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Added by CD Smiles on 15 Sep 2017 01:50
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Fantastic Films of the '50s

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People who added this item 1216 Average listal rating (744 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.1
The 400 Blows (1959)
Directed by: François Truffaut



Moving story of a young boy who, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
People who added this item 353 Average listal rating (218 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.2
Directed by: Robert Bresson



A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from prison.
People who added this item 64 Average listal rating (29 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.9
Directed by: Keisuke Kinoshita



A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.
Directed by: Kon Ichikawa



In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
People who added this item 398 Average listal rating (218 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 8.3
Directed by: Mikhail Kalatozov



Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Directed by: Shirley Clarke



Choreographer Daniel Nagrin performs in a studio and in the sun.
People who added this item 669 Average listal rating (382 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.1
Diabolique (1955)
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot



The wife and mistress of a cruel headmaster conspire to kill him; after the murder is committed, his corpse disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.
People who added this item 185 Average listal rating (98 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 8.1
Early Summer (1951)
Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu



A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.
Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu



The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu



Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi



A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi



As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa



An aging, industrialist Japanese man becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.
People who added this item 783 Average listal rating (465 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 8.3
Ikiru (1952)
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa



A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
People who added this item 893 Average listal rating (583 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8
Directed by: Charles Laughton



A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
People who added this item 550 Average listal rating (331 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.1
Directed by: Federico Fellini



A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
People who added this item 1228 Average listal rating (779 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.4
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick



After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
People who added this item 49 Average listal rating (34 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.1
Directed by: Agnès Varda



The great Agnès Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later be considered one of the progenitors of the coming French New Wave.
People who added this item 37 Average listal rating (16 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7.6
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki



A poor rickshaw driver finds himself taking care of a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
People who added this item 415 Average listal rating (242 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.1
Directed by: Jules Dassin



Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki



Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.
People who added this item 683 Average listal rating (425 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.1
Directed by: Billy Wilder



When his family goes away for the summer, a so far faithful husband is tempted by a beautiful neighbor.
Directed by: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly



A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Directed by: Billy Wilder



When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
People who added this item 770 Average listal rating (457 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8
Directed by: Federico Fellini



A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
People who added this item 703 Average listal rating (367 ratings) 8.6 IMDB Rating 8.1
Tokyo Story (1953)
Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu



An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them.
People who added this item 92 Average listal rating (44 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.1
Directed by: Keisuke Kinoshita



Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.
People who added this item 447 Average listal rating (255 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.2
Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi



A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
People who added this item 199 Average listal rating (110 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.5
Directed by: Satyajit Ray



This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.

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