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Subgenre Sampler
Ship Bound for India, A (1947)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Holger Löwenadler - An early, overlooked play adaptation finds Bergman's visual and dramatic style in its formative stages. Four troubled souls are drawn together by a…
Silence de la Mer, Le (The Silence of the Sea) (1947)- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Howard Vernon - A German officer is billeted with an elderly man and his niece during the occupation of France in this introspective and talky chamber piece, heavy…
Belle Et La Bete, La (Beauty and the Beast) (1946)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Josette Day - Cocteau brings a fine sense of fantasy to the old fable, creating a luxuriant atmosphere unique to his film–making. A true classic.
It Rains On Our Love (1946)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten - Bergman experiments with this awkward combination of romance and misery, in which a couple's happiness is dogged by their criminal and vagrant past.…
Paisa (1946)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emmanuel - Six short films focusing on the minor victories and losses of ordinary folk during WW2. Pioneering the now–familiar use of documentary footage,…
Panique (1946)- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Michel Simon, Viviane Romance - Exemplary French noir based on the novel Les Fiançailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon, the source of the Patrice Leconte film, MONSIEUR HIRE…
Shoeshine (Sciuscia) (1946)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
- Perhaps Vittorio De Sica's first acknowledged masterpiece, concerns two young boys struggling to survive on the streets of post–WWII Rome by…
Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Minosuke Bando, Kinuyo Tanaka - Biographical drama about the 18th century printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro, and the women (mostly brothel workers) who inspired his work.
Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne (1945)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Maria Casares - Dir. Bresson and writer Jean Cocteau are strange bedfellows in this lush, stylish drama, well–removed from the director’s austere later…
Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945)
- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur… - This resplendent evocation of nineteeth century Paris street theatre follows the love of mime Jean–Louis Barrault for the highly–strung…
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