Tag: 1957

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

Director: Saul Gilbert, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ruth Michelly
Stars: Denise Brossot, Rolande Polya, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Genre: Short
Country: France

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.

Director: Ken Annakin
Stars: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Bernard Lee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A wealthy businessman attempts to run to Mexico to escape capture for embezzlement. On the way, he switches identities for a visa but that only complicates matters.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Nikola Todorow
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

A man walks down the exterior staircase of building of flats; he’s dressed to go out, taking care to wrap a scarf around his neck. He pauses as he passes a small window that’s about eye high. He ventures to look in, and there a young woman stands at a washbasin, drying her hair, the towel that obscures her face her only covering.

Director: Budd Boetticher
Stars: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O’Sullivan
Genre: Romance, Thriller, Western
Country: USA

An independent former ranch foreman is kidnapped along with an heiress, who is being held for ransom by trio of ruthless outlaws.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Daisuke Katô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK

A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.

Director: Mark Robson
Stars: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland

In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw’s sewer system to escape the German encirclement.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Dany Carrel, Jacques Duby
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital. His first attempts are not too successful though as he is rebuffed by Valérie Vabre, the neurotic wife of the landlord of the block of flats he is accommodated in. As for the affair he starts with Caroline Hédouin, the married owner of “Au Bonheur des Dames”, the shop where he works, the least we can say is that it lacks passion.

Director: Sergey Gerasimov
Stars: Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kirienko
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union

A six-hour long epic (original director’s cut) about the life of Don Cossacs in a village in southern Russia between 1912 and 1922. The leading character Grigori Melekhov is a rugged Cossac, who is torn between his first and true love Aksiniya, and his wife Natalya. Grigori Melekhov’s personal life is shown as a rough journey through the experience of World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.

Director: Sidney Gilliat
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | USA

An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail, and murder.

Director: Shirô Toyoda
Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Kaoru Yachigusa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

After WW1,ordinary citizens of a small Greek village plays the Passion Play in order to rebel against Turkish rulers during Turkish-Greek relations in 1920’s.

Director: Joseph Pevney
Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA

During World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another as the two hope for a rescue.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Kenji Sugawara
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Claus Holm, Annemarie Düringer, Mario Adorf
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany

A serial killer strikes again during WWII in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer. But justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.

Director: Charles Vidor
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

Frank Sinatra plays Joe E. Lewis, a famous comedian of the 1930s-50s. When the movie opens, Lewis is a young, talented singer who performs in speakeasies. When he bolts one job for another, the mob boss who owns the first speakeasy has his thugs try to kill Lewis.

Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Ex-con trucker tries to expose his boss’ rackets.

Director: Joshua Logan
Stars: Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Jacques Dumesnil
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures and how humanity remembers itself.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

An old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed “The Flea Pit”, and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.

Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Tomoko Naraoka, Sofu Teshigahara
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Japan

The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director’s father Sofu Teshigahara worked as the grand master of the school.

Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Stars: Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times.

Director: Arnold Laven
Stars: Gillo Pontecorvo, Maleno Malenotti
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France | West Germany | Yugoslavia

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs.

Director: Arnold Laven
Stars: Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A brave longshoreman lingers on after being gunned down by 3 racketeers, as a determined assistant D.A. searches hard for fearful witnesses against the men.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Anthony Franciosa
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her, she becomes involved with his trusted assistant.

Director: Robert Altman, George W. George
Stars: Martin Gabel, James Dean, Lew Bracker
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean’s death, looks at Dean’s life through the use of still photographs with narration, and interviews with many of the people involved in his short life.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK | USA

In 1905, Lord Henry Loam, his family and his servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.

Director: Robert Stevenson
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by all.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

Youths get ready for a party, decorating the dance floor, cleaning out the fountain of a pond. That evening, the party starts and guests arrive: everyone has a ticket, and a guy at the gate, wearing a formal shirt, tails, and shorts, makes sure only those with tickets gain entrance.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Story of a young couple whose fathers are prison bound.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Richard Bakalyan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.

Director: Charles Frend
Stars: Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A seasick sea Captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.

Director: Raymond Rouleau
Stars: Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | East Germany

Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Korean War veteran’s morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

Director: Jack Webb
Stars: Jack Webb, Don Dubbins, Jackie Loughery
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A no-nonsense Drill Instructor is convinced that he can make a recruit, that is haunted by his family combat history and who falters under pressure, into a Marine.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A humble clerk courts a woman who night after night awaits for the return of her lover.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA

Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade’s gang tries to free him.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Crime
Country: Poland

The camera shows us a door handle and the door’s striker plate; from this angle, they form a cross. The door opens and in steps someone in a dark trench coat.

Director: Jean Cocteau, Hans Richter
Stars: Jean Arp, Paul Bowles, Ceal Bryson
Genre: Music
Country: USA

It is a fairy tale for the subconscious based on the game of chess. Partly Sigmund Freud, partly Lewis Carroll.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ineko Arima
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.

Director: Richard Sale
Stars: Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

Ship’s officer finds himself in command of a lifeboat full of survivors of a sunken luxury liner.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In California, four couples who have bought homes and are neighbors face money problems, alcoholism, racism, promiscuity, and discrimination against lack of education, until a tragic event forces them to reassess their lives.

Director: Frank Tashlin
Stars: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Charles ‘Slim’ Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK

Victor Frankenstein builds a creature and brings it to life, but it behaves not as he intended.

Director: Dick Powell
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

During World War II, an American destroyer meets a German U-Boat. Both captains are experts, and so begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

Showdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fist rancher who controls the territory.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Director: Mehboob Khan
Stars: Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar
Genre: Drama, Musical, Family
Country: India

In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.

Director: Guru Dutt
Stars: Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India

A talented but indigent poet Vijay struggles for love and recognition in this selfish world.