50's Favorites

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

Three gangsters and an ex-con carpenter all fall for the same beautiful golden-haired woman in Belle Époque France.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.

A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.

Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

Follows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.

Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.

The delirious journey of a mentally-disordered man who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.

A documentary centered on the volcanic eruptions that occurred north of Sicily in December of 1954.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.

By focusing on the lives of three down-and-out alcoholic transients, the film creates a wrenching portrait of the tragic hopelessness of life on "The Bowery" in New York City.

In a cabin in the heart of the Japanese Alps, a botany professor observes two newlyweds while spending time with his lover. At night, his wife confronts him about the extramarital relationship and she leaves the teacher the next morning.

The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.

Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.