Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Pickpocket (1959)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
- Dir. Bresson's austere meditation on the motive personal forces of criminal enterprise, this trails a directionless young man into a flirtation with…
Samurai Saga (Aru kengo no shogai) (1959)- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa - Feudal Japanese retelling of Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac', with the charismatic Toshiro Mifune as the shogun–poet with a…
Umberto D. (1959)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari - A pensioner struggles to make ends meet in post–war Italy. Gloomy neo–realist piece wrenches the heart through a compassionate lead…
World of Apu, The (1959)- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty - Final installment of the 'Apu trilogy' sees the complexities of adulthood painfully and euphorically realised for Apu through ambition, marriage and…
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzanowksa - Set on the day after WWII, the striking–looking Zbigniew Cybulski plays a Polish freedom fighter torn between wartime duties and peacetime…
Ballad of Narayama, The (Narayama bushiko) (1958)- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka - Sombre but stylised retelling of a Japanese legend, about a poverty–stricken village and its eldest resident who, in accordance with tradition,…
Brink of Life (Nara Livet) (1958)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson… - Minor, but accomplished Bergman potboiler concerns three women in a maternity ward, who must each decide whether to give up their babies for…
Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold, aka. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud) (1958)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly… - A young Jeanne Moreau stars in this elegant thriller about a crime of passion that backfires when the murderer gets trapped in a lift. Ambience par…
Giants and Toys (1958)- Dir. Yasuzo Masumura
Feat. Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe - Japanese satirical comedy about an advertising war between three candy production companies, and a teenage girl who becomes a celebrity after one of…
Hidden Fortress (1958)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - Toshiro Mifune displays astounding skill with horse and sword as the ultimate warrior in this innovative amalgam of fairy–tale and Samurai…
©2025 AroVideo | Using the Catalogue | Feedback Opens in a new window | Terms of use Opens in a new window | Privacy Policy Opens in a new window | AroVideo on Twitter AroVideo on Facebook
