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Subgenre Sampler
Casque d'Or (Golden Marie) (1952)- Dir. Jacques Becker
Feat. Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin - A gangster’s moll falls in love with a reformed criminal, igniting underworld violence, in this lush, overwhelming tragi–romance set in Paris…
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore… - An affecting melodrama based on William Inge's stageplay, concerning a loveless marriage, alcoholism and the price of misplaced love. Burt…
Deadline U.S.A. (1952)- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Humphrey Bogart - Tightly scripted account of the newspaper business. Editor–in–Chief: Humphrey Bogart.
Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice, The (Ochazuke no aji) (1952)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kōji Tsuruta - Dir. Ozu once again explores the subtleties of Japanese family life, this time drawing our attention to the struggles of those in arranged marriages…
Forbidden Games (Jeux Interdits) (1952)
- Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Laurence Badie - After her parents are killed in an air raid during WWII, a small girl makes friends with a peasant boy, and the pair gradually come to terms with the…
- Gentle Gunman, The (1952)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, John Mills - Dirk Bogarde and John Mills are Irish brothers sent to London by the IRA during the Blitz, but one succumbs to pacifism.
Ikiru (1952)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka - A patient meditation on life and death about a sullen yet dutiful office clerk of 30 years whose terminal illness compels him to rediscover his…
Le Plaisir (House Of Pleasure) (1952)- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon… - Three tales by Guy de Maupassant go into this visually elegant treatise on the changing moods of love, youth and memory. The most successful…
Mandy (1952)- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan - British drama about a girl who has been deaf and mute her whole life, and her family's attempts to help her with a unique education, which causes…
Manina la Fille Sans Voile (The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter; The Girl in the Bikini) (1952)- Dir. Willy Rozier
Feat. Brigitte Bardot - An obscure, almost forgettable French frolic, save for the eye–catching debut of one Brigitte Bardot. Here, the future sex symbol plays a…
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