Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
- Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Feat. Gene Kelly
- An American musical satire, shot in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor, with music by Andre Previn. It was one of the last major dance–oriented MGM…
Jedda (1955)
- Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Ngarla Kunoth, Robert Tudawali
- An adopted Aboriginal girl is kidnapped by a 'wild black' in this beautifully shot Australian classic.
Kentuckian, The (1955)
- Dir. Burt Lancaster
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn…
- Western directed by and starring Burt Lancaster, an adaptation of the novel The Gabriel Horn by Felix Holt.
Beautifully shot in Kentucky and…
Killer's Kiss (1955)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
- Early Kubrick moodily accounts the tooth–and–nail conflict between a washed–up boxer and a sleazeball club owner, after a club…
Kismet (1955)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Howard Keel, Ann Blyth
- An Arabian–Nights style musical, with Howard Keel attempting to woo wicked wizar's wife Ann Blyth.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart…
- Ralph Meeker is Mike Hammer in this high–octane film noir, shamelessly blood–soaked in B–movie / pulp novel tradition. The…
La Strada (The Road) (1955)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Anthony Quinn
- Fellini hit his stride and won a Foreign Film Oscar with this gentle road odyssey about a simple–minded clown whose loyalty to her boorish…
Ladykillers, The (1955)
- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Frankie Howerd
- Priceless Ealing black comedy in which bungling robbers Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers et al conspire to snuff out their rich old landlady, an…
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
- High–camp spectacle about treachery in ancient Egypt during the building of the great Pyramid has procured something of a cult following, with…
Lola Montes (1955)
- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook
- The life of the famous 19th century courtesan provides the basis for this sophisticated portrayal of the capriciousness of fate, which leads to the…