Subgenre Sampler
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…
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’…
Grandes Manoeuvres, Les (1955)- Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Michele Morgan, Gerard Philipe, Brigitte Bardot - Sophisticated French fare is a battle of the sexes between a notorious womanizer, and the divorcee he’s convinced he’ll be able to seduce and…
Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing (1955)- Dir. Henry King
Feat. William Holden, Jennifer Jones - Romantic splendour set in Hong Kong at the time of the Korean war about a married US war correspondent who embarks on a forbidden love affair.
My Sister Eileen (1955)- Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh - Charming if not modest retread of the "brains vs. beauty" dilemma sees on–screen sisters Janet Leigh and Betty Garrett jostle for the affection…
One Desire (1955)- Dir. Jerry Hopper
Feat. Anne Baxter, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams - Old–fashioned romantic melodrama set in the early 1900's, following the fate of a star–crosses Oklahoma gambler–casino dealer and a…
Sissi (1955)
- Dir. Ernst Marischka
Feat. Romy Schneider - Regal saga finds 16–year–old princess Sissi fall in love with husband–to–be Franz Josef in the first of an ongoing series of…
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens Leende) (1955)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson… - An enjoyable, ultimately serious comedy of deception set among the Swedish gentry of the early 20th century who are engaged in a poetic dance of…
Summertime (Summer Madness) (1955)- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda - Katharine Hepburn, middle–aged spinster, flees to Venice on vacation, only for the romance of the city – and a dark, handsome Italian catch…
To Paris with Love (1955)- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray… - Widowed aristocrat Guinness takes his estranged son to Paris where romantic entanglements await. Tepid romantic comedy fails to rise to the standard…
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