Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned, aka The Forgotten Ones) (1950)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
- Ground–breaking masterwork from dir. Luis Bunuel's Meixcan period, set among slum children in Mexico City, whose harsh circumstances and…
Men, The (1950)- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane… - Famous as Marlon Brando's film debut, playing a paraplegic war veteran struggling to come to terms with post–war life. Brando's smouldering…
Miracle in Milan (1950)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Paolo Stoppa - Memorable foray into satirical fantasy for dir. de Sica, in which a hobo philanthropist is given the power to work miracles in the…
Odette (1950)- Dir. Herbert Wilcox
Feat. Dame Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring… - Drama based on the true story of Odette Sansom, the British Special Operations Executive agent in WWII who miraculously evaded death after being sent…
Outrage (1950)- Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke - One of the earliest post–Code Hollywood films to deal with the subject of rape, this black–and–white B–movie follows a young…
Scandal (Shubun) (1950)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimura… - This excellent early Kurosawa, has Mifune playing a painter who becomes acquainted with a pop–singer, and thus the target of a tabloid…
Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore) (1950)- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Lucia Bose, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi - Although more stylistically conventional than his 'mature' films, dir. Antonioni's debut feature is a strongly delivered, almost film noir,…
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