Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo - Gorgeous French musical with Catherine Deneuve, in her acting debut, one of its many pleasures. A bittersweet romantic story is allied to a lush…
Une Femme Mariee (A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White) (1964)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Bernard Noël, Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy - Key work from the first phase of Godard's career which deconstructs the life of a married woman in a series of complex and humorous portraits. Over a…
Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)- Dir. Henri Verneuil
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, Georges Geret… - The decimation of French and English troops who retreated to the coastal settlement of Dunkirk in 1940 is the sobering subject of this otherwise…
Woman of the Dunes (1964)- Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida - From a simple premise – a man becomes trapped in a valley of sand in which a solitary woman lives – the director is able to draw out…
An Actor's Revenge (1963)- Dir. Kon Ichikawa
Feat. Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto - Unusual storyline concerns a Kabuki female impersonator, who seduces and arranges the destruction of three nobles responsible for his parents'…
Bay of Angels (La baie des anges) (1963)- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers - A young bank employee is enticed into the world of gambling and travels to Nice where he falls in love with divorced mother and gambling addict…
Doulos, Le (The Finger Man) (1963)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani - Eschewing the French New Wave movement in favour of homage to the then ‘passe’ genre of film noir, dir. Jean–Pierre Melville adds shades of…
Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni - Fellini's most revered film is a self–analytical exercise casting Marcello Mastroianni as a troubled director trapped by his own visions and…
Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città) (1963)- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti - An astute and ever–pertinent story of political corruption in post–World War II Italy starring Rod Steiger as a ruthless developer and…
High and Low (1963)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - Adapted from a crime–novel by Ed McBain, this kidnapping–thriller is a central work in dir. Kurosawa’s series of film noirs, combining…
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