Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Orpheus (Orphee) (1949)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea… - Cocteau's surrealist retelling of the classical tragedy stars Jean Marais as Orphee, the writer who retrieves his wife Eurydice from the dead. A…
Quiet Duel, The (Shizukanaru ketto) (1949)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura - A pre–RED BEARD Toshiro Mifune plays an idealistic doctor who fatally contracts syphilis from performing surgery in this minor Kurosawa…
Stray Dog (Nora Inu) (1949)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - An early film noir from Japan’s best–known director tracks police detective Toshiro Mifune into the underbelly of Tokyo in search of a pistol…
Bicycle Thieves (The Bicycle Thief, Ladri di biciclette) (1948)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell - A huge sentimental favourite about a man whose chance at meaningful labour is taken from him when his precious bicycle is stolen from him. Though not…
Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) (1948)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura - The film that made Toshiro Mifune a star – playing a petty gangster with TB, who turns to an alcoholic doctor for help after a shoot–out.…
Les Enfants Terribles (The Strange Ones) (1948)- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Edouard Dermithe, Nicole Stephane - A poetic drama–fantasy from the pen of Jean Cocteau (who also directed several scenes), that centres round the narcissistic,…
Germany Year Zero (1947)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
- A heart–breaking depiction of life in the post–WW2 ruins of Berlin, in which a boy struggles to help his family who are forced to live in…
Jour De Fete (1947)- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati - Jacques Tati established himself as a major new comic as a postman who attempts to modernise his mail service. Such precise visual humour had not…
La Terra Trema (1947)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli - Life–study of a poor Sicilian fishing village that is reverently neo–realist in its approach. Lovely B&W photography never distracts from…
Quai Des Orfevres (1947)- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair… - Romantically bleak French noir about an ambitious starlet and her protective husband who find themselves implicated in the murder of a lecherous…
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