Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
La Ronde (1950)
- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani… - A witty chronicle of circular love–affairs and seductions in 19th century Vienna. Lavish sets and extravagent spiralling camerawork complement…
Orpheus (Orphee) (1949)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea… - Cocteau's surrealist retelling of the classical tragedy stars Jean Marais as Orphee, the writer who retrieves his wife Eurydice from the dead. A…
Passionate Friends, The (1949)- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains - A wistful Ann Todd divides her loyalty between a secure, older husband (Rains) and a free–spirited toff (Howard) in this rich, unrequited…
We Were Strangers (1949)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz… - Adventure drama with Jennifer Jones playing a woman who joins the Cuban Underground and helps devise a plot to bring down the country's corrupt…
Daisy Kenyon (1947)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda… - Joan Crawford gives one of her greatest performances in this surprisingly compelling soap opera, finding herself torn between Fonda and Andrews.…
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell… - The first version of the true story of an English governess (Dunne) who in the 1860s journeyed to South East Asia to look after the King of Siam's 62…
It Rains On Our Love (1946)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten - Bergman experiments with this awkward combination of romance and misery, in which a couple's happiness is dogged by their criminal and vagrant past.…
Man I Love, The (1946)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett… - Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
Clock, The (1945)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason… - Judy Garland's first dramatic role (in which she did not sing) reunites her with director (and future husband) Vincente Minnelli from MEET ME IN ST.…
Love Story (A Lady Surrenders) (1944)- Dir. Leslie Arliss
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc… - Classy tearjerker with dying pianist Lockwood falling in love with blind pilot Granger. Treacly but satisfying with the two leads performances…
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