Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom in this underworld drama set in post-war Japan.
The heat of war collides with the heat of desire in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s adaptation of “Manon Lescaut,” moved from 18th century Paris to Nazi-occupied France.
George Franju’s perverse and poetic French classic is at once lyrical, haunting, and deviant, an elegantly horrifying classic of sadism and shadowy grace.
Josef von Sternberg went to Germany to direct Emil Jannings in his sound film debut and created a sensation from his costar in this landmark production.
Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and Vittorio De Sica star in this elegant drama of romance as an elaborate dance played out in a society where appearances are everything. It placed in the number 90 spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.
Max Ophuls directs this delicate, graceful romantic classic, a celebration of love and desire and passion and folly through the course of lovers as they change partners and continue the dance of romance.
