Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
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…
Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corney - Superb French noir from the dir. of LE SAMOURAI, here debuting with a taut plan to rob the Deauville casino, that grows ever more perilous for…
Dreams (Kvinnodröm; Journey Into Autumn) (1955)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand - Early, flawed Bergman microscope on relationships focuses on two women – a photographer and her model on a fashion shoot – as they…
French Can Can (French Cancan, Only the French Can) (1955)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Michel Piccoli, Dora Doll… - Jean Renoir returned to France after 15 years absence to make this vibrant tribute to the Parisian world of his father, the Impressionist painter…
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…
I Live in Fear (Ikimono no Kiroku) (1955)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura - Convinced a nuclear holocaust is imminent, an elderly industrialist (Mifune) decides to uproot his reluctant family (even his mistresses!) from Tokyo…
Il Bidone (The Swindlers) (1955)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart… - An early work from dir. Fellini in which a trio of conmen roam the Italian countryside swindling peasants in order to fund the future they believe…
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…
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…
Napoleon (1955)- Dir. Sacha Guitry
Feat. Daniel Gelin, Raymond Pellegrin, Yves Montand… - A somewhat farcical film that suffers from being dubbed into English, over–narration, and the attempt to give a complete account of Napoleon's…
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