Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- The first true Hammer gothic horror and number one in the Frankenstein series bringing together the fantastic talents of Cushing (as the Baron) and…
Delinquents, The (1957)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Dick Bakalyan
- Future luminary Robert Altman's debut feature, an "expose" of juvenile delinquency in the rock'n'roll era.
Filmed in Kansas City in a…
Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau…
- Pungent social commentary on American mass culture outlays the rags–to–riches trajectory of a hick nobody (Griffith) whose rapid rise to…
Farewell to Arms, A (1957)
- Dir. Charles Vidor, John Huston
Feat. Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica…
- Expensive, though wooden adaptation of the Hemingway classic set around a love story on the Italian Front in WWI. Despite a Ben Hecht script, the…
Fire Down Below (1957)
- Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon…
- Adventure drama set in the Caribbean, with Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum playing U.S. expatriates who eke out a meager subsistence transporting…
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr
- Kerr and Mitchum play a nun and Marine sergeant respectively, who are stranded on a desert island during WWII – the island happens to also be…
Il Grido (The Outcry) (1957)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair
- This lesser–known work from Antonioni provides a missing link between Italian neorealism and the director's later works like L'AVVENTURA,…
Interlude (1957)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch…
- June Allyson falls for the charms of a married European conductor while being courted by a Munich doctor. One of Sirk's weaker melodramas, this was…
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights) (1957)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais…
- A departure from neo–realist beginnings, this surreal Visconti masterwork adapts Dostoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’ through dreamlike art…
Les Miserables (1957)
- Dir. Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Feat. Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Daniele Delorme…
- Adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel with Jean Gabin playing the peasant who is jailed for stealing a loaf of bread in 19th century France. A faithful…