Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Rashomon (1951)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori… - The film that brought Kurosawa to the attention of the world, and an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film. Four wildly varying perspectives on a…
Repast (Meshi) (1951)- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara - A perceptive study of a fading marriage, in which a housewife (Hara) confronts the tedium and unhappiness of her domestic life, brought into sharp…
River, The (1951)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Nora Swinburne, Arthur Shields - A sublime and serene drama set on the banks of India's holy Bengal River in the 1920s, where a trio of young English girls come under the spell of a…
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter… - Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the savage brute who taunts his disturbed sister–in–law (Vivienne Leigh). Virtuoso…
Susana (The Devil and the Flesh) (1951)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Rosita Quintana - A sexually devious reform girl seeks refuge in a decent working class family, only to cause upheaval with her devilish ways. Early Bunuel…
Astonished Heart, The (1950)- Dir. Terence Fisher, Antony Damborough
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton… - Noel Coward stars in this adaptation of his play; a drawing–room melodrama about a married psychiatrist who unhappily succumbs to the wiles of…
Damned Don't Cry, The (1950)- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran… - Loosely based on the relationship between Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill, this riveting film tells of a New York socialite's involvement with an…
Diary of a Country Priest (Journal D'Un Cure De Campagne) (1950)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Claude Laydu - Compelling and uncompromising – this adaptation of Georges Bernanos' classic French novel is one of dir. Bresson's best examinations of the…
Francesco giullare di Dio (Francis, God's Jester; The Flowers of St Francis) (1950)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Aldo Fabrizi - Following after dir. Rossellini's more obviously left–wing films (ROME OPEN CITY, PAISA), this unusual biopic would prove a transition work to…
La Ronde (1950)- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani… - A witty chronicle of circular love–affairs and seductions in 19th century Vienna. Lavish sets and extravagent spiralling camerawork complement…
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