1950s

A crime recounted four ways, each witness protecting their own vanity. Kurosawa pointed cameras directly at the sun, into rain and...

A dead narrator floats face down in a pool and narrates. Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a silent star rotting in a mansion with ...

The silent to sound transition retold as the greatest movie musical. Gene Kelly splashes through the title song, Donald OConnor pe...

Gary Cooper as a marshal waits for the noon train and the killers, abandoned by the town he served. Real time structure, eighty fi...

An elderly couple visit their grown children in Tokyo, who are too busy for them. Ozu shoots from tatami height, rarely moving the...

A starving village hires seven ronin against bandits. Three and a half hours that established the assemble a team plot: The Magnif...

A photographer with a broken leg, a wheelchair, a rear window, and maybe a murder across the courtyard. One apartment, one viewpoi...

Laughton directed once and made a German expressionist nightmare in the American South. Robert Mitchum, with LOVE and HATE tattooe...

Ray, a former illustrator, mortgaged everything to film the Bengali classic about a boy, his sister, and a train in a poor village...

The darkest John Ford film interrogates the racism beneath western myth while shooting Monument Valley like scripture. John Wayne ...

One juror, Henry Fonda, holds out against eleven, and one room becomes the conscience of a nation. Lumet shot lower and tighter as...

A medieval knight returns from crusade to a plague land and plays chess with Death on a beach. Bergman made existential inquiry po...

A retired detective with acrophobia falls for a woman he is hired to follow, loses her, refinds her, and remakes her. Vertigo topp...

Tennessee Williams on screen, uncensored by Hollywood standards of the day. Brando in a torn t shirt rewired American acting: mumb...

Two musicians witness the Valentines Day massacre and hide in an all girl band in dresses and wigs. Lemmon and Curtis chase Monroe...

An ad man is mistaken for a spy who does not exist and chased across America by a cropduster and a Mount Rushmore climax. The wron...

Charlton Heston goes from prince to slave to chariot champion in the biggest film ever made at the time. The nine minute chariot r...