Rope

Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.

Writer: Hume Cronyn, Patrick Hamilton, Arthur Laurents
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Production Company:  Transatlantic Pictures, Warner Bros.
Release date: August 1948

Rashômon

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryûnosuke Akutagawa

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Production Company: Daiei Film
Release date: August 1950

No Exit (Huis Clos)

Three people who despise each other find themselves sharing a room in Hell - forever.

Writer: Pierre Laroche, Jean-Paul Sartre

Director: Jacqueline Audry

Production Company: Les Films Marceau
Release date: December 1954

12 Angry Men

The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.

Writer: Reginald Rose
Director: Sidney Lumet
Production Company: Orion-Nova Productions
Release date: April 1957

Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.

Writer: Ingmar Bergman, Ulla Isaksson

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Production Company: Nordisk Tonefilm
Release date: March 1958

A group of sex-workers and some disappointed in life gather in a Mexico City cabaret to celebrate New Year's Eve.

Writer: Luis G. Basurto, Julio Bracho

Director: Julio Bracho

Production Company: Películas Rodríguez
Release date: March 1960

Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.

Writer: José Giovanni, Jacques Becker, Jean Aurel

Director: Jacques Becker

Production Company: Filmsonor, Play Art
Release date: March 1960

At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.

Writer: Eugene O'Neill

Director: Sidney Lumet

Production Company: Republic Pictures & First Company
Release date: October 1962

The Servant 

Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.

Writer: Harold Pinter, Robin Maugham
Director: Joseph Losey
Production Company: Springbok Films
Release date: November 1963

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shovelling sand for them.

Writer: Kôbô Abe, Eiko Yoshida

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Production Company: Teshigahara Production, Toho Film (Eiga) Co..
Release date: February 1964

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.

Writer: Ernest Lehman, Edward Albee
Director: Mike Nichols
Production Company: Warner Bros.
Release date: June 1966

The Boys in the Band

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.

Writer: Mart Crowley

Director: William Friedkin

Production Company: Cinema Center Films
Release date: March 1970

The Ear (Ucho)

After coming home from a Party gathering one night, a Czech official becomes convinced that he is about to be the subject of a political purge and tries to do damage control, while also dealing with his turbulent marriage.

Writer: Karel Kachyna, Jan Procházka, Ladislav Winkelhöfer

Director: Karel Kachyna

Production Company: Filmové studio Barrandov
Release date: January 1990

Garage (Garazh)

Meeting of the garage cooperative must exclude four own members because of a new highway's building. After the meeting it becomes clear that the exit door is closed by one of the members, who requires an equitable solution.

Writer: Emil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov

Director: Eldar Ryazanov

Production Company: Mosfilm
Release date: March 1980

A fan club of die-hard James Dean fans meet on the 20th anniversary of his death and reconnect, opening old wounds and facing new ones.

Writer: Ed Graczyk

Director: Robert Altman

Production Company: Mark Goodson Productions, Viacom Enterprises
Release date: November 1982

The Big Kahuna

Two veteran salesmen dissect a sales pitch to a particular client, through their young protégé.

Writer: Roger Rueff

Director: John Swanbeck

Production Company: Franchise Pictures, Trigger Street Productions
Release date: April 2000