Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3554 Films to Rent
Samurai Trilogy, The (Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Duel at Ganryu Island) (1954-1956)
- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune
- Sweeping saga of a legendary 17th century samurai Musashi Miyamoto, that made an icon of actor Toshiro Mifune. Played out against the turmoil of a…
Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) (1954)
- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa…
- One of Mizoguchi's great classics, based on an 11th century Japanese folktale elaborated into a sprawling vision of a cruel, mysterious cosmos, where…
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards…
- Rollicking musical set in backwoods Oregon, with brothers all looking for brides–to–be.
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune
- Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…
Sleeping Tiger (1954)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
Sound of the Mountain (Yama No Oto) (1954)
- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Soh Yamamura
- Dir. Naruse reprises the disintegrating marriage (and cast) of his earlier film, REPAST, in this profoundly affecting tale of a young woman (Hara)…
Student Prince, The (1954)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson…
- Taken from the operetta by Sigmund Romberg, and the third filmed version of the tale of a young Prince breaking out into the real world by falling in…
Suddenly (1954)
- Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden
- Frank Sinatra impresses in an unsympathetic role: a sneering, cynical war–veteran out to practice his marksmanship on the President of the…
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe…
- Gaudy musical about Show Business. Stars Marilyn and some great Irving Berlin songs.
To Catch a Thief (1954)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
- Hitchcock takes a whimsical approach for this caper about a reformed cat burglar who sets about catching the thief that is imitating his old style.…