Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Plucking the Daisy (Mademoiselle Striptease) (1956)- Dir. Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Roger Vadim - One of the Brigitte Bardot/Roger Vadim light comedies that relies on Bardot's charms rather more than the simple story of a smalltown woman who is…
Roof, The (Tetto, Il) (1956)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi - Moving (and until recently, exceptionally hard to find) neo–realist drama that latches onto the hard times of a newly married couple who…
Sissi - The Young Empress (1956)- Dir. Ernst Marischka
Feat. Romy Schneider - Royal life is not quite the bed of roses for Princess Sissi, now married to her beloved Franz but under the constant gaze of her meddling…
Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corney - Superb French noir from the dir. of LE SAMOURAI, here debuting with a taut plan to rob the Deauville casino, that grows ever more perilous for…
Dreams (Kvinnodröm; Journey Into Autumn) (1955)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand - Early, flawed Bergman microscope on relationships focuses on two women – a photographer and her model on a fashion shoot – as they…
French Can Can (French Cancan, Only the French Can) (1955)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Michel Piccoli, Dora Doll… - Jean Renoir returned to France after 15 years absence to make this vibrant tribute to the Parisian world of his father, the Impressionist painter…
Grandes Manoeuvres, Les (1955)- Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Michele Morgan, Gerard Philipe, Brigitte Bardot - Sophisticated French fare is a battle of the sexes between a notorious womanizer, and the divorcee he’s convinced he’ll be able to seduce and…
I Live in Fear (Ikimono no Kiroku) (1955)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura - Convinced a nuclear holocaust is imminent, an elderly industrialist (Mifune) decides to uproot his reluctant family (even his mistresses!) from Tokyo…
Il Bidone (The Swindlers) (1955)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart… - An early work from dir. Fellini in which a trio of conmen roam the Italian countryside swindling peasants in order to fund the future they believe…
La Strada (The Road) (1955)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Anthony Quinn - Fellini hit his stride and won a Foreign Film Oscar with this gentle road odyssey about a simple–minded clown whose loyalty to her boorish…
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