This was a huge week for new releases across the last century with shorts, animation, documentaries, Westerns, The Three Stooges, a silent version of The Blue Lagoon, big breaks for Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, and more. Much, much more. The list was so heavy this week that we’ve adjusted the format temporarily, cutting down on some of the info and fun facts but there are some little bits of trivia sprinkled throughout for your entertainment. Things should get back to normal next week, but for now check out the films celebrating milestone anniversaries this week and tell us if any of your favorites are on the list!
1923
February – Always Tell Your Wife (UK, short)
- Cast: Seymour Hicks, Ellaline Terriss, Stanley Logan, Gertrude McCoy, Ian Wilson
- Director: Hugh Croise
February – Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (USA)
- Cast: House Peters, Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno, Mary Jane Irving, Rosemary Theby, George Siegmann, William V. Mong, Carl Harbaugh, William Haines
- Director: Raoul Walsh
February – Mist in the Valley (UK)
- Cast: Alma Taylor, G. H. Mulcaster, James Carew, Esme Hubbard, John MacAndrews, Gwynne Herbert, Maud Cressall, Charles Vane, Douglas Munro, Lionel d’Aragon, Bertram Terry, Fred Rains
- Director: Cecil Hepworth
February – The Harbour Lights (UK)
- Cast: Tom Moore, Isobel Elsom, Gerald McCarthy, Gibson Gowland, Annette Benson, A. B. Imeson, Percy Standing, Mary Rorke, Judd Green, Gordon Begg
- Director: Tom Terriss
February – The Hypocrites (UK)
- Cast: Wyndham Standing, Mary Odette, Lilian Douglas, Harold French, Sidney Paxton, Roy Travers
- Director: Charles Giblyn
February – The Monkey’s Paw (UK)
- Cast: Moore Marriott, Marie Ault, Charles Ashton, Johnny Butt, A. B. Imeson, George Wynn, Tom Coventry
- Director: Manning Haynes
February – The Pipes of Pan (UK)
- Cast: Alma Taylor, G.H. Mulcaster, Eileen Dennes, Hugh Clifton, John MacAndrews, Buena Bent, Lawrence Hanray, Leslie Attwood, James Annand
- Director: Cecil M. Hepworth
February – The Prodigal Son (UK)
- Cast: Stewart Rome, Henry Victor, Edith Bishop, Colette Brettel, Adeline Hayden Coffin
- Director: A. E. Coleby
February – Through Fire and Water (UK)
- Cast: Clive Brook, Flora le Breton, Lawford Davidson, Jerrold Robertshaw, M. A. Wetherell, Teddy Arundell, Esme Hubbard, Ian Wilson
- Director: Thomas Bentley
February – What a Wife Learned (USA)
- Cast: John Bowers, Milton Sills, Marguerite De La Motte, Evelyn McCoy, Harry Todd, Aggie Herring, Francelia Billington
- Director: John Griffith Wray
February 1 – Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective (USA, short)
- Voice Cast: Vernon Stallings
- Director: Vernon Stallings
February 1 – Friday the 13th (USA, short)
- Cast: Marcel Perez
- Director: Marcel Perez
February 1 – Is Money Everything? (USA)
- Cast: Norman Kerry, Miriam Cooper, Andrew Hicks, John Sylvester, Martha Mansfield, William Bailey
- Director: Glen Lyons
February 1 – The Forbidden Trail (USA)
- Cast: Jack Hoxie, Evelyn Nelson, Frank Rice, William Berke, Joseph McDermott, Thomas G. Lingham, Steve Clemente
- Director: Robert N. Bradbury
February 3 – The Truth About Wives (USA)
- Cast: Betty Blythe, Tyrone Power Sr., William P. Carleton, Anna Luther, Fred C. Jones, John Daly Murphy, Marcia Harris, Nellie Parker Spaulding
- Director: Lawrence C. Windom
February 4 – A Tough Winter (USA, short)
- Cast: ‘Snub’ Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Joe Cobb, James Finlayson
- Director: Charley Chase
February 4 – The Bishop of the Ozarks (USA)
- Cast: Milford W. Howard, Derelys Perdue, Cecil Holland, William Kenton, R.D. MacLean, Mrs. Milo Adams, Rosa Melville, Fred Kelsey, George Reed
- Director: Finis Fox
February 4 – The Dangerous Age (USA)
- Cast: Lewis Stone, Cleo Madison, Edith Roberts, Ruth Clifford, Myrtle Stedman, James Morrison, Helen Lynch, Lincoln Stedman, Edmund Burns, Richard Tucker, Sidney Algier
- Director: John M. Stahl
February 5 – Crinoline and Romance (USA)
- Cast: Viola Dana, Claude Gillingwater, John Bowers, Allan Forrest, Betty Francisco, Mildred June, Lillian Lawrence, Gertrude Short, Lillian Leighton, Nick Cogley
- Director: Harry Beaumont
February 5 – The Blue Lagoon (South Africa)
- Cast: Molly Adair, Val Chard, Dick Cruikshanks, Arthur Pusey, Doreen Wonfer
- Director: Dick Cruikshanks
February 5 – The Flame of Life (USA)
- Cast: Priscilla Dean, Robert Ellis, Kathryn McGuire, Wallace Beery, Fred Kohler, Beatrice Burnham, Emmett King, Frankie Lee
- Director: Hobart Henley
1933
February – Called Back (UK)
- Cast: Franklin Dyall, Lester Matthews, Dorothy Boyd, Alexander Sarner, Anthony Ireland, Francis L. Sullivan, Ian Fleming
- Director: Reginald Denham, Jack Harris
February – Little Miss Nobody (UK)
- Cast: Winna Winifried, Sebastian Shaw, Betty Huntley-Wright, A. Bromley Davenport, Drusilla Wills, Ben Field, Ernest Sefton, Abraham Sofaer
- Director: John Daumery
February – On Thin Ice (UK)
- Cast: Ursula Jeans, Kenneth Law, Dorothy Bartlam, Viola Gault, Stewart Thompson, Cameron Carr
- Director: Bernard Vorhaus
February – One Precious Year (UK)
- Cast: Anne Grey, Basil Rathbone, Owen Nares, Flora Robson, Evelyn Roberts, H.G. Stoker, Robert Horton, Violet Hopson
- Director: Henry Edwards
February – She Was Only a Village Maiden (UK)
- Cast: Anne Grey, Lester Matthews, Carl Harbord, Barbara Everest, Julian Royce, Anthony Holles, Gertrude Sterroll
- Director: Arthur Maude
February – To Brighton with Gladys (UK)
- Cast: Harry Milton, Constance Shotter, Kate Cutler, Sunday Wilshin, Melville Cooper
- Director: George King
February – Yes, Madam (UK)
- Cast: Frank Pettingell, Kay Hammond, Harold French, Muriel Aked, Hugh Tolliver, Wyn Weaver, Hal Walters
- Director: Leslie S. Hiscott
February 1 – Nagana (USA)
- Cast: Tala Birell, Melvyn Douglas, Miki Morita, Onslow Stevens, Everett Brown, Billy McClain, William R. Dunn, Frank Lackteen, Noble Johnson
- Director: Ernst L. Frank
February 1 – Revenge at Monte Carlo (USA)
- Cast: June Collyer, José Crespo, Wheeler Oakman, Dorothy Gulliver, Edward Earle, Lloyd Ingraham, Clarence Geldart, Lloyd Whitlock
- Director: B. Reeves Eason
February 2 – Scrappy’s Party (USA, short)
- Studio: Charles Mintz Productions
February 2 – Terror Trail (USA)
- Cast: Tom Mix, Naomi Judge, Arthur Rankin, John St. Polis, Frank Brownlee, Raymond Hatton, Francis McDonald, Bob Kortman, Lafe McKee
- Director: Armand Schaefer
February 2 – The Big Bluff (Germany)
- Cast: Lee Parry, Betty Amann, Harald Paulsen, Otto Wallburg, Paul Hörbiger, Adele Sandrock, Hugo Fischer-Köppe, Walter Steinbeck, Theo Lingen, Sigurd Lohde
- Director: Georg Jacoby
February 3 – Ain’t She Sweet (USA, short)
- Voice Cast: Lillian Roth
- Director: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel
February 3 – Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (USA)
- Cast: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon, Chester Conklin, Tyler Brooke, Tammany Young, Bert Roach
- Director: Lewis Milestone
February 3 – Lucky Devils (USA)
- Cast: William Boyd, Bruce Cabot, William Gargan, William Bakewell, Lon Chaney Jr. (as Creighton Chaney), Bob Rose, Dorothy Wilson, Julie Haydon
- Director: Ralph Ince
February 3 – Luxury Liner (USA)
- Cast: George Brent, Zita Johann, Vivienne Osborne, Alice White, Verree Teasdale, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Wallis Clark, Henry Wadsworth, Billy Bevan
- Director: Lothar Mendes
February 3 – The Little Damozel (UK)
- Cast: Anna Neagle, James Rennie, Benita Hume, Athole Stewart, Alfred Drayton, Clifford Heatherley, Peter Northcote, Franklyn Bellamy, Aubrey Fitzgerald
- Director: Herbert Wilcox
February 3 – The Secret of Madame Blanche (USA)
- Cast: Irene Dunne, Lionel Atwill, Phillips Holmes, Una Merkel, Douglas Walton, C. Henry Gordon, Jean Parker, Mitchell Lewis
- Director: Charles Brabin
February 4 – Buzzin’ Around (USA, short)
- Cast: Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, Al St. John
- Director: Alfred J. Goulding
February 4 – Child of Manhattan (USA, limited)
- Cast: Nancy Carroll, John Boles, Buck Jones, Jessie Ralph, Clara Blandick, Luis Alberni, Warburton Gamble, Jane Darwell, Garry Owen, Betty Grable, Nat Pendleton
- Director: Edward Buzzell
February 4 – Fallen Arches (USA, short)
- Cast: Charley Chase, Billy Gilbert, Muriel Evans, Eddie Dunn
- Director: Gus Meins
February 4 – Hollywood Premiere (USA, short)
- Cast: Phyllis Barry, Eddie Garr
- Director: Murray Roth
February 4 – Ladies They Talk About (USA)
- Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Lillian Roth, Maude Eburne, Ruth Donnelly, Harold Huber, Robert McWade
- Director: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley
February 4 – One Step Ahead of My Shadow (USA, short)
- Voice Cast (uncredited): Ken Darby, Rudolf Ising, The King’s Men, Carman Maxwell
- Director: Rudolf Ising
February 4 – The Iron Master (USA)
- Cast: Gaby Morlay, Léon Belières, Paule Andral, Jacques Dumesnil, Henri Rollan, Rivers Cadet, Christiane Delyne
- Director: Abel Gance, Fernand Rivers
February 5 – A Door Opens (USA)
- Cast: Erika Fiedler, Hermann Speelmans, Lily Rodien, Fritz Odemar, Oskar Sima, Hans Deppe, Peter Erkelenz, Walter Steinbeck, Curt Lucas, Hansjoachim Büttner, Ernst Pröckl
- Director: Alfred Zeisler
- Trivia: Original German title is Eine Tür geht auf.
February 5 – Glad Rags to Riches (USA, short)
- Cast: Eugene Butler, Lawrence Harris, Georgie Smith, Shirley Temple, Marilyn Granas
- Director: Charles Lamont
- Trivia: Features Shirely Temple’s first on-screen tap dance and musical number.
February 5 – Hansel and Gretel (USA, short)
- Studio: Terrytoons
February 6 – Africa Speaks (USA, short)
- Cast: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy
- Director: Roy Mack
February 6 – High Spots of the Far East (USA, documentary short)
- Director: E.M. Newman
February 6 – Little Fella (UK)
- Cast: Marie Ault, Glyn James, Joan Marion, George Merritt, John Stuart, Hal Walters, Dodo Watts
- Director: William C. McGann
February 6 – The Magic Mummy (USA, short)
- Voice Cast (uncredited): Artie Dunn, Margie Hines, Les Reis
- Director: John Foster, Vernon Stallings
February 6 – Via Pony Express (USA)
- Cast: Jack Hoxie, Lane Chandler, Marceline Day, Matthew Betz, Julian Rivero, Doris Hill, Joseph W. Girard, Charles K. French
- Director: Lewis D. Collins
February 7 – The Medicine Show (USA, short)
- Director: Manny Gould, Ben Harrison
1943
February – Madame Curie (USA)
- Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann, Robert Walker, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Van Johnson, Margaret O’Brien
- Director: Mervyn LeRoy
February 1 – The Fighting Buckaroo (USA)
- Cast: Charles Starrett, Kay Harris, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Tubb
- Director: William Berke
February 4 – Reveille with Beverly (USA)
- Cast: Ann Miller, William Wright, Dick Purcell, Franklin Pangborn, Tim Ryan, Larry Parks, Barbara Brown
- Director: Charles Barton
- Trivia: Irene Ryan and Doodles Weaver appear in uncredited roles.
February 5 – Dizzy Detectives (USA, short)
- Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bud Jamison, Dick Botiller, John Tyrrell, Lynton Brent, Dick Jensen, Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan
- Director: Jules White
February 5 – Hold Your Temper (USA, short)
- Cast: Edgar Kennedy, Irene Ryan, Dot Farley, Jack Rice, Isabel La Mal, Eddie Dew, Martin Faust, Casey Johnson
- Director: Lloyd French
February 5 – Kid Dynamite (USA, short)
- Cast: The East Side Kids, Gabriel Dell, Pamela Blake, Vince Barnett, Daphne Pollard, Charles Judels, Dudley Dickerson
- Director: Wallace Fox
February 5 – Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (USA)
- Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, John Elliott, Earle Hodgins, Rex Lease, Lane Chandler, Alan Bridge, Dennis Moore
- Director: Lewis D. Collins
February 5 – The Outlaw (USA)
- Cast: Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi Aguglia, Joe Sawyer
- Director: Howard Hughes
February 5 – The Vitamin G-Man (USA, short)
- Voice Cast: Frank Graham, Danny Webb, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Arthur Q. Bryan, John McLeish, Dick Nelson, Kent Rogers
- Director: John Hubley, Paul Sommer
February 5 – Young and Willing (USA)
- Cast: William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Martha O’Driscoll, Barbara Britton, Mabel Paige, Florence MacMichael
- Director: Edward H. Griffith
February 6 – Donald Duck Visits Lake Titicaca (USA, short)
- Voice Cast: Clarence Nash, Fred Shields
- Director: Bill Roberts
- Trivia: Originally premiered in Brazil on August 24, 1942.
February 6 – El Gaucho Goofy (USA, short)
- Voice Cast: Fred Shields, Pinto Colvig
- Director: Jack Kinney
February 6 – Pigs in a Polka (USA, short)
- Voice Cast: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner
- Director: I. Freleng
- Trivia: A parody of Disney’s Three Little Pigs and Fantasia.
February 6 – Truck Busters (USA)
- Cast: Richard Travis, Virginia Christine, Charles Lang, Ruth Ford, Richard Fraser, Tod Andrews, Frank Wilcox, Don Costello
- Director: B. Reeves Eason
1953
February – Alf’s Baby (UK)
- Cast: Jerry Desmonde, Pauline Stroud, Olive Sloane, Peter Hammond, Sandra Dorne
- Director: Maclean Rogers
- Trivia: Also known as Her Three Brothers.
February – Black Orchid (UK)
- Cast: Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes, John Bentley, Mary Laura Wood, Patrick Barr, Sheila Burrell, Russell Napier, Mary Jones, Alan Robinson, Ian Fleming
- Director: Charles Saunders
February – Cosh Boy (UK)
- Cast: James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres, Hermione Baddeley, Hermione Gingold, Nancy Roberts, Laurence Naismith, Ian Whittaker
- Director: Lewis Gilbert
- Trivia: Released in the US as The Slasher.
February – Niagara (USA)
- Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams, Denis O’Dea, Richard Allan, Don Wilson, Lurene Tuttle, Russell Collins, Will Wright
- Director: Henry Hathaway
- Trivia: The first film for which Marilyn Monroe received top billing, propelling her into stardom.
February – Target Hong Kong (USA)
- Cast: Richard Denning, Nancy Gates, Richard Loo, Soo Yong, Ben Astar, Michael Pate, Philip Ahn, Henry Kulky
- Director: Fred F. Sears
February – The Wild One (USA)
- Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen, Peggy Maley, Hugh Sanders, Ray Teal, John Brown, Will Wright, Yvonne Doughty
- Director: László Benedek
- Trivia: Considered to be the original outlaw biker film, and the first to examine American outlaw motorcycle gang violence, with Brando’s character becoming a cultural icon. Alvy Moore and Jerry Paris appear uncredited.
February – Those People Next Door (UK)
- Cast: Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes, Gladys Henson, Garry Marsh, Jimmy James, Patricia Cutts, Anthony Newley
- Director: John Harlow
February – Top of the Form (UK)
- Cast: Ronald Shiner, Anthony Newley, Harry Fowler, Jacqueline Pierreux, Alfie Bass, Mary Jerrold, Richard Wattis, Howard Marion-Crawford, Roland Curram
- Director: John Paddy Carstairs
February – Wise Quacks (USA, short)
- Studio: Terrytoons
February 1 – First Start (USA)
- Cast: Jadwiga Chojnacka, Adam Mikolajewski, Janusz Jaron, Jerzy Pietraszkiewicz, Wladyslaw Woznik, Wladyslaw Walter, Anna Rosiak, Leopold R. Nowak, Bogdan Niewinowski, Stanislaw Mikulski
- Director: Leonard Buczkowski
- Trivia: Originally opened in Poland on January 25, 1951.
February 1 – Last of the Comanches (USA)
- Cast: Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale, Johnny Stewart, Steve Forrest, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Shaughnessy, George Mathews, Hugh Sanders, Chubby Johnson, Martin Milner
- Director: Andre DeToth
- Trivia: Remake of the 1943 Sahara in which Lloyd Bridges also appears.
February 1 – Marshal of Cedar Rock (USA)
- Cast: Allan Lane, Black Jack, Eddy Waller, Phyllis Coates, Roy Barcroft, William Henry, Robert Shayne, John Crawford, John Hamilton, Kenneth MacDonald, Herbert Lytton
- Director: Harry Keller
February 1 – Tangier Incident (USA)
- Cast: George Brent, Mari Aldon, Dorothy Patrick, Bert Freed, Dan Seymour, Alix Talton, John Harmon, Richard Karlan, Shepard Menken, Benny Rubin
- Director: Lew Landers
February 1 – The Naked Spur (USA)
- Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, Millard Mitchell
- Director: Anthony Mann
- Trivia: The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, an unusual honor for a Western.
February 3 – Around Is Around (USA, short)
- Studio: British Film Institute, National Film Board of Canada
- Trivia: The film consists of stereoscopic animation of oscilloscope-like patterns, and is included on the 3D Rarities Blu-ray.
February 3 – Savage Mutiny (USA)
- Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Angela Stevens, Lester Matthews, Nelson Leigh, Charles Stevens, Paul Marion, Gregory Gaye, Leonard Penn, Ted Thorpe, Tamba the Chimp
- Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Trivia: Tenth film in the Jungle Jim series.
February 3 – Thunder in the East (USA)
- Cast: Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer, Corinne Calvet, Cecil Kellaway, Marc Cavell, John Abbott, Philip Bourneuf, John Williams
- Director: Charles Vidor
- Trivia: Originally released in the UK on January 6, 1952.
February 4 – The Silver Whip (USA)
- Cast: Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner, Kathleen Crowley, James Millican, Lola Albright, J.M. Kerrigan Riley, John Kellogg, Ian MacDonald
- Director: Harmon Jones
February 4 – Treasure of the Golden Condor (USA)
- Cast: Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, Walter Hampden, Anne Bancroft, George Macready, Fay Wray, Leo G. Carroll, Konstantin Shayne
- Director: Delmer Daves
- Trivia: Remake of the 1942 film Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake. Robert Blake appears uncredited as a stable boy.
February 5 – Bear Country (USA, short)
- Narrator: Winston Hibler
- Director: James Algar
- Trivia: Oscar winner for Best Short Subject. Part of Disney’s True-Life Adventure series, and was shown with Peter Pan during its original run.
February 5 – Peter Pan (USA)
- Voice Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel, Paul Collins, Tommy Luske, Candy Candido
- Director: Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
- Trivia: The 14th Disney animated feature. The final Disney film released by RKO before Disney founded his own distribution company. The final Disney film in which the ‘Nine Old Men’ worked together.
February 5 – Time Bomb (UK)
- Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Harcourt Williams, Victor Maddern, Harold Warrender, John Horsley, Campbell Singer, Bill Fraser
- Director: Ted Tetzlaff
- Trivia: Released in the US as Terror on a Train.
February 5 – Up in Daisy’s Penthouse (USA, short)
- Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Connie Cezon, Blackie Whiteford, Jack Kenney, John Merton, Curly Howard
- Director: Jules White
- Trivia: The 144th Three Stooges short.
February 5 – Jolanda, la figlia del corsaro nero (Italy)
- Cast: May Britt, Marc Lawrence, Renato Salvatori, Barbara Florian, Guido Celano, Ignazio Balsamo, Alberto Sorrentino, Umberto Spadaro, Domenico Serra
- Director: Mario Soldati
- Trivia: Known in English as Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair or Yolanda.
February 6 – Featherweight Champ (USA, short)
- Studio: Terrytoons
February 6 – The Mississippi Gambler (USA)
- Cast: Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Paul Cavanagh, John Baer, Ron Randell, Ralph Dumke, Robert Warwick, William Reynolds, Guy Williams
- Director: Rudolph Maté
- Trivia: The third film from Universal Pictures to bear this title, but each film has a completely different story.
1963
February – Cleopatra’s Daughter (USA)
- Cast: Debra Paget, Ettore Manni, Erno Crisa, Corrado Pani, Yvette Lebon, Robert Alda, Rosalba Neri
- Director: Fernando Cerchio
- Trivia: Originally opened in Italy on December 7, 1960 under the title Il sepolcro dei re.
February – Drum Up a Tenant (USA, short)
- Voice Cast: Cecil Roy, Dayton Allen, Valerie Harper, Jack Mercer
- Director: Seymour Kneitel, Morey Reden
February – Good Snooze Tonight (USA, short)
- Cast: Dayton Allen, Jack Mercer
- Director: Seymour Kneitel, Martin Taras
February – Impact (UK)
- Cast: Conrad Phillips, George Pastell, Ballard Berkeley, Linda Marlowe, Richard Klee, Anita West, John Rees, Frank Pettitt
- Director: Peter Maxwell
February 4 – The Iron Maiden (UK)
- Cast: Michael Craig, Anne Helm, Jeff Donnell, Alan Hale Jr., Noel Purcell, Cecil Parker, Roland Culver, Joan Sims, John Standing, Brian Oulton, Jim Dale
- Director: Gerald Thomas
- Trivia: Also known as The Swingin’ Maiden. Released in the US on December 31, 1963.
1973
February – Alabama’s Ghost (USA)
- Cast: Christopher Brooks, Peggy Browne, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Steven Kent Browne, Ken Grantham, Karen Ingenthron, Ann Weldon, Ann Wagner Ward, Joel Nobel, Linda Shelburne
- Director: Fredric Hobbs
February – Jory (USA)
- Cast: John Marley, B.J. Thomas, Robby Benson, Claudio Brook, Patricia Aspíllaga, Brad Dexter, Benny Baker, Anne Lockhart, Ted Markland, Linda Purl
- Director: Jorge Fons
February – Scream Bloody Murder (USA)
- Cast: Fred Holbert, Leigh Mitchell, Robert Knox, Ron Bastone, Suzette Hamilton, Willey Reynolds, A. Maana Tanelah, Florence Lea, Rory Guy
- Director: Marc B. Ray
- Trivia: Also known as Matthew, Claw of Terror and The Captive Female.
February – The Asphyx (USA)
- Cast: Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire, Alex Scott, Ralph Arliss, Fiona Walker, Terry Scully
- Director: Peter Newbrook
- Trivia: Also known as Spirit of the Dead and The Horror of Death.
February – Tombs of the Blind Dead (USA)
- Cast: Lone Fleming, César Burner, María Elena Arpón, José Thelman, Rufino Inglés, Verónica Llimera, Simón Arriaga, Francisco Sanz
- Director: Amando de Ossorio
- Trivia: Originally released in Spain on April 10, 1972 as La noche del terror ciego (The Night of the Blind Terror).
February 4 – Wattstax (USA)
- Cast: The Staple Singers, Richard Pryor, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Luther Ingram, Kim Weston, Johnnie Taylor, The Bar-Kays, Isaac Hayes, Albert King
- Director: Mel Stuart
February 5 – The Decisive Moment (USA, short)
- Cast: Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Director: Cornell Capa
February 7 – Black Caesar (USA)
- Cast: Fred Williamson, Omer Jeffery, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D’Urville Martin, Julius Harris, Minnie Gentry, Philip Roye, Michael Jeffery, William Wellman Jr., James Dixon, Val Avery, Patrick McAllister, Don Pedro Colley, Myrna Hansen
- Director: Larry Cohen
- Trivia: Released in the UK as Godfather of Harlem.
February 7 – The Train Robbers (USA)
- Cast: John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin, Ricardo Montalban
- Director: Burt Kennedy
1983
February – Dead on Time (UK, short)
- Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Peter Bull, Jo Kendall, Nigel Hawthorne, Nell Campbell, Joshua White, Hugh Thomas, Alex Norton, Christopher Biggins, Rupert Everett, Adrian Edmondson
- Director: Lyndall Hobbs
February – Second Thoughts (USA)
- Cast: Lucie Arnaz, Craig Wasson, Ken Howard, Anne Schedeen, Arthur Rosenberg, Peggy McCay, Tammy Taylor, James O’Connell, Louis Giambalvo
- Director: Lawrence Turman
February 2 – Olivia (Spain)
- Cast: Suzanna Love, Amy Robinson, Robert Walker Jr., Jeff Winchester, Bibbe Hansen, Nicholas Love, Kenneth R. Shippy, Michael Evans, Ulli Lommel
- Director: Ulli Lommel
- Trivia: This American-made film did not open in the US until March 4, 1983.
February 4 – The Entity (USA/Canada)
- Cast: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes, Michael Alldredge, Alex Rocco, Allan Rich
- Director: Sidney J. Furie
- Trivia: While filmed and planned for a 1981 release, the film was first released in the UK on September 30, 1982.
February 4 – Videodrome (USA/Canada)
- Cast: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Trivia: Cronenberg’s first film to get major backing from a Hollywood studio, in this case Universal Pictures.
February 4 – Without a Trace (USA)
- Cast: Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes, Stockard Channing, Danny Corkill, Louise Stubbs, Keith McDermott, David Simon
- Director: Stanley R. Jaffe
February 5 – Blue Thunder (West Germany)
- Cast: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell, Paul Roebling, David Sheiner, Joe Santos
- Director: John Badham
- Trivia: The film was released in the US and Canada on May 13, 1983. A TV series spin-off debuted in 1984 and ran for just 11 episodes.
1993
February 3 – Acción mutante (Spain)
- Cast: Antonio Resines, Álex Angulo, Frédérique Feder, Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guillén, Enrique San Francisco, Jaime Blanch
- Director: Álex de la Iglesia
- Trivia: The film screened in the US at the Philadelphia International Film Festival on April 7, 2003 as Mutant Action.
February 3 – White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II (USA)
- Cast: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Amy O’Neill, Ami Dolenz, David Moscow, Matt McCoy
- Director: Catherine Cyran
- Trivia: Sequel to the 1990 film A Cry in the Wild.
February 5 – Last Call at Maud’s (USA, documentary)
- Cast: Rikki Streiche, Judy Grahn, Sally Gearhart, Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon
- Director: Paris Poirier
February 5 – National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 (USA)
- Cast: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Kathy Ireland, Frank McRae, Tim Curry, William Shatner, Jon Lovitz, Lance Kinsey, Denis Leary, F. Murray Abraham, Danielle Nicolet, Beverly Johnson, Ken Ober, Vito Scotti, Bill Nunn, Lin Shaye
- Director: Gene Quintano
- Trivia: Cameos include James Doohan, Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, Corey Feldman, Whoopi Goldberg, Phil Hartman, Richard Moll, J.T. Walsh, Bruce Willis (uncredited as John McClane from Die hard), Denise Richards, Allyce Beasley, Joyce Brothers and Charlie Sheen.
February 5 – Rain Without Thunder (USA)
- Cast: Betty Buckley, Katharine Crost, Jeff Daniels, Frederic Forrest, Graham Greene, Linda Hunt, Robert Earl Jones, Carolyn McCormick, Ming-Na Wen, Iona Morris, Austin Pendleton, Ethan Phillips, Steve Zahn
- Director: Gary O. Bennett
February 5 – Sommersby (USA)
- Cast: Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Brett Kelley, Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, Lanny Flaherty, William Windom, Wendell Wellman, Clarice Taylor, Frankie Faison, Ronald Lee Ermey, Richard Hamilton, Maury Chaykin, Ray McKinnon
- Director: Jon Amiel
- Trivia: Based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre.
February 5 – The Vanishing (USA/Canada)
- Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock, Park Overall, Maggie Linderman, Lisa Eichhorn, George Hearn, Lynn Hamilton
- Director: George Sluizer
- Trivia: Remake of Sluizer’s 1988 French-Dutch film of the same name.
February 5 – Tom and Jerry: The Movie (Sweden)
- Cast: Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Charlotte Rae, Tony Jay, Michael Bell, Henry Gibson, Ed Gilbert, David Lander, Rip Taylor, Howard Morris, Sydney Lassick, Don Messick, Tino Insana, B. J. Ward, Greg Burson
- Director: Phil Roman
- Trivia: Dana Hill’s final film role. This is the only film to date to give the Tom and Jerry characters extensive dialogue. They have usually been mute in previous shorts. Originally opened in Germany on October 1, 1992, and was released in the US and Canada on July 30, 1993.
2003
February – Baberellas (USA)
- Cast: Shauna O’Brien, Julie K. Smith, Regina Russell Banali, Sasha Peralto, Linda Vox, Mark Wilde, Chris Porter, Bettie Dewar, Ryan Rafferty, Deborah Dutch, Athena Demos
- Director: Chuck Cirino
February – Lost Junction (USA)
- Cast: Neve Campbell, Billy Burke, Jake Busey, Charles Edwin Powell, David Gow, Michel Perron, Amy Sloan, Norman Mikeal Berketa, Mariah Inger
- Director: Peter Masterson
February 1 – V-Day: Until the Violence Stops (USA, documentary)
- Cast: Tantoo Cardinal, Rosario Dawson, Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Salma Hayek, Amy Hill, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini
- Director: Abby Epstein
- Trivia: Also known as World VDAY.
February 2 – Aquanoids (USA)
- Cast: Laura Nativo, Rhoda Jordan, Laurence Hobbs, Edwin Craig
- Director: Reinhart Peschke
February 3 – Quigley (USA)
- Cast: Gary Busey, Oz Perkins, Curtis Armstrong, Caryn Greenhut, Christopher Atkins, Jessica Ferrarone, Jillian Clare, Galvin Chapman, Bill Fagerbakke
- Director: William Byron Hillman
- Trivia: Released in the UK as Daddy Dog Day.
February 5 – The Jungle Book 2 (France)
- Cast: Haley Joel Osment, John Goodman, Mae Whitman, Bob Joles, Tony Jay, Phil Collins, John Rhys-Davies,Jim Cummings
- Director: Steve Trenbirth
- Trivia: Released in the US on February 14, 2003. Was originally produced as a direct-to-video sequel but was given a theatrical release instead. The film does contain a ‘Hidden Mickey’ and a cameo from Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King.
February 7 – Deliver Us from Eva (USA)
- Cast: LL Cool J, Gabrielle Union, Duane Martin, Essence Atkins, Robinne Lee, Meagan Good, Mel Jackson, Kym Whitley, Kenya Moore, Terry Crews
- Director: Gary Hardwick
- Trivia: LL Cool J is billed for the first time under his real name, James Todd Smith.
February 7 – How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (USA/Canada)
- Cast: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Lennon, Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow, Robert Klein, Bebe Neuwirth, Liliane Montevecchi
- Director: Donald Petrie
- Trivia: Marvin Hamlisch makes a cameo appearance as himself.
February 7 – Ripley’s Game (Italy)
- Cast: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone, Lena Headey, Chiara Caselli
- Director: Liliana Cavani
- Trivia: The film did not receive a theatrical release in the US, instead going straight to television on September 4, 2003.
February 7 – Shanghai Knights (USA/Canada)
- Cast: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tom Fisher, Donnie Yen, Aidan Gillen, Oliver Cotton, Kim Chan, Gemma Jones, Tom Wu, Georgina Chapman
- Director: David Dobkin
- Trivia: Originally released in Malaysia on January 30, 2003. Sequel to Shanghai Noon. Aaron Taylor-Johnson was billed as Aaron Johnson.
2013
February – Alien Highway (USA, documentary)
- Studio: Back of the Mind Productions
February – Blood Drive: The Movie (USA)
- Cast: Sophia Robbins, Archer King, Liane Wunderlich, Mike Roche, Leatha Sturges, Kelly Collins, Eric Mache, Michael Townsend Wright
- Director: Sophia Robbins
February – Scary Normal (USA)
- Cast: Laura Welle, April Cleveland, Finn Dallas, Mike Trippiedi, Chris Taber, Jaysha Dunn Lowery
- Director: Jennifer Heaton
February – Turlock (USA, documentary)
- Cast: Marji Beach, Greg Litus, Jamie London, David Phinney, Kim Sturla, Jacie Volek
- Director: Keegan Kuhn
February 1 – Bullet to the Head (USA/Canada/UK)
- Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater, Jon Seda, Holt McCallany, Brian Van Holt
- Director: Walter Hill
February 1 – Girls Against Boys (USA)
- Cast: Danielle Panabaker, Nicole LaLiberte, Andrew Howard, Michael Stahl-David, Liam Aiken
- Director: Austin Chick
February 1 – Invasion Ireland (USA)
- Cast: Ciara Bailey, Fionnuala Collins, Vicky Cosmos, Kevin Currid, Ciaron Davies, Jenny Dixon
- Director: Ciaron Davies
February 1 – Stand Up Guys (USA/Canada)
- Cast: Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Mark Margolis, Lucy Punch, Addison Timlin, Vanessa Ferlito, Katheryn Winnick, Bill Burr
- Director: Fisher Stevens
February 1 – The Devil’s Dozen (USA)
- Cast: Eric Roberts, Jake Busey, Jeremy London, Omar Gooding, William McNamara, Dante Basco, Erik Aude, W. Morgan Sheppard, C. Thomas Howell
- Director: Jeremy London
February 1 – The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (USA/Canada)
- Cast: Abigail Spencer, Chad Michael Murray, Emily Alyn Lind, Katee Sackhoff, Cicely Tyson
- Director: Tom Elkins
- Trivia: The film is a spiritual successor to The Haunting in Connecticut, but not a direct sequel.
February 1 – Warm Bodies (USA/Canada)
- Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Lio Tipton, Cory Hardrict, John Malkovich
- Director: Jonathan Levine
February 4 – Gangs of Tooting Broadway (UK)
- Cast: Terence Anderson, Marcus Boyea, Oliver Cotton, Samuel Folayan, Elizabeth Henstridge, Nia Kova, Haseeb Malik, Katherine Moran, Krishan Naidoo, Anusha Nava
- Director: Devanand Shanmugam
February 6 – A Good Day to Die Hard (South Korea)
- Cast: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Yulia Snigir, Radivoje Bukvić, Sergei Kolesnikov, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Cole Hauser, Aldis Hodge, Amaury Nolasco, Megalyn Echikunwoke
- Director: John Moore
- Trivia: Opened in the US on February 13, 2013. The fifth and final film in the Die Hard franchise, and the only one to use Dolby Atmos Surround Mixing, and the only one to be released in IMAX. Aldis Hodge previously played Raymond Carver in Die Hard with a Vengeance.
February 7 – Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (China)
- Cast: Shu Qi, Wen Zhang, Huang Bo, Chen Bing Qiang, Lee Sheung Ching, Show Lo, Cheng Sihan, Xing Yu, Lu Zheng Yu, Chiu Chi Ling, Yang Di, Chrissie Chau
- Director: Stephen Chow, Derek Kwok
- Trivia: The film received a limited US release on March 7, 2014.
February 7 – Shoot The Moon (USA, documentary)
- Cast: Joey Flores, Brandon McCormick, Gabe Nunez, Pancho Pacheco, Franky Sandoval
- Director: Chris Taylor
February 7 – Special 26 (UAE)
- Cast: Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Sheirgill, Kajal Aggarwal, Rajesh Sharma
- Director: Neeraj Pandey
- Trivia: The film did not get a theatrical release in the US, but was released in the UK on February 8, 2013.