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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Key, The (1958)- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard - Captivating WW2 drama set around a Londonite lady (played with restrained elegance by Sophia Loren) whose liaisons with war sea captains over the…
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…
Look Back in Anger (1958)- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure - Richard Burton plays the angry–young–man to the hilt in this grimly realistic slice of British life in the '50s. Based on John Osborne's…
Magician, The (The Face) (1958)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow - Bergman's allegorical self–portrait of a controversial travelling magician who exacts revenge on a cynical doctor, but becomes trapped in his…
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