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- DirectorJulián SolerStarsArturo de CórdovaMarga LópezLilia PradoA literature professor (Arturo de Córdova), single and shy, has lived in love with the wife (Marga López) of his best friend (Armando Calvo), who is unfaithful to her. Every year's end he celebrates alone, toasting in front of the portrait of his beloved. Due to a mix-up, the woman discovers in a coat a letter from her husband's lover, a frivolous star called "Ardilla" (Lilia Prado). The professor makes her believe that the garment was his, thus creating a mythical personality of an ardent lover among his students. And the sensitive daughter (Martha Mijares) of the couple believes by mistake that there is a relationship between her mother and the professor.
- DirectorJuan de OrduñaStarsAna María OlariaArmando CalvoJosé MorenoCarlos, Count of San Telmo, likes to sing zarzuela in private parties. Laura, his doorman's daughter, who is in love with him, studies singing and will eventually start a career as a zarzuela singer. Many famed zarzuela arias.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsYul BrynnerGina LollobrigidaGeorge SandersAfter becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming Queen of Sheba.
- DirectorJoseph BreenFernando PalaciosStarsLuis ÁlvarezMaruchi FresnoManuel MonroyThe Passion of Jesus starting with His arrest and trial that was shot near Madrid and features narration by Sebastion Cabot. Jesus' face is never seen but in the English version he is voiced by veteran Hollywood actor Macdonald Carey.
- DirectorMiguel MoraytaStarsAndy RussellRosita ArenasFernando Soto
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsGérard PhilipeMaría FélixJean ServaisAroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsFrank SinatraGina LollobrigidaPeter LawfordDuring WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsGregory PeckHarry GuardinoRip TornDuring the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.
- DirectorEnrique CarrerasStarsSantiago ArrietaMario BaroffioGuillermo BattagliaA priest unjustly sentenced to death learns who the murderer is through his daughter's confession.
- DirectorMelville ShavelsonStarsDanny KayeBarbara Bel GeddesLouis ArmstrongDanny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun.
- DirectorAlfredo B. CrevennaStarsElvira QuintanaCarlos BaenaAdriana RoelAngel Gutiérrez is an ordinary petty employee, with a bullet-proof honesty and a desperatingly weak character who somehow gets married to beautiful Rosa, who diminishes and despises him, even belittling his last name as "little Gutiérrez" or "gutierritos" In his deepest dreams, though, Gutiérrez conceals a strong and powerful vision of himself, writing down his daily misfortune in his memoirs and submitting them for publishing, hoping for the best. Originally a hugely successful radio theater this the film adaptation of the play.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsVince EdwardsCarol OhmartRichard LooThis low-budget Asian-set adventure concerns The reformed smuggler Stuart Allison finds his missing wife Marion in Hong Kong. Marion has fallen in with a bad crowd and is involved with narcotics and stolen government bonds, requiring Stuart to extricate her from her woes.
- DirectorKurt LandStarsDiana AriasEnrique ChaicoPancho Cárdenas
- DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsSteve ReevesChelo AlonsoBruce CabotWhen barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.
- DirectorMiguel M. DelgadoStarsCantinflasTere VelázquezJoaquín García VargasIt is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsCurd JürgensOrson WellesSylvia SymsMark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.
- DirectorMartin RittStarsYul BrynnerJoanne WoodwardMargaret LeightonDrama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes, and respect.
- DirectorRolf ThieleStarsNadja TillerPeter van EyckAmedeo NazzariGeorgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzerland, where she hopes to find a cure.