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Subgenre Sampler
Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne (1945)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Maria Casares - Dir. Bresson and writer Jean Cocteau are strange bedfellows in this lush, stylish drama, well–removed from the director’s austere later…
Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945)
- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur… - This resplendent evocation of nineteeth century Paris street theatre follows the love of mime Jean–Louis Barrault for the highly–strung…
Lost Weekend, The (1945)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard da Silva… - Would–be novelist Ray Milland's personal frustrations bring on a three day drinking binge of desperate, terrifying proportions. Laced with a…
Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy (Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany: Year Zero) (1945-1948)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
- Shot in battle–ravaged Italy and Germany, featuring largely nonprofessional casts, real war ravaged locations, and unorthodox approaches to…
Rome: Open City (1945)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi - Neo–realist war drama about resistance fighters in fascist Italy places the action right inside the everyday and humanises the heroic.…
Seventh Veil, The (1945)- Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. James Mason, Ann Todd - Renowned film serves up psychiatry in bite sized chunks as a concert pianist is cured of her complexes by a shrink intent on fixing her up with the…
Song to Remember, A (1945)- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde - Biopic on the life of Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin, taking a few liberties here and there to follow the child prodigy through his…
Southerner, The (1945)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Betty Field, Zachary Scott, Beulah Bondi… - One of dir. Renoir's finest American films, follows the year–long trial of a young family who attempt to grow cotton on a derelict…
Way to the Stars, The (1945)- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Douglas Montgomery… - An RAF airfield in WWII is the setting of this unassuming war–drama, set around the lives of the ‘flyers’ and the ground–crew. Given…
An American Romance (1944)- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel… - Ambitious technicolour drama from director King Vidor about a European immigrant to the USA, who builds his fortune in the automobile industry, and…
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