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Subgenre Sampler
Les Diaboliques (1954)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse… - Simone Signoret stars as one of two women who conspire to murder the man they share – a sadistic schoolmaster. Iconic French thriller with a…
Lesson in Love, A (1954)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Harriet Andersson… - Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Bjornstrand play a couple who have recently separated, following the doctor husband's affair with a patient. When they…
Peek-a-Boo (Ah! Les belles bacchantes) (1954)- Dir. Jean Loubignac
Feat. Louis de Funès, Robert Dhéry - Peppy parody of musical revues, with Louis de Funès's small–town copper finding himself inadvertently cast in an all–singing,…
Samurai Trilogy, The (Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Duel at Ganryu Island) (1954-1956)- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - Sweeping saga of a legendary 17th century samurai Musashi Miyamoto, that made an icon of actor Toshiro Mifune. Played out against the turmoil of a…
Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) (1954)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa… - One of Mizoguchi's great classics, based on an 11th century Japanese folktale elaborated into a sprawling vision of a cruel, mysterious cosmos, where…
Senso (1954)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Christian Marquand - A period love story set in the tumultuous 1860's in Italy, when it was occupied by invading Austrians. Dir. Visconti turns his eye on a love…
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune - Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…
Sound of the Mountain (Yama No Oto) (1954)- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Soh Yamamura - Dir. Naruse reprises the disintegrating marriage (and cast) of his earlier film, REPAST, in this profoundly affecting tale of a young woman (Hara)…
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Hands Off the Loot) (1954)- Dir. Jacques Becker
Feat. Jean Gabin, René Dary, Jeanne Moreau - Laid–back though influential French noir chronicling a wealthy, retired racketeer (Gabin) who is pulled back into the life of crime when his…
Twenty-Four Eyes (24 Eyes/Nijushi no hitomi) (1954)- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Hideko Takamine, Chishu Ryu - An elegiac triumph of nostalgia for youth and wartime humanism, this cherished landmark of Japanese cinema gracefully chronicles the 20–years…
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