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Subgenre Sampler
Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) (1953)- Dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
Feat. Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata - Tragic story of unrequited love set during the Heiji Rebellion in 1159, where a samurai warrior falls in love with a married…
Madame De... (Earrings Of Madame De..., The) (1953)
- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Charles Boyer - Widely considered one of the dir.'s peak achievements, this gracefully and ironically traces a doomed menage–a–trois in 18th century…
Story of Three Loves, The (1953)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Feat. Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron… - Romantic anthology film telling three separate stories in flashbacks experienced by three characters on board the same ocean liner. "The Jealous…
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…
Astonished Heart, The (1950)- Dir. Terence Fisher, Antony Damborough
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton… - Noel Coward stars in this adaptation of his play; a drawing–room melodrama about a married psychiatrist who unhappily succumbs to the wiles of…
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…
Orpheus (Orphee) (1949)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea… - Cocteau's surrealist retelling of the classical tragedy stars Jean Marais as Orphee, the writer who retrieves his wife Eurydice from the dead. A…
Passionate Friends, The (1949)- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains - A wistful Ann Todd divides her loyalty between a secure, older husband (Rains) and a free–spirited toff (Howard) in this rich, unrequited…
We Were Strangers (1949)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz… - Adventure drama with Jennifer Jones playing a woman who joins the Cuban Underground and helps devise a plot to bring down the country's corrupt…
Daisy Kenyon (1947)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda… - Joan Crawford gives one of her greatest performances in this surprisingly compelling soap opera, finding herself torn between Fonda and Andrews.…
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