Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Monsieur Leguignon, lampistel (1952)- Dir. Maurice Labro
Feat. Yves Deniaud, Louis de Funès - Spirited and screwball–esque, this 'workers' comedy concerns a down–on–his–luck railway labourer who discovers treasure…
Summer with Monika (1952)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson - Early Bergman turns his lens on a pair of working class, teenage lovers. At first this rebellious holiday boat ride comes across as dreamy escapism…
White Sheik, The (Sceicco bianco, Lo) (1952)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina - Fellini’s against–the–grain feature debut coaxes the marital problems of a newlywed couple into a light, playful comedy that wasn’t…
Early Summer (Bakushû) (1951)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima - Another of dir. Ozu's majestic domestic dramas, this time concerning the inner–family conflicts over the spinsterhood of a daughter (Hara) and…
Idiot, The (Hakuchi) (1951)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori… - Flawed but compelling adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of human frailty, in which a madman and war criminal (Mori), is released from an…
Rashomon (1951)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori… - The film that brought Kurosawa to the attention of the world, and an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film. Four wildly varying perspectives on a…
Repast (Meshi) (1951)- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara - A perceptive study of a fading marriage, in which a housewife (Hara) confronts the tedium and unhappiness of her domestic life, brought into sharp…
River, The (1951)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Nora Swinburne, Arthur Shields - A sublime and serene drama set on the banks of India's holy Bengal River in the 1920s, where a trio of young English girls come under the spell of a…
Susana (The Devil and the Flesh) (1951)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Rosita Quintana - A sexually devious reform girl seeks refuge in a decent working class family, only to cause upheaval with her devilish ways. Early Bunuel…
Diary of a Country Priest (Journal D'Un Cure De Campagne) (1950)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Claude Laydu - Compelling and uncompromising – this adaptation of Georges Bernanos' classic French novel is one of dir. Bresson's best examinations of the…
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