Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg - Ripe for rediscovery is this lush Francoise Sagan adaptation, centred around a tawdry love triangle between a father, daughter and…
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman - Compelling melodrama based on Tennessee Williams' play of greed, lust and impotence in a wealthly Southern family. Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor…
Christine (1958)- Dir. Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Feat. Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Micheline Presle - Vienna set classic love triangle between an unfaithful man, his current love interest (played by darling French actress Romy Schneider) and an…
Dunkirk (1958)- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Attenborough, John Mills, Bernard Lee… - British war film set during the 1940 evacuation of French and British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk, following the contrasting perspectives of a…
Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold, aka. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud) (1958)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly… - A young Jeanne Moreau stars in this elegant thriller about a crime of passion that backfires when the murderer gets trapped in a lift. Ambience par…
Horse's Mouth, The (1958)- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston - This impressively subtle portrait of a tortured artist stars Alec Guinness as a deteriorating painter whose pursuit of creative perfection has him on…
Hunters, The (1958)- Dir. Dick Powell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan - Robert Mitchum portrays an aging fighter pilot in the Korean War who falls for the wife of a fellow squadron member in this aviation–romance.
I Was Monty's Double (1958)- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Clifton James, John Mills, Leslie Phillips… - Absorbing war drama based on the true story of a man hired to imitate General Montgomery in order to hoodwink the Germans before the North Africa…
Le Beau Serge (1958)- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Blain - Accepted as the first film of the French New Wave, this Claude Chabrol drama tells the story of a man returning to his hometown only to discover his…
Long Hot Summer, The (1958)- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Orson Welles, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman - The steam rises in this William Faulkner adaptation about sex and sin in the small–town South. With a tyrannical Orson Welles, and Joanne…
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