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- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsJohn LoderRuth FordMarian HallCommando Captain Craig Killian, carrying important military information, is wounded and taken to a hospital on the South Coast of England, operated by Doctor Joseph Wolf. The hospital is really a blind used by Nazi spies working on wrecking the Home Defense of England. In order to discredit the information that Killian has, Wolf tells an important British official that Killian is suffering from shock and is not responsible for what he says. Killian escapes and is on his way to warn the authorities, but the spies get there ahead of him and commit a series of crimes, implicating Killian.
- DirectorGordon WilesStarsRichard ArlenEva GaborJ. Carrol NaishOn faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDavid NivenKim HunterRobert CooteA British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
- DirectorLance ComfortMutz GreenbaumVictor HanburyStarsJames MasonLucie MannheimRaymond LovellA hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
- DirectorArchie MayoFritz LangStarsDon AmecheJoan BennettRoddy McDowallNewsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsRay MillandRuth HusseyDonald CrispA composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsDick PowellLinda DarnellJack OakieA young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsRobert CummingsRichard BasehartRichard HartRobespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsAlan LaddLoretta YoungSusan HaywardA wealthy woman who lost her hearing to meningitis meets a doctor who is concocting a serum that will cure deafness.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsMarius GoringDavid FarrarGreta GyntAn elderly British schoolmaster is upset when a new teacher comes to the school and is an immediate success with the boys. The older man thinks he is not getting the respect he deserves.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsOlivia de HavillandJohn LundMary AndersonAn unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsAmedeo NazzariSilvana ManganoJacques SernasReturning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsRandolph ScottElla RainesWilliam BishopA group of treasure hunters search for a wagon load of gold, buried years before in Death Valley.
- DirectorElmer CliftonIda LupinoStarsSally ForrestKeefe BrasselleLeo PennAfter a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetStarsDon 'Red' BarryWally VernonHelen TalbotCraig Morton, fronting for an eastern electric concern, and town banker Emerson Wheeler are scheming to gain control of a water-supply dam owned by local ranchers. The bank is to foreclose on the ranchers, and sell the ranches to the corporation for a large profit. Senator Gleason promises to help the ranchers, but he is murdered. Terry Reynolds, posing as an outlaw called the Nevada Kid, meets and works with Gleason's daughter, Edith, to trap the crooks and bring about a square deal for the ranchers.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsEdward G. RobinsonMarlene DietrichGeorge RaftTwo friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsMickey RooneyBrian DonlevyAnn BlythFollowing a mishap in the ring, hard-nosed lightweight Tommy "Killer" McCoy gets mixed up with a big time gambler and falls for his educated daughter Sheila, against her father's better wishes.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsMabel PaigeHarry ShannonJohn CravenAn elderly woman whose son disappeared refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She grows attached to a student whom she believes is her grandson.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsRobert TaylorElizabeth TaylorRobert FlemyngIn Cold War London, young American Melinda Greyton marries British Army Major Michael Curragh, who is a Communist spy working for the Soviets.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsJennifer JonesJohn GarfieldPedro ArmendárizIn 1930's Cuba, a bank clerk and an American mercenary assist a revolutionary group in a plan to kill the President but the Cuban Secret Police chief and the dictator's military complicate the plan's execution.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsRosalind RussellMelvyn DouglasSid CaesarAn obsessively bitter war widow and one of the men her husband saved in WW2 meet. He tries to convince her the sacrifice was necessary, but her problem isn't that simple. And can she help him with his wartime emotional scars he hides with alcohol?
- DirectorRobert SiodmakMervyn LeRoyStarsGregory PeckAva GardnerMelvyn DouglasIn the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsCharles BoyerJoan FontaineBrenda MarshallThe daughter (Joan Fontaine) of a musical mentor (Montagu Love) is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband (Charles Boyer), a handsome composer.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsDavid NivenStanley HollowayJames DonaldWorld War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsAlan LaddDonna ReedGeorge MacreadyThinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.