Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Lilies of the Field (1963)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier - Helping to repair a chapel for a convent of German nuns and rewarded with an Oscar for Best Actor, this sees Sidney Poitier giving one of his quieter…
Live it Up! (Sing and Swing) (1963)- Dir. Lance Comfort
Feat. David Hemmings - Low–budget, but historically fascinating musical wraps some great mid–60s pop music around its slender plot. Hemmings plays a…
L-Shaped Room, The (1962)- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Leslie Caron - Defining slice of gritty Brit realism tackles the issue of pregnancy outside marriage with considerable pathos. French girl Leslie Caron crosses the…
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr.… - Faithful and masterful adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about family life, love and losers drinking and tearing each other apart in leafy New…
Madame (1962)- Dir. Christian-Jaque
Feat. Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein - Rags–to–riches tale set in Napoleonic France mirrors the real life of its Italian bomb–shell star, Sophia Loren.
- Pity Me Not! (Without Each Other) (1962)
- Dir. Saul Swimmer
Feat. Tony Anthony, Anne Hegiba, Saul Swimmer - A trapeze artist has the unfortunate duty of informing the wife of a fellow performer that her husband has been crushed by an elephant.
Intruder, The (I Hate Your Guts) (1961)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. William Shatner, Leo Gordon - The only Corman film ever to lose money is not surprisingly perhaps his best. William Shatner excels as a small–time drifter who preaches the…
Platinum High School (1960)- Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, Dan Duryea… - Mickey Rooney overheats in investigating his son's death at a military academy. Casting quirks includes singer Conway Twitty.
World of Apu, The (1959)- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty - Final installment of the 'Apu trilogy' sees the complexities of adulthood painfully and euphorically realised for Apu through ambition, marriage and…
Young Philadelphians, The (1959)- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Paul Newman, Barbara Rush - Engaging drama with Paul Newman as an attorney of dubious background who defends an affluent friend in a murder trial while hussling his way into the…
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