Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Naughty Girl (Cette Sacree Gamine) (1956)- Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Francoise Fabian - A con–artist father leaves his devious minx of a daughter in the hands of a performer who discovers the girl is bent on disrupting his life the…
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…
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…
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…
Senso (1954)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Christian Marquand - A period love story set in the tumultuous 1860's in Italy, when it was occupied by invading Austrians. Dir. Visconti turns his eye on a love…
Victoria in Dover (The Story of Vickie) (1954)- Dir. Ernst Marischka
Feat. Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven - A prequel of sorts to the SISSI trilogy lovingly details the formative romance between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Romy Schneider features…
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…
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…
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