1951-1960

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An unfaithful wife is going to leave her husband, a failing carpenter, but he finds out about her lover and a murder takes place. Police try to identify whether the burned body is her husband or her lover.Read More »

Three young women make a suicide pact, but grow to have a better understanding of themselves. The final collaboration between director Gosho Heinosuke and screenwriter Shiina Rinzo (who had previously made “Where Chimneys Are Seen” together).Read More »

Don Quixote (Russian: Дон Кихот, translit. Don Kikhot) is a 1957 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev. It is based on Evgeny Shvartz’s stage adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’s classic novel of the same name. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. It opened in the United States in 1961, beginning its U.S. run on January 20.

The film was exhibited in the mid-1960s by Australian University film clubs receiving the productions of Sovexportfilm. It was the first film version of Don Quixote to be filmed in both widescreen and color.Read More »

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This film is based on a short story of the same name by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, and is the second time the novel has been brought to the screenRead More »

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EVE (1953) heralds the arrival of cinematic modernism in Europe, in the same way that Agnes Varda’s Pointe-Courte, is now considered in the bibliography to be the forerunner of the French Nouvelle Vague. Eve is the filmmaker’s first work with a plot set in the present and based on an original script that explores themes of betrayal and marital oppression through the story of a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage who begins a passionate affair. Maria Plyta created a radical representation of female sexual desire, female self-actualization, and presenting the male body as a source of visual pleasure. Additionally, with Eve, Plyta raises concerns about the institution of marriage, which can trap two people in a daily life full of anger, depression, and even hatred.Read More »

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Two convicts who have just escaped from prison are picked up by a motorist. He recognizes the men from descriptions given of them on the radio, but instead of turning them over to the police, he proposes to hire them to murder his wife.Read More »

Remake of Naruse Mikio’s 1943 film “The Song Lantern.Read More »

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Maureen O’Hara as the spoiled, rich, American preditor who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos (Anthony Quinn) who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the “alternativa” of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter (Manuel Rojas). The mystery is solved 94 minutes later, after Maureen has conquered Tony and Tony has saved Marueen’s life by caping a toro bravo with his plaid horse blanket.Read More »

Ramu,eldest son a family of migrants to Calcutta,is a fresh graduate searching for a job like many others in post-Partition Calcutta.Read More »