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Subgenre Sampler
Adventures Of Antoine Doinel, The (400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run) (1959-1979)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud - Francois Truffaut's most enduring cinematic creation, the irrepressible Antoine Doinel (played synonymously by Jean–Pierre Leaud) is…
Amants, Les (Lovers, The) (1959)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny - This helped push the envelope of frank sexuality in cinema and made a star of Jeanne Moreau, as the rich, bored housewife whose extra–marital…
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)- Dir. Grigori Chukhrai
Feat. Vladimir Ivashov - Soviet poetic realism brings a contemplative tone to the theatre of war, following a soldier’s pilgrimage back home after being granted leave for…
Brand (1959)- Dir. Michael Elliot
Feat. Patrick McGoohan - Spellbinding BBC version of Henrik Ibsen's great play, with Patrick McGoohan playing a young priest who idealistically adopts a doctrine that one…
Come Dance with Me (Voulez-Vous Danser Avec Moi?) (1959)- Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Dawn Addams - Surprisingly entertaining French mystery thriller tracking a wife attempting to clear her husband's name from involvement in a dance studio murder.…
Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters… - Absorbing film version of the play based on the experience of a Jewish girl who was forced to live within the confines of a tiny attic, under…
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura - An aging actor who returns with his troupe to his provincial town, and becomes caught between his long–lost family and his jealous…
Fugitive Kind, The (1959)- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani… - A directionless, but quirky version of Tennesse Williams' play 'Orpheus Descending' with Brando playing a troublesome hobo who spreads romantic…
Good Morning (Ohayo) (1959)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Shimazu Masahiko, Koji Shidara, Chishu Ryu… - Ozu’s most accessible and scathing film amuses with its deceptively light–hearted tale of two boys’ vow of silence after being refused a…
Head Against the Wall (La tête contre les murs) (1959)- Dir. Georges Franju
Feat. Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Anouk Aimee… - Georges Franju’s first film is a high–intensity examination of post–war psychiatric care, centred on the survival of a delinquent youth…
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