Touch of Evil (1958)
Orson Welles

Miguel Vargas, a Mexican drugs enforcement official, is on his honeymoon when a car is blown up right in front of his eyes, shortly after crossing the border from Mexico into the United States...   [More...]

The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock

On a hill just outside a small Vermont village, retired sea captain Albert Wiles is out rabbit hunting when he comes across the body of a dead man...   [More...]

Un acte d'amour (1953)
Anatole Litvak

Some years after the war, an American, Robert Teller, pays a visit to a seaside town in the South of France. He casts his mind back to 1944, recalling his time in Paris immediately after the Liberation...   [More...]

Vertigo (1958)
Alfred Hitchcock

When a rooftop chase ends in the death of one of his colleagues, San Francisco cop John Ferguson suddenly develops chronic acrophobia, an irrational fear of heights which forces him into early retirement...   [More...]

Viva Zapata! (1952)
Elia Kazan

In 1909, the Mexican President, Porfirio Díaz, is visited by a delegation of peasants who complain that their land has been illegally taken from them...   [More...]

War and Peace (1956)
King Vidor

Moscow, 1805. Pierre Bezukhov, a pacifist wastrel, is in love with Natasha, the daughter of the wealthy Count Rostov, but knows he cannot marry her since he is of illegitimate birth...   [More...]

The War of the Worlds (1953)
Byron Haskin

The peace of a small Californian town is disturbed when a huge meteorite crashes into the ground. Dr Clayton Forrester, an eminent physicist, happens to be holidaying in the area and cannot resist examining the meteorite...   [More...]

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Otto Preminger

New York detective Mark Dixon has a reputation for brutality when it comes to dealing with criminals and his boss warns him that unless he changes his ways he can expect a demotion...   [More...]

The Whip Hand (1951)
William Cameron Menzies

Whilst on a fishing holiday at Lake Winnoga, Wisconsin, reporter Matt Corbin stumbles across a town with a mysterious secret...   [More...]

White Christmas (1954)
Michael Curtiz

Christmas Eve, 1944 - somewhere in Europe. After staging a show in honour of their departing commanding officer, Major General Waverly, a platoon of U.S...   [More...]

The Wild One (1953)
Laslo Benedek

One eventful day, a group of leather-jacked young motorcyclists invade the peace of a small Californian town. Their attempt to gatecrash a motorcycle race is thwarted by its organisers, but their leader, Johnny, does not go away empty handed: he makes off with one of the prize trophies...   [More...]

Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Nicholas Ray

In the early 1900s, an idealistic young schoolteacher named Walt Murdock arrives in Miami, Florida, to take up a new post...   [More...]

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Billy Wilder

Despite his ill health and the protestations of his nurse, the celebrated barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to defend Leonard Vole, who is charged with the murder of a widow he had befriended...   [More...]

Written on the Wind (1956)
Douglas Sirk

Kyle Hadley, the son of one of America's wealthiest oil magnates, is used to getting what he wants. As soon as he meets Lucy Moore, the secretary of an advertising executive, he is determined to take her as his wife...   [More...]

The Wrong Man (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock

Working as a bass player in an exclusive New York nightclub, Manny Balestrero earns just enough to keep himself, his wife Rose and his two young sons...   [More...]

The Young Lions (1958)
Edward Dmytryk

On the eve of World War II, Christian Diestl has high hopes that Hitler's National Socialist Party will bring about a better future for his country, but his illusions are soon shattered by the harsh realities of warfare...   [More...]