Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Roof, The (Tetto, Il) (1956)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi - Moving (and until recently, exceptionally hard to find) neo–realist drama that latches onto the hard times of a newly married couple who…
Sissi - The Young Empress (1956)- Dir. Ernst Marischka
Feat. Romy Schneider - Royal life is not quite the bed of roses for Princess Sissi, now married to her beloved Franz but under the constant gaze of her meddling…
Spanish Gardener, The (1956)- Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sir Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack… - Curious father/son drama with Bogarde in the title role forming a close relationship with a young boy much to his father's envy. Narrative wise…
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett - Resolute Sirk melodrama tugs at the heartstrings of a disenchanted family man whose chance encounter with an old–flame compels his children to…
Trapeze (1956)- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida… - Surprisingly well–realised drama, which sets a love–triangle (Lancaster, Curtis, Lollobrigida) in the world of European circus…
Written On the Wind (1956)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack… - Douglas Sirk’s strident Texas oil–dynasty drama about a pair of spoiled and wayward heirs to the family fortune and the…
Yield to the Night (Blonde Sinner) (1956)- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig - British crime drama film that features a celebrated performance by "blonde bombshell" Diana Dors. Bearing a coincidental resemblance to the Ruth…
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead… - Middle–aged widow Jane Wyman fights for the respect of her family and upscale community when she conducts an affair with her ‘gardener’…
Apu Trilogy, The (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apur Sansar) (1955-1959)- Dir. Satyajit Ray
- Ray’s trilogy follows one indelible character, a free–spirited child in rural poverty who matures into an adolescent urban student and,…
Big Knife, The (1955)- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger… - Lurid expose of the Hollywood 'studio system' from the melodramatic pen of playwright Clifford Odets. Palance shows a rare vulnerability as a…
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