term for two-spirit which does not rely on binary conceptions of gender?
INDIGIQUEER
Spoken by more than 90% of the population, Krio is an English-based creole language native to which nation? Due to people from this nation acting as traders across West Africa, Krio is also spoken in neighbouring nations like Liberia and the Gambia.
Sierra Leone
Newsworthy due to a 2024 outbreak in Devon, which parasitic infection can result in severe watery diarrhoea, biliary and respiratory infections, particularly in the immunocompromised, as a result of contact with faecal contaminated water and handling items from infected people?
CRYPTOSPORIDIUM
Primates, colugos, and treeshrews, make up one of the two superorders in the clade Euarchontoglires. The other superorder contains the two orders that are the next closest relatives of primates. One of those orders is Rodentia, while the other is which order comprised of the familes Leporidae and Ochotonidae? Please give the scientific name of this order.
LAGOMORPHA
Filipino-English singer Beatrice Laus is better known by what stage name?
Beabadoobee
The TV series Softly, Softly was a spin-off of which earlier police procedural series, broadcast from the 1960s on?
Z-Cars
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt’ was a 1515 work by which painter of the Flemish Renaissance? He is generally credited with inventing the world landscape genre.
Joachim Patinir
What surname was shared by father and son Flemish Renaissance painters with the forenames Frans? The Elder Frans father Pieter was also a prominent painter.
Pourbus
Which Canadian sprinter broke the world record, running a 9.84 second 100 metres to win gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics?
Donovan Bailey
Which artist of the Flemish Renaissance was known for specialising in market and kitchen scenes with elaborate displays of food? His 1568 work ‘Fish Market’ is amongst his most famous works.
Joachim BEUCKELEAR
The publishing house Aux Quatre Vents was founded by which member of Flemish Renaissance? He produced a series of 12 elaborate etchings during 1558.
Hieronymus Cock
Which French female runner broke the world record running a 48.26 second 400 metres to win gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics?
Marie Jose PEREC
Much of the first half of the Eastern Zhou’s rule of China corresponds roughly with which period in Chinese history that is named after an ancient Chinese chronicle? Confucius lived in the later part of this period, lasting from around 770 to 481 BCE, which ended with the partition of the Jin state.
Spring and Autumn Period
South Africa’s first gold medallist in the post-apartheid era was which woman who won gold in both the 100m and 200m breaststroke?
Penny HEYNS
French romantic drama film by Marcel Carné, produced under war conditions in 1943, 1944, and early 1945 in both Vichy France and Occupied France. Set in the theatrical world of 1830s Paris, it tells the story of a courtesan and four men — a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat — who love her in entirely different ways.
Children of Paradise
French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). Book of poetry Paroles in 1946.
Jacques Prevert
French actress, singer, and fashion model with mononymous stagename. As an actress she is particularly known for classics directed by Marcel Carné, including Hotel du Nord (1938), Le jour se lève (1939) and Children of Paradise (1945). She was found guilty of treason for an affair with a German officer during World War II.
Arletty
Hungarian photographer who specialized in animal photography. At the time of her death she “was generally considered the most proficient animal photographer in the world.” In 1955, she was fatally injured after falling from a jeep while photographing a bullock cart race during festivities in Bharatpur, North India.
Ylla
Born 1889 France, in 1917 wrote Parade the story for a ballet composed by Erik Satie, his most famous novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), first short film 1930 The Blood of a Poet about Oprhoeus but 1946 but La Belle et la Bete.
Jean Renoir
Film making partnership of the Archers production company making films like A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus and Red Shoes?
Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger’s only Oscar was for Best Screenplay for which 1941 British war film?
49th Parallel
1943 British romantic-war film written, produced and directed by the British film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical comic strip by David Low.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1946 British fantasy-romance film set in England during World War II. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring. The film was originally released in the United States under the title Stairway to Heaven.
A Matter of Life and Death
1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, and Flora Robson. The film is based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. It revolves around the growing tensions within a small convent of Anglican sisters who are trying to establish a school and hospital in the old palace of an Indian Raja.
Black Narcissus
1948 British drama film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It follows Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), an aspiring ballerina who joins the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook).
The Red Shoes
Who is the slum landlord in It’s a Wonderful World?
Mr Potter
George Bailey’s brother in It’s a Wonderful Life?
Harry
1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father’s thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).
It Happened One Night
His career as a major film leading man began in 1935, but his most renowned role was in Billy Wilder’s film noir Double Indemnity. From 1959 to 1973, he appeared in numerous Disney films, including The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Follow Me, Boys!, and The Happiest Millionaire. He starred as Steve Douglas in the television series My Three Sons.
Fred MacMurray
1944 film by Billy Wilder, The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims manager.
Double Indemnity
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). He was further Oscar-nominated for his roles as Fletcher Christian in the drama Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Rhett Butler in the historical romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939).
Clark Gable
1953 Technicolor adventure/romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly, Shot on location in Equatorial Africa, with a musical soundtrack consisting entirely of actual African tribal music recorded in the Congo, the film was adapted by John Lee Mahin from the play Red Dust by Wilson Collison.
Mogambo
Guardian angel from It’s a Wonderful Life?
Clarence Odbody
1936 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story “Opera Hat” by Clarence Budington Kelland.
Mr Deeds Goes to Town
In Frank Capra film Mr Deeds Goes to Town what is Mr Deeds first name?
Longfellow
American actress had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper, You Can’t Take It with You (1938) co-starring James Stewart, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), also starring Stewart. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943), a comedy which also starred Joel McCrea.
Jean ARTHUR
In the Frank Capra film Mr Smith Goes to Washington, what is Mr Smith’s first name?
Jefferson
1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name. the film is about a man from a family of rich snobs who becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. Best Picture and Best Director (his third in five years).
You Can’t Take It with You
1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Written by Billy Wilder. Russian diplomat goes to Paris to ensure jewels sale seized during Russian Revolution.
Ninotchka
1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson’s 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer Don Birnam. Won BP, BD and BA, shared Grand Prix at Cannes so with Marty and Parasite, one of three who have done GP and BP.
The Lost Weekend
1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder. It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp “somewhere on the Danube”. William Holden plays JJ Sefton.
Stalag 17
1954 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, The picture stars Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn playing the title character, and William Holden.
Sabrina
1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester. The film, which has elements of bleak black comedy and film noir, is a courtroom drama set in the Old Bailey in London and is based on the 1953 play of the same name by Agatha Christie.
Witness for the Prosecution
Marilyn Monroe character name in Some Like It Hot
Sugar “Kane” Kowalczyk
Marilyn Monroe character name in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee
Tony Curtis character name and instrument in Some Like It Hot
Joe/Josephine - Saxophone
Jack Lemmon character name and instrument in Some Like It Hot
Jerry/Jerraldine later Daphne - Double Bass
Which instrument did Sugar Kane Kowalczyk by Marilyn Monroe play in Some Like It Hot?
Ukulele
1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort. The film stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine playing the title character.
Irma la Douce
In the 1950 Henry Koster film Harvey, James Stewart plays Elwood P Dowd who sees a big white rabbit described as which four letter term for a creature of Celtic, English, and Channel Islands folklore. Considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune, they could help or hinder rural and marine communities and have dark or white fur.
Puca
Which ex-Strictly dancer died in February 2024? Getting a 2024 LGBT award.
Robin Windsor
Screenwriter known for Ealing comedies such as Passport to Pimlico, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Titfield Thunderbolt and Barnacle Bill? Won Oscar for TLHM.
TEB Clarke
directed Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), directed The Titfield Thunderbolt. For his final film, the acclaimed comedy A Fish Called Wanda (1988), he was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Charles Crichton
Czech-British actor, was in The Ladykillers, War and Peace and Spartacus. He also proved a skilled comic actor in The Pink Panther franchise, playing the beleaguered Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in seven films. He also originated the role of the King of Siam in the original West End production of The King and I.
Herbert Lom
1951 British satirical science fiction comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. In this instance the hero falls foul of both trade unions and the wealthy mill owners who attempt to suppress his invention.
The Man in the White Suit
1949 British Ealing comedy adapted from Compton Mackenzie 1947 novel. The story—based on a true event, the running aground of the SS Politician.
Whisky Galore!
1953 British comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Stanley Holloway, concerns a group of villagers trying to keep their branch line operating after British Railways decided to close it.
The Titfield Thunderbolt
1953 British war film based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Monsarrat. The film portrays the conditions in which the Battle of the Atlantic was fought between the Royal Navy and Germany’s U-boats, seen from the viewpoint of the British naval officers and seamen who served in convoy escorts.
The Cruel Sea
English actor and theatre manager who was the father of film director Carol Reed?
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
In which capital city did Oliver Reed die in 1999 after big binge drinking session?
Valletta
Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or right winger for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig, on loan from Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain, and the Netherlands national team. Spanish first name.
Xavi Simons
a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning “period dramas”, it refers to stories that take place before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Examples: Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood.
Jidai-Geki
Rashomon based on which author’s short story In A Grove?
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Name of the bandit in Rashomon played by Toshiro Mifune
Tajomaru
Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa’s 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).[3] He played Professor Kyohei Yamane in Ishirō Honda’s original Godzilla (1954) and its first sequel, Godzilla Raids Again (1955).
Takashi Shimura
Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards,[1] and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor’s Revenge (1963). His film Odd Obsession (1959) won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Kon Ichikawa
Japanese term that is commonly associated with media involving giant monsters
Kaiju
Who plays struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis in the Billy Wilder 1950 film Sunset Boulevard?
William Holden
Name of Gloria Swanson’s character in Sunset Boulevard, a former silent-film star who draws him into her deranged fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen?
Norma Desmond
1951 sci-fi film Set in the Cold War during the early stages of the nuclear arms race, the storyline involves a humanoid alien visitor who comes to Earth, accompanied by a powerful robot, to deliver an important message that will affect the entire human race.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
fictional humanoid alien character best known from his appearances in the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still and its 2008 remake. Associated with phrase “_____ barada nikto”.
Klaatu
a fictional humanoid robot that appeared first in the 1951 20th Century Fox American science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still and later in its 2008 remake.
Gort
Who was the only lead actor from the original Broadway production not to appear in the 1951 film of A Streetcar Named Desire? She played the role of Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway run.
Jessica Tandy
Who directed A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951?
Elia Kazan
Who played Stella in 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire? She also portrayed the chimpanzee Zira in Planet of the Apes (1968).
Kim Hunter
Actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire in 1946-7. Recreating the role of Mitch in the 1951 film of Streetcar, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Played Father Pete Barry in On The Waterfront.
Karl Malden
She made her film debut in Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954), opposite Marlon Brando. One of her most notable roles came playing Eve Kendall opposite Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959).
Eva Marie Saint
Actor originated the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan, and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for On the Waterfront (1954) playing Johnny Friendly and The Brothers Karamazov (1958). Played Juror #3 in 12 Angry Men and was in The Exorcist.
Lee J Cobb
He starred as Marlon Brando’s mobster brother Charley in On the Waterfront (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964) which won him the Silver Bear for Best Actor, and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film In the Heat of the Night (1967) which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Rod Steiger
He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948). He is also known for his films starring Ingrid Bergman, Stromboli (1950), Europe ‘51 (1952), Journey to Italy (1954), Fear (1954) and Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954).
Roberto Rosselini
1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones.
From Here to Eternity
In 1953, this actor played the illicit lover of Deborah Kerr in the military drama From Here to Eternity. Later in the 1950s, he starred in The Rainmaker (1956), with Katharine Hepburn, earning a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination, and in 1957 he starred in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) with frequent co-star Kirk Douglas. Playing a charismatic biblical con-man in Elmer Gantry in 1960 won him the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor. He played a Nazi war criminal in 1961 in the all-star, war-crime-trial film, Judgment at Nuremberg. Playing a bird expert prisoner in Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, he earned the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor and his third Oscar nomination.
Burt Lancaster
Born 1920 Omaha, He is best remembered for his roles in Howard Hawks’s Red River (1948), George Stevens’s A Place in the Sun (1951), Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity (1953), Stanley Kramer’s Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and John Huston’s The Misfits (1961).
Montgomery Clift
1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle’s factory, and the other a beautiful socialite. George Stevens directed Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters.
A Place in the Sun
Director Among the subjects covered in his films were racism (in The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), nuclear war (in On the Beach), greed (in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), creationism vs. evolution (in Inherit the Wind), and the causes and effects of fascism (in Judgment at Nuremberg).
Stanley Kramer
He won four Academy Awards for directing and producing films in various genres, Among his films were The Search (1948), The Men (1950), High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), Oklahoma! (1955), The Nun’s Story (1959), The Sundowners (1960), A Man For All Seasons (1966), The Day of the Jackal (1973), and Julia (1977).
Fred Zinnemann
1953 thriller film directed and co-written by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck and Véra Clouzot. The film centres on a group of four down-on-their-luck European men who are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerin needed to extinguish an oil well fire. It is adapted from a 1950 French novel by Georges Arnaud.
The Wages of Fear
1955 French psychological horror thriller film co-written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse and Charles Vanel. It is based on the 1952 novel She Who Was No More (Celle qui n’était plus) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The story blends elements of thriller and horror, with the plot focusing on a woman and her husband’s mistress who conspire to murder the man.
Les Diaboliques
He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear (1953) and Les Diaboliques (1955), which are critically recognized as among the greatest films of the 1950s. He also directed documentary films, including The Mystery of Picasso (1956), which was declared a national treasure by the government of France.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
1954 film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road. It won the inaugural Best Foreign Language Film in 1957.
La Strada
1963 comedy-drama with a metafictional narrative centers on Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a famous Italian film director who suffers from stifled creativity as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film.
8 1/2
best-known films include I vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), _______ Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and ______’s Casanova (1976).
Federico Fellini born Rimini 1920
Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli’s Shakespeare screen adaptations, and for the first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
Nino Rota
American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, The Heiress, All About Eve, Samson and Delihah, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, The Facts of Life and The Sting.
Edith HEAD
American costume designer for stage and screen. Her work earned her five Academy Awards and a Tony Award. An American in Paris, The King and I, West Side Story, Cleopatra and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Irene Sharaff
She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design twelve times, winning four awards for Chicago (2002), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016); the latter is the first Wizarding World film to win an Academy Award.
Colleen Atwood
Italian costume designer gained prominence for her collaborations with directors Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, and Wes Anderson. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design nine times, winning four awards for Barry Lyndon (1975), Chariots of Fire (1981), Marie Antoinette (2006), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
Milena Canonero
American costumer designer, he was instrumental in getting Academy to start costume design oscar, won three for All About Eve, The Robe and Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing.
Charles LeMaire
British costume designer She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design fifteen times, winning three awards for Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Aviator (2004), and The Young Victoria (2009).
Sandy Powell
1998 musical drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes from a story by Haynes and James Lyons. It is set in Britain during the glam rock days of the early 1970s, and tells the story of fictional bisexual pop star Brian Slade, who faked his own death.
Velvet Goldmine
English costume designer She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design twelve times, winning three awards for A Room with a View (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and Cruella (2021). She has also received ten nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, winning four awards for A Room With a View, Gosford Park (2001), Mad Max: Fury Road, and Cruella.
Jenny Beavan
English costume designer for film and stage. He won three Academy Awards, for Travels with My Aunt (1972), Death on the Nile (1978) and Tess (1979). Also forged a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg, creating the period-appropriate costumes for both Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Created the over-the-top costumes for her Cruella de Vil in the live action remake of 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000).
Anthony Powell
Australian-American Hollywood costume designer. Until being overtaken by Catherine Martin in 2014, he was the most prolific Australian-born Oscar winner, having won three Academy Awards for Best Costume Design for An American in Paris, Les Girls, Some Like It Hot.
Orry-Kelly
German-born American director went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director three times, for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959), all of which also won for Best Picture. He was Oscar-nominated for Dodsworth (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), The Heiress (1949), Detective Story (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), Friendly Persuasion (1956), and The Collector (1965).
William Wyler
1957 drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. It stars Giulietta Masina as the title character, a prostitute living in Rome. The cast also features François Périer and Amedeo Nazzari.
Nights of Cabiria
Which film director plays Claude Lacombe, a French government scientist in charge of UFO-related activities in the United States, in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Francois Truffaut
1959 French coming-of-age drama film, the film is about Antoine Doinel, a misunderstood adolescent in Paris who struggles with his parents and teachers due to his rebellious behavior.
The 400 Blows by Francois Truffaut
French actor best known for being an important figure of the French New Wave and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series of films by François Truffaut, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959). He has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette.
Jean-Pierre Leaud
Born 1921 Calcultta, He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959),[12] The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963) and Charulata (1964) and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy.
Satyajit Ray
What are the three films that made up the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray?
Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959)
1962 French New Wave romantic drama film directed, produced and co-written by François Truffaut. Set before and after World War I, it describes a tragic love triangle involving French Bohemian (Henri Serre), his shy Austrian friend (Oskar Werner), and his girlfriend and later wife Catherine (Jeanne Moreau).
Jules and Jim
1960 French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut that stars Charles Aznavour as the titular musician Eduoard Saroyan with Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, and Michèle Mercier as the three women in his life. It is based on the novel Down There by David Goodis.
Shoot the Piano Player
1973 romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut. The metafictional and self-reflexive film chronicles the troubled production of a melodrama, and the various personal and professional challenges of the cast and crew. It stars Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Truffaut himself. At the 1975 Oscars, the film was nominated for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Valentina Cortese.
Day for Night (La Nuit Americaine)
Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017) and Fallen Leaves (2023), as well as Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He has been described as Finland’s best-known film director.
Aki Kaurismaki
Polish film director, In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his Belgian film The Departure (1967). He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. His film EO (2022) was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Jerzy Skolimowski
Born 1941 Parma, director of 1972 Last Tango in Paris. Also 1970 The Conformist, 1900 (1976), La Luna (1979) and Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981).
Bernardo Bertolucci
He is known for directing the movies from Trilogy of Life (The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights). Unsolved and extremely brutal abduction, torture, and murder at Ostia in November 1975 prompted an outcry in Italy, where it continues to be a matter of heated debate. 1975: Salo.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L’Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).
Jacques Rivette
feature film debut was La Pointe Courte (1955), one of her most notable narrative films, Vagabond (1985), and Kung Fu Master (1988). Also known for her work as a documentarian with such works as Black Panthers (1968), The Gleaners and I (2000). Married to Jacques Demy.
Agnes Varda
Best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).
Married to Agnes Varda before death.
Jacques Demy
Gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud’s was nominated at the Academy Awards. He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire’s Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007).
Eric Rohmer
His most acclaimed films include Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966), Weekend (1967) and Goodbye to Language (2014).
Jean-Luc Godard
1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a wandering criminal named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend Patricia.
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)
1959 film Hiroshima mon Amour was directed by which French director?
Alain Resnais
Who plays Elle (Her) in Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon Amour?
Emmanuelle Riva
Who played Lui (“Him”) in Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon Amour?
Eiji OKADA
Japanese writer, playwright, musician, photographer, and inventor. He is best known for his 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes that was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964.
Kobo Abe
Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era. He is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes. He is also known for directing other titles such as The Face of Another (1966), Natsu No Heitai (Summer Soldiers, 1972), and Pitfall (1962) which was his directorial debut. The first person of Asian descent to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, accomplishing this in 1964 for his work on Woman in the Dunes.
Hiroshi Teshigahara
1962 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film is divided into 12 “episodes”, each preceded by an intertitle with Anna Karina as Nana Kleinfrankenheim.
Vivre sa vie
Subtitled “A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution”, 1965 French new wave sci-fi film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution (code number 003), Anna Karina, Howard Vernon, and Akim Tamiroff.
Alphaville
Born 1895 Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. 1916 chose name matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother. Married to Gala Dali before Salvador Dali.
Paul Eluard
1965 French New Wave romantic crime drama road film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. The film is based on the 1962 novel Obsession by Lionel White. The plot follows Ferdinand, an unhappily married man, as he escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by OAS hitmen from Algeria.
Pierrot le Fou
fictional mechanical character and science fiction icon who first appeared in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet
Robby the Robot
Canadian-American actor earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, for his roles in Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). Dr Edward Morbius in Forbidden Planet.
Walter Pidgeon
Forbidden Planet (1956) set on which planet?
Altair IV (Aquila constellation)
The 1956 film’s storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical copy of a human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical traits, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it until only the replacement is left; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Swedish actor and stage director best known for portraying Death in The Seventh Seal (1957) directed by Ingmar Bergman. In 1956, he directed the world premiere of Long Day’s Journey into Night, considered the magnum opus of American playwright Eugene O’Neill as was first performed in Stockholm.
Bengt EKEROT
Which 1957 Ingmar Bergman film’s title refers to a passage from the Book of Revelation, used both at the very start of the film and again towards the end?
The Seventh Seal
Max von Sydow plays which character in 1957 film The Seventh Seal?
Antonius Block
Bergman film Professor Isak Borg is a widowed 78-year-old physician who specialized in bacteriology, played by Victor Sjostrom travelling to a uni to get a reward?
Wild Strawberries
Swedish actress who was best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, The films included The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, The Passion of Anna, The Touch, and Persona.
Bibi Andersson
won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for the film The Emigrants, In 2000, she was nominated for the Palme d’Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless. Born in Tokyo 1938. acted in many of his films, including Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), The Passion of Anna (1969), and Autumn Sonata (1978).
Liv Ullmann
1966 Swedish avant-garde psychological drama film written, directed, and produced by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. The story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Andersson) and her patient, well-known stage actress Elisabet Vogler (Ullmann), who has suddenly stopped speaking. They move to a cottage, where Alma cares for Elisabet, confides in her, and begins having trouble distinguishing herself from her patient.
Persona
1982 period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. Following the death of the children’s father (Allan Edwall), their mother (Ewa Fröling) remarries a prominent bishop (Jan Malmsjö) who becomes abusive towards the brother for his vivid imagination.
Fanny and Alexander
Danish director, 1987 film Pelle the Conqueror won the Palme d’Or, Academy Award and Golden Globe Award. He is one of only ten directors to win the Palme d’Or twice, winning the award again in 1992 for The Best Intentions, based on the autobiographical script by Ingmar Bergman. His filmography includes The House of the Spirits, based on the novel by Isabel Allende; Smilla’s Sense of Snow; Les Misérables; Night Train to Lisbon, Silent Heart, The Chinese Widow and A Fortunate Man.
Bille August
He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for Torment (Swedish: Hets) (part of an eleven-way tie), and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie).
Alf Sjoberg
Francis Ford Coppola has won Palme d’Or twice for which two films?
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
He has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the Palme d’Or twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies.
Emir KUSTURICA
the only director from Japan to win two Palme d’Or awards: The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1997)?
Shohei Imamura
Their 2019 feature Young Ahmed won them the Best Director Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Their 2022 film Tori and Lokita won the 75th Anniversary Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Won two Palme d’Or: Rosetta (1999) and L’Enfant (2005).
Jean-Pierre and Luc DARDENNE
an annual award given by the Danish Film Academy, launched in 1984. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars, British BAFTAs for films, Australian AACTA Awards or french César
Robert Awards
film awards given in mainland China. The awards were originally given annually, beginning in 1981 giving the award their name The Golden _______.
Golden Rooster Awards
Taiwan’s Taipei based film awards The Golden ________
Golden Horse Awards
colloquially known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. The award, named after an Israeli actor, has been granted since 1990.
Ophir Award
known for a few years from 2015 as Antalya International Film Festival, is a film festival, held annually since 1963 in Antalya, and is the second most important film festival in Turkey. Award has a fruity connection.
Golden Orange Awards
Film: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master (Toshirô Mifune), enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon (Kamatari Fujiwara) and sake merchant Tokuemon (Takashi Shimura) to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Yojimbo
1985 Kurosawa film Ran is based on which Shakespeare play?
King Lear
The Outrage is a 1964 American Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner and a remake of which 1950 film?
Rashomon
an annual film festival with awards nicknamed Golden Lions first held in Gdańsk (1974–1986), now held in Polish seaport on Baltic Sea.
GDYNIA Film Festival
the national Romanian film awards, similar to the Academy Awards (US), the Goya Awards (Spain), or the César Award (France). Named after Romanian film director in 2007 50th anniversary of him winning prize at Cannes.
GOPO Awards
the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars. Named after a Greek goddess.
Nika Award
The Sun in a Net Awards are annual awards that recognize accomplishments in filmmaking and television. It is the highest award of achievement in film awarded in which country?
Slovakia
1963 film that became a key film in the development of Slovak and Czechoslovak cinema from the mandated Socialist-Realist filmmaking of the repressive 1950s towards the Czechoslovak/Czech New Wave and socially critical or experimental films of the 1960s marked by a gradual relaxation of communist control. Gives name to a Slovakian film award.
The Sun in a Net
Finland’s premier film industry prizes, awarded annually to recognize the achievements of directors, actors, and writers. The name comes from a character in the 1924 and 1936 Pohjalaisia films.
Jussi Awards
the highest award given in Latvian cinema. Established in 1977, it is given out at the Latvian National Film Festival. Male name in the two word name.
Big Christopher
an award given annually at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, Norway, to promote and improve Norwegian film. Name derived from a song, or sea shanty ______ fra Haugesund.
Amanda Award
English: The golden scarab) is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards.
Guldbagge Awards
Named after a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (The Academy of Italian Cinema).
David di Donatello Awards
the Portuguese cinematographic and film awards, assigned annually, which aim to recognize the best national productions. Its name was chosen in honor of the Portuguese poet and writer ______ de Mello Breyner Andersen
Sophia Awards
Belgian film award named after a painter of Les XX (formed by Octave Maus) who painted Christ’s Entry Into Brussels in 1889 (1888).
James ENSOR
the award of the Netherlands Film Festival, which is held annually in Utrecht. The award has been presented since 1981.
Golden Calf
The French Cesar Awards are named after which French sculptor?
Cesar BALDACCINI
an award that recognizes the best of Mexican cinema. Given annually, since 1946, by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC). Name inspired by a series of short writings called El _____ by Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó that inspired generations of young Latin Americans in the first decades of the 20th century.
Ariel Award
Awards are given by the Colombian Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences to honor achievement in Colombian cinema named after a famous Colombian fictional town?
Macondo Awards
1949 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter (Chichi to musume) by the 20th-century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu. Starring Chishū Ryū, who was featured in almost all of the director’s films, and Setsuko Hara, marking her first of six appearances in Ozu’s work. First in Noriko Trilogy.
Late Spring
1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to visit their grown children.
Tokyo Story
His most widely beloved films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).
Yasujiro OZU
1960 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, the film is about the disappearance of a young woman (Lea Massari) during a boating trip in the Mediterranean, and the subsequent search for her by her lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) and her best friend (Monica Vitti). Followed by La Notte and L’Eclisse.
L’Avventura
the only director to have won the Palme d’Or, the Golden Lion, the Golden Bear and the Golden Leopard? L’Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L’Eclisse (1962
Michelangelo Antonioni
Golden Leopard is top prize at which European film festival?
Locarno
As of 2024 who is the only director to have won the Golden Leopard award at Locarno Festival twice, winning in the first two years of the festival?
René Clair
Which film director has two Golden Lion wins Justice is Done (1950) and Tomorrow is My Turn (1960)?
Andre Cayatte
most famous works include the crime thriller Elevator to the Gallows (1958), the romantic drama The Lovers (1958), the World War II drama Lacombe, Lucien (1974), the period drama Pretty Baby (1978), the romantic crime film Atlantic City (1980), the dramedy My Dinner with Andre (1981), and the autobiographical Au revoir les enfants (1987). He also co-directed the landmark underwater documentary The Silent World with Jacques Cousteau, which won the 1956 Palme d’Or and the 1957 Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Louis MALLE
Double Golden Lion winner for Atlantic City (1980) and Au revoir les enfants (1987)?
Louis Malle
Double Golden Lion winner for The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) and Not One Less (1999)?
Zhang Yimou
Ang Lee won two Golden Lion for which two films one 2005 and one 2007?
Brokeback Mountain
Lust, Caution
Ang Lee won two Golden Bears, the only director to have done so, which two films: 1993 and 1996?
The Wedding Banquet
Sense and Sensibility
2024 documentary film directed by Mati Diop. It is a dramatised account of 26 royal treasures held in a French museum. Won 2024 Golden Bear.
Dahomey
What is the film being made and eventually premiered at the end of Singin in the Rain?
The Dancing Cavalier
Actor played Cosmo Brown in Singin in the Rain? His best-known work was his “Make ‘Em Laugh” dance routine in Singin’ in the Rain (1952), won Golden Globe.
Donald O’Connor
best known for his performances in An American in Paris (1951), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Singin’ in the Rain (1952), which he and Donen directed and choreographed, and other musical films of that era such as Cover Girl (1944) and Anchors Aweigh (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. On the Town (1949), which he co-directed with Donen, was his directorial debut.
Gene KELLY
She starred in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) with Gene Kelly, How the West Was Won (1962), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), a biographical film about the famously boisterous Titanic passenger Margaret “Molly” Brown. Her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Debbie Reynolds
portrayed Armando in the Planet of the Apes film series from the early 1970s, starring in both Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). As the villain Khan Noonien Singh, a genetically enhanced human, he starred in both the original Star Trek television series (1967) and the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). played Mr. Roarke on the television series Fantasy Island (1977–1984).
Ricardo Montalban
1955 American drama romance film directed by Douglas Sirk, stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about the social complications that arise following the development of a romance between a well-to-do widow and a younger man, who owns a tree nursery.
All That Heaven Allows
In the 1950s, he achieved his greatest commercial success with film melodramas Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, and Imitation of Life. Vincent Vega orders a _____ ____ steak cooked bloody as hell in Pulp Fiction. Del Toro mentioned him in his speech for Best Picture for The Shape of Water.
Douglas Sirk
Three word French term for the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in the visual arts through storyboarding, visual themes, and cinematography and in narrative-storytelling through directions.
Mise-en-scene
1988 Spanish black comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas and Julieta Serrano. The plot follows actress Pepa, who, after her lover Iván leaves without explanation, sets out to find the reason, and comes across an array of eccentric characters, including Iván’s son from a previous relationship and her best friend Candela, who has been held captive by a Shiite terrorist cell.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1999 comedy-drama film by Pedro Almodovar, The plot originates in Almodóvar’s earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995) which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the mother of a teenager killed in a road accident. Won Oscar.
All About My Mother
2002 Spanish psychological melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosário Flores. The film follows two men who form an unlikely friendship as they care for two women who are both in comas. Won Screenplay Oscar for PA.
Talk to Her
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1925 directorial feature film debut?
The Pleasure Garden
Main character in The 39 Steps played by Robert Donat in the 1935 film?
Richard Hannay
He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Robert Donat
English composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron). Did Goodbye Mr Chips scoring and a bunch of others.
Richard Addinsell
English writer best known for his play Journey’s End, he was nominated along with Eric Maschwitz and Claudine West for an Academy award for writing an adapted screenplay for Goodbye, Mr. Chips which was released in 1939.[22] His 1955 screenplays, The Dam Busters and The Night My Number Came Up were nominated for best British screenplay BAFTA awards.
RC Sherriff
English diseuse, singer, actress and writer. She was known for the songs and monologues she wrote and performed, at first in revues and later in her solo shows. Had film roles, mostly comic, in many films, including Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the St Trinian’s series (from 1954).
Joyce Grenfell
1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. Features pair Charters and Caldicott (cricket enthusiasts).
The Lady Vanishes
In the 1948 play and 1951 film The Browning Version, the title refers to the Browning version of which Greek tragedy?
Agamemnon
Who played Maxim de Winter in the 1940 film Rebecca? Opposite Joan Fontaine as the second Mrs de Winter. Hitchcock’s only film to win Best Picture.
Laurence Olivier
1940 American black-and-white spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter based in Britain who tries to expose enemy spies involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II. Stars Joel McCrea.
Foreign Correspondent
1941 American romantic psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. Based on Francis Iles’s novel Before the Fact (1932). For her role as Lina, Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941. This is the only Oscar-winning acting performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.
Suspicion
1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville. Charlotte “Charlie” Newton and her parents live in very quiet Santa Rosa, California. An unexpected visit by Charles Oakley, her charming and sophisticated “Uncle Charlie”, brings much excitement to her family and the small town. That excitement turns to fear as young Charlie slowly realizes her uncle is in fact a wanted serial murderer known as the “Merry Widow” killer.
Shadow of a Doubt
She is best known for her humorous tales of modern youth collected in Junior Miss and her semi-autobiographical stories collected in Meet Me in St. Louis.
Sally Benson
1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation. The film follows U.S. government agent T. R. Devlin (Grant), who enlists the help of Alicia Huberman (Bergman), the daughter of a German war criminal, to infiltrate a circle of executives of IG Farben hiding out in Rio de Janeiro after World War II.
Notorious
Who wrote the story for the 1944 Alfred Hitchcock film Lifeboat?
John Steinbeck
1945 American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov. It follows a psychoanalyst who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. The film is based on the 1927 novel The House of Dr. Edwardes by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer.
Spellbound
American actor, student of Stanislavski and nephew of famous playwright, he made a few notable appearances on film, perhaps most memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945), for which he received his only Academy Award nomination.
Michael Chekhov
Who was Juror #8 in 12 Angry Men?
Henry Fonda
Born Baku, Azerbaijan in 1886 as Jacob Strelitsky, American film director and producer. He is best known for his films such as Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Imitation of Life (1934), The Keys of the Kingdom (1945), and Back Street (1932).
John M Stahl
1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder.
Rear Window
Who played LB Jeff Jefferies in 1954 film Rear Window?
James Stewart
Who played Lisa Fremont the love interest in 1954 film Rear Window?
Grace Kelly
Who played the killer Lars Thorwald in the 1954 film Rear Window? He won Emmy Awards for acting in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised in a series of 26 Perry Mason TV movies (1985–1993). His second TV series, Ironside, earned him six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.
Raymond Burr
Name of Marion Crane’s sister in 1960 film Psycho? Played by Vera Miles.
Lila Crane
1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. It is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as four long shots through the use of stitched-together long takes. The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
Rope
1951 American psychological thriller film noir produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith. Guy Haines and Bruno Antony played by Farley Granger and Robert Walker are the title characters.
Strangers on a Train
His role in Hitchcock’s Rope, a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder case of 1924, earned him much critical praise though the film got mixed reviews. Hitchcock cast him again in Strangers on a Train, as a tennis star drawn into a reciprocal murder plot by a wealthy psychopath; he described this as his happiest film-making experience.
Farley GRANGER
He is often remembered for his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend (1945), which won him Best Actor at Cannes, a Golden Globe Award, and ultimately an Academy Award—the first such accolades for any Welsh actor. Two standout films later in his career include Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970).
Ray MILLAND
Based on play by Frederick Knott, 1954 film In the mid-1950s, Tony Wendice (Ray Milland), a retired English professional tennis player, is married to wealthy socialite Margot (Grace Kelly), who has been having an affair with Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), an American crime-fiction writer.
Dial M for Murder
1955 American romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge. The film stars Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar who has to save his reformed reputation by catching an impostor preying on wealthy tourists (including an oil-rich widow and her daughter played by Grace Kelly) on the French Riviera.
To Catch a Thief
1955 American Technicolor black comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It starred Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Jerry Mathers and Shirley MacLaine in her film debut. Film takes place during a sun-filled autumn in the Vermont countryside when nine residents find dead body of the title character.
The Trouble with Harry
French crime-writing duo who produced 43 novels: works were adapted into numerous films, most notably, Les Diaboliques (1955), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Vertigo (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Boileau-Narcejac
1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Boileau-Narcejac.
Vertigo
Film stars James Stewart as San Francisco detective John “Scottie” Ferguson.
Vertigo
Who stars as Judy Barton / Madeleine Elster in 1958 film Vertigo?
Kim Novak
1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.
North by Northwest
Which Hitchcock film stars Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill?
North by Northwest
Who plays Eve Kendall in Hitchcock film North by Northwest?
Eva Marie Saint
He was the top box-office attraction in the UK in 1944 and 1945; his British films included The Seventh Veil (1945) and The Wicked Lady (1945). He starred in Odd Man Out (1947), the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. starred in such films as George Cukor’s A Star Is Born (1954), Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959), Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962), Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict (1982).
James Mason
1982 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, adapted from Barry Reed’s 1980 novel of the same name. The film stars Paul Newman as a down-on-his-luck alcoholic lawyer who accepts a medical malpractice case to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is doing the right thing.
The Verdict
Which 1963 film stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren in her screen debut, alongside Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, and Veronica Cartwright?
The Birds
Which animator was nominated for Best Special Effects for the 1963 Hitchcock film The Birds? Better known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios in general, and for having worked on the development of the design of the character of Mickey Mouse.
Ub Iwerks
British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, starting from Sydney and later from Adelaide. His expeditions traced several of the westward-flowing rivers, establishing that they all merged into the Murray River, which flows into the Southern Ocean. He was searching to prove his own passionately held belief that an “inland sea” was located at the centre of the continent.
Charles Sturt
He started to gain popularity after starring in The Time Machine (1960), as H. George Wells. He later starred in the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), voicing Pongo. In one of his most famous roles, he played Mitch Brenner in The Birds (1963), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. By the late 1990s, he had moved into semi-retirement. His final film role was in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009), portraying a fictionalized version of Winston Churchill in a cameo.
Rod Taylor
1964 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Winston Graham (better known for Poldark). The film stars Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery.
Marnie
Primarily used for changing direction, what name is given to the fins found on the sides of fish?
Pectoral
Similar to a percent sign (%) with an extra zero in the divisor. What name is given to the ‰ sign indicating how many parts per thousand a quantity is?
Per mille
Found in the extremely dense crusts of neutron stars, nuclei are believed to be deformed and fused together into exotic shapes known as gnocchi, spaghetti, lasagne and bucatini phases. This theoretical form of degenerate matter is collectively known as Nuclear [Blank]?
Pasta
Found Worldwide. What name is given to the small primitive, wingless insects in the order Zygentoma? Considered pests they are able consume paper, clothing, carpets, plaster, hair and sugar amongst other things. Lepisma Saccharinum
Silverfish
Also known as a Bolide. What 8 letter word beginning the ‘F’ is the name given to an exceptionally bright meteor appears brighter than the planets (with an absolute magnitude of -4 as defined by the International Astronomical Union)?
Fireball
With a name meaning ‘Wool Oil’ in Latin, what waterproof wax used in cosmetics and ointments is secreted by the sebaceous glands of sheep?
Lanolin
Often caused by the shigellosis bacteria and caught from drinking contaminated water. Which inflammation of the intestines has symptoms of abdominal pain, cramps, fever and bleeding diarrhea and was also known as ‘Bloody Flux’?
Dysentery
Abbreviated as ‘Cb’ in the International Cloud Atlas, which thunderstorm cloud, is a heavy and dense cloud in the form of a mountain or huge tower, with an upper part that is nearly always flattened in the shape of an anvil?
Cumulonimbus
Found in the rainforests and savannah of sub-saharan Africa, which species of viper is the largest and has the longest known fangs of a venomous snake growing up to 5 cm?
Gaboon Viper
What name is given to the planar zone of seismic activity coinciding with the subduction of a tectonic plate? Differential motion along these zones create earthquakes with foci reaching depths of up to ~700 km.
Benioff Zone
Named after a British epidemiologist, who’s paradox is the observation that at the species level, the incidence of cancer doesn’t correlate with number of cells an animal has? Despite animals such as Whales and Elephants having thousands of more cells than Humans they do not exhibit an increased cancer risk, which suggests some natural mechanism is much more effective in larger animals than Humans.
Peto’s Paradox
What colloquial name is given to the extinct flightless, carnivorous birds known as Phorusrhacids? Living between 53 to 0.1 million years ago they were one of the apex predators of South America during the Cenozoic period.
Terror Birds
Born Louis Burton Lindley Jr 1919, He is perhaps best remembered today for his comic roles in Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, 1941, and his villainous turn in One-Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando. American actor and rodeo performer.
Slim Pickens
Which American band leader and jazz pianist has a cameo in Blazing Saddles?
Count Basie
Joseph Pujol (professional fartist) and entertainer. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly fart at will.
Le Petomane
She is known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What’s Up, Doc? (1972), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated role in Paper Moon (1973).
Madeline Kahn
Mel Brooks was married to whcih actress from 1964 to 2005 with a son Max known for World War Z?
Anne Bancroft
She won many accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded performer in Emmy history. In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (1971) as the neglected wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s; she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was part of Mel Brooks’s ensemble cast, playing Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein (1974), Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety (1977) and Madame Defarge in History of the World, Part I (1981).
Cloris Leachman
1977 film directed by Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks as Dr. Richard Harpo Thorndyke. It is a parody of psychoanalysis and Alfred Hitchcock films.
High Anxiety
Name of John Candy’s character in Spaceballs? Lone Starr’s mawg (half man half dog), parody of Chewbacca.
Barf
Joan Rivers character in Spaceballs, parody of C3P0.
Dot Matrix
1982 Sydney Pollack film It stars Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, and Charles Durning. In the film, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman), a talented actor with a reputation for being professionally difficult, runs into romantic trouble after adopting a female persona to land a job.
Tootsie
1933 film In the film, Groucho portrays the newly installed president of the fictional country of Freedonia. Zeppo is his secretary, while Chico and Harpo are spies for the neighboring country of Sylvania. Relations between Groucho and the Sylvanian ambassador deteriorate during the film, eventually leading the two countries to war.
Duck Soup
1931 Marx Brothers film, Much of the story takes place on an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Monkey Business
1932 Marx Brothers film, The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Groucho Marx as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff.
Horse Feathers
1930 Marx Brothers film, Mayhem and zaniness ensue during a weekend party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx).
Animal Crackers
1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard.
Bringing Up Baby
1940 American romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey. About a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist. MGM remade the film as a 1956 musical called High Society.
The Philadelphia Story
1968 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks, produced by Howard W. Koch and written by Neil Simon, based on his 1965 play. It stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as two divorced men.
The Odd Couple
1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man.
His Girl Friday
1997 farcical comedy film. While not literally a sequel, Fierce Creatures is a spiritual successor to which1988 film?
Fierce Creatures
1949 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who come to oppose each other in court.
Adam’s Rib
He was replaced as one of the directors of Gone with the Wind (1939), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story (1940), Gaslight (1944), Adam’s Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), and won the Academy Award for Best Director for My Fair Lady (1964), which was his fifth time nominated.
George Cukor
1956 British adventure drama film directed by George Cukor, The film stars Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving in the Indian Army, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a British Indian Army officer.
Bhowani Junction
1950 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor, based on the 1946 stage play of the same name by Garson Kanin. The film tells the story of an uneducated young woman, Billie Dawn (played by Judy Holliday, in an Oscar-winning performance) and an uncouth, older, wealthy junkyard tycoon, Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) who comes to Washington to try to “buy” a congressman. When Billie embarrasses him socially, Harry hires journalist Paul Verrall (William Holden) to educate her. In the process, Billie learns how corrupt Harry is, and eventually falls in love with Paul.
Born Yesterday
1979 American satirical comedy-drama film starring Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener, Shirley MacLaine, and Melvyn Douglas. Directed by Hal Ashby, it is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosiński. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Sellers was nominated for Best Actor.
Being There
1987 Coen Brothers film It stars Nicolas Cage as H.I. “Hi” McDunnough, an ex-convict, and Holly Hunter as Edwina “Ed” McDunnough, a former police officer and his wife.
Raising Arizona
1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a leisure-class couple who enjoy copious drinking and flirtatious banter.
The Thin Man
1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. A satire on the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood comedy director (Joel McCrea) who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a tramp to gain life experience for his forthcoming film. Along the way he unites with a poor aspiring actress (Veronica Lake) who accompanies him.
Sullivan’s Travels
He was often paired with Veronica Lake in films noir, such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942), and The Blue Dahlia (1946). Whispering Smith (1948) was his first Western and color film, and Shane (1953) was noted for its contributions to the genre.
Alan Ladd
1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, who had been briefly married years before appearing together in the film. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her family’s butler, and then falls in love with him.
My Man Godfrey
1971 American romantic black comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama. Stars Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon as the title characters.
Harold and Maude
1975 American comedy film directed by Hal Ashby, and starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, and Carrie Fisher in her film debut. Co-written by Beatty and Robert Towne, the film follows a promiscuous Los Angeles hairdresser on Election Day 1968, as he juggles his relationships with several women. The film is a satire focusing on the theme of sexual politics and late-1960s sexual and social mores.
Shampoo
1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision. Produced as a standalone sequel to The Pink Panther, it is the second installment in the eponymous film series, with Peter Sellers reprising his role as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté.
A Shot in the Dark
British actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films. He made appearances in many television programmes, including a portrayal of Imperial Japanese Army Major Yamauchi in the British drama series Tenko and as Entwistle in Last of the Summer Wine.
Burt Kwouk
1965 American western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual role. The story involves a woman who hires a notorious gunman to protect her father’s ranch, and later to avenge his murder, only to find that the gunman is not what she expected.
Cat Ballou
“Stinkin’ badges” is a paraphrase of a line of dialogue from which1948 film? It was also included in the 1974 Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles, and has since been included in many other films and television shows.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Character who said quote “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”.
Terry Malloy
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” Margo Channing which actress and film?
All About Eve - Bette Davis
Which actor speaks the famous quote in Cool Hand Luke: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”?
Strother Martin
Who says “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now?
Robert Duvall
Who stars opposite Ryan O’Neal in Love Story?
Ali MacGraw
“The stuff that dreams are made of.” is a famous quote #14 in AFI list from which film/character/actor?
Sam Spade - Humphrey Bogart - Maltese Falcon
American actress. She was known as the raspy voice of E.T. in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Pat Welsh
“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” by character Arthur “Cody” Jarrett - actor and film?
James Cagney - White Heat
remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), City for Conquest (1940) and White Heat (1949), finding himself typecast or limited by this reputation earlier in his career. He was able to negotiate dancing opportunities in his films and ended up winning the Academy Award for his role in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
James Cagney
“Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” by character Lady Lou played by Mae West is in which 1933 film?
She Done Him Wrong
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” spoken by Marie Slim Browning played by Lauren Bacall in which 1944 film?
To Have and Have Not
Who played Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees: “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”?
Gary Cooper
“Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.” by Charlotte Vale played by Bette Davis is quote from which 1942 film?
Now, Voyager
He was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s, with films like A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), Earthworm Tractors (1936), and Alibi Ike (1935). In his later career he starred in Some Like It Hot (1959), as Osgood Fielding III, in which he utters the film’s famous punchline “Well, nobody’s perfect.”
Joe E Brown
“Go ahead, make my day.” quote from which 1983 film?
Sudden Impact
“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” quote from which 1971 film?
Dirty Harry
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” is a quote from which Marx Brothers film? Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding by Groucho Marx.
Animal Crackers
“There’s no crying in baseball!” by Jimmy Dugan by Tom Hanks which film?
A League of Their Own
Quote “What a dump” by Rosa Moline by Bette Davis from which 1949 film?
Beyond the Forest
Famous quote “They’re here!” by Carol Anne Freeling by actress Heather O’Rourke from which 1982 film?
Poltergeist
Famous quote “Is it safe?” by Dr Christian Szell by which actor and 1976 film?
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” which 1927 film?
The Jazz Singer
“No wire hangers, ever!” by film character Joan Crawford said by which actress playing her in which 1981 film?
Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest
“Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?” by character Rico Bandello played by Edward G Robinson in which 1931 film?
Little Caesar
Who directed 1973 film Soylent Green? Also, including: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Vikings (1958), Barabbas (1961), Fantastic Voyage (1966), the musical film Doctor Dolittle (1967), the war epic Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970).
Richard Fleischer
“Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!” by character Julian Marsh played by actor Warner Baxter in which 1933 film?
42nd Street
known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film In Old Arizona, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards. His notable sound films are In Old Arizona (1929), 42nd Street (1933), Slave Ship (1937) with Wallace Beery, Kidnapped (1938) with Freddie Bartholomew, and the 1931 ensemble short film The Stolen Jools. In the 1940s, he was well known for his recurring role as Dr. Robert Ordway in the Crime Doctor series of 10 films.
Warner Baxter
“Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t you forget it. You’re going to get back on that horse, and I’m going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we’re gonna go, go, go!” spoken by character Ethel Thayer in which 1981 film and which actress?
Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond
“Tell ‘em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.” by George Gipp by Ronald Reagan in which 1940 film?
Knute Rockne, All American
“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.” first said in which 1964 film?
Goldfinger
“Who’s on first.” routine by Abbott and Costello first in which 1945 film?
The Naughty Nineties
“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!” by Mame Dennis by Rosalind Russell in which 1958 movie?
Auntie Mame
“My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.” by George M Cohan by James Cagney in which 1942 film?
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Whereas Grand Hotel was Garbo Speaks, this film was Garbo Laughs as was her first comedy role.
Ninotchka
Dudley Moore character in 1981 is Arthur with what surname?
Bach
1944 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton. Set against the backdrop of World War II-era America, its plot follows a wayward young woman who, after attending a party with soldiers in her small town, awakens to find herself married and pregnant, with no memory of her new suitor’s identity.
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a mismatched couple who meet on board an ocean liner.
The Lady Eve
In 1941, she starred in two screwball comedies: Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper, and The Lady Eve with Henry Fonda. She starred with Fred MacMurray in the seminal film noir Double Indemnity (1944), playing the wife who persuades an insurance salesman to kill her husband, for which she received her third Oscar nomination. In 1937, she played the title role in Stella Dallas, for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination for best actress.
Barbara Stanwyck
1948 American horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton. The film features Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) who has become partners with Dr Sandra Mornay (Lenore Aubert), in order to find a brain to reactivate Frankenstein’s monster (Glenn Strange). Comedy pair star.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1982 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson. It is Levinson’s screen-directing debut and the first of his “Baltimore Films” tetralogy, set in his hometown during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s; the other three films are Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). It stars Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke. The movie follows a close-knit circle of friends who reunite at a Baltimore restaurant when one of them prepares to get married.
Diner
1934 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields. It was Fields’s 16th sound film, and his fifth in 1934 alone. The film concerns the trials and tribulations of a grocer as he battles a shrewish wife, an incompetent assistant, and assorted annoying children, customers, and salesmen. skits such as “The Picnic”, “A Joy Ride”, and most famously, “The Back Porch” are all featured in It’s a Gift.
It’s a Gift
1937 American comedy film, Groucho Marx as Dr Hugo Z. Hackenbush and a horse called Hi-Hat.
A Day at the Races
1937 American supernatural comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Constance Bennett and Cary Grant and featuring Roland Young. It tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple.
Topper
1972 American screwball comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. It was intended to pay homage to comedy films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, especially Bringing Up Baby.
What’s Up, Doc?
1987 American romantic comedy drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks. The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer (Holly Hunter) who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter (Albert Brooks), and the latter’s charismatic but far less seasoned rival (William Hurt).
Broadcast News
1969 American mockumentary crime comedy film directed by Woody Allen. Allen co-wrote the screenplay with Mickey Rose and stars alongside Janet Margolin. The film chronicles the life of Virgil Starkwell, an inept bank robber.
Take the Money and Run
1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Leo McCarey, and starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Based on the 1922 play by Arthur Richman, the film recounts a distrustful rich couple who begin divorce proceedings, only to interfere with one another’s romances. It was the first of three films co-starring Grant and Dunne, followed by My Favorite Wife (1940) and Penny Serenade (1941).
The Awful Truth
1971 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen, Louise Lasser, and Carlos Montalban. Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film is about a bumbling New Yorker who, after being dumped by his activist girlfriend, travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest revolution.
Bananas
1948 American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter, and starring Cary Grant plays title character, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. The movie was the third and last pairing of Grant and Loy, who had shared a comfortable chemistry in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) and Wings in the Dark (1935).
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1980 American comedy film directed by Colin Higgins, who wrote the screenplay with Patricia Resnick. It stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton as three working women.
9 to 5
1933 pre-Code American crime/comedy film starring Mae West and Cary Grant, directed by Lowell Sherman. The film is famous for West’s many double entendres and quips, including her best-known “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?”.
She Done Him Wrong
1982 musical comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. Remake of a 1933 German film.
Victor/Victoria
1942 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vallée. Screwball comedy husband and wife struggling so wife goes off to title location to marry rich so husband can do projects.
The Palm Beach Story
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (1934), and received two other Academy Award nominations during her career. Her other notable films include Cleopatra (1934), The Palm Beach Story (1942) and Since You Went Away (1944).
Claudette Colbert
What are all the Road to… destinations in the Crosby and Hope and Lamour films? 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1962
Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco, Utopia, Rio, Bali, Hong Kong
1925 American silent comedy film that tells the story of a college student, Harold Lamb, trying to become popular by joining the school football team. It stars Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict, and James Anderson. It remains one of Lloyd’s most successful and enduring films.
The Freshman
1973 American science fiction comedy film directed by and starring Woody Allen, who co-wrote it with Marshall Brickman. Parodying a dystopic future of the United States in 2173, the film involves the misadventures of the owner of a health food store who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 and defrosted 200 years later in an ineptly led police state.
Sleeper
1924 American comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton as Rollo Treadway. Title is the name of the ship, dons a diving suit at some point.
The Navigator
1980 American comedy film directed by Howard Zieff starring Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, and Armand Assante. She joins army after husband dies on wedding night.
Private Benjamin
1950 American romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli[3] from a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Edward Streeter. The film stars Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor, and follows a man trying to cope with preparations for his daughter’s wedding.
Father of the Bride
1985 American satirical road comedy film directed by Albert Brooks and co-written by Brooks with Monica Johnson. The film stars Brooks alongside Julie Hagerty as a married couple who decide to quit their jobs and travel across America.
Lost in America
1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz, based on George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s 1932 play of the same title. The film features an ensemble cast of Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, and Billie Burke. An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver (Lionel Barrymore), contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple.
Dinner at Eight
1991 American Western comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance. A sequel titled The Legend of Curly’s Gold was released in 1994 with the same cast, with the exception of Kirby, who was replaced by Jon Lovitz.
City Slickers
Who directed 1982 film Fast Time at Ridgemont High?
Amy Heckerling
Who wrote the 1982 film Fast Time at Ridgemont High? Went on to be a film director in own right.
Cameron Crowe
1979 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, and Michael Elias (from a story by Martin and Gottlieb). This was Martin’s first starring role in a feature film and played Navin R. Johnson.
The Jerk
1942 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The film’s plot is about the relationship between Tess Harding—an international affairs correspondent and title character —and Sam Craig—a sportswriter—who meet, marry, and encounter problems as a result of her unflinching commitment to her work.
Woman of the Year
1972 American romantic black comedy film directed by Elaine May and written by Neil Simon, starring Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Audra Lindley, Eddie Albert, and Doris Roberts. In the film, a self-absorbed salesman marries his girlfriend after a short courtship. During his honeymoon, the salesman increasingly tires of his bride, finding that her earlier habits during courtship now irritate and repel him.
The Heartbreak Kid
Experimenting with genres, she directed the dark romantic comedy The Heartbreak Kid (1972), the gangster film Mikey and Nicky (1976), and adventure comedy Ishtar (1987). She later earned acclaim writing the screenplays for Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait (1978), and Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage (1996) and Primary Colors (1998).
Elaine May
British actress and director became the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953. Her other directed films, the best known are Not Wanted (1949), about unwed pregnancy (she took over for a sick director and refused directorial credit); Never Fear (1950), loosely based upon her own experiences battling paralyzing polio; Outrage (1950), one of the first films about rape; The Bigamist (1953), and The Trouble with Angels (1966).
Ida Lupino
Also known as The Professor and the Burlesque Queen, 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck and concerns a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge.
Ball of Fire
1958 American Technirama Technicolor comedy film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Edward Everett Tanner III, stars Rosalind Russell as title character and directed by Morton DaCosta.
Auntie Mame
1976 American thriller comedy film, about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey on the title train. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor. This film marked the first pairing of Wilder and Pryor, who were later paired in three other films.
Silver Streak
1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. Directed by William A. Seiter, it was released in the United States on December 29, 1933. In the United Kingdom, the film was originally released under the title Fraternally Yours.
Sons of the Desert
The film stars Kevin Costner as “Crash” Davis, a veteran catcher from the AAA Richmond Braves, brought in to teach rookie pitcher Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) about the game in preparation for reaching the major leagues. Baseball groupie Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) romances Nuke but finds herself increasingly attracted to Crash.
Bull Durham
1955 American historical musical comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker. The film centers on Hubert Hawkins, a carnival entertainer. He is a member of the Black Fox’s band of rebels (a parody of Robin Hood and his Merry Men) who are protecting the true infant King of Medieval England from a usurper.
The Court Jester
1963 American science fiction black comedy film directed, co-written (with Bill Richmond) by, and starring Jerry Lewis. A parody of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it follows bullied scientist Julius Kelp as he creates a serum that transforms him into a handsome man, which he subsequently uses under his alter ego.
The Nutty Professor
Although other highly regarded teachers also developed versions of “The Method,” he is considered to be the “father of method acting in America,” according to author Mel Gussow.
Lee Strasberg
1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson’s best-selling 1947 novel of the same title. It concerns a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on the widespread antisemitism in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan and Darien, Connecticut. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan).
Gentleman’s Agreement
1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols based on Cid Ricketts Sumner’s 1946 novel Quality. It stars Jeanne Crain as the title character, a young light-skinned black woman who passes for white. It also stars Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan.
Pinky
1955 American film noir thriller directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The plot involves a serial killer (Mitchum) who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father.
The Night of the Hunter
Gene Kelly character name in Singin in the Rain?
Don Lockwood
Who directed Rebel Without a Cause? Also twice for the Golden Lion, for Bigger Than Life (1956) and Bitter Victory (1957), and a Palme d’Or for The Savage Innocents (1960).
Nicholas Ray
1955 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. It also features Maxine Cooper and Cloris Leachman appearing in their feature film debuts. The film follows a private investigator in Los Angeles who becomes embroiled in a complex mystery after picking up a female hitchhiker. Based on crime novel by Mickey Spillane.
Kiss Me Deadly
American crime novelist, called the “king of pulp fiction.”[2] His stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer.
Mickey Spillane
His most notable credits include Vera Cruz (1954), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), Autumn Leaves (1956), Attack (1956), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and The Longest Yard (1974).
Robert Aldrich
1956 American epic Western film directed by John Ford and written by Frank S. Nugent, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May. It is set during the Texas–Indian wars, and stars John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adopted nephew (Jeffrey Hunter).
The Searchers
1939 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne as the Ringo Kid in his breakthrough role. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of “The Stage to Lordsburg”, a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group primarily composed of strangers riding through dangerous Apache territory.
Stagecoach
1952 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, and Ward Bond. The film features Winton Hoch’s lush photography of the Irish countryside and a long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight. Won John Ford his fourth Oscar.
The Quiet Man
1935 American drama thriller film directed and produced by John Ford, adapted by Dudley Nichols from the 1925 novel of the same title by Irish novelist Liam O’Flaherty. Set in 1922, the plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence and centers on a disgraced Republican man, played by Victor McLaglen, who anonymously informs on his former comrades and spirals into guilt as his treachery becomes known.
The Informer
1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara. It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw in South Wales Valleys.
How Green Was My Valley
1962 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and James Stewart. John Wayne as Tom Doniphon and
James Stewart as Ransom “Ranse” Stoddard. Lee Marvin as title character.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Who sang the theme song to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance after the 1962 film written by Bacharach-David? 24 Hours from Tulsa too. He also wrote the early-1960s hits “Rubber Ball” recorded by Bobby Vee, “Hello Mary Lou” by Ricky Nelson, and “He’s a Rebel” by the Crystals.
Gene Pitney
A PT boat in WW2 stood for what?
Patrol Torpedo Boat
1955 Swedish comedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film’s plot—which involves some couples who switch partners on a summer night—has been adapted many times, particularly as the theatrical musical A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince.
Smiles of a Summer Night
1962 Soviet war drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film features child actor Nikolai Burlyayev along with Valentin Zubkov, Evgeny Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko, and Tarkovsky’s wife Irma Raush. It tells the story of an orphaned boy, whose parents were killed by the invading German forces, and his experiences during World War II.
Ivan’s Childhood
Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy (1993 –1994).
Krzysztof Kieślowski
After moving to Ukraine and directing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, his first major work which diverged from socialist realism and gave him international acclaim, subsequently directed The Color of Pomegranates, which was met with widespread acclaim among filmmakers, and is often considered one of the greatest films ever made.
Sergei Parajanov
1969 Soviet Armenian art film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov. The film is a poetic treatment of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova. It has appeared in many polls as one of the greatest films ever made.
The Color of Pomegranates
1966 Soviet epic biographical historical drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky who co-wrote it with Andrei Konchalovsky. Loosely based on a a 15th-century Russian icon painter.
Andrei Rublev
1972 Soviet psychological science fiction film based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the same title. The plot centers on a space station orbiting the title fictional planet, where a scientific mission has stalled because the skeleton crew of three scientists have fallen into emotional crises. Psychologist Kris Kelvin (Banionis) travels to the station to evaluate the situation, only to encounter the same mysterious phenomena as the others.
Solaris
1975 Soviet drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and incorporates poems composed and read by the director’s father, Arseny Tarkovsky.
Mirror
a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia, he is mostly known for his soundtracks for films such as At Home Among Strangers, Solaris, Siberiade, Mirror, Stalker, and Burnt by the Sun. Work with Andrei Tarkovsky.
Eduard Artemyev
1979 Soviet science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure played by Alexander Kaidanovsky, who guides his two clients—a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) seeking inspiration, and a professor (Nikolai Grinko) seeking scientific discovery—through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the “Zone”.
Stalker
Denmark manager at Euros 2024. 1-1 with England.
Kasper Hjulmand
Serbia manager at Euros 2024. 1-0 with England.
Dragan Stojkovic
Slovenia manager at Euros 2024. Third game in group stages with England.
Matjaz Kek
Which 1950 Hitchcock film stars Marlene Dietrich as Charlotte Inwood?
Stage Fright
Which 1945 Hitchcock film stars Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen?
Spellbound
Which Hitchcock film stars Kim Novak as Judy Barton?
Vertigo
1956 American mystery thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. It is Hitchcock’s second film using this title, following his own 1934 film of the same name but featuring a significantly altered plot and script. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)”, sung by Day.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Polish film director with films Ashes and Diamonds (1958), The Promised Land (1975), Katyn (2007), Man of Marble (1977), Kanal (1957). Four of his films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land (1975),[7] The Maids of Wilko (1979),[8] Man of Iron (1981) and Katyń (2007). He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1955), Kanał (1957) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958). Palme d’Or for Man of iron.
Andrzej Wajda
a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the ______ ______ Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman. FILM: Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
Dziga Vertov
1965 film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, The film is based on the 1962 novel Obsession by Lionel White. It was Godard’s tenth feature film, released between Alphaville and Masculin, féminin. The plot follows Ferdinand, an unhappily married man, as he escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by OAS hitmen from Algeria.
Pierrot le Fou
1967 Jean-Luc Godard film: Writer Paul Javal’s marriage ends when he lets his wife, Camille drive with the producer, Jeremy Prokosch, as Camille thinks that Paul is using her as a present to Prokosch, to get better pay from him.
Contempt (Le Mepris)
1962 Jean-Luc Godard film Nana, a young Parisian woman, is disenchanted due to her poverty and collapsing marriage. Her desire to become a successful actress also remains unfulfilled, making her resort to prostitution. 12 episodic tales. Anna Karina plays Nana.
Vivre sa vie
American actress. She is considered an icon of the French New Wave as a result of her performance in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film Breathless. Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan and Bonjour Tristesse too.
Jean Seberg
French playwright and novelist: Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), which was written when she was a teenager.
Francoise Sagan
Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966). It won the Golden Lion at the 27th Venice Film Festival, and earned him Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. His other films include Kapò (1960), a Holocaust drama; Burn! (1969), a period film about a fictional slave revolt in the Lesser Antilles; and Ogro (1979), a dramatization of the assassination of Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque separatists.
Gillo Pontecorvo
Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as Spain’s Premier. Prime Minister a short time, assassinated in Madrid in a streetside bombing on 20 December 1973 by the Basque nationalist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) while he was returning from Mass in his car
Luis Carrero Blanco
Who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018?
Pedro Sanchez
Who has been Portuguese PM since April 2024 replacing Antonio Costa? President of the Social Democratic Party.
Luis Montenegro
Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known films he directed are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), a classic of kitchen sink realism, and the romantic period drama The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981).
Karel Reisz
1960 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Tony Richardson. It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name by Alan Sillitoe, with Sillitoe himself writing the screenplay. The plot concerns a young teddy boy machinist, Arthur, who spends his weekends drinking and partying, all the while having an affair with a married woman.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Who played Arthur Seaton in 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?
Albert Finney
1970 revisionist Western film directed by Arthur Penn, The film follows the life of a white man who was raised by members of the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century, and then attempts to reintegrate with American pioneer society.
Little Big Man
American filmmaker directed several critically-acclaimed films dealing with countercultural issues of the late 1960s and 1970s, notably the drama The Chase (1966), the biographical crime film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), the comedy Alice’s Restaurant (1969), and the revisionist Western Little Big Man (1970)?
Arthur Penn
1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the stable time loop story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white.
La Jetee
French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983).
Chris Marker
1956 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The title is taken from the Nacht und Nebel program of abductions decreed by Nazis.
Night and Fog
French film director began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963).
Alain Resnais
Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She came to prominence in Alain Resnais’s 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad. She directed three films, including the documentary Sois belle et tais-toi (1981).
Delphine Seyrig
1961 French New Wave film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Set in a palace in a park that has been converted into a luxury hotel, it stars Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi as a woman and a man who may have met the year before and may have contemplated or started an affair, with Sacha Pitoëff as a second man who may be the woman’s husband. The characters are unnamed.
Last Year at Marienbad
won Best Director for From Here to Eternity (1953), Best Picture and Best Director for A Man for All Seasons (1966), and Best Documentary, Short Subjects for Benjy (1951).
Fred Zinnemann
1966 American experimental underground film directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey. The film was Warhol’s first major commercial success after a long line of avant-garde art films (both feature-length and short). Starred Nico, Ondine.
Chelsea Girls
American actor born Robert Olivo. He is best known for appearing in a series of films in the mid-1960s by Andy Warhol, whom he claimed to have met in 1961 at an orgy. Known by one word stagename.
Ondine
1964 black and white American superhero fan film produced and directed by Andy Warhol without the permission of DC Comics, starred Jack Smith as both the title hero and his nemesis also in the title.
Batman Dracula
Born Christa Päffgen, She had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) and Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls (1966).
Nico
American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, he received international attention for his “plate paintings” — with broken ceramic plates set onto large-scale paintings. Later directed Before Night Falls, which became Javier Bardem’s breakthrough Academy Award-nominated role, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was nominated for four Academy Awards. 1996 Basquiat, 2010 Miral, 2018 At Eternity’s Gate.
Julian Schnabel
2017 adult animated drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, in particular the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animated feature film.
Loving Vincent
He is best known for the role of Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (1999–2007), also in The White Lotus. portrayed Andrew Cuomo in the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora (2018), Angelo Dundee in the Regina King directed One Night in Miami (2020), and served as narrator in the 2021 Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark.
Michael Imperioli
1972 comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carrière, concerns a group of people trying to dine together despite interruptions. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Which 1946 Vittorio De Sica film became the first film to win the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 20th Academy Awards in 1947?
Shoeshine
French film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing the films The Battle of the Rails (1946), Forbidden Games (1952), Gervaise (1956), Purple Noon (1960), and Is Paris Burning (1966). He received numerous accolades including five prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and the Honorary César in 1984.
Rene Clement
Japanese filmmaker and actor. His best-known films include the silent avant-garde films A Page of Madness and Crossroads and the Academy Award-winning historical drama Gate of Hell.
Teinosuke Kinugasa
French mime and filmmaker perhaps best known for his character Monsieur Hulot, featured in Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967) and Trafic (1971)?
Jacques Tati
Starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello, the film Black Orpheus was directed by which director?
Marcel Camus
Who plays main character Harry R. Caul in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 The Conversation?
Gene Hackman
1973 Spanish drama film directed and co-written by Víctor Erice. The film was Erice’s feature directorial debut and is considered a masterpiece of Spanish cinema. The film, set in a small town in post-Civil War Spain, focuses on a young girl named Ana. It traces family and school dynamics, her fascination with the 1931 American horror film Frankenstein, her exploration of a haunted home and landscape
The Spirit of the Beehive
Z is a 1969 political thriller film directed by who, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jorge Semprún, adapted from the 1967 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos.
Costa-Gavras
a Greek politician, physician, athlete, and lecturer, A member of the Greek resistance to Axis rule during World War II, he later became a prominent anti-war activist. His assassination in 1963 by right-wing zealots that were covertly supported by the police and military provoked mass protests and led to a political crisis, led to the 1969 movie Z.
Grigoris Lambrakis
1974 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem. The film revolves around the romance that develops between an elderly German woman, and a Moroccan migrant worker in postwar West Germany.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Rubini, a tabloid journalist who, over seven days and nights, journeys through Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness.
La dolce vita
1967 French surrealist erotic psychological drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli. The film is about a young woman who spends her midweek afternoons as a high-class prostitute, while her husband is at work.
Belle de Jour
French filmmaker His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, such as And God Created Woman (1956), Blood and Roses (1960), Barbarella (1968), and Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971).
Roger Vadim
Who created the comic series Barbarella that Roger Vadim then adapted into the 1968 movie?
Jean-Claude Forest
American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. His screenplay for The French Connection garnered him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award.[1] In 1971, he also co-wrote the screenplay for the film version of Shaft with John D. F. Black.
Ernest Tidyman
His best-known roles include Chief Martin Brody in Jaws (1975) and its sequel Jaws 2 (1978); NYPD Detective “Cloudy” Russo in The French Connection (1971); NYPD Detective “Buddy” in The Seven-Ups (1973); Doc Levy in Marathon Man (1976)
Roy Scheider
Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crime thriller film The French Connection (1971), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
William Friedkin
2023 American legal drama film written and directed by William Friedkin. It is based on Herman Wouk’s 1953 play of the same name, itself based on Wouk’s 1952 novel. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund and Lance Reddick. The film marks a posthumous release for Reddick and Friedkin.
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
His film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, and his subsequent film The Working Class Goes to Heaven received the Palme d’Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
Elio Petri
1973 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano (situated near the ancient walls of Rimini)[2] in 1930s Fascist Italy. The film’s title is a univerbation (words combined to form a single word) of the Romagnol phrase for I Remember.
Amarcord
1975 Soviet-Japanese biographical adventure drama film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, his only non-Japanese-language film and his only 70mm film. Won Best Foreign Language Oscar.
DERSU UZALA
French-Ivorian 1976 war film and black comedy directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. The film is set in the African theater of World War I, during the French invasion of the German colony of Kamerun. It won the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Ivory Coast’s only Oscar.
Black and White in Color
1945 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei, Celeste Negarville and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Nazi occupation, and centers on a Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest.
Rome, Open City
1946 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. In six independent episodes, it tells of the Liberation of Italy by the Allied forces during the late stage of World War II. Second in Rosselini’s Neorealist Trilogy.
Paisan
1948 film directed by Roberto Rossellini, and is the final film in Rossellini’s unofficial war film trilogy, following Rome, Open City and Paisà. Film takes place in Allied-occupied Germany, unlike the others, which take place in German-occupied Rome and during the Allied invasion of Italy, respectively.
Germany, Year Zero
he made his critical and commercial breakthrough in the caper comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (1959). He became an international celebrity through his collaborations with director Federico Fellini, first as a disillusioned tabloid columnist in La Dolce Vita (1960), then as a creatively-stifled filmmaker in 8½ (1963). he was the first actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for a non-English language performance, and was nominated for Best Actor three times – Divorce Italian Style (1961), A Special Day (1977), and Dark Eyes (1987). He was one of only three actors, the others being Jack Lemmon and Dean Stockwell, to win the prestigious Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor twice.
Marcello Mastroianni
Israeli film director. He directed 14 films in both Israel and France, three of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; I Love You Rosa, The House on Chelouche Street and Madame Rosa (starring Simone Signoret), with the last of these winning the award.
Moshe Mizrahi
French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg. The Roots of Heaven as _________, The Life Before Us as Emile Ajar.
Romain Gary
1959 British drama film based on the 1957 novel of the same name by John Braine. The film stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit. The film was widely lauded, and it was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning two: Best Actress (Signoret) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Paterson). Baddeley’s performance, consisting of 2 minutes and 19 seconds of screen time, is the shortest ever to be nominated for an acting Oscar.
Room at the Top
Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team in all formats of the game. A right-arm fast bowler with a unique bowling action. He plays for Gujarat in domestic cricket and for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He was an integral member of the Indian team that won the 2024 T20 World Cup, picking up the player of the tournament award.
Jasprit Bumrah
South African cricketer and former captain of the Proteas in all three formats. He currently plays for South Africa in T20 International, Titans at the domestic level, and Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League. Born Jo’burg 1991.
Quinton de Kock
He achieved his greatest international success with Mephisto (1981) for which he was awarded an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Hungarian director also nominated year before for Confidence, 1985 for Colonel Redl, 1988 for Hanussen, four overall noms.
Istvan Szabo
He earned worldwide acclaim and his country’s first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director.
Jose Luis Garci
His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three further times, including two nominations in the same category for The Decline of the American Empire in 1986 and Jesus of Montreal in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film win the award.
Denys ARCAND
Chinese director won numerous awards and recognitions, with three Academy Awards nominations for Best Foreign Language Film for Ju Dou in 1990, Raise the Red Lantern in 1991, and Hero in 2003; a Silver Lion, two Golden Lion prizes and the Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival; Did openign and closing cermonies at 2008 olympics.
ZHANG Yimou
Danish filmmaker. She is best known for her feature films Brothers (2004), After the Wedding (2006), In a Better World (2010), and Bird Box (2018), and the TV miniseries The Night Manager (2016) on AMC, The Undoing (2020) on HBO, and The First Lady (2022) on Showtime.
Susanne Bier
Iranian filmmaker two for two on wins to nominations of Foreign Language Oscar A Separation and The Salesman.
Asghar Farhadi
German film director. He is best known for writing and directing the 2006 dramatic thriller Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also wrote and directed the 2010 romantic thriller The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, and the 2018 epic drama Never Look Away.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Argentine television and film director, writer and producer. He achieved worldwide attention with the release of The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Juan Jose CAMPANELLA
Female German director is best known for directing critically acclaimed Beyond Silence, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and for directing Nowhere in Africa, which won an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.?
Caroline Link
Chilean director, screenwriter, editor and producer. He received critical acclaim for directing the films Gloria (2013) and A Fantastic Woman (2017), the latter of which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Sebastian Lelio
2015 Hungarian historical drama film directed by László Nemes, in his feature directorial debut, It is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, and follows a day-and-a-half in the life of Saul Ausländer (played by Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando. Won Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Son of Saul
Polish filmmaker known for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004). His success continued into the 2010s with Ida (2013), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Cold War (2018), for which won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Paweł Pawlikowski
Italian film director known for Notable work Il Divo (2009), The Great Beauty (2013), The Hand of God (2021). The Great Beauty won Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Paolo SORRENTINO
South African filmmaker, and actor, best known for writing and directing Tsotsi (2005), which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He also directed the films X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender’s Game, Eye in the Sky and Official Secrets.
Gavin Hood
Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer. He has won nine Goyas—including a Goya Award for Best Director for his 2001 film The Others— two European Film Awards and one Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for The Sea Inside among other honors.
Alejandro Amenabar
1999 Welsh film written and directed by British filmmaker Paul Morrison. It stars Ioan Gruffudd as an Orthodox Jewish man in early 20th-century Wales who falls in love with a gentile woman played by Nia Roberts. They enter into a forbidden love affair, which has tragic consequences.
Solomon & Gaenor
1993 Vietnamese-language French drama film directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, and starring Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, and Thi Loc Truong. The film won the Caméra d’Or prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, a César Award for Best Debut at the French annual film award ceremony, and was nominated for the 1993 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Scent of Green Papaya
1973 film, which stars Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim Kelly.
Enter the Dragon
Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor. best known compositions include the themes from Mission: Impossible and Mannix, as well as the scores to Cool Hand Luke (1967), Bullitt (1968), THX 1138 (1971), Enter the Dragon (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), and the Rush Hour trilogy (1998–2007).
Lalo Schifrin
1970 French psychological thriller film written and directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne. Set in the village of Trémolat, it tells the story of title character Popaul who falls in love with Hélène, the head teacher of the school, while a murder spree is taking place in the area.
Le Boucher (The Butcher)
What are the names of the four Dirty Harry (1971) sequels?
Magnum Force (1973)
The Enforcer (1976)
Sudden Impact (1983)
The Dead Pool (1988)
Who is the main villain in Dirty Harry (1971)?
Scorpio
fictional, extra-dimensional, and seemingly demonic beings who appear in the works of Clive Barker. Introduced in Barker’s 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, they also appear in its sequel novel The Scarlet Gospels, the Hellraiser films, and in Hellraiser comic books published (intermittently) between 1987 and 2017. Leader named Pinhead after.
Cenobites
a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known films he directed are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), a classic of kitchen sink realism, and the romantic period drama The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981).
Karel Reisz
Who plays Colin Smith, main protagonist of 1962 film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner based on Alan Sillitoe short story and directed by Tony Richardson (who also did Look Back in Anger (Osborne), The Entertainer (Osborne), A Taste of Honey (Delaney))?
Tom Courtenay
English actor and filmmaker. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), as well as two BAFTA nominations for Best British Actor for his performances in The Night My Number Came Up (1955) and Time Without Pity (1957). At the 4th Cannes Film Festival, he won Best Actor for his performance in The Browning Version (1951). Played Governor in TLOTLDR.
Michael Redgrave
1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award, it recounts the story of a rugby league footballer in Wakefield, a mining city in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life.
This Sporting Life
English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)[1] and Moonraker (1979).
Lewis Gilbert
1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl (played by Elizabeth Hartman in her film debut), and the problems that plague their friendship in a racially divided America. Shelley Winters won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, her second win for the award, following her victory in 1959 for The Diary of Anne Frank.
A Patch of Blue
1901 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. The film stars Méliès himself as an apothecary who blows a copy of his own head up to enormous dimensions, but who is unable to get his assistant to perform the stunt as expertly.
The Man with the Rubber Head
1917 silent historical drama based on H Rider Haggard 1889 novel: The film starred Theda Bara (The Vamp) in the title role, Fritz Leiber Sr. as Julius Caesar, and Thurston Hall as Mark Antony.
Cleopatra
1919 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919. It stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Donald Crisp, and tells the story of young girl, Lucy Burrows, who is abused by her alcoholic prizefighting father, Battling Burrows, and meets Cheng Huan, a kind-hearted Chinese man who falls in love with her.
Broken Blossoms
1928 Soviet silent propaganda film written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov. It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 Revolution. Subtitled Ten Days That Shook the World. One word title.
October
1928 American drama film. It was one of three movies for which Janet Gaynor received the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1929; the others were F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Borzage’s 7th Heaven. A spirited young woman (Gaynor) tries to prostitute herself and, failing in that, to steal money, to pay for her seriously ill mother’s medicine. She is caught in the act and convicted but escapes from her guards, only to find her mother dead. Directed by Frank Borzage.
Street Angel
1936 American crime film directed by Fritz Lang that tells the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who narrowly escapes being burned to death by a lynch mob and the revenge he then seeks. Lang’s first American film.
Fury
1946 American mystery horror film directed by Robert Florey from a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, based on the 1919 short story of the same name by W. F. Harvey. Local people in an Italian village believe that evil has taken over their village in the form of a recently deceased pianist’s hand.
The Beast with Five Fingers
1931 French short documentary film directed by Jean Vigo, about the title French swimmer who did 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses, including close ups and freeze frames of the swimmer’s body.
Jean Taris, Swimming Champion
1990 American romantic crime drama film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford. Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe. the film follows Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Fortune (Dern), a young couple who go on the run from Lula’s domineering mother and the criminals she hires to kill Sailor. It won the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.
Wild at Heart
1937 French war drama film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are German prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape. The title of the film comes from the 1909 book by British journalist Norman Angell.
La Grande Illusion
2001 satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman. It was influenced by Jean Renoir’s French classic La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game).
Gosford Park
1971 American revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman and starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. During winter in the Old West, a stranger arrives to set up a tavern. A shrewd lady offers him her experience to run his business.
McCabe & Mrs Miller
1973 American satirical neo-noir film directed by Robert Altman and written by Leigh Brackett, based on Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel. The film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe and features Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, Mark Rydell, and an early, uncredited appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Long Goodbye
1947 American film noir produced and directed by Orson Welles that stars Rita Hayworth, Welles and Everett Sloane. Michael, along with Arthur Baninster’s law partner Grisby, are travelling to San Francisco in Arthur’s yacht. Meanwhile, Michael and Grisby plan a fake murder which backfires.
The Lady from Shanghai
1958 Orson Welles film: When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles). When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies are dodgy.
Touch of Evil
1962 drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles said best film he ever made. Anthony Perkins plays main role.
The Trial
1939 American adventure romantic drama film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and is based on a story written by Hawks. Its plot follows the manager of an air freight company in a remote South American port town who is forced to risk his pilots’ lives while vying for a major contract.
Only Angels have Wings
2008 period drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow’s novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles’s groundbreaking stage adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar who becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Me and Orson Welles
1948 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. It was the fourth and final film pairing of actors Bogart and Bacall, after To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and Dark Passage (1947). A man visits his old friend’s hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
Key Largo
1972 American comedy film written by and starring Woody Allen, based on his 1969 Broadway play of the same title. The film is about a recently divorced film critic, Allan Felix, who is urged to begin dating again by his best friend and his best friend’s wife. Allan identifies with the 1942 film Casablanca and the character Rick Blaine as played by Humphrey Bogart.
Play It Again, Sam
1943 French drama film directed by René Le Hénaff, starring Raimu, Marie Bell, Aimé Clariond and Jacques Baumer. It tells the story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac. 1994 version had Gerard Depardieu as lead role.
Colonel Chabert
2011 drama film written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Set in Seraing, Belgium, it tells the story of a 12-year-old boy (Thomas Doret) who turns to a woman (Cécile de France) for comfort after his father (Jérémie Renier) has abandoned him.
The Kid with a Bike
1965 British spy film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Michael Caine. The screenplay, by Bill Canaway and James Doran, was based on Len Deighton’s novel (1962). Caine is Harry Palmer.
The Ipcress File
1947 American psychological drama directed by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, and Raymond Massey in a tale about an unstable woman’s obsession with her ex-lover. The screenplay by Ranald MacDougall and Silvia Richards was based upon a story by Rita Weiman.
Possessed
1950 British thriller film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. The cast also features Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock’s daughter Pat Hitchcock in her film debut, and Joyce Grenfell in a vignette. Jonathan is wanted for killing the husband of his mistress, a famous singer. His friend Eve decides to help him when he insists that he’s innocent. For this, she goes to work as a maid for the singer.
Stage Fright
1952 Japanese drama film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Name means “TO LIVE” in English.
Ikiru
1958 Japanese jidaigeki adventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It tells the story of two peasants who agree to escort a man and a woman across enemy lines in return for gold without knowing that he is a general and the woman is a princess. The film stars Toshiro Mifune as General Makabe Rokurōta and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki.
The Hidden Fortress
1964 American Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner. It is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 Japanese film Rashomon, based on stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Like Kurosawa’s film, four people give contradictory accounts of a rape and murder. Ritt utilizes flashbacks to provide these contradictory accounts.
The Outrage
1965 Japanese jidaigeki film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, in his last collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune. Based on Shūgorō Yamamoto’s 1959 short story collection, Akahige Shinryōtan, the film takes place in Koishikawa, a district of Edo, towards the end of the Tokugawa period, and is about the relationship between a town doctor and his new trainee. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Humiliated and Insulted provided the source for a subplot about a young girl, Otoyo (Terumi Niki), who is rescued from a brothel.
Red Beard
Born 1916 Otaru, Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai films Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror anthology Kwaidan (1964).
Masaki Kobayashi
He was known for playing the villain King Tut in the television series Batman (1966–1968) and musician Edwin Flagg in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the latter of which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. He was a busy actor from his late teens until his death at the age of 43 and, with his large size and sonorous voice, he made a career of playing men much older than he was.
Victor Buono
1962 American psychological horror thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, from a screenplay by Lukas Heller, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Henry Farrell. The film stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and features the major film debut of Victor Buono. It follows an aging former child star tormenting her paraplegic sister, a former film star, in an old Hollywood mansion.
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
1953 American crime film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. The picture is most noted for the character of Johnny Strabler, portrayed by Marlon Brando, whose persona became a cultural icon of the 1950s. The supporting cast features Lee Marvin as Chino, truculent leader of the motorcycle gang “The Beetles”.
The Wild One
1955 American film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play of the same name. It was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, with stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet. Williams originally wrote the play for Italian Anna Magnani to play on Broadway in 1951. A widow, who becomes reclusive due to grief, discovers that her late husband cheated on her. She then embarks on a journey of change and romance with a handsome trucker.
The Rose Tattoo
1956 American black comedy film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and adapted by Williams from his own one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1955). The plot focuses on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi.
Baby Doll
1951 film directed by George Stevens. George (Montgomery Clift) goes to work for his wealthy uncle and gets involved with Alice (Shelley Winters), an assembly-line worker. However, when he later falls in love with Angela (Elizabeth Taylor), a pregnant Alice gives him an ultimatum.
A Place in the Sun
1947 American film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him.
Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High)
1953 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons, and featuring Leon Ames and Barbara O’Neil. When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him.
Angel Face
1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot film: Michel Delasalle is murdered by his wife and mistress. His body is dumped in a neglected swimming pool, but the corpse is nowhere to be found when the pool is drained. Is Michel really dead?
Les Diaboliques
1945 American musical comedy film directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly: The plot concerns two sailors on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, who meet a young boy and his aunt, an aspiring young singer, and try to help her get an audition for José Iturbi at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In a sequence, Kelly dances with Frank Sinatra.
Anchors Aweigh
1949 American Technicolor musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944 (which itself is an adaptation of the Jerome Robbins ballet, titled Fancy Free, also produced in 1944). The film was directed by Gene Kelly (who also choreographed) and Stanley Donen, in their directorial debut, and stars Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, and Ann Miller, featuring Jules Munshin and Vera-Ellen.
On the Town
1964 Indian drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Based upon the novel Nastanirh by Rabindranath Tagore, it stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee and Sailen Mukherjee. The film is considered one of the finest works of Ray and is often featured in the lists of the greatest films ever made. Both the first and the last scenes are critically acclaimed.
Charulata
Indian film actor, play-director, playwright, writer, thespian and poet, He is best known for his collaborations with director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films. Starting with his debut film, Apur Sansar (The Family of Apu, 1959), the third part of The Apu Trilogy, as adult Apu, he went on to work in several films with Ray, including Abhijan (The Expedition, 1962), Charulata (1964), Kapurush (1965), Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969), Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder, 1973).
Soumitra Chatterjee
1934 American pre-Code romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing. It is based on the 1924 Italian play La morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella (1891–1957). Death (Fredric March) is unable to relate to humans, so he takes the form of Prince Sirki, and tries life as a person.
Death Takes A Holiday
1960 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in medieval Sweden, it is a tale about a father’s merciless response to the rape and murder of his young daughter. The story was adapted by screenwriter Ulla Isaksson from a 13th-century Swedish ballad, “Töres döttrar i Wänge” (“Töre’s daughters in Vänge”). The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1961 Academy Awards and other honours. It was also the basis for the 1972 exploitation horror film The Last House on the Left.
The Virgin Spring
1961 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow and Lars Passgård. The film tells the story of a schizophrenic young woman (Andersson) vacationing on a remote island with her husband (von Sydow), novelist father (Björnstrand), and frustrated younger brother (Passgård). Won Oscar for Foreign Language.
Through a Glass Darkly
1968 Swedish psychological horror film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. The story explores the disappearance of fictional painter Johan Borg (von Sydow), who lived on an island with his wife Alma (Ullmann) while plagued with frightening visions and insomnia.
Hour of the Wolf
1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson). It received five Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture (rare for a foreign-language film). Cinematographer Sven Nykvist won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
Cries and Whispers
1975 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. It is a satire on Russian literature starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Boris and Sonja, Russians living during the Napoleonic Era who engage in mock-serious philosophical debates. Allen considered it the funniest film he had made up until that point
Love and Death
2004 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar and Francisco Boira, the film focuses on two reunited childhood friends and lovers caught up in a stylized murder mystery.
Bad Education
Mexican actor and filmmaker. He is known for his performances in the films Bad Education (2004), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Amores perros (2000), Y tu mamá también (2001), Babel (2006), Coco (2017), and Old (2021), for his role as the titular character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television special Werewolf by Night (2022), and for his role as Rodrigo de Souza in the series Mozart in the Jungle (2014–18).
Gabriel Garcia Bernal
1969 Franco-Italian World War II suspense-drama film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Simone Signoret. It is an adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s 1943 book of the same name, which mixes Kessel’s experiences as a member of the French Resistance with fictional versions of other Resistance members.
Army of Shadows
a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants).
Wladyslaw Reymont
1975 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the novel of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Set in the industrial city of Łódź, the film tells the story of a Pole, a German, and a Jew struggling to build a factory in the raw world of 19th-century capitalism.
The Promised Land
2007 Polish historical drama film about the 1940 ____ massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of _____ by Andrzej Mularczyk. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards.
Katyn
1953 American screwball comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and written and produced by Nunnally Johnson. Stars Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe (Pola Debevoise), and Lauren Bacall as three fashionable Manhattan models, along with William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, and Cameron Mitchell as their wealthy marks.
How to Marry a Millionaire
1957 British romantic comedy film starring Marilyn Monroe (Elsie Marina) and Laurence Olivier (Charles, the Prince Regent of Carpathia), who also served as director and producer. The screenplay written by Terence Rattigan was based on his 1953 stage play The Sleeping Prince.
The Prince and the Showgirl
1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine as title character.
Irma la Douce
1966 American black comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It was the first film in which Jack Lemmon collaborated with Walter Matthau. Matthau won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. A tale of greed and recouping lost love revolving around a shyster lawyer and a cameraman.
The Fortune Cookie
1960 French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut that stars Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist with Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, and Michèle Mercier as the three women in his life.
Shoot the Piano Player
1970 French film by director François Truffaut. Featuring Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner and Jean Dasté, it tells the story of a child who spends the first eleven or twelve years of his life with little or no human contact. It is based on the true events regarding the child Victor of Aveyron, reported by Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard.
The Wild Child
1971 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and adapted from a 1956 novel of the same name by Henri-Pierre Roché. It stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Claude, Kika Markham as Anne, and Stacey Tendeter as Muriel. Claude Roc, a young Frenchman meets Ann Brown, who intends to get him married to her sister. The duo decide to meet after a year and get married, but Claude sends her a break-off letter instead.
Two English Girls
1975 French historical drama film directed by François Truffaut, and starring Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, and Sylvia Marriott. Film about daughter of Victor Hugo, whose obsessive unrequited love for a military officer leads to her downfall. 20-year-old Isabelle Adjani received much critical acclaim for her performance as Hugo, garnering an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role, making her the youngest Best Actress nominee ever at the time.
The Story of Adele H
1976 French film directed by François Truffaut about childhood innocence and child abuse. In English-speaking countries outside North America, the film is known as Pocket Money.
Small Change
1965 fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese, and Valeska Gert. The film is about the visions, memories, and mysticism that help a middle-aged woman find the strength to leave her philandering husband. The film uses “caricatural types and dream situations to represent a psychic landscape”. Woody Allen loosely remade into 1990 film Alice.
Juliet of the Spirits
1973 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano (situated near the ancient walls of Rimini)[2] in 1930s Fascist Italy. The film’s title is a univerbation (words combined to form a single word) of the Romagnol phrase.
Amarcord
In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as Everybody’s Fine, The Legend of 1900, Malèna, Baarìa and The Best Offer. His most noted film is Cinema Paradiso which won Oscar.
Giuseppe Tornatore
1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, and features an ensemble cast. The screenplay describes the divergent paths a couple takes following their divorce. Kenneth Branagh as Lee Simon and Judy Davis as Robin Simon.
Celebrity
Who directed 1961 New Wave film Last Year at Marienbad? Set in a palace in a park that has been converted into a luxury hotel, it stars Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi as a woman and a man who may have met the year before and may have contemplated or started an affair.
Alain Resnais
British film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing feature films such as Point Blank (1967), Hell in the Pacific (1968), Deliverance (1972), Zardoz (1974), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Excalibur (1981), The Emerald Forest (1985), Hope and Glory (1987), The General (1998), The Tailor of Panama (2001) and Queen and Country (2014).
Sir John BOORMAN
1965 feature-film debut of director John Boorman. It was designed as a vehicle for pop band the Dave Clark Five, whose popularity at the time rivalled that of the Beatles, and it is named after their hit song.
Catch Us If You Can
1982 British period comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. Originally produced for Channel 4, the film is a form of murder mystery, set in rural Wiltshire, England in 1694 (during the joint reign of William III and Mary II). The period setting is reflected in Michael Nyman’s score, which borrows widely from Henry Purcell, and in the extensive and elaborate costume designs (which, for effect, slightly exaggerate those of the period).
The Draughtman’s Contract
1956 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps.
Night and Fog
1997 Spanish film directed and co-scored by Alejandro Amenábar & written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. It stars Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez and Najwa Nimri. The film’s intersecting planes of dream and reality have prompted some critics to suggest comparisons to Calderón de la Barca’s 1635 play Life Is a Dream. An American remake entitled Vanilla Sky, directed by Cameron Crowe, was released in 2001, with Penélope Cruz reprising her role.
Open Your Eyes
1998 Taiwanese drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The film stars Tony Leung as a wealthy patron and Michiko Hada, set in high-class brothels.
Flowers of Shanghai
Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan’s New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
HOU Hsiao-hsien
1953 French essay film directed by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet about historical African art and the effects colonialism has had on how it is perceived. The film won the 1954 Prix Jean Vigo. Because of its criticism of colonialism, the second half of the film was banned in France until the 1960s.
Statues Also Die
1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the stable time loop story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white. 12 Monkeys was a remake.
La Jetee (The Pier)
1977 French essay film by Chris Marker. It focuses on global political turmoil in the 1960s and ’70s, including the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America. the film’s title evokes a dissonance between the promise of a global socialist revolution and its actual nonexistence.
A Grin Without a Cat
1983 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker. It is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. Named for a Modest Mussorgsky song cycle.
Sans Soleil
Who directed 1964 film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg?
Jacques Demy
French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. 1963 two-part novel The Water of the Hills adapted into films Jean de Florette and Manon des sources. Wrote Marius, Fanny, and César.
Marcel Pagnol
French actor in 1996 he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival together with Belgian actor Pascal Duquenne. He is also the winner of two César Awards for Best Actor, one in 1987 as Ugolin Soubeyran in Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources and one for his role in Girl on the Bridge. For his role in Jean de Florette he also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Daniel Auteuil
1967 French musical comedy film written and directed by Jacques Demy. The ensemble cast is headlined by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac. Michel Legrand composed the score for the film, to Demy’s lyrics. The most famous songs from the film are “A Pair of Twins” (“Chanson des Jumelles”) and Maxence’s Song (“Chanson de Maxence”), which was later relyricized by Alan and Marilyn Bergman as “You Must Believe in Spring”.
The Young Girls of Rochefort
1964 Brazilian Western adventure film directed and written by Glauber Rocha, and starring Othon Bastos, Maurício do Valle, Yoná Magalhães, and Geraldo Del Rey. During yet another drought-blighted year in the sertão, the arid hinterland of the north-east Brazil, ranch hand Manoel kills his boss after a dispute over money. Manoel and his wife Rosa flee.
Black God, White Devil
Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most influential moviemakers of Brazilian cinema and a key figure of Cinema Novo. His films Black God, White Devil and Entranced Earth are often considered to be two of the greatest achievements in Brazilian cinematic history. Died 42 from lung infection.
Glauber Rocha
1966 spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci, starring Franco Nero (in his breakthrough role) as the title character alongside Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez and Eduardo Fajardo. The film follows a Union soldier-turned-drifter and his companion, a mixed-race prostitute, who become embroiled in a bitter, destructive feud between a gang of Confederate Red Shirts and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.
Django
Chilean-French avant-garde filmmaker. Best known for his 1970s films El Topo and The Holy Mountain and own version of Dune which was never made. 2016 Endless Poetry.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
1970 Mexican acid Western film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Judeo-Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about title character a violent, black-clad gunfighter played by Jodorowsky and his quest for enlightenment.
El Topo
He was one of the first Brazilian filmmakers to gain international critical acclaim, through his films which often dealt with social outcasts on the fringes of society. His best-known works include Pixote (1980), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Ironweed (1987), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1990) and Carandiru (2003).
Hector Babenco
1987 American drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. Adapted to the screen by William Kennedy from his similarly named Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. The story concerns the relationship of a homeless couple—Francis, an alcoholic, and Helen, a terminally ill woman—during the years following the Great Depression.
Ironweed
2003 Brazilian drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. It is based on the book by Dr. Drauzio Varella, a physician and AIDS specialist, who is portrayed in the film by Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos. Tells stories of the namesake Sao Paulo penitentiary with the story culminates with the 1992 massacre where 111 prisoners were killed, 102 by Police.
Carandiru
French fashion model and actress known for her comedic roles in The Pink Panther (1963) and What’s New Pussycat? (1965). Born Germaine Lefebvre and known by mononym.
Capucine
The Painted Bird (Czech: Nabarvené ptáče, Interslavic: Kolorovana ptica) is a 2019 internationally co-produced black and white war drama film written, directed and produced by Václav Marhoul. An adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s novel of the same name, it is the first film to feature which language? Done so no one nation would nationally identify with story.
Interslavic
1982 American documentary film directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty. It is a compilation of clips from newsreels, military training films, and other footage produced in the United States early in the Cold War on the subject of nuclear warfare.
The Atomic Cafe
1984 British-Australian apocalyptic war drama television film it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England. The plot centres on two families as a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts. As the nuclear exchange between NATO and the Warsaw Pact begins, the film depicts the medical, economic, social and environmental consequences of nuclear war.
Threads
He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture. Among his other films are The Body Snatcher (1945), Born to Kill (1947), The Set-Up (1949), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Destination Gobi (1953), This Could Be The Night (1957), Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), I Want to Live! (1958), The Haunting (1963), The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Hindenburg (1975) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
Robert Wise
1963 horror film directed and produced by Robert Wise, adapted by Nelson Gidding from Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel. It stars Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn. The film depicts the experiences of a small group of people invited by a paranormal investigator to investigate a purportedly haunted house.
The Haunting
Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966). It won the Golden Lion at the 27th Venice Film Festival. His other films include Kapò (1960), a Holocaust drama; Burn! (1969), a period film about a fictional slave revolt in the Lesser Antilles; and Ogro (1979), a dramatization of the assassination of Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque separatists.
Gillo Pontecorvo
1960 historical war drama film directed and co-written by Gillo Pontecorvo. It was one of the first narrative films to deal explicitly with the subject of the Holocaust, with graphic depictions of concentration camps which made it controversial at the time. A co-production of Italian, French, and Yugoslavian companies, the film stars American actress Susan Strasberg, along with Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego and Gianni Garko. The title refers to a prisoner functionary in the Nazi concentration camps.
Kapo
French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L’Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991). His work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives, and lengthy running times.
Jacques Rivette
His best-known works include his critically-acclaimed “paranoia trilogy”: the neo-noir mystery Klute (1971), the conspiracy thriller The Parallax View (1974), and the Watergate scandal drama All the President’s Men (1976). His other notable films included Comes a Horseman (1978), Starting Over (1979), Sophie’s Choice (1982), Presumed Innocent (1990), and The Pelican Brief (1993).
Alan J Pakula
Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. She left the Soviet Union and in 1923 published a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life. Died Toronto at 70 in 1940.
Emma Goldman
Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician serving as chairman of the Communist International (Comintern) from 1919 to 1926. He lost the trust of Lenin, who began relying on Leon Trotsky, but was nevertheless elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet and the Comintern, and a full member of the Politburo in 1921. In 1934 he was accused of complicity in the assassination of Sergei Kirov, a close ally of Stalin, and was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Grigory Zinoviev
Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator, and film-score composer. He directed the Oscar-nominated animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir (2008) and the live-action/animated film The Congress.
Ari Folman
2010 animated film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film is based on an unproduced script written by French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati in 1956.
The Illusionist
1967 comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. In the film, Tati again plays Monsieur Hulot, the popular character who had central roles in his earlier films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958). Film is set in a futuristic, hyperconsumerist Paris. The story is structured in six sequences, linked by two characters who repeatedly encounter one another over the course of a day: Barbara, a young American tourist visiting Paris with an American tourist group, and Monsieur Hulot, a befuddled Frenchman lost in the new modernity of Paris.
Playtime
American director directed several critically-acclaimed films dealing with countercultural issues of the late 1960s and 1970s, notably the drama The Chase (1966), the biographical crime film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), the comedy Alice’s Restaurant (1969), and the revisionist Western Little Big Man (1970).
Arthur Penn
Canadian actor. Although primarily a stage actor, he is perhaps best known for his voicing of the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).
Douglas Rain
American film director and visual effects supervisor, who pioneered innovative methods in special effects. He created scenes for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm.
Douglas Trumbull
American film, television, and stage director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Patton (1970), and is known for the films Planet of the Apes (1968), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Papillon (1973), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). He served as president of the Directors Guild of America between 1987 and 1989.
Franklin J Schaffner
Russian statesman who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing the emperor as head of government. Neither liberal nor conservative, he attracted foreign capital to boost Russia’s industrialization. served under the final two emperors of Russia, Alexander III (r. 1881–1894) and Nicholas II (r. 1894–1917). Played by Laurence Olivier in Schaffner’s “Nicholas and Alexandra”.
Sergei Witte
Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. He participated in the October Revolution of 1917; transferred former Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family to Yekaterinburg, where they were later killed; rose to become a commander in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War; fled to China after being captured by the White Army, where he became a government advisor; and returned to the Soviet Union in 1928, where he was eventually arrested and executed. He was portrayed by the actor Ian Holm in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra.
Vasily Yakovlev
He made his theatrical film debut with The Hunger (1983) and went on to direct highly successful action and thriller films such as Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Days of Thunder (1990), The Last Boy Scout (1991), True Romance (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006), and Unstoppable (2010).
Tony Scott
The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and follows Holly Sargis (Spacek), a 15-year old who goes on a killing spree with her partner, Kit Carruthers (Sheen). 1973 film directed by Terrence Malick in his directorial debut.
Badlands
1958 American drama film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners, one white and one black, who are shackled together and who must co-operate in order to survive. It stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. Loads of Oscar noms.
The Defiant Ones
1969 American epic revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means.
The Wild Bunch
American director most known for The Wild Bunch (1969), other films include Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Straw Dogs (1971), The Getaway (1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), Cross of Iron (1977) and Convoy (1978).
Sam Peckinpah
1974 Mexican-American neo-Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, co-written by Peckinpah and Gordon Dawson from a story by Peckinpah and Frank Kowalski, and starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega. Kris Kristofferson plays biker.
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
1976 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It was the third part of Wenders’ “Road Movie trilogy” which included Alice in the Cities (1974) and The Wrong Move (1975). It was the unanimous winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
Kings of the Road
Lyrics from which 1969 hit song include “Knotted, polka-dotted / Twisted, beaded, braided / Powdered, flowered, and confettied / Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied”?
Hair
Pewter is composed of which two metals?
Tin and Antimony (used to be Tin and Lead)
A stylized red arrow appears in the logo of which swimwear brand?
Speedo
Executed by guillotine, Madame du Barry was the last royal mistress of which French king?
Louis XV
Which supermodel made her fourth appearance on the cover of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 2024?
Kate UPTON
Who was the first male tennis player to win the Surface Slam, winning Grand Slam Singles titles on three different surfaces in a calendar year?
Rafael Nadal
Which brand of sneakers was featured in the title of a 1986 song by Run-DMC?
My ADIDAS
Which flower was used as a logo for fashion designer Mary Quant?
Daisy
Which of the five boroughs of New York City is located in New York County?
Manhattan (Brooklyn is Kings County and Staten Island is Richmond County)
Maggots coming to life in rotting meat was proof to Aristotle of which false scientific principle that life could arise from non-living matter?
Spontaneous Generation
What 1999 horror movie starred Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, and Heather Donahue?
The Blair Witch Project
Who was the only Major League Baseball player to play in more than 1,500 games during the 1960s?
Hank AARON
Which utility knife carried by the Gurkhas is the national weapon of Nepal?
KUKRI
Which formula in mathematical logic is true in every possible interpretation?
tautology
French director career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Thrillers became something of a trademark for him, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches (1968), La Femme infidèle (1969), and Le Boucher (1970) – all featuring Stéphane Audran, who was his wife at the time. Also did Madame Bovary in 1991.
Claude Chabrol
He is best known for voicing Chucky in the Child’s Play franchise (1988–present), portraying Gríma Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings film series and his Oscar nominated role as Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). Also Dune 1984.
Brad Dourif
He achieved prominence for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac in the play of the same name, which earned him the inaugural Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1947. He reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the first Hispanic actor and the first Puerto Rican-born to win an Academy Award. His other notable film roles include Charles VII in Joan of Arc (1948), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (1952), defense attorney Barney Greenwald in The Caine Mutiny (1954), Alfred Dreyfus in I Accuse! (1958), which he also directed; the Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Siegfried Rieber in Ship of Fools (1965), and Emperor Shaddam IV in Dune (1984).
Jose Ferrer
1943 French film noir directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Pierre Fresnay, Micheline Francey and Pierre Larquey. The film is about a French town where a number of citizens receive anonymous letters containing libelous information, particularly targeting a doctor accused of providing abortion services. The mystery surrounding the letters eventually escalates into violence.
Le Corbeau (lit. ’The Raven’)
French film actress. She was known for her performances in the films of her husband Claude Chabrol, including Les Biches (1968) and Le Boucher (1970), Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and Gabriel Axel’s Babette’s Feast (1987). Won some BAFTAs.
Stephane Audran
Famous quote: “Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?”. 1931 film starring Edward G Robinson as title character story of a hoodlum who ascends the ranks of organized crime until he reaches its upper echelons, based on real life Mafia boss Salvatore Maranzano.
Little Caesar
Who plays title character Tony “Scarface” Camonte in the 1932 Scarface directed by Howard Hawks? He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, winning the award for his role in the 1936 film The Story of Louis Pasteur.
Paul Muni
Famous film quote: “Made it ma! Top of the world”. 1949 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O’Brien. It’s considered to be one of the best gangster movies of all time.
White Heat
1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on 1975 novel by SE Hinton. Stars Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke. The film centers on the relationship between a character called the Motorcycle Boy (Rourke), a revered former gang leader wishing to live a more peaceful life, and his younger brother, Rusty James (Dillon), a teenaged hoodlum who aspires to become as feared as his brother.
Rumble Fish
He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli’s Shakespeare screen adaptations, and for the first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
Nino Rota
Basque Spanish[1] conquistador who was active in South America. Nicknamed El Loco (“the Madman”), he styled himself “Wrath of God, Prince of Freedom.” Born 16th century. Tried to find El Dorado.
Lope de Aguirre
2005 historical romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement and inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith, Pocahontas of the Powhatan tribe, and Englishman John Rolfe. The cast includes Colin Farrell, Q’orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale.
The New World
He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export.
John Rolfe
He is best known for starring in five films directed by Werner Herzog from 1972 to 1987 (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo, and Cobra Verde), who would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the documentary My Best Fiend.
Klaus Kinski
1987 German drama film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski, in their fifth and final collaboration. Based upon Bruce Chatwin’s 1980 novel The Viceroy of Ouidah, the film depicts the life of a fictional slave trader who travels to the West African kingdom of Dahomey. It was filmed on location in Ghana, Brazil, and Colombia.
Cobra Verde
1972[2] epic historical drama film produced, written and directed by Werner Herzog. Klaus Kinski stars in the title role of Spanish soldier who leads a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in South America in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. The accompanying soundtrack was composed and performed by kosmische band Popol Vuh.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
His 1961 film Divorce Italian Style earned him a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and a Best Director nomination at the 35th Academy Awards. Seven of his films competed at the Cannes Film Festival, with his 1966 comedy The Birds, the Bees and the Italians winning the Palme d’Or.
Pietro GERMI
1962 Mexican film by Luis Buñuel. It is famous for its surrealistic atmosphere, including that a party’s guests can’t walk out of a room, inexplicably. It tells the story of a group of wealthy guests who find themselves unable to leave after a lavish dinner party, and the chaos that ensues. 2016 Thomas Ades opera.
The Exterminating Angel
2020 comedy film, written and directed by Woody Allen. An American-Spanish-Italian co-production, it stars Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López, and Christoph Waltz. It premiered at the 68th San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 18, 2020 and plot takes place at this festival too.
Rifkin’s Festival
2023 French-language comedy-drama thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud and Niels Schneider. The plot involves a young woman bumping into an old high school friend who confesses that he has always had a crush on her; their subsequent lunch meetings, in secret from her possessive businessman husband, lead slowly to a beginning of an affair.
Coup de Chance
1972 British black comedy film. It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes’ satirical 1968 stage play, which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman (played by Peter O’Toole) who inherits a peerage.
The Ruling Class
1977 American science fiction–horror film directed by Donald Cammell. It stars Julie Christie and Fritz Weaver. The film was based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Dean Koontz, and concerns the imprisonment and forced impregnation of a woman by an artificially intelligent computer.
Demon Seed
1945 black and white British anthology supernatural horror film, made by Ealing Studios. The individual segments were directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave. The film is best remembered for the concluding story featuring Redgrave and an insane ventriloquist’s malevolent dummy.
Dead of Night
1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting his footage together into a snuff film used for his own self pleasure.
Peeping Tom
1971 adventure survival film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the 1959 novel by James Vance Marshall. It centres on two white schoolchildren who are left to fend for themselves in the Australian Outback and who come across a teenage Aboriginal boy who helps them to survive.
Walkabout
Australian actor and dancer. He was known for his roles in the films Walkabout (1971), Storm Boy (1976), The Last Wave (1977), Crocodile Dundee (1986), Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Tracker (both 2002) and Australia (2008). An Indigenous Australian and Yolŋu person, he was raised in a traditional lifestyle in Arnhem Land.
David Gulpilil
Spanish film director. He is best known for his two feature fiction films, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), which many regard as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made,[1][2] and El Sur (1983).
Victor Erice
1961 British crime drama film directed by Bryan Forbes, adapted by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from the 1958 novel of the same name by Mary Hayley Bell. Unusually, almost all the main characters are children; the film attempts to show the world through the eyes of an innocent child. Three Lancashire farm children discover a bearded fugitive (the Man/Arthur Blakey) hiding in their barn and mistake him for Jesus Christ.
Whistle Down the Wind
1988 American-French neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Harrison Ford and Emmanuelle Seigner. Ennio Morricone composed the film score. When Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra go to Paris for a conference, Sondra is abducted from their hotel room. While trying to find her, Richard gets caught in a web of smuggling and espionage.
Frantic
1955 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, The film follows a private investigator in Los Angeles who becomes embroiled in a complex mystery after picking up a female hitchhiker. Based on Mickey Spillane book with Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer.
Kiss Me Deadly
The 1970 film directed by Bob Rafelson tells the story of surly oil rig worker Bobby Dupea, whose rootless blue-collar existence belies his privileged youth as a piano prodigy. When Bobby learns that his father is dying, he travels to his family home in Washington to visit him, taking along his uncouth girlfriend.
Five Easy Pieces
1965 British psychological horror thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Catherine Deneuve. the plot follows Carol, a withdrawn, disturbed young woman who, when left alone in the apartment she shares with her sister, is subject to a number of nightmarish experiences. Polanski’s first English speaking film.
Repulsion
1979 drama film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, and Leigh Lawson. It is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1891 nove.
Tess
French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Bear (1988), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Black Gold (2011), and Wolf Totem (2015).
Jean-Jacques Annaud
1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, and Annette O’Toole. Remake of 1942 film. Irena, an orphan, learns a horrific secret about her heritage and transformation possibilities.
Cat People
1982 American musical romantic drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski, Lainie Kazan, and Harry Dean Stanton. Set entirely in Las Vegas. The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner. Rereleased in 2024.
One from the Heart
Due September 2024, FFC film he financed himself. A conflict between Cesar, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare.
Megalopolis
1962 Polish psychological thriller film co-written and directed by Roman Polanski in his feature debut, and starring Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, and Zygmunt Malanowicz. Its plot follows a husband and wife who are accompanied on a boating trip by a young male hitchhiker, who spurs a number of escalating confrontations between the couple.
Knife in the Water
1974 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem. The film revolves around the romance that develops between Emmi, an elderly German woman, and a Moroccan migrant worker in postwar West Germany.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1955 American drama romance film directed by Douglas Sirk, It stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about the social complications that arise following the development of a romance between a well-to-do widow and a younger man, who owns a tree nursery.
All That Heaven Allows
1955 historical romance film and the last completed film of German-born director Max Ophüls, the film depicts the life of Irish dancer and courtesan title character, portrayed by Martine Carol, and tells the story of the most famous of her many notorious affairs, those with Franz Liszt and Ludwig I of Bavaria.
Lola Montes
1969 historical-drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, and starring Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin. Set in 1930s Germany, the film centers on the Essenbecks, a wealthy industrialist family who have begun doing business with the Nazi Party, and whose amoral and unstable heir, Martin (played by Berger in his breakthrough role), is embroiled in his family’s machinations. It is loosely based on the German Krupp family of steel industrialists from Essen.
The Damned
1972 West German New Wave psychological romantic drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on his own play. Featuring an all-female cast, the plot takes place entirely in the home of narcissistic protagonist titlew character, and follows the changing dynamics in her relationships with other women.
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1978 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Hanna Schygulla as title character, whose marriage to the soldier Hermann remains unfulfilled due to World War II and his post-war imprisonment. Maria adapts to the realities of post-war Germany and becomes the wealthy mistress of an industrialist, all that while staying true to her love for Hermann.
The Marriage of Maria Braun
German film director He made nearly 30 films, the latter ones being especially notable: La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) and Lola Montès (1955).
Max Ophuls
Who directed the 1976 American biographical political thriller film about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon? stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively. Jason Robards won BSA for Ben Bradlee. All The President’s Men
Alan J Pakula
American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films Saturday Night Fever (1977), Dracula (1979), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), Stakeout (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990), The Hard Way (1991) and Point of No Return (1993).
John Badham
American actor and former ice hockey player. He portrayed Corporal Lewis Ford in Julius Avery’s 2018 horror film Overlord, Dud in AMC’s Lodge 49 and John Walker / U.S. Agent in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). Famous mum and dad.
Wyatt Russell
Name of the submarine in Wolfgang Petersen 1981 film Das Boot.
U-96
1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its human inhabitants, comforting the distressed. Even though the city is densely populated, many of the people are isolated or estranged from their loved ones. One of the angels, played by Bruno Ganz, falls in love with a beautiful, lonely trapeze artist, played by Solveig Dommartin.
Wings of Desire
1989 Pedro Almodovar film: Pepa, a TV actress, embarks on a journey to find out why her lover Ivan deserted her. En route, she meets his son from a previous relationship and a terrorist cell which has kidnapped her best friend.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1989 American independent drama film written and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The plot tells the story of a troubled man who videotapes women discussing their sexuality and fantasies, and its impact on the relationships of a troubled married couple and the wife’s younger sister. 1989 Palme d’or winner.
Sex, Lies and Videotape
1974 Peter Weir first film: Shot mostly in the rural town of Sofala, New South Wales, the film is set in the fictional town of Paris in which most of the inhabitants appear to be directly, or indirectly, involved in profiting from the results of car accidents. The film is considered part of the Australian New Wave genre.
The Cars that ate Paris
1991 Chinese period drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. Based on novel by Su Tong. Set during the Warlord Era in the 1920s, the film tells the story of a young woman who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy man. It was the third of eight collaborations between Zhang and Gong, following Red Sorghum in 1987 and Ju Dou in 1990.
Raise the Red Lantern
Who played Captain Ahab in John Huston directed 1956 Moby Dick?
Gregory Peck
1977 adventure film based on Peter Benchley’s 1976 novel of the same name. It was directed by Peter Yates, and stars Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte. Two divers get enmeshed in a conflict with treasure hunters after they dare to venture into a dangerous wreck in the Bermudan waters.
The Deep
American filmmaker, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy. output includes the films Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The ‘Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).
Joe Dante
English film actress known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. She has been referred to as the “Queen of All Scream Queens”[2] and “Britain’s first lady of horror”.[3] She played the dual role of Asa and Katia Vajda in Mario Bava’s landmark film Black Sunday (1960), and starred in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Long Hair of Death (1964), and Castle of Blood (1964). supporting roles in Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963), David Cronenberg’s Shivers (1975), Joe Dante’s Piranha and Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby.
Barbara Steele
2003 American survival horror thriller film. The story concerns an American couple who go scuba diving while on vacation, only to find themselves stranded miles from shore in shark-filled waters when the crew of their boat accidentally leaves them behind.
Open Water
American documentary film on the impact and legacy of the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster film Jaws.[1] It features interviews with a range of cast and crew from the film. It is narrated by Roy Scheider and dedicated to Peter Benchley. 2012 doc by Erik Hollander.
The Shark Is Still Working
comedic stage play written by British playwrights Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon. The play is a comedic exploration of the behind-the-scenes drama that took place during the filming of the 1975 film Jaws, which was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Shaw’s father, Robert Shaw, as well as Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss.
The Shark Is Broken
2013 action drama film[7] written and directed by J. C. Chandor. The film stars Robert Redford as a man lost at sea.[A] Redford is the only cast member, and the film has 51 spoken English words. All Is Lost is Chandor’s second feature film, following his 2011 debut Margin Call. The title of the film is a nod to E. W. Hornung’s observation that when courage is lost, ____ ___ _____.
All Is Lost
In sailing, two word term a way of slowing a sailing vessel’s forward progress, as well as fixing the helm and sail positions so that the vessel does not have to be steered.[1] It is commonly used for a “break”; this may be to wait for the tide before proceeding, or to wait out a strong or contrary wind. For a solo or shorthanded sailor it can provide time to go below deck, to attend to issues elsewhere on the boat or to take a meal break.
Heaving to
Three letter word: triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast of a sailing vessel. Its forward corner (tack) is fixed to the bowsprit, to the bows, or to the deck between the bowsprit and the foremost mast.
Jib
a sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind on courses between a reach (wind at 90° to the course) to downwind (course in the same direction as the wind). These are constructed of lightweight fabric, usually nylon, and are often brightly colored. They may be designed to perform best as either a reaching or a running ______, by the shaping of the panels and seams. They are attached at only three points and said to be flown.
Spinnaker
sail is a type of large jib or staysail that extends past the mast and so overlaps the main sail when viewed from the side,[1] sometimes eliminating it. It was originally called an “overlapping jib”. Named after a city.
Genoa
From dutch/old english meaning to glide a sailboat with a single mast[1] typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast.
Sloop
a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes this from a yawl, which has its mizzen mast stepped aft of its rudder post.
Ketch
What is the opposite of a clinker built ship (where they overlap)? This is a a method of boat building in which hull planks are laid edge to edge and fastened to a robust frame, thereby forming a smooth surface.
Carvel
December 2024 Marvel film directed by JC Chandor. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays the title character, an enemy of Spiderman, he wants to hunt him like game.
Kraven the Hunter
Name of Quint’s boat in Jaws?
Orca
Who plays Roy Neary in the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss won the Best Actor Oscar in 1977 for which film? He was only 30. The film, produced by Ray Stark, centers on an odd trio of characters: a struggling actor who has sublet a Manhattan apartment from a friend, the current occupant (his friend’s ex-girlfriend, who has just been abandoned), and her precocious young daughter.
The Goodbye Girl
an approach to music education developed in Hungary during the mid-twentieth century by Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher, Curwen developed further and these hand signals seen in Spielberg’s CEOFTK
Kodaly Method
1965 psychological mystery thriller film, directed and produced by Otto Preminger and starring Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea and Laurence Olivier. When her young daughter goes missing, a woman reaches out to the police for help. However, the detective in charge finds no evidence that the little girl ever existed.
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1971 Australian New Wave film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a young schoolteacher who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Wake in Fright
1982 romantic drama film directed by Peter Weir and co-written by Weir and David Williamson. The story is about a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno. It follows a group of foreign correspondents in Jakarta on the eve of an attempted coup by the 30 September Movement in 1965. The film stars Mel Gibson as Australian journalist Guy Hamilton, and Sigourney Weaver as British Embassy officer Jill Bryant. It also stars Linda Hunt as a Chinese-Australian man with dwarfism, Billy Kwan.
The Year of Living Dangerously
2010 American survival film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke. The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II. The film stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan.
The Way Back
1973 American crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin, and starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. De Niro plays “Johnny Boy” Civello. First Scorsese De Niro Collab.
Mean Streets
Who directed The Deer Hunter?
Michael Cimino
1974 American crime comedy film written and directed by Michael Cimino and starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis, a car thief prevents the assassination of a preacher, and partners with him in a series of thefts. He soon learns that his partner is a fugitive bank robber who is hunted by his former gang.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt. It revolves around a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s.
Heaven’s Gate
1985 British historical drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Robert Dillon, and starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski. The film stars Pacino as a frontiersman in the Colony of New York who involuntarily gets involved in the Revolutionary cause during the American Revolutionary War.
Revolution
Canadian director: Among numerous other accolades, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades, for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), and Moonstruck (1987).
Norman Jewison
1975 erotic drama film directed by Just Jaeckin from a screenplay by Sébastien Japrisot, based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Pauline Réage.[3] It stars Corinne Cléry and Udo Kier.
Story of O
Story of O (French: Histoire d’O, IPA: [istwaʁ do]) is an erotic novel written by French author ______ under the pen name ________.
Anne Desclos real name
Pauline Reage pen name
He found great success early in his career directing the Pusher trilogy (1996–2005), the crime drama Bronson (2008), and the adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009). In 2011 he gained newfound stardom directing the action drama film Drive (2011) for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. Only God Forgives (2013) and The Neon Demon (2016).
Nicolas Winding Refn
Director’s career in feature length films began in 1980 with Foxes, and would later direct Flashdance, 9½ Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Jacob’s Ladder, Indecent Proposal, Lolita, and Unfaithful. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for Fatal Attraction.
Adrian Lyne
Born 1260, German Catholic theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire. In later life, he was accused of heresy and brought up before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII with the bull In Agro Dominico of March 27, 1329. He was well known for his work with pious lay groups such as the Friends of God and was succeeded by his more circumspect disciples Johannes Tauler and Henry Suso who was later beatified.
Meister Eckhart
1977 American action-thriller film produced and directed by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer. The plot depicts four outcasts from varied backgrounds meeting in a South American village, where they are assigned to transport cargoes of aged, poorly kept dynamite that is so unstable that it is ‘sweating’ its dangerous basic ingredient, nitroglycerin. Francisco Rabal, and Amidou.
Sorcerer
1982 American satirical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro (in his fifth collaboration with Scorsese), Jerry Lewis and Sandra Bernhard. De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin.
The King of Comedy
1985 American black comedy film[4] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, and produced by Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, and Robert F. Colesberry. Dunne stars as Paul Hackett, an office worker who experiences a series of misadventures while attempting to make his way home from Manhattan’s SoHo district during the night.
After Hours
1997 American epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet. Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, a grandnephew of the Dalai Lama, stars as the adult Dalai Lama, while Tencho Gyalpo, a niece of the Dalai Lama, appears as the Dalai Lama’s mother.
Kundun
1969 French New Wave drama film by Éric Rohmer. It is the third film (fourth in order of release) in his series of Six Moral Tales. Over the Christmas break in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand, the film shows chance meetings and conversations between four single people, each knowing one of the other three. One man and one woman are Catholics, while the other man and woman are atheists.
My Night at Maud’s
French film director gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud’s was nominated at the Academy Awards.[1] He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire’s Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986.
Eric Rohmer
1973 American science fiction comedy film directed by and starring Woody Allen, who co-wrote it with Marshall Brickman. Parodying a dystopic future of the United States in 2173, the film involves the misadventures of the owner of a health food store who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 and defrosted 200 years later in an ineptly led police state.
Sleeper
1997 American black comedy film written, directed by, and co-starring Woody Allen, with an ensemble cast. The central plot features Block driving to a university from which he was once thrown out, to receive an honorary degree. Three passengers accompany him on the trip: a prostitute, a friend, and his son, who he has kidnapped from his ex-wife.
Deconstructing Harry
1971 American social science fiction film co-written and directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by Walter Murch, the film stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence, with Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, and Ian Wolfe in supporting roles. The film is set in a dystopian future in which the citizens are controlled by android police and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotions.
THX 1138
Alphanumeric easter egg found in loads of Pixar films.
A113
1969 Soviet Armenian art film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov. The film is a poetic treatment of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet, ashug and troubadour Sayat-Nova.
The Colour of Pomegranates
1973 film The crew of a space station orbiting the namesake oceanic planet, is going insane under mysterious circumstances. Kelvin, a psychologist, is sent there to find out the cause for this…
Solaris
2000 Hungarian drama film[4] directed by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, based on the 1989 novel The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai. Shot in black-and-white and composed of thirty-nine languidly paced shots, the film portrays the life of János and his uncle György during the communist era in Hungary. It also recounts their journey among helpless citizens as a sinister visiting circus casts a shadow over everyone’s lives. Title refers to a 17th century baroque musical theorist.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Hungarian filmmaker: The drama Damnation (1988) was lauded for its languid and controlled camera movement, which he would become known for internationally. Sátántangó (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) continued his bleak and desolate representations of reality, while incorporating apocalyptic overtones.
Bela TARR
2011 Hungarian period drama film directed by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók and Mihály Kormos. It was co-written by Tarr and his frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai. It recalls the whipping of a title animal in an Italian city that is rumoured to have caused the mental breakdown of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
The Turin Horse
1989 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. The narrative is set in a restless town where a mysterious circus, which exhibits a whale and nothing else, contributes to an apocalyptic atmosphere. Krasznahorkai adapted the novel into a screenplay for the 2000 film Werckmeister Harmonies, directed by Béla Tarr.
The Melancholy of Resistance
2009 internationally co-produced war film directed by Samuel Maoz. It won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, becoming the first Israeli-produced film to have won that honour. In Israel itself the film has caused some controversy.
Lebanon
An assassin is on the loose and the life of the US President in danger. However, Frank Horrigan, a Secret Service agent, vows to protect the president and apprehend the assassin. Wolfgang Petersen directs Clint Eastwood in this 1993 film.
In the Line of Fire
Who directed the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story based on book by Michael Ende and featuring Falkor the Dragon?
Wolfgang Petersen
Name of the reallife ship in the 2000 film The Perfect Storm directed by Wolfgang Petersen?
Andrea Gail
He is known for playing strict authoritarian characters, including Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison drama The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993’s Demolition Man, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in Patch Adams, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Argo. He also played Leland Owlsley in the Daredevil television series, Secretary of Defense Ethan Kanin in 24, and Noah Taylor in Desperate Housewives.
Bob Gunton
1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland. Motaba, a fictional ebolavirus- and orthomyxoviridae-like virus, in Zaire, and later in a small town in California.
Outbreak
1942 British patriotic war film directed by Noël Coward and David Lean, who made his debut as a director. It was made during the Second World War with the assistance of the Ministry of Information. inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was in command of the destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete.
In Which We Serve
1944 British Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway and John Mills. Based on 1939 Noel Coward play: It tells the story of an inter-war suburban London family, set against the backdrop of what were then recent news events, moving from the postwar era of the 1920s to the inevitability of another war, and the passing of the torch from one generation to the next.
This Happy Breed
1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life.
Brief Encounter
1955 British war film about human torpedo and midget submarine attacks in Norwegian fjords against the German battleship Tirpitz. Directed by Ralph Thomas, it is based on two true-life attacks by British commando frogmen, first using Chariot manned torpedoes in Operation Title in 1942, and then X-Craft midget submarines in Operation Source in 1943.
Above Us The Waves
1957 American DeLuxe Color war film in CinemaScope about a battle between an American destroyer escort and a German U-boat during World War II. It stars Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens as the American and German commanding officers, respectively.
The Enemy Below
He is best known for his action films, including Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), and The Hunt for Red October (1990).[1][2] His later well-known films include the action-comedy-fantasy film Last Action Hero (1993), the action film sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), the heist-film remake The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), and The 13th Warrior (1999).
John McTiernan
Who directed Crimson Tide the 1995 film with Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington?
Tony Scott
1995 cyberpunk film directed by Mamoru Oshii and based on manga of Masamune Shirow? The film is set in 2029 in the fictional New Port City and follows Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg public-security agent, who hunts an enigmatic hacker known as the Puppet Master.
Ghost in the Shell
1991 American biographical gangster film directed by Robert Benton, starring Loren Dean as the title character and Dustin Hoffman as real-life gangster Dutch Schultz. The screenplay was adapted by British writer Tom Stoppard from E.L. Doctorow’s 1989 novel of the same name.
Billy Bathgate
Company that makes the replicants in Blade Runner?
Tyrell Corporation
Polygraph like test taken in Blade Runner to prove if replicant or not?
Voight-Kampff test
The ship’s sinking on 28 September 1994, in the Baltic Sea between Sweden, Finland and Estonia, was one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters of the 20th century, claiming 852 lives.
MS Estonia
British-built ocean liner that sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian collier Storstad in the early hours of 29 May 1914. Although the ship was equipped with watertight compartments and, in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster two years earlier, carried more than enough lifeboats for all aboard, she foundered in only 14 minutes. Of the 1,477 people on board, 1,012 died, making it the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history.
RMS Empress of Ireland
Italian captain of the SS Andrea Doria when it sank in July 1956 after colliding with the MS Stockholm
Piero Calamai
novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood’s Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman. Based on real life SS Jeddah.
Lord Jim
Italian former shipmaster who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when the ship struck an underwater rock and capsized off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012 - 16 years in prison now - Captain Coward, Chicken of the Seas
Francesco Schettino
from spanish for straight: widespread and long-lived, violent convectively induced straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms usually taking the form of a bow echo, widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system
Derecho
SL: more accurately a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS), is a line of thunderstorms, often forming along or ahead of a cold front. In the early 20th century, the term was used as a synonym for cold front (which often are accompanied by abrupt and gusty wind shifts).
Squall Line
LEWP: a weather radar formation in which a single line of thunderstorms presenting multiple bow echoes forms south (or equatorward) of a mesoscale low-pressure area with a rotating “head”. LEWP often are associated with a multiple-bow serial derecho and often produce tornadoes, some of which can be strong.
Line echo wave pattern
In meteorology, which D is strong downward and outward gushing wind system that emanates from a point source above and blows radially, that is, in straight lines in all directions from the area of impact at surface level. It originates under deep, moist convective conditions like Cumulus congestus or Cumulonimbus?
Downburst
German Kapitän zur See (naval captain). He was the only commander of the battleship Bismarck during its eight months of service in World War II. The task force’s first major engagement was the Battle of the Denmark Strait, which resulted in the sinking of HMS Hood. Less than a week later, on 27 May, captain and most of his crew died in Bismarck’s last battle.
Ernst Lindemann
Royal Navy officer who served during the First and Second World Wars. He was nicknamed “Tom Thumb”, due to his short stature. He is best known for his command of Force Z during the Japanese invasion of Malaya, where he went down with his flagship, the battleship HMS Prince of Wales
Tom Phillips
the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War, and took place on 17 September 1894, the day after the Japanese victory at the land Battle of Pyongyang. It involved ships from the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Chinese Beiyang Fleet.
Battle of Yalu River
8–9 February 1904 marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. It began with a surprise night attack by a squadron of Japanese destroyers on the neutral Russian fleet anchored at namesake place in Manchuria, and continued with an engagement the following morning; further skirmishing off here would continue until May 1904. The attack ended inconclusively, though the war resulted in a decisive Japanese victory.
Battle of Port Arthur
Who sang the 1963 version of Blue Velvet which got to #1?
Bobby Vinton
Which song by Roy Orbison is sung by associate Ben to Jeffrey and Frank in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet?
In Dreams
1990 American romantic crime drama film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford. Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, the film follows Sailor Ripley and Lula Fortune, a young couple who go on the run from Lula’s domineering mother and the criminals she hires to kill Sailor. Won 1990 Palme d’Or.
Wild at Heart
1977 American independent surrealist psychological body horror film[3] written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch. It tells the story of a man (Jack Nance) who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape.
Eraserhead
1970 Mexican acid Western film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Judeo-Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about a violent, black-clad gunfighter played by Jodorowsky—and his quest for enlightenment.
El Topo
1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and co-written by Trevor D. Rhone, and starring Jimmy Cliff as Ivanhoe “Ivan” Martin. The film is most famous for its reggae soundtrack that is said to have “brought reggae to the world”.
The Harder They Come
1938-2016, Cecil Bustamente Campbell, a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer, songs Al Capone and Whine and Grine
Prince Buster
1997 surrealist neo noir film directed by David Lynch and co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford. It stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, and Robert Blake in his final film role. The film follows a musician (Pullman) who begins receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife (Arquette) in their home. He is suddenly convicted of murder, after which he inexplicably disappears and is replaced by a young mechanic (Getty) leading a different life.
Lost Highway
2006 experimental psychological thriller film written, directed and co-produced by David Lynch. Released with the tagline “A Woman in Trouble”, the film follows the fragmented and nightmarish events surrounding a Hollywood actress (Laura Dern) who begins to take on the personality of a character she plays in a supposedly cursed film production.
Inland Empire
Cast of which 2023 film includes Oscar winners Gary Oldman, Casey Affleck and Rami Malek?
Oppenheimer
What is second given name of Margaret sister to Queen Elizabeth?
Margaret ROSE
Which day of the week is in the title of a number one in 1979 by Blondie?
Sunday Girl
Who was Minister for Foreign Affairs in Soviet Union from 1957 to 1985?
Andrei Gromyko
Who hosts The Fortune Hotel on ITV?
Stephen Mangan
General Gordon killed in 1885 during siege of which city?
Khartoum
For which country is .ae the Top level domain code?
UAE
Which actor, son of a Wigan born character actor, played Bill Tanner, chief of staff MI6 in four most recent Bond films?
Rory Kinnear
For whcih country is .za the top level domain code?
South Africa
Complete the name of cricket team in The Hundred: Manchester ________.
Originals
On the Beaufort Scale 0 is calm, what number is hurricane force?
12
Who was King of Belgium from 1951 to 1993?
Baudouin
The Vltava joins which major river at Melnik which then flows through Germany to the North Sea?
Elbe
Give the name that completes the first line of this poem: “Come into the garden, ______, For the black bat, Night, has flown”?
Maud (by Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Which jockey born in 1942 is the only representative of horse racing in the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame?
Willie Carson
the main summer residence of the Habsburg rulers, located in Hietzing, Vienna. The name meaning “beautiful spring” has its roots in an artesian well from which water was consumed by the court.
Schonbrunn
Whose earliest known miniature of Queen Elizabeth I painted when she was 38 is in the national portrait gallery?
Nicholas Hilliard
Andy Murray won Mens Singles gold at 2012 and 2016 olympics, name either of silver medal winners?
Roger Federer and Juan Martin Del Potro
Who won Gold mens singles at 2020 Tokyo Olympics?
Alexander Zverev
Which swiss female won gold at 2020 tokyo olympics beating Marketa Vondrousova in the final?
Belinda Bencic
nine-time Grand Slam champion in women’s doubles. She won seven of her major titles in her longtime partnership with fellow Czech Barbora Krejčíková, with whom she completed the career Super Slam. She has two other majors partnering Coco Gauff at the 2024 French Open and Taylor Townsend at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. Gold medal at 2020 women doubles too.
Katerina Siniakova
Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. He won two Grand Slam singles titles; the 1996 French Open and the 1999 Australian Open, and a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He also won four Grand Slam doubles titles, and is the most recent man to have won both the men’s singles and doubles titles at the same Grand Slam tournament (which he accomplished at the 1996 French Open).
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Which word beginning “man” is a machine for squeezing water out of washed clothes, consisting of two heavy rollers between which the clothes are passed?
Mangle
Which group did Ringo Starr leave to join The Beatles?
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes
1972 German-language detective film, directed by Wim Wenders adapted from the novel with the same title by Peter Handke. In the film, a goalkeeper has a one-night stand with a woman and proceeds to kill her. He returns to his home town and hides in plain sight, uncertain whether the police is searching for him.
The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty
Austrian film director:
Funny Games 1997
The Piano Teacher 2001
The White Ribbon 2009
Amour 2012
Michael Haneke
Who directed Paris, Texas (1984)?
Wim Wenders
1982 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay was written by Ross Thomas and Dennis O’Flaherty, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. It stars Frederic Forrest as title detective story writer who gets caught up in a mystery very much like one of his own stories.
Hammett
1999 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba. It is named for a danzón.
Buena Vista Social Club
1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its human inhabitants, comforting the distressed. Even though the city is densely populated, many of the people are isolated or estranged from their loved ones. One of the angels, played by Bruno Ganz, falls in love with a beautiful, lonely trapeze artist, played by Solveig Dommartin.
Wings of Desire
1974 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It is the first part of Wenders’ “Road Movie trilogy”, which also includes The Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976). The film was shot in black and white by Robby Müller, and contains several long scenes without dialogue. A professional writer loses a job due to his inability to complete an assignment. When he tries to travel to Munich, a stranger entrusts her daughter to his care and then disappears, and the duo search for the girl’s estranged grandmother, aided only by the girl’s hazy memories.
Alice in the Cities
1977 neo-noir film written and directed by Wim Wenders, adapted from the 1974 novel Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith. It stars Dennis Hopper as career-criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an assassin.
The American Friend
From 1959 to 1960 he played the title role in the NBC detective series Johnny Staccato. He then acted in notable films such as Martin Ritt’s film noir Edge of the City (1957), Roman Polanski’s horror film Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Elaine May’s crime drama Mikey and Nicky (1976). He earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in the Robert Aldrich war film The Dirty Dozen (1967).
John Cassavetes
American actor. He appeared in five films over seven years: The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and The Deer Hunter (1978), each of which was nominated as Best Picture at their respective Academy Awards. Died 1978 aged 42, partner Meryll Streep 2 years.
John Cazale
1989 Spanish dark romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Victoria Abril and Antonio Banderas. The plot follows a recently released psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in order to make her fall in love with him. He believes his destiny is to marry her and father her children.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1991 melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes and Miguel Bosé. The plot follows the fractured relationship between a self-involved mother, a famous torch singer, and her grown daughter she had abandoned as a child. The daughter, who works as a television newscaster, has married her mother’s ex-lover and has befriended a female impersonator. A murder further complicates this web of relationships.
High Heels
1937 American drama film based on Olive Higgins Prouty’s 1923 novel of the same name. It was directed by King Vidor and stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, and Anne Shirley. At the 10th Academy Awards, Stanwyck and Shirley were nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, respectively. When title character separates from husband, she makes her daughter, Laurel the focus and purpose of her life and eventually makes the ultimate sacrifice for her.
Stella Dallas
1945 American melodrama/film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, and Zachary Scott, also featuring Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Bruce Bennett. Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, this was Crawford’s first starring role for Warner Bros., after leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Mildred Pierce
1978 drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Ingrid Bergman (in her final film role), Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. Its plot follows a celebrated classical pianist and her neglected daughter who meet for the first time in years, and chronicles their painful discussions of how they have hurt each other. It was the first and only collaboration by Ingrid Bergman and Ingmar Bergman (who were not related).
Autumn Sonata
Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz stars as Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene returns from the dead to tie up loose ends. The plot originates in Almodóvar’s earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995).
Volver
Murdered in 1975 Ostia, openly gay Italian filmmaker, He is known for directing the movies from Trilogy of Life (The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights).
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Born 1906 Milan, best-known films include Senso (1954) and The Leopard (1963), which are historical melodramas adapted from Italian literary classics, the gritty drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), and his “German Trilogy” – The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973). Won several notable accolades, including both the Palme d’Or (for The Leopard) and the Golden Lion (for 1965’s Sandra).
Luchino Visconti
1997 erotic romantic thriller drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by English author Ruth Rendell. The film stars Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina. Victor, a pizza delivery boy, is in love with Elena, a prostitute, but she doesn’t like him, and they end up arguing. Later, Victor is sent to jail and Elena marries David, a former cop.
Live Flesh
2002 Spanish psychological melodrama[2] film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling. The film follows two men who form an unlikely friendship as they care for two women who are both in comas. Almodovar won Best Original Screenplay oscar.
Talk to Her
1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. The story follows a woman (Gena Rowlands) whose unusual behavior leads to conflict with her blue-collar husband (Peter Falk) and family. It received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Actress and Best Director.
A Woman Under the Influence
1990 American comedy drama film written, produced, and directed by Richard Linklater, who also stars in it. Filmed around Austin, Texas on a budget of $23,000, the film follows an ensemble cast of eccentric and misfit locals throughout a single day. Each character is on screen for only a few minutes before the film picks up someone else in the scene and follows them.
Slacker
1995 American psychological horror film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore. Set in 1987, it follows a suburban housewife in Los Angeles whose monotonous life is abruptly changed when she becomes sick with a mysterious illness which she believes is caused by the environment around her.
Safe
1998 American crime comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Frank, adapted from Elmore Leonard’s 1996 novel of the same name. The first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and actor George Clooney. There are also special appearances by Michael Keaton, briefly reprising his role as Ray Nicolette from Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown the previous year. The film led to a short-lived spin-off television series in 2003 titled Karen Sisco starring Carla Gugino.
Out of Sight
Director of: Poison (1991), Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine, Far from Heaven, I’m Not There, Carol, Wonderstruck, Dark Waters, May December.
Todd Haynes
2002 historical romantic drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes, and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson. The film tells the story of Cathy Whitaker, a 1950s housewife, living in wealthy suburban Connecticut as she sees her seemingly perfect life begin to fall apart.
Far From Heaven
1997 American black comedy film, written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, and Stacy Edwards. The film revolves around two male co-workers, Chad and Howard, who, angry and frustrated with women in general, plot to toy maliciously with the emotions of a deaf female subordinate.
In the Company of Men
1963 American drama film produced independently, directed by Otto Preminger. A Boston priest deals with illicit love, racism and war as he rises in the church.
The Cardinal
1991 American romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee. Starring Lee, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, explores the beginning and end of an extramarital interracial relationship against the urban backdrop of the streets of New York City in the early 1990s
Jungle Fever
2002 American action drama film directed by Spike Lee and starring Edward Norton. Adapted by David Benioff from his own 2001 debut novel The 25th Hour, it tells the story of a man’s last 24 hours of freedom as he prepares to go to prison for seven years for dealing drugs.
25th Hour
1965 British prison drama war film directed by Sidney Lumet, set in an army prison in North Africa during the Second World War. It stars Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen. drama set in a harsh military stockade in WWII Africa.
The Hill
1986 American black-and-white comedy drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Spike Lee. Beautiful Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) can’t decide what kind of man she wants to date, so she decides to date three at the same time. The first is Greer Childs (John Canada Terrell), a rich, handsome narcissist. Then there’s Jamie Overstreet (Tommy Redmond Hicks), a stable, overprotective alpha male. Finally, there’s Mars Blackmon (Spike Lee), a timid geek with a heart of gold.
She’s Gotta Have It
1984 Chinese drama film. This film is telling a story of a young, village girl who bravely resists old-dated customs and searches for freedom. It was the directorial debut for Chen Kaige. The film’s notable cinematography is by Zhang Yimou. In the spring of 1939, an idealistic communist soldier (Wang Xueqi) takes to the Chinese countryside on a mission to collect spirited folk songs from the people.
Yellow Earth
Chinese filmmaker. A leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese directors, Chen is known for his visual flair and epic storytelling.[1][2] Chen won the Palme d’Or at 1993 Cannes Film Festival and the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Award in 1993 for directing Farewell My Concubine.
Chen Kaige
1987 Chinese film about a young woman’s life working in a distillery for liquor directed by Zhang Yimou in his directorial debut.
Red Sorghum
She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, debuted in Zhang’s Red Sorghum in 1987, including the Oscar-nominated features Ju Dou (1990) and Raise the Red Lantern (1991). Also starred in the Chen Kaige-directed Oscar-nominated Farewell My Concubine (1993).
Gong Li
1990 film directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, starring Gong Li as the title character. The film, based on the novel Fuxi, Fuxi (伏羲伏羲) by Liu Heng, is a tragedy that revolves around title character, a beautiful young woman sold as a wife to Jinshan, an elderly cloth dyer. It became the first Chinese film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Ju Dou
Hong Kong actor known for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai, with whom he has worked in seven films, including Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 (2004), and The Grandmaster (2013). He later came to prominence in Hollywood with his role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).
Tony Leung
He continued to be active in Hong Kong cinema in the 2000s, appearing in the critically acclaimed wuxia film as the antagonist Long Sky in Hero (2002), opposite Li once again. In 2003, he played the antagonist Wu Chow in the American action comedy film Shanghai Knights, opposite Jackie Chan. He later appeared in the American films Rogue One (2016), XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), Mulan (2020), and John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023).
Donnie Yen
1994 Hong Kong arthouse romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, consists of two stories told in sequence, each about a lovesick Hong Kong policeman mulling over his relationship with a woman. The first story stars Takeshi Kaneshiro as a cop obsessed by his breakup with a woman named May, and his encounter with a mysterious drug smuggler (Brigitte Lin). The second stars Tony Leung as a police officer roused from his gloom over the loss of his flight attendant girlfriend (Valerie Chow) by the attentions of a quirky snack bar worker (Faye Wong).
Chungking Express
1997 Hong Kong romantic drama film directed by Wong Kar-wai starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, depicting a couple’s turbulent romance. The English title is inspired by the Turtles’ 1967 song of the same name.
Happy Together
2000 romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Wong Kar-wai. A co-production between Hong Kong and France, it portrays a man (Tony Leung) and a woman (Maggie Cheung) in 1962 whose spouses have an affair together and who slowly develop feelings for each other. It forms the second part of an informal trilogy, alongside Days of Being Wild and 2046.
In the Mood for Love
Landmark Chinese film from 1983. The film tells the story of eight criminals and a deserting Chinese officer in the communist Eighth Route Army caught in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Zhang Junzhao.
One and Eight
1999 science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg. The film follows Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a game designer who finds herself targeted by assassins while playing a virtual reality game of her own creation.
Existenz
2022 science fiction body horror drama film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart. It follows a performance artist duo (Mortensen and Seydoux) who perform surgery for audiences in a future where human evolution has accelerated for much of the population.
Crimes of the Future
1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, the title psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out these people to use them for its own purposes. It is particularly well known for a scene that depicts Revok psychically causing a rival’s head to explode.
Scanners
2014 internationally co-produced satirical drama film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, The film concerns the plight of a child star and a washed up actress while commenting on the entertainment industry’s relationship with Western civilization as a whole.
Maps to the Stars
2012 drama film written, produced, and directed by David Cronenberg. It stars Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton, is based on Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel.
Cosmopolis
2024 arthouse horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Diane Kruger, Vincent Cassel, and Guy Pearce. Karsh (VC), 50, is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed’s corpses as they decay in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.
The Shrouds
2011 historical drama film directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Gadon, and Vincent Cassel. Set across a period from 1902 to the eve of World War I, A Dangerous Method follows the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung (MF), founder of analytical psychology, Sigmund Freud (VM), founder of the discipline of psychoanalysis, and Sabina Spielrein (KK), initially Jung’s patient and later a physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts.
A Dangerous Method
Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Sigmund Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community. His father was the “Founding Father” of criminal profiling. A champion of an early form of anti-psychiatry and sexual liberation, he also developed an anarchist form of depth psychology. Vincent Cassel in A Dangerous Method.
Otto GROSS
1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal of snuff films.
Videodrome
1975 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, and Barbara Steele. After a scientist living in a posh apartment complex slaughters a teen girl and kills himself, investigators discover that the murderer had been carrying on experiments involving deadly parasites.
Shivers
American screenwriter, film producer, and director. He is best known for writing the screenplays for the films L.A. Confidential and Mystic River. He also wrote and directed the films 42, a biopic of Jackie Robinson, and Legend, about the rise and fall of the infamous London gangsters the Kray twins. His work on L.A. Confidential earned him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Brian Helgeland
Film director who directed L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile, Wonder Boys, In Her Shoes, Chasing Mavericks, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle?
Curtis Hanson
1998 Danish black comedy-drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and produced by Nimbus Film. It tells the story of a family gathering to celebrate their patriarch’s 60th birthday, during which a family secret is revealed. It was the first film of the Dogme 95 movement, which was created by Vinterberg and his fellow Danish director Lars von Trier.
Festen (The Celebration)
Three films made by Park Chan-Wook known as the Vengeance Trilogy?
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
Oldboy
Lady Vengeance
Decision to Leave was a 2022 South Korean neo-noir romantic mystery film directed, co-written and produced by which Korean director? Won Best Director at Cannes in 2022.
Park Chan-wook
2009 horror film written, produced and directed by Park Chan-wook. Based on the 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola,[5] the film stars Song Kang-ho as Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest who turns into a vampire as a result of a failed medical experiment, and falls in love with Tae-ju (Kim Ok-bin), the wife of his childhood friend (Shin Ha-kyun).
Thirst
2016 South Korean historical psychological thriller film directed, co-written and co-produced by Park Chan-Wook and starring Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo and Cho Jin-woong. It is inspired by the 2002 novel Fingersmith by Welsh writer Sarah Waters.
The Handmaiden
2011 internationally co-produced drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film’s writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe. Co-won Grand Prix at Cannes 2011.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2009 German-language mystery drama film, written and directed by Michael Haneke. Released in black-and-white, the film offers a dark depiction of society and family in a northern German village just before World War I. Won Palme d’Or.
The White Ribbon
1964 French New Wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, its French title derives from the phrase faire bande à part, which means “to do something apart from the group”. The film is about three people who commit a robbery.
Band of Outsiders
1984 American independent neo-noir crime film written, edited, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh. Its plot follows a Texas bartender who is having a love affair with his boss’s wife. When his boss discovers the affair, he hires a private investigator to kill the couple. First major film of cinematopgrapher Barry Sonnenfeld. The film’s title derives from the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest (1929).
Blood Simple
American filmmaker and television director. He originally worked as a cinematographer for the Coen brothers before directing films such as The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993), Get Shorty (1995), the Men in Black trilogy (1997–2012), and Wild Wild West (1999).
Barry Sonnenfeld
1999 American crime comedy film written by John August and directed by Doug Liman, with intertwining plots involving three sets of characters. The film stars William Fichtner, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, Sarah Polley. The film is set around Christmas. A woman purchases ecstasy pills, covertly disposes of them, and then sells fake pills at a rave. She is later confronted by an armed drug dealer.
Go
American film director and producer. He is known for directing the films Swingers (1996), Go (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Jumper (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), American Made (2017) and Road House (2024).
Doug LIMAN
Ashes and Diamonds (Polish: Popiół i diament) is a 1958 Polish drama film directed by which Polish director?
Andrzej Wajda
1990 historical war drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland, and starring Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, and André Wilms. It is based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German-Jewish boy who escaped the Holocaust by masquerading as a Nazi and joining the Hitler Youth.
Europa Europa
Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She is best known for Europa Europa (1990), The Secret Garden (1993), Angry Harvest and the Holocaust drama In Darkness, the last two of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Agnieszka Holland
1991 drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Irène Jacob and Philippe Volter. Written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the film explores the themes of identity, love, and human intuition through the characters of Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, a French music teacher.
The Double Life of Veronique
1979 American prison thriller film directed and produced by Don Siegel. The film stars Clint Eastwood as escape ringleader Frank Morris, alongside Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin with Danny Glover appearing in his film debut.
Escape from Alcatraz
Who directed La Haine? Also appeared in Amelie as actor. Also directed Gothika, Babylon A.D., Rebellion.
Matthieu Kassovitz
2014 French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma. The plot focuses on the life of Marieme (Karidja Touré), a teenage girl who lives in a rough neighbourhood on the outskirts of Paris.
Girlhood
2014 American drama film co-written and directed by David Zellner. The story is based on the urban legend surrounding Takako Konishi, and her search of the fictional ransom money seen buried in the snow from the 1996 film Fargo.
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
1991 American black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a film studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie Meadows, the insurance salesman who lives next door at the run-down Hotel Earle. It won Palme d’Or.
Barton Fink
1976 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gérard Brach, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Roland Topor. The film stars Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas. It is the final installment in Polanski’s “Apartment Trilogy”, following Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary’s Baby (1968). A delusional man rents an apartment in an isolated building after the previous owner tried to kill herself. To make matters worse, the man feels that the whole building is planning to kill him.
The Tenant
She is the only performer to win five César Awards for acting—all in the Best Actress category—for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), La Reine Margot (1994), and Skirt Day (2009). Her portrayal of Adèle Hugo in The Story of Adèle H. (1975) earned her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which made her, at 20, the youngest nominee in that category at the time. Her second Best Actress nomination came in 1990 for portraying Camille Claudel, making her the first French actress to receive two Academy Award nominations for foreign-language films.
Isabelle Adjani
1990 American neo-noir gangster film written, directed and produced by the Coen brothers and starring Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J. E. Freeman, and Albert Finney. The plot concerns a power struggle between two rival gangs and how the protagonist, Tom Reagan (Byrne), plays both sides against each other.
Miller’s Crossing
1994 screwball comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by the Coen brothers. Sam Raimi co-wrote the script and served as second unit director. The film stars Tim Robbins as a naïve but ambitious business school graduate who is installed as president of a manufacturing company, Jennifer Jason Leigh as a newspaper reporter, and Paul Newman as a company director who hires the graduate as part of a stock scam.
The Hudsucker Proxy
2001 neo-noir crime film written, directed, produced and co-edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco. The film is set in 1949 and tells the story of Ed Crane, a withdrawn barber who leads an ordinary life in a small California town with his wife, who he suspects is having an affair with her boss.
The Man Who Wasn’t There
1997 Canadian drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, adapted from the 1991 novel by Russell Banks. It tells the story of a school bus accident in a small town that kills 14 children. A class-action lawsuit ensues, proving divisive in the community and becoming tied with personal and family issues. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Maury Chaykin.
The Sweet Hereafter
His roles include Andrew Detmer in Chronicle (2012), Jason Glanton in The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Lucien Carr in Kill Your Darlings (2013), Harry Osborn / Green Goblin in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Lockhart in A Cure for Wellness (2016), Valerian in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), Chris Lynwood in ZeroZeroZero, and Kenneth Nichols in Oppenheimer (2023).
Dane DeHaan
1994 Canadian film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, and starring Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, and Elias Koteas. Set primarily in the fictional namesake strip club in Toronto, the film concerns a father grieving over the loss of a child and his obsession with a young stripper.
Exotica
2002 historical-drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer, David Alpay, It is about a family and film crew in Toronto working on a film based loosely on the 1915 defense of Van during the Armenian genocide.
Ararat
German-born American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. He was one of the most prominent Americans who spoke about the Greek genocide and the Armenian genocide of which he stated, “I am firmly convinced that this is the greatest crime of the ages”. Father of a future FDR Treasury star of the New Deal.
Henry Morgenthau Sr
1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman, The film has a Los Angeles setting, which is substituted for the Pacific Northwest backdrop of Carver’s stories. Short Cuts traces the actions of 22 principal characters, both in parallel and at occasional loose points of connection.
Short Cuts
1996 psychological romantic melodrama film directed and co-written by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson in her feature film acting debut, and with Stellan Skarsgård, a frequent collaborator with von Trier. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it is about an unusual young woman and the love she has for her husband. Oilman is a happily married man whose life changes when he gets paralysed.
Breaking the Waves
2003 American psychological thriller film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga The film stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Danny Huston and Benicio Del Toro. The second part of Arriaga’s and Iñárritu’s “Trilogy of Death”, preceded by Amores perros (2000) and followed by Babel (2006).
21 Grams
2000 film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The film is constructed as a triptych: it contains three distinct stories connected by a car crash in Mexico City. The stories centre on a teenager in the slums who gets involved in dogfighting; a model who seriously injures her leg; and a mysterious hitman. The stories are linked in various ways, including the presence of dogs in each of them.
Amores perros
2022 Mexican epic psychological black comedy-drama film co-written, co-scored, edited, produced, and directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. The film stars Daniel Giménez Cacho alongside Griselda Siciliani, and follows a journalist/documentarian who returns to his native country of Mexico and begins having an existential crisis in the form of dreamlike visions. Title refers to a Buddhist concept.
Bardo
2003 Brazilian drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. It is based on the book Estação __________ by Dr. Drauzio Varella, a physician and AIDS specialist, who is portrayed in the film by Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos. Title is same as famous Sao Paolo penitentiary.
Carandiru
1998 road drama film directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra and Vinícius de Oliveira. It tells the story of a young boy’s friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman. Montenegro’s performance earned her international critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress (becoming the first and to date only Brazilian actress to ever be nominated in the lead actress category), while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Central Station
1976 Brazilian comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Jorge Amado, it takes place in 1940s Bahia and has Sônia Braga, José Wilker and Mauro Mendonça in the leading roles. A widow, marries Dr Teodoro, a respectable gentleman, after the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho’s spirit returns into her life.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Brazilian filmmaker who directed Central Station, Behind the Sun, The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road.
Walter Salles
1998 Danish black comedy-drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It is his first film made in compliance with the Dogme 95 Manifesto, and is also known as Dogme #2. It is the second film in von Trier’s Golden Heart Trilogy, preceded by Breaking the Waves (1996) and succeeded by Dancer in the Dark (2000). A group of boys behave abnormally in front of public in order to break through their inhibitions. Karen gets impressed by their antics and decides follow them to their house.
The Idiots
1991 experimental psychological drama period film directed and co-written by Lars von Trier, it is von Trier’s third theatrical feature film, and the third and final installment in his namesake trilogy, following The Element of Crime (1984) and Epidemic (1987). The film features an international ensemble cast, including Germans Barbara Sukowa and Udo Kier, expatriate American Eddie Constantine, and Swedes Max von Sydow and Ernst-Hugo Järegård. Title chosen as an echo of Kafka’s Amerika.
Europa
2003 film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman hiding from mobsters, who arrives in the namesake small mountain town of Colorado, and is provided refuge in return for physical labor.
Dogville
2006 experimental comedy film written and directed by Lars von Trier. The film uses a cinematic technique invented by von Trier himself called Automavision, which automatically determines framing by randomly tilting, panning or zooming the camera without being actively operated by the cinematographer. The owner of an IT company is forced to hire an actor to play the role of a president when a potential buyer insists on meeting with the non-existing chief.
The Boss of It All
2011 science fiction drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland. The film’s story revolves around two sisters, one of whom marries just before a rogue planet is about to collide with the Earth. Second film in unofficial Depression Trilogy (Antichrist 1st, Nymphomaniac 3rd).
Melancholia
2013 erotic art film written and directed by Lars von Trier. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater. The narrative chronicles Joe’s promiscuous life from adolescence to adulthood and is split into eight chapters told across two volumes.
Nymphomaniac
She made her acting debut in the erotic art film Nymphomaniac (2013). She earned recognition with the films The Survivalist (2015), High Life (2018), Suspiria (2018), and Emma (2020). She achieved a career breakthrough for playing Maxine Minx and Pearl in the X film series (2022–2024), which established her as a scream queen.
Mia Goth
the third wife of Roman emperor Claudius. She was a paternal cousin of Emperor Nero, a second cousin of Emperor Caligula, and a great-grandniece of Emperor Augustus. A powerful and influential woman with a reputation for promiscuity, she allegedly conspired against her husband and was executed on the discovery of the plot.
Messalina
2018 psychological horror art film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It stars Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman. Its plot follows Jack (Dillon), a serial killer who, over a 12-year period from the late 1970s into 1980s, commits numerous murders in the U.S. state of Washington.
The House That Jack Built
He is known for playing Ray Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey (1994), Corporal Timothy Upham in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Snow in Solaris (2002), Bill Henson in Dogville (2003), Charles Manson in Helter Skelter (2004), Sergeant Gene DeBruin in Rescue Dawn (2006) and Daniel Faraday on the series Lost (2008–2010).won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012 for his portrayal of Dickie Bennett in the series Justified (2011–2015). He also received the BAFTA Award for Best Performance in a Video Game for his role as Baldur in God of War (2018).
Jeremy Davies (Jeremy Boring)
2018 disaster drama-thriller film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, based on Robert Moore’s book A Time to Die, about the true story of the 2000 submarine disaster
Kursk
2000 drama film directed by Kristian Levring. The fourth film to be done according to the Dogme 95 rules. A group of tourists are stranded in the Namibian desert when their bus loses its way and runs out of fuel. Decide to put on King Lear play by Shakespeare.
The King Is Alive
1999 American experimental drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine. The story concentrates on Julien, a man with schizophrenia, played by Scottish actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family. The film also stars Chloë Sevigny as Julien’s sister, Pearl, and Werner Herzog as his father. The first non-European film to be made under the Dogme 95 “vow of chastity”.
Julien Donkey-Boy
2005 crime film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and written by Lars von Trier. It stars Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano, Mark Webber, Danso Gordon, Novella Nelson and Alison Pill. Dick, a young boy, finds himself attracted towards guns and weapons. Later, he forms a gang of young boys who are interested in arms and ammunition.
Dear Wendy
1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folk tales. Consisted of The Black Hair, The Woman of the Snow, Hoichi the Earless, In a Cup of Tea.
Kwaidan
1982 film directed by Tobe Hooper, The film focuses on a suburban family whose home is invaded by malevolent ghosts that abduct their youngest daughter. Famous quote: “They’re here.”
Poltergeist
1996 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata. The film is set in a film studio where a war film is being made. A filmmaker discovers a sinister secret after strange events occur in a movie studio. Shares name with 2021 oscar-nominated film.
Don’t Look Up
1998 Japanese supernatural horror film. It is a sequel to the 1998 film Ring. It is directed by Jōji Iida and is based on the novel of the same title by Koji Suzuki. A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend’s wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
Spiral (Rasen)
2001 Japanese techno-horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. A number of people in Tokyo start committing suicide after experiencing paranormal activities. However, they soon learn that the ghosts are trying to save them from the lonely afterlife.
Pulse
2002 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Hideo Nakata and written by Yoshihiro Nakamura and Kenichi Suzuki, based on the short story collection by Koji Suzuki. The plot follows a divorced mother who moves into a rundown apartment with her daughter, and experiences supernatural occurrences including a mysterious water leak from the floor above. American remake directed by Brazilian director Walter Salles.
Dark Water
2003 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike. The film is based on the novel Chakushin Ari by Yasushi Akimoto. The plot revolves around Yumi Nakamura, a young psychology student whose friend Yoko gets a strange voice message on her cell phone. When Yumi receives a call with the date and time of her death, she struggles to save herself and learn the truth behind the calls.
One Missed Call
2002 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. It is the third installment in the Ju-On series and the first to be released theatrically. An evil curse and vengeful spirits seem to linger in a house where the horrific murder of a woman and child took place and anyone who sets foot in the house doesn’t step out alive.
Ju-On: The Grudge
2014 American horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. It stars Maika Monroe as a young woman who is pursued by a supernatural entity after a sexual encounter. Jay Height, a university student, has a sexual encounter with her new boyfriend, Hugh. However, she finds herself being followed by a malevolent force afterwards.
It Follows
Ring (リング, Ringu) is a 1998 Japanese supernatural psychological horror film directed by which Japanese director who did Don’t Look Up, Ring 2, Dark Water?
Hideo Nakata
She is known for starring as Sara Tancredi in Fox’s Prison Break, Lori Grimes in AMC’s The Walking Dead, and more recently, as Birdie Nicolletti in ABC’s The Company You Keep.
Sarah Wayne Callies
1991 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film directed and produced by Tsui Hark. Jet Li stars as Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung.
Once Upon a Time in China
2004 wuxia romance film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Unlike other wuxia films, it is more of a love story than purely a martial arts film.
House of Flying Daggers
Chinese actress gained international recognition for her performance in the wuxia martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Rush Hour 2, Musa, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, 2046, Memoirs of a Geisha.
ZHANG Ziyi
known for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai, with whom he has worked in seven films, including Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 (2004), and The Grandmaster (2013). He also appeared in three Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning films: A City of Sadness (1989), Cyclo (1995) and Lust, Caution (2007), directed by Ang Lee.
Tony LEUNG
Hong Kong former actress. Her most acclaimed performances include As Tears Go By, Center Stage, Green Snake, Irma Vep, Comrades: Almost a Love Story, The Soong Sisters, Hero and Clean. The Wong Kar-wai–directed In the Mood for Love (2000), in which she plays a cheongsam-wearing character opposite male lead Tony Leung.
Maggie Cheung
debuted in Zhang’s Red Sorghum in 1987, a string of critically acclaimed movies, including the Oscar-nominated features Ju Dou (1990) and Raise the Red Lantern (1991). For her role in the Zhang-directed The Story of Qiu Ju (1992). Also starred in the Chen Kaige-directed Oscar-nominated Farewell My Concubine (1993).
GONG Li
2007 erotic period espionage romantic mystery film directed by Ang Lee, based on the 1979 novella of the same name by Eileen Chang, set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when the city was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and ruled by the puppet government led by Wang Jingwei. The film depicts a group of Chinese university students from The University of Hong Kong who plot to assassinate a high-ranking special agent and recruiter working for the puppet government by luring him into a honey trap. Won 2nd Golden Lion.
Lust, Caution
1994 Hong Kong action-comedy kung fu film directed by Lau Kar-leung and starring Jackie Chan as Chinese martial arts master and a Cantonese folk hero, Wong Fei-hung. It was Chan’s first traditional style martial arts film since Fearless Hyena II (1983). BFI said in top 10 action movies of all time.
Drunken Master II
1993 romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Ang Lee. The story concerns a gay Taiwanese immigrant man (played by Winston Chao, in his film debut) who marries a mainland Chinese woman (May Chin) to placate his parents (Gua Ah-leh and Lung Sihung) and get her a green card. Won the Golden Bear.
The Wedding Banquet
1997 American drama film directed by Ang Lee, based on Rick Moody’s 1994 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast of Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood. Set during Thanksgiving 1973, The Ice Storm is about two dysfunctional New Canaan, Connecticut, upper-class families who are trying to deal with tumultuous social changes of the early 1970s, and their escapism through alcohol, adultery and sexual experimentation.
The Ice Storm
1999 American revisionist Western film directed by Ang Lee and starring Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright. Based on the novel Woe to Live On, by Daniel Woodrell, the film, set during the American Civil War, follows a group of men who join the First Missouri Irregulars, also known as the Bushwhackers—guerrilla units loyal to pro-Confederacy units of the state—and their war against Northern Jayhawkers allied with the Union army.
Ride With the Devil
Which term came into wide use during the American Civil War (1861–1865).[2] It became particularly associated with the pro-Confederate secessionist guerrillas of Missouri, where such warfare was most intense?
Bushwhackers
Which term came to prominence in Kansas Territory during the Bleeding Kansas period of the 1850s; they were adopted by militant bands affiliated with the free-state cause during the American Civil War. These gangs were guerrillas who often clashed with pro-slavery groups from Missouri, known at the time in Kansas Territory as “Border Ruffians” or “Bushwhackers”.
Jayhawkers
a 2002 Japanese anime fantasy film directed by Hiroyuki Morita from a screenplay by Reiko Yoshida, based on the 2002 manga series of the same name by Aoi Hiiragi. Haru, who can communicate with cats, saves Lune, the prince of the Cat Kingdom, and unknowingly accepts his hand in marriage. However, after she enters the kingdom, she starts turning into a cat.
The Cat Returns
1986 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, The film follows orphans Sheeta and Pazu, who are pursued by government agent Muska, the army, and a group of pirates. They seek Sheeta’s crystal necklace, the key to accessing a legendary flying castle hosting advanced technology.
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
1979 Japanese animated action adventure comedy film co-written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is the second animated feature film based on the 1967–69 manga series Lupin III by Monkey Punch. It follows gentleman thief Lupin III, who successfully robs a casino—only to find the money to be counterfeit. He heads to the namesake tiny country.
The Castle of Cagliostro
1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music by Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo star as two young lovers in the title French city, separated by circumstance. The film’s dialogue is entirely sung as recitative, including casual conversation, and is sung-through, or through-composed, like some operas and stage musicals. Won Palme d’Or.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
french director directed Delicatessen, Amelie, Alien Resurrection, City of Lost Children.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1995 dystopian film by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Old and decrepit Krank (Daniel Emilfork) has lost his capacity for dreaming and is attempting to fight death by stealing the dreams of children. Krank’s cadre of cloned henchmen (Dominique Pinon) snatch 5-year-old Denree (Joseph Lucien) to subject him to the horrific dream-retrieval process..
The City of Lost Children
American composer and arranger best known for his film music, notably the scores for his acclaimed collaborations with director David Lynch, Blue Velvet (1986), the Twin Peaks television series, The Straight Story (1999), and Mulholland Drive (2001).
Angelo Badalamenti
2004 romantic war drama film, co-written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel and Marion Cotillard. Mathilde, a young woman, embarks on a journey to look for her fiance Manech, who is soldier stationed at Somme during World War I and is said to be dead along with four other soldiers.
A Very Long Engagement
Who directed 2001 film Lagaan? Also did the social drama Swades (2004) and the epic historical romantic drama Jodhaa Akbar (2008),
Ashutosh Gowariker
2001 Indian Hindi-language epic period musical sports drama film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. The film was produced by Aamir Khan, who stars alongside debutant Gracy Singh and British actors Rachel Shelley and Paul Blackthorne. Set in 1893, during the late Victorian period of British colonial rule in India, the film follows the inhabitants of a village in Central India, who, burdened by high taxes and several years of drought, are challenged by an arrogant British Indian Army officer to a game of cricket.
Lagaan
1957 Indian epic drama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar. A remake of Khan’s earlier film Aurat (1940), it is the story of a poverty-stricken village woman named Radha (Nargis), who in the absence of her husband, struggles to raise her sons and survive against a cunning money-lender amidst many troubles.
Mother India
Among her best known films are Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, the Golden Lion–winning Monsoon Wedding, and Salaam Bombay!, which received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Mira Nair
1988 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair. This was the first feature film directed by Nair. The film depicts the daily lives of children living in slums in Bombay (now Mumbai), India’s largest city. It stars Shafiq Syed, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar.
Salaam Bombay!
1986 TV comedy film directed by Horace Ové, from a screenplay by Caryl Phillips, an English cricket team, fictitiously named “Sneddington” (based in Lavenham, Suffolk), invites a team of West Indian heritage based in Brixton (South London) to play a charity game in support of their “Third World Week.”
Playing Away
2008 Indian Hindi-language epic historical romantic drama musical film directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. It stars Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the titular roles. Set in the 16th century, the film shows the life and love between the Muslim Emperor Akbar of Mughal Empire and a Hindu Princess Jodhaa Bai of Amber, and their political marriage.
Jodhaa Akbar
He is best known for co-directing the film City of God, the Constant Gardener, which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rachel Weisz. He also directed the 2008 adaptation of José Saramago’s novel Blindness, and the 2011 film 360. In 2019 he directed The Two Popes for Netflix.
Fernando Meirelles
Which African country is The Constant Gardener set in as directed by Fernando Meirelles?
Kenya
Bus 174 is a 2002 Brazilian doc by which director? He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the 2014 remake of RoboCop. He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Elite Squad in 2008. He is also the producer of the Netflix original series Narcos, starring frequent collaborator Wagner Moura, and directed the first two episodes in the series.
Jose Padilha
2012 romantic drama film directed by Jacques Audiard, starring Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts. It tells the story of a nightclub bouncer who falls in love with a woman who trains killer whales and lost her legs in a workplace accident.
Rust and Bone
2015 French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, as well as the 1971 film Straw Dogs, with guidance from Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who stars as the title character. The film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives. The film won the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Dheepan
2009 French prison crime film directed by Jacques Audiard, The film stars Tahar Rahim in the title role as an imprisoned petty criminal of Algerian origins who rises in the prison hierarchy, becoming a mob associate and drug trafficker as he is absorbed into the Corsican mafia and then ingratiates himself into the Maghrebi crime syndicate.
A Prophet
His breakthrough performance was in the 2009 French film A Prophet, portraying Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian (2021). He received another Golden Globe Award nomination for portraying Charles Sobhraj in the miniseries The Serpent (2021). Rahim has since portrayed Paul Barras in the period film Napoleon (2023) and has a role in the Sony Spider-Man Universe film Madame Web (2024).
Tahar Rahim
Real name of a serial killer, fraudster, and thief who preyed on Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire of several of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent for “his snake-like ability to avoid detection by authorities”?
Charles Sobhraj
German film director. He is best known for writing and directing the 2006 dramatic thriller Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also wrote and directed the 2010 romantic thriller The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, and the 2018 epic drama Never Look Away.
Florian von Donnersmarck
Who directed 2003 film Good Bye Lenin!?
Wolfgang Becker
2008 German drama film directed by Uli Edel. Written and produced by Bernd Eichinger, it stars Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, and Johanna Wokalek. The film is based on the 1985 German best selling non-fiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust. It retells the story of the early years of the West German far-left terrorist organisation the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction, or Red Army Faction, a.k.a. RAF) from 1967 to 1977.
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes. The film centres on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Won 2007 Best Foreign Language at Oscars.
The Counterfeiters
2006 war drama thriller film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven, and starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn. The film, credited as based on several true events and characters, is about a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands who becomes a spy for the resistance during World War II after tragedy befalls her in an encounter with the Nazis.
Black Book
She gained widespread recognition for her performance in Black Book (2006), the most commercially successful Dutch film to date, She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Valkyrie (2008), received international recognition for her role as Melisandre on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2012–2019).
Carice van Houten
1984 British gothic fantasy horror film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Micha Bergese, and Sarah Patterson in her film debut. The screenplay by Angela Carter and Jordan was adapted from her 1979 short story of the same name. Young Rosaleen dreams that she lives in a forest with her family. When her sister is killed by wolves, she is sent to live with her grandmother while the villagers hunt the forest for the pack.
The Company of Wolves
2001 gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, and written by del Toro, David Muñoz, and Antonio Trashorras. Set in Spain, 1939, during the final year of the Spanish Civil War, the film follows a boy who is left in an orphanage operated by Republican loyalists and haunted by the ghost of a recently-deceased boy. When Carlos, a 12-year-old boy, is admitted to an orphanage after his father’s execution, he makes a horrid discovery by lifting the veil on the tragic secrets of the school.
The Devil’s Backbone
1992 Mexican independent horror drama film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Federico Luppi and Ron Perlman. Antique dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) stumbles across a 400-year-old scarab that, when it latches onto him, grants him youth and eternal life – but also a thirst for blood.
Cronos
2007 gothic supernatural horror film directed by J. A. Bayona in his directorial full-length debut. Laura and her family move into what used to be her former childhood home. Soon, her adopted son, Simon, tells her that he has five invisible friends. But, his seemingly innocent games take a nasty turn.
The Orphanage
He directed the 2007 horror film The Orphanage, the 2012 drama film The Impossible, and the 2016 fantasy drama film A Monster Calls. In 2018, he directed the science fiction adventure film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the fifth installment of the Jurassic Park film series. His 2023 film Society of the Snow was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
J.A. Bayona
2002 American supernatural horror-mystery film directed by Mark Pellington, and starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney. Based on the 1975 book of the same name by parapsychologist and Fortean author John Keel, the screenplay was written by Richard Hatem. The story follows John Klein (Gere), a reporter who researches the legend of the namesake character.
The Mothman Prophecies
1997 American science fiction horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins based on Donald A. Wollheim’s short story of the same name, and starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin. Dr Susan, an entomologist, invents a mutant insect to kill disease-bearing cockroaches. Years later, the species evolves into a monster that threatens to exterminate mankind.
Mimic
Spanish guerrillas who waged an irregular warfare against the Francoist dictatorship within Spain following the Republican defeat in the Spanish Civil War until the early 1960s, carrying out sabotage, robberies (to help fund guerrilla activity) and assassinations of alleged Francoists as well as contributing to the fight against Nazi Germany and the Vichy regime in France during World War II. Name comes from a shrubland found in Spain.
Spanish MAQUIS
1950 Mexican teen crime film directed by Luis Buñuel. Young Pedro gets brainwashed after he starts mingling with a group of juveniles who lead a life full of crime. received Best Director at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. Known as The Young and the Damned in the USA.
Los Olvidados
1994 British black comedy crime film[7] directed by Danny Boyle, in his feature directorial debut, and starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox. Its plot follows a group of flatmates in Edinburgh who set off a chain of events after dismembering and burying a mysterious new tenant who died and left behind a large sum of money.
Shallow Grave
1990 American action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown. The film is about a police officer who shoots and kills a robbery suspect on her first day of duty and then becomes involved with a witness of the shooting.
Blue Steel
1988 play by David Mamet that is a satirical dissection of the American movie business. Similar to name of play 18th century that introduced Mrs Grundy.
Speed-the-Plow
1995 American science fiction thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, from a screenplay by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, and based on a story by Cameron. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis. Set in Los Angeles on the last two days of 1999, the film follows Lenny Nero (Fiennes), a black marketeer of an electronic device that allows a user to experience the recorded memories and physical sensations of other people, and Lornette “Mace” Mason (Bassett), a bodyguard and limousine driver, as they are drawn into a criminal conspiracy involving Nero’s ex-girlfriend Faith Justin (Lewis) and the murder of a prostitute.
Strange Days
2002 American historical submarine film directed and produced by Kathryn Bigelow starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson. The film takes place in 1961 and focuses its story on the Soviet Hotel-class submarine.
K-19: The Widowmaker
1999 docudrama film by James Marsh based on the 1973 historical nonfiction book by Michael Lesy, originally published by Pantheon Books. It charts numerous sordid, tragic, and bizarre incidents that took place in and around Jackson County, Wisconsin between 1885 and 1900, primarily in the town of Black River Falls. The events are outlined through actual written historical documents—primarily articles published in the town newspaper.
Wisconsin Death Trip
British film and documentary director best known for his work on Man on Wire, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and The Theory of Everything, the multi-award-winning biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking released in 2014. King of Thieves, Dance First, The Mercy.
James Marsh
1943 French film noir directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Pierre Fresnay, Micheline Francey and Pierre Larquey. The film is about a French town where a number of citizens receive anonymous letters containing libelous information, particularly targeting a doctor accused of providing abortion services. The mystery surrounding the letters eventually escalates into violence. Name french for the raven.
Le Corbeau
2005 neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Michael Haneke and starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche. The plot follows an upper-middle-class French couple, Georges (Auteuil) and Anne (Binoche), who are terrorised by anonymous tapes that appear on their front porch and seem to show the family is under surveillance. Clues in the videos point to Georges’s childhood memories, and his resistance to his parents’ adopting an Algerian orphan named Majid, who was sent away.
Cache
Who plays the title Piano Teacher in the 2001 film by Michael Haneke based on 1983 book by Elfriede Jelinek?
Isabelle Huppert
French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Amour (2012).
Emmanuelle Riva
Turkish director, screenwriter, photographer and actor. His film Winter Sleep (2014) won the Palme d’Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival. 2011 film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
1962 French crime film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, adapted from the novel of the same name by Pierre Lesou. Intertitles at the beginning of the film explain that the French title refers both to a kind of hat and to the slang term for a police informant. Burglar Maurice Faugel has finished serving his term in prison. On being freed, he kills Gilbert Vanovre in order to avenge the murder of his wife. He also endeavours to perpetrate a robbery.
Le Doulos
Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).
Jean-Pierre Melville
American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer. Nominated for eight Academy Awards in his career, he was best known for Blackboard Jungle (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960; for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), In Cold Blood (1967) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977).
Richard Brooks
1988 drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, and Jan Tesarz. Set in Warsaw, Poland, the film compares the senseless, violent murder of an individual to the cold, calculated execution by the state. The film was expanded from Dekalog: Five of the Polish television series Dekalog.
A Short Film about Killing
1997 Norwegian thriller film about a police detective investigating a murder in a town located above the Arctic Circle. The investigation goes horribly wrong when he mistakenly shoots his partner and subsequently attempts to cover it up. Remade in 2002 by Christopher Nolan.
Insomnia
2014 Russian crime drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, co-written by Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin, the story of Marvin Heemeyer’s 2004 rampage through a small US town using a modified bulldozer inspired him. A similar concept was adapted into a Russian setting.
Leviathan
1993 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film follows a variety of teenagers on the last day of school in Austin, Texas, in 1976.
Dazed and Confused
2001 American animated film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism.[3] It is centered on a young man who wanders through a succession of dreamlike realities wherein he encounters a series of people who engage in insightful philosophical discussions.
Waking Life
Director of Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Amy Heckerling
Who directed 1903 early film The Great Train Robbery? Two outlaws attack the railroad telegraph office and try to stop a train to rob a valuable. They succeed in the attempt and escape with their gang members.
Edwin S Porter
American stage actor and film director. He is noted for having directed the first feature film using spoken dialogue, The Jazz Singer (1927) and the first feature movie with sychronization soundtrack, Don Juan (1926). Died car crash at 41.
Alan Crosland
career spanned the silent and sound film eras. He is known as the director of Dracula (1931), Freaks (1932), and his silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean.
Tod Browning
American cinematographer known for his innovative use of techniques such as deep focus, examples of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941), William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath, and The Long Voyage Home (both, 1940). He is also known for his work as a director of photography for Wuthering Heights (1939), The Westerner (1940), Ball of Fire (1941), The Outlaw (1943), Song of the South (1946) and The Bishop’s Wife (1947).
Gregg Toland
Who directed 1940 The Grapes of Wrath?
John Ford
1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. A satire on the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood comedy director (Joel McCrea) who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a tramp to gain life experience for his forthcoming film. Along the way he unites with a poor aspiring actress (Veronica Lake) who accompanies him.
Sullivan’s Travels
1943 American experimental silent short film directed by and starring wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied. Origins of cloaked, mirror faced figure. This experimental short film incorporates repeated images, slow motion, and a mysterious cloaked figure to examine an emotional experience.
Meshes of the Afternoon
Who plays the male lead Dr Alec Harvey in 1945 film Brief Encounter?
Trevor Howard
Who plays the female lead Laura Jesson in 1945 film Brief Encounter?
Celia Johnson
1946 film written and directed by Wolfgang Staudte. A woman returns to Berlin from a concentration camp and finds a doctor living in her apartment. This meeting opens new horizons for both of them as they try to forget their memories of the war.
The Murderers Are Among Us
1947 American film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Called “Out of the Past” in the USA.
Build My Gallows High
French-American filmmaker, active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known as an auteur of stylish and atmospheric genre films, many of them for RKO Pictures, including the horror films Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man, and the classic film noir Out of the Past (Build My Gallows High). He is also known for directing Night of the Demon, which was released by Columbia Pictures.
Jacques Tourneur
Who directed All About Eve 1950 film?
Joseph L Mankiewicz
Who plays Eve Harrington, an ambitious young fan who maneuvers herself into Channing’s life, ultimately threatening Channing’s career and her personal relationships in All About Eve?
Anne Baxter
Which Oscar winner for BSA for The Razor’s Edge was granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright?
Anne Baxter
Which 1950 film was the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations?
All About Eve
First name of Marlon Brando’s older sister whose most famous acting role was Katie Bannion in the film noir The Big Heat (1953).
Jocelyn
1953 American film noir crime film directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando[3] about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city. Based on William P. McGivern’s serial in The Saturday Evening Post.
The Big Heat
1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman.
La Strada
1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton’s novel of the same name. Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster Tony “le Stéphanois”, Carl Möhner as Jo “le Suédois”, Robert Manuel as Mario Farrati, and Jules Dassin as César “le Milanais”. The foursome band together to commit an almost impossible theft, the burglary of an exclusive jewelry shop in the Rue de la Paix. The centerpiece of the film is an intricate half-hour heist scene depicting the crime in detail, shot in near silence, without dialogue or music.
Rififi
1956 film directed by Don Siegel. The film’s storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical copy of a human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical traits, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it until only the replacement is left; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
He directed the science-fiction horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), as well as five films with Clint Eastwood, including the police thriller Dirty Harry (1971) and the prison drama Escape from Alcatraz (1979). He also directed John Wayne’s final film, the Western The Shootist (1976).
Don Siegel
1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film alongside Charlton Heston & Janet Leigh. Along the U.S.–Mexico border, a time bomb placed inside a vehicle explodes, killing two people.
Touch of Evil
1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to unravel after one of them becomes trapped in an elevator. The scenario was adapted from the 1956 novel of the same name by Noël Calef.
Elevator to the Gallows
(called Lift to the Scaffold in the UK)
1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting his footage together into a snuff film used for his own self-pleasure.
Peeping Tom
He took part in 45 films and became well known in Austria and Germany for his role as Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in the Sissi film trilogy and internationally for his role as Mark, the psychopathic protagonist of Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell.
Carl Boehm
1961 gothic psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins. Based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by the American novelist Henry James, the screenplay was adapted by William Archibald and Truman Capote, who used Archibald’s own 1950 stage play as primary text.
The Innocents
1962 French New Wave romantic drama film directed, produced and co-written by François Truffaut. Set before and after World War I, it describes a tragic love triangle involving French Bohemian (Henri Serre), his shy Austrian friend (Oskar Werner), and his girlfriend and later wife Catherine (Jeanne Moreau).
Jules et Jim
French actress later achieving prominence with starring roles in Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte (1961), and François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (1962). Married to William Friedkin 1977-79.
Jeanne Moreau
William Friedkin directed The Exorcist but won the Best Director oscar as well as Best Picture for which other film?
The French Connection
Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She came to prominence in Alain Resnais’s 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad and also played title character in Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.
Delphine Seyrig
1964 black-and-white Turkish drama film, co-produced, co-written and directed by Metin Erksan based on a novel by Necati Cumalı, featuring Erol Taş as a tobacco farmer, who dams a river to irrigate his own property and ruin his competitors. Won Golden Bear.
Dry Summer
Also titled The Hole, is a 1964 Japanese historical drama and horror film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film is set during a civil war in medieval Japan. Nobuko Otowa and Jitsuko Yoshimura play two women who kill infighting soldiers to steal their armor and possessions for survival, while Kei Satō plays the man who ultimately comes between them. Mask does dodgy stuff.
Onibaba
1966 Swedish avant-garde psychological drama film written, directed, and produced by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. The story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Andersson) and her patient, well-known stage actress Elisabet Vogler (Ullmann), who has suddenly stopped speaking. They move to a cottage, where Alma cares for Elisabet, confides in her, and begins having trouble distinguishing herself from her patient.
Persona
1957 Soviet film about the Second World War. It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage done to the Soviet psyche as a result of war, which was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. Film won the Palme d’Or, only Soviet film with this accolade. The film was directed at Mosfilm by the Georgian-born Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov,
The Cranes are Flying
Soviet film director of Georgian origin who contributed to both Georgian and Russian cinema. He is most well known for his films The Cranes Are Flying and I Am Cuba, winning the Palme d’Or for the former at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.
Mikhail Kalatozov
1964 film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm. An international co-production between the Soviet Union and Cuba, it is an anthology film mixing political drama and propaganda.
I Am Cuba
1966 Czechoslovakian New Wave coming-of-age comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel and is one of the best-known films of the Czechoslovak New Wave. It is a story about a young man working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The film is based on a 1965 novel by Bohumil Hrabal. Won Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Closely Watched Trains
1969 direct cinema documentary film, directed by brothers Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, about door-to-door Bible sellers. As they travel across New England and southeast Florida, trying to sell large, expensive Bibles door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods, and attend a sales meeting in Chicago.
Salesman
American documentary filmmaking team known for their work in the Direct Cinema style. Their best-known films include Salesman (1969), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Grey Gardens (two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale - 1975).
Albert and David Maysles
American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, she had a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies and was the focus of the 2014 Albert Maysles documentary title was her first name.
Iris APFEL
Started his career making British dramas A Kind of Loving (1962), Billy Liar (1963), and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and was Oscar-nominated for Darling (1965) and Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). He gained acclaim for his Hollywood films The Day of the Locust (1975), and Marathon Man (1976). His later films include Madame Sousatzka (1988) and Cold Comfort Farm (1995).
John Schlesinger
American director who won only Oscar for Best Film Editing of In the Heat of the Night (1967). He received a third Oscar nomination, this time for Best Director for Coming Home (1978). Other films directed by him include The Landlord (1970), Harold and Maude (1971), The Last Detail (1973), Shampoo (1975), Bound for Glory (1976), and Being There (1979).
Hal ASHBY
Her later work included performances in Rosemary’s Baby (won BSA - 1968), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), Where’s Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (played Maude - 1971), Every Which Way But Loose (1978), Any Which Way You Can (1980), and My Bodyguard (1980). most notably co-writing the screenplay for the 1949 film Adam’s Rib.
Ruth Gordon
1971 documentary film about deaf-blind people and their experience of life. The film was written, directed, and produced by Werner Herzog. Rolf Illig provided narration.
Land of Silence and Darkness
1975 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by his father G. P. Sippy, and written by Salim–Javed. The film is about two criminals, Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan), hired by a retired police officer (Sanjeev Kumar) to capture the ruthless dacoit Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan).
Sholay
Title for Wolof for “temporary sexual impotence”, a 1975 Senegalese satirical comedy film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène, an adaptation of Sembène’s 1973 novel of the same name. It stars Thierno Leye, Seune Samb, Douta Seck. plot depicts El Hadji, a rich businessman in Senegal, who is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; that could only be cured by him stripping naked before the lowly of the society and have them spit on him.
Xala
1978 American romantic period drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. Set in 1916, it tells the story of Bill and Abby, lovers who travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest crops for a wealthy farmer. Bill persuades Abby to claim the fortune of the dying farmer by tricking him into a false marriage.
Days of Heaven
American actress, best known for her film roles in Days of Heaven (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and The Dead Zone (1983). Married to Tony Shalhoub since 1992.
Brooke Adams
1985 Soviet anti-war tragedy film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova. Based on 1977 collection of survivor testimonies I Am from the Fiery Village. The film’s plot focuses on the Nazi German occupation of Belarus, and the events as witnessed by a young teenager named Flyora, who joins the Belarusian partisans, and thereafter depicts the Nazi atrocities and human suffering inflicted upon the populace.
Come and See
1986 American black-and-white independent neo-beat noir comedy film. It was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, and stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni. The film centers on the arrest, incarceration, and escape from jail of three men. It discards jailbreak film conventions by focusing on the interaction between the convicts rather than on the mechanics of the escape.
Down by Law
2016 drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film stars Adam Driver as a bus driver and poet, and Golshifteh Farahani as his wife, who dreams of being a country music star and opening a cupcake business.
Paterson
1984 American black-and-white absurdist deadpan comedy film directed, co-written and co-edited by Jim Jarmusch, and starring jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress and violinist Eszter Balint. It features a minimalist plot in which the main character, Willie, is visited by Eva, his cousin from Hungary. Eva stays with him for ten days before going to Cleveland. Willie and his friend Eddie go to Cleveland to visit her, and the three then take a trip to Florida.
Stranger Than Paradise
He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films such as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016).
Jim Jarmusch
His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three further times, including two nominations in the same category for The Decline of the American Empire in 1986[4] and Jesus of Montreal in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film win the award.
Denys Arcand
1989 Canadian comedy drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand, and starring Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening and Johanne-Marie Tremblay. The film tells the story of a group of actors in Montreal who perform a Passion play in a Quebec church. Won Jury Prize at Cannes.
Jesus of Montreal
1992 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by John Woo from a screenplay by Gordon Chan and Barry Wong based on a story written by Woo. The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Anthony Wong. It follows a police inspector whose investigation of a brutal Triad leader entangles him in the complex world of undercover policing. Woo’s last HK film.
Hard Boiled
2008–2009 internationally co-produced epic war film, based on the namesake Battle (208–209 AD) and the events at the end of the Han dynasty and immediately prior to the Three Kingdoms period in Imperial China. The film was directed by John Woo, and stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Red Cliff
1993 American action film directed by Hong Kong film director John Woo in his American film directorial debut. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work homeless Cajun merchant seaman and former United States Force Recon Marine who saves a young woman named Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler) from a gang of thugs in New Orleans.
Hard Target
1993 British black comedy drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring David Thewlis as Johnny, a loquacious intellectual, philosopher and conspiracy theorist.
Naked
1994 New Zealand biographical film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his partner, Fran Walsh. It stars Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in their feature film debuts. Based on the notorious Parker–Hulme murder case, it examines the relationship between two teenage girls—Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme—which culminates in the premeditated killing of Parker’s mother.
Heavenly Creatures
1996 Finnish comedy drama film edited, written, produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen and Markku Peltola. The film is the first in Kaurismäki’s Finland trilogy, the other two films being The Man Without a Past and Lights in the Dusk. A married couple struggles with the repercussions of unexpected unemployment and tries to look for a new job.
Drifting Clouds
Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017) and Fallen Leaves (2023), as well as Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He has been described as Finland’s best-known film director.
Aki Kaurismäki
1997 Iranian minimalist drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man who drives through a city suburb in search of someone willing to carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide. The film won the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, which it shared with The Eel.
Taste of Cherry
2005 crime drama film written and directed by Gavin Hood and produced by Peter Fudakowski based on book by Athol Fugard. Set in the Alexandra slum in Johannesburg, South Africa, it stars Presley Chweneyagae as David with nickname of film title, a young street thug who steals a car only to discover a baby in the back seat. Won 2006 Best FL Oscar.
Tsotsi
2006 Australian historical drama/docudrama film directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr and starring Crusoe Kurddal. The film is set in Arnhem Land in northern Australia, before Western influence, and tells the story of a group of ten men doing traditional hunting in canoes. A narrator tells the story, and the overall format is that of a moral tale.
Ten Canoes
2009 Argentine crime drama film produced, edited, and directed by Juan José Campanella from a screenplay by Campanella and Eduardo Sacheri. The film focuses on the relationship between judiciary agents Benjamín Espósito (Darín) and Irene Hastings (Villamil) and their investigation into a murder case in 1970s Argentina. Won Best FL Oscar.
The Secret in their Eyes
2011 drama film written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Set in Seraing, Belgium, it tells the story of a 12-year-old boy (Thomas Doret) who turns to a woman (Cécile de France) for comfort after his father (Jérémie Renier) has abandoned him. Co-winner of Grand Prix prize at Cannes.
The Kid with a Bike
French film director, critic and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl (1984), and his notable works include Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Holy Motors (2012) and Annette (2021). For the last, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Leos Carax
2012 surrealist fantasy drama film written and directed by Leos Carax and starring Denis Lavant and Édith Scob. Lavant plays Mr. Oscar, a man who appears to have a job as an actor, as he is seen dressing up in different costumes and performing various roles in several locations around Paris over the course of a day, though no cameras or audiences are ever seen around him.
Holy Motors
Who directed 1925 film Battleship Potemkin?
Sergei Eisenstein
Who directed 1953 Roman Holiday?
William Wyler
1982 Filipino film directed by Ishmael Bernal and produced by the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines. It stars Nora Aunor as a young woman living in the province who claims to have seen a Marian apparition.
Himala
1999 South Korean action film, written and directed by Kang Je-gyu. The name refers to Coreoleuciscus splendidus, a fish found in Korean fresh-water streams. South Korean agents Yu Jong-won and Lee Jang-Gil search for Lee Bang-hee, a dangerous North Korean sniper who killed several prominent figures and wreaked havoc in their country.
Shiri
1957 Warner Bros cartoon voted best ever has what title, The story features Elmer chasing Bugs through a parody of 19th-century classical composer Richard Wagner’s operas, particularly Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), and Tannhäuser.
What’s Opera, Doc?
1984 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1982–94 manga series of the same name. Set in a post-nuclear futuristic world, it tells the story of title character (Shimamoto), the teenage princess of the title location who becomes embroiled in a struggle with Tolmekia, a kingdom that tries to use an ancient weapon to eradicate a jungle full of giant mutant insects.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Who directed It’s a Wonderful Life?
Frank Capra
Who directed Blazing Saddles?
Mel Brooks
Who directed Life of Brian?
Terry Jones
some notable films included, The Man Who Never Was (1956), which chronicled Operation Mincemeat, a British WWII deception operation, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), which won Maggie Smith her first Oscar, and the action-adventure disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972). He also directed I Could Go On Singing (1963), Judy Garland’s last film, and Scrooge (1970), starring Albert Finney.
Ronald Neame
Who directed Man with a Movie Camera (1929)?
Dziga Vertov
1994 American documentary film directed by Steve James, It follows the story of two African-American high school students, William Gates and Arthur Agee, in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players.
Hoop Dreams
1989 American documentary film written, produced, directed by, and starring Michael Moore, in his directorial debut. Moore portrays the regional economic impact of General Motors CEO Roger Smith’s action of closing several auto plants in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, reducing GM’s employees in that area from 80,000 in 1978 to about 50,000 in 1992.
Roger & Me
Who directed West Side Story 1961?
Robert WISE and Jerome ROBBINS
What was film follow-up to Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Shock Treatment
2005 American space Western film written and directed by Joss Whedon in his feature directorial debut. The film is a continuation of Whedon’s short-lived 2002 Fox television series Firefly and stars the same cast, taking place after the events of the final episode.
Serenity
1954 American Western film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge. Amid a raging rivalry between Vienna, a saloon owner, and a small town including her nemesis Emma Small, Vienna finds an accomplice in her former lover, the title character.
Johnny Guitar
Bosnian-born Serbian director won the Palme d’Or twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies. 1981 comedy Do You Remember Dolly Bell? won Silver Lion and voted best Bosnian film ever.
Emir Kusturica
1968 Brazilian crime film directed by Rogério Sganzerla, inspired by the crimes of the famous real-life robber João Acácio Pereira da Costa, nicknamed the “______” (Bandido da Luz Vermelha).
The Red Light Bandit
2001 Canadian epic film directed by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk and produced by his company Isuma Igloolik Productions. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language.
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Who directed Farewell My Concubine?
Chen Kaige
1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir. The film depicts members of upper-class French society and their servants just before the beginning of World War II, showing their moral callousness on the eve of destruction.
The Rules of the Game
Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer. He has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films, being best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai in Chungking Express, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and 2046.
Christopher Doyle
1991 Icelandic film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 64th Academy Awards, the only Icelandic film to have ever been nominated. Þorgeir, an old man living in the Icelandic countryside, has grown too old to continue running his farm, and is made to feel unwelcome in his daughter and son-in-law’s urban dwelling.
Children of Nature
Iranian film director attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
Abbas Kiarostami
Film director directed musicals, including Bugsy Malone (1976), Fame (1980), Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982), The Commitments (1991) and Evita (1996); true-story dramas, including Midnight Express (1978), Mississippi Burning (1988), Come See the Paradise (1990) and Angela’s Ashes (1999);
Alan PARKER
1973 Dutch erotic romantic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven from a screenplay by Gerard Soeteman, It is a love story of an artist and a young woman, starring Rutger Hauer in his film debut and Monique van de Ven. It is the most successful film in the history of Dutch cinema. Nominated for Best FL Oscar.
Turkish Delight
New Zealand film director. He is known for directing the films Once Were Warriors (1994), Along Came a Spider (2001) and Die Another Day (2002).
Lee Tamahori
Directed by Lee Tamaori, 1994 New Zealand tragic drama film based on New Zealand author Alan Duff’s bestselling 1990 first novel. The film tells the story of the Heke family, an urban Māori whānau living in South Auckland, and their problems with poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence, mostly brought on by the patriarch, Jake.
Once Were Warriors
1957 Norwegian film about Jan Baalsrud, a commando and member of the Norwegian resistance during World War II. Trained in Britain, in 1943, he participates in an operation to destroy a German air control tower. The mission is compromised when he and his fellow soldiers accidentally make contact with a civilian, rather than a Resistance member, who betrays them to the Nazis.
Nine Lives
1975 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the novel of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Set in the industrial city of Łódź, The Promised Land tells the story of a Pole, a German, and a Jew struggling to build a factory in the raw world of 19th-century capitalism.
The Promised Land
2003 South Korean neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho. In the film, detectives Park Doo-man (Song) and Seo Tae-yoon (Kim) lead an investigation into a string of rapes and murders taking place in Hwaseong in the late 1980s.
Memories of Murder
Taiwanese film director. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Sword-and-sandal, also known as what six letter P word, is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Samson and Delilah (1949), Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960), and Cleopatra (1963).
Peplum
American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991 - female
Pauline Kael
His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered by many scholars to be his magnum opus. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1986) and Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1989).
Gilles Deleuze
British feminist film theorist and filmmaker. She was educated at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. best known for her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. she co-wrote and co-directed Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974), Riddles of the Sphinx (1977 – perhaps their most influential film), AMY! (1980), Crystal Gazing (1982), Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1982), and The Bad Sister (1982).
Laura MULVEY
an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Otrera and the sister of Hippolyta, Antiope, and Melanippe. She assisted Troy in the Trojan War, during which she was killed by Achilles or Neoptolemus.
Penthesilea
Who wrote The Book of the City of Ladies, or Le Livre de la Cité des Dames in 1405?
Christine de Pizan
Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: who directed Wings (1927)?
William A Wellman
Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: who directed Grand Hotel?
Edmund Goulding
Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: who directed Driving Miss Daisy?
Bruce Beresford
Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: who directed Green Book?
Peter Farrelly
Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: who directed CODA?
Sian Heder
The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination were during the early years of the awards: who won for Two Arabian Knights (1927/28)? More famous film was All Quiet on the Western Front.
Lewis Milestone
The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination were during the early years of the awards: who won for directing The Divine Lady? Won again for 1933 Cavalcade and most famous film was Mutiny on the Bounty.
Frank Lloyd
1937 French war drama film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are German prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape. Title comes from Norman Angell book.
La Grande Illusion
Who directed 1969 film Z?
Costa-Gavras
1971 Swedish film directed and co-written by Jan Troell and starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, a series of novels about poor Swedes who emigrate from Småland, Sweden, in the mid-19th century and make their home in Minnesota.It won international acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards. It was nominated for four more Oscars the following year, including for Best Picture.
The Emigrants
1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson). The servant (Sylwan) is close to her, while the other two sisters (Ullmann and Thulin) confront their emotional distance from each other. Nominated for Best FL Oscars.
Cries and Whispers
1994 comedy-drama film co-written by and starring Massimo Troisi and directed by English filmmaker Michael Radford. Based on 1985 novel by Chilean Antonio Skarmeta. Film tells a fictional story in which the real life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda forms a friendship with a simple Procida postman (Troisi) who learns to love poetry.
Il Postino: The Postman
Italian actor, cabaret performer, comedian, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his works in the films I’m Starting back from Three (1981) and Il Postino: The Postman (1994), for which he was posthumously nominated for two Oscars as he died towards end of filming.
Massimo Troisi
2020 film A semi-autobiographical take on Chung’s upbringing, its plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas during the 1980s: Minari. Directed by?
Lee Isaac CHUNG
2020 American drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. The film stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung’s upbringing, its plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas during the 1980s.
Minari
Who directed All Quiet on the Western Front (German, 2022)?
Edward BERGER
Three comic book based films have been nominated for Best Picture: Joker, Black Panther and which 1931 pre-code film based on cartoon by Percy Crosby? The film stars Jackie Cooper in the title role, he became the only child and youngest person nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Skippy
American author best known for his novels Norwood (1966) and the classic Western True Grit (1968). Both Norwood and True Grit were adapted as films, released in 1970 and 1969, respectively.
Charles Portis
Who wrote book The Power of the Dog?
Thomas Savage
Which actress played the lead female role in first Best Picture winner Wings?
Clara Bow
1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, won the 1928/29 BP (the second to win it). Songs.
The Broadway Melody
1931 pre-Code epic Western film starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and directed by Wesley Ruggles, won the Best Picture Oscar.
Cimarron
1932 pre-code film directed by Edmund Goulding. To date, it is the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated in any other category. The iconic line “I want to be alone”, famously delivered by Greta Garbo, placed number 30 in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes.
Grand Hotel
1933 American epic pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Lloyd. The screenplay by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien is based on the 1931 play of the same title by Noël Coward. The film stars Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook. The story presents a view of English life during the first third of the 20th century from New Year’s Eve 1899 to New Year’s Day 1933, from the point of view of well-to-do London residents Jane and Robert Marryot.
Cavalcade
1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father’s thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 American historical adventure drama film directed by Frank Lloyd , Best Picture Oscar winner, who played Bligh and who played Fletcher Christian?
Bligh: Charles Laughton
Christian: Clark Gable
1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the title character. It won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture for producer Hunt Stromberg, Best Actress for Luise Rainer, and Best Dance Direction for Seymour Felix.
The Great Ziegfeld
The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about the 19th-century French author Émile Zola starring who as the title character?
Paul Muni
1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, the film is about a man from a family of rich snobs who becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
You Can’t Take It With You
Which American actress had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper, You Can’t Take It with You (1938) co-starring James Stewart, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), also starring Stewart? She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943), a comedy which also starred Joel McCrea.
Jean Arthur
1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a young Roddy McDowall. It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw.
How Green Was My Valley
Mrs Miniver 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring who as the title character opposite Walter Pidgeon? it shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is affected by World War II
Greer Garson
1944 American musical comedy drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Written by Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, based on a story by McCarey, the film is about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran. Crosby sings five songs. Bing Crosby won Best Actor.
Going My Way
1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson’s 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only three films—the other two being Marty (1955) and Parasite (2019)—to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes.
The Lost Weekend
1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell. The film is about three United States servicemen re-adjusting to societal changes and civilian life after coming home from World War II. The three men come from different services with different ranks that do not correspond with their civilian social class backgrounds. It won seven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor (Fredric March), Best Supporting Actor (Harold Russell).
The Best Years of Our Lives
He went on to receive two Academy Awards, for his performances in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1947). His other Oscar-nominated performances were in the films The Royal Family of Broadway (1930), A Star is Born (1937), and Death of a Salesman (1951).
Fredric March
1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson’s best-selling 1947 novel of the same title. The film is about a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who pretends to be Jewish to research an exposé on the widespread antisemitism in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan and Darien, Connecticut. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan).
Gentleman’s Agreement
1949 American political drama film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rossen. It is based on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1946 novel of the same name. It stars Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, and Joanne Dru. The film centers on the rise and fall of an idealistic-but-ruthless politician in the American South, patterned after Louisiana Governor Huey Long.
All the King’s Men
Who directed 1951 An American in Paris starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron based on George Gershwin symphonic poem?
Vincente Minnelli
1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring and Charlton Heston as the circus manager. James Stewart also stars as a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Story.
The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the tribulations of three United States Army soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra, stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. won 8 Academy Awards out of 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Fred Zinnemann), Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra), and Supporting Actress (Donna Reed).
From Here to Eternity
She made her film debut in Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954), opposite Marlon Brando. The film, which received eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Eve Kendall in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959), opposite Cary Grant.
Eva Marie SAINT
Three Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations for On the Waterfront - who?
Lee J Cobb
Karl Malden
Rod Steiger
1955 American romantic drama film directed by Delbert Mann in his directorial debut. The screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky. The film stars Ernest Borgnine, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and Betsy Blair.
Marty
English film director His most critically and commercially successful works include the World War II film The Dam Busters (1955), the dystopian sci-fi film Logan’s Run (1976), and the comedy adventure epic Around the World in 80 Days (1956), which won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Picture.
Michael Anderson
French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.
Pierre Boulle
1958 American musical romantic comedy film Gigi was directed by who? At the 31st Academy Awards, the film won all nine of its nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Vincente Minnelli
Who directed 1959 epic Ben Hur?
William Wyler
American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays. As a screenwriter, he received three Academy Awards for Marty (1955), The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976).
Paddy Chayefsky
His career as a major film leading man began in 1935, but his most renowned role was in Billy Wilder’s film noir Double Indemnity. Played boss Jeff D. Sheldrake in The Apartment.
Fred MacMurray
Who played Calvin Clifford (CC) “Bud” Baxter in Wilder’s The Apartment?
Jack Lemmon
Who played Fran Kubelik in Wilder’s The Apartment?
Shirley MacLaine
Who directed 1961 West Side Story?
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
In 1961 West Side Story, who played Tony, co-founder and one-time member of the Jets and best friend of Riff, who works at Doc’s drugstore and falls in love with Maria?
Richard BEYMER
Rita Moreno’s character name in West Side Story?
Anita
George Chakaris won Best Supporting Actor for playing which West Side Story character in 1961? leader of the Sharks, older brother of Maria and Anita’s boyfriend.
Bernardo
Who played Tony in the 2021 remake of West Side Story?
Ansel ELGORT
Who played Riff in 2021 West Side Story? In 2023, he starred as Jack Twist in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain. In 2024, he co-starred in the romantic sports film Challengers (2024).
Mike Faist
2023 play written by Ashley Robinson. It is an adaptation of an award-winning 1997 short story by Annie Proulx. The play has songs written by Dan Gillespie Sells and direction by Jonathan Butterell. It had its world premiere in London’s West End in May 2023.
Brokeback Mountain
With 15 number one appearances, he is also the highest-charting LGBT performer on the UK Singles Chart.
Mark Feehily (of Westlife)
Who played the titular character of the 1963 film Tom Jones?
Albert Finney
Which director won Best Director for directing 1963 film Tom Jones?
Tony Richardson
His films Look Back in Anger (1959), The Entertainer (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961), and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) are considered classics of kitchen sink realism.
Tony RICHARDSON
Jessica Lange won best Supporting Actress Oscar for which 1982 film?
Tootsie
Jessica Lange won Best Actress Oscar for the 1994 film Blue Sky directed by Tony Richardson?
Blue Sky
Who directed 1964 film My Fair Lady?
George Cukor
Who directed 1965 film The Sound of Music?
Robert Wise
Who directed 1966 film A Man For All Seasons?
Fred Zinnemann
Who directed 1967 film In the Heat of the Night?
Norman Jewison
Who directed 1968 film Oliver!?
Carol Reed
Who directed 1969 film Midnight Cowboy?
John Schlesinger
Which Roberto Rossellini film won the inaugural 1946 Palme d’Or?
Rome, Open City
Which Swedish director won two Palme d’Or: first in 1946 Torment and second in 1951 Miss Julie?
Alf Sjoberg
Vittorio De Sica shared 1951 Palme d’Or for which film?
Miracle in Milan
1953 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It tells the story of a samurai (Kazuo Hasegawa) who tries to marry a woman (Machiko Kyō) he rescues, only to discover that she is already married. The film won the Best Costume Design and the Best Foreign Language Film Awards at the 27th Academy Awards and the Grand Prize (the top prize of that year) at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Gate of Hell
Which 1952 film by Orson Welles won Grand Prix at Cannes the precursor of the Palme d’Or?
Othello
Which 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot film won the Grand prix at Cannes the precursor of the Palme d’Or?
The Wages of Fear
1956 film by Jacques Cousteau & Louis Malle won the Palme d’Or?
The Silent World
1956 American Civil War drama film produced and directed by William Wyler won the Palme d’Or? The movie tells the story of a Quaker family in southern Indiana during the American Civil War and the way the war tests their pacifist beliefs.
Friendly Persuasion
1959 film Black Orpheus won the Palme d’Or and directed by who?
Marcel Camus
Which 1960 Fedrico Fellini film won the Palme d’Or?
La dolce vita
1962 Brazilian drama film O Pagador de Promessas won the Palme d’Or and nominated for Best FL Oscar. Who directed?
Anselmo Duarte
1963 Luchino Visconti film which won the Palme d’Or?
The Leopard
British actress. She is known for her starring roles in films including A Taste of Honey (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Smashing Time (1967). Her other film appearances include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Under the Skin (1997), Being Julia (2004), and Last Night in Soho (2021).
Rita TUSHINGHAM
He is best known for directing the Beatles’ films A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and the superhero films Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983).[5] His other notable films as director include The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959), The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), Petulia (1968), The Three Musketeers (1973) and its two sequels, as well as Robin and Marian (1976), and Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979).
Richard LESTER
1965 British comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, and Donal Donnelly. The film is considered emblematic of the Swinging London cultural phenomenon. It was the first movie appearance of Jane Birkin and Charlotte Rampling.
The Knack …and How to Get It
1966 film directed by Claude Lelouch, won Palme d’Or? At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, this film won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film.
A Man and a Woman
1967 film Blow-Up won Palme d’Or and was directed by which Italian?
Michelangelo Antonioni
