Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1792 Films to Buy & Rent
To Joy (Tuill Glädje) (1950)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Maj-Britt Nilsson, Stig Olin, Birger Malmsten
- Described by some contemporary reviewers as a kind of Swedish WHIPLASH, this Ingmar Bergman film follows an orchestral violinist who contends with an…
Variety Lights (1950)
- Dir. Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
Feat. Giulietta Masina
- Fellini co–directed this carnivalesque drama about a mediocre theatre troupe in need of a crowd puller before breaking out solo with THE WHITE…
56 Rue Pigalle (1949)
- Dir. Willy Rozier
Feat. Raymond Cordy, Marie Dea
- Distinctive French noir telling the tale of a boss, suspected of murdering his blackmailing manservant, who flees to Africa with his mistress once…
De Sica Collection, The (The Bicycle Thief, Miracle in Milan, The Roof) (1949-1956)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
- Three films from Italian master Vittorio De Sica. Includes the previously unreleased THE ROOF (1956).
Late Spring (1949)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu
- Ozu’s greatest film outside of the universally acclaimed TOKYO STORY magically distils the director’s reoccurring family concerns: that of a…
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…
Quiet Duel, The (Shizukanaru ketto) (1949)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
- A pre–RED BEARD Toshiro Mifune plays an idealistic doctor who fatally contracts syphilis from performing surgery in this minor Kurosawa…
Stray Dog (Nora Inu) (1949)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune
- An early film noir from Japan’s best–known director tracks police detective Toshiro Mifune into the underbelly of Tokyo in search of a pistol…
Three Strange Loves (Törst) (1949)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten
- Early Bergman film focuses on – surprise, surprise – an unhappy couple, who spend a lengthy train ride bickering while also reminiscing…
Bicycle Thieves (The Bicycle Thief, Ladri di biciclette) (1948)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell
- A huge sentimental favourite about a man whose chance at meaningful labour is taken from him when his precious bicycle is stolen from him. Though not…