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Original illustration for La Strada: An old circus drum and small trumpet rest on a roadside wagon below an enormous open dawn sky, a winding road reaches modest hills and a single string of pennants.
La Strada
1954 · Federico Fellini 108 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A travelling strongman buys the service of a poor young woman whose openness meets his cruelty on the road.

SanftDüster Wenig fordernd
Two women stand side by side on rough ground beneath a streaked sky.
Salt of the Earth
1954 · Herbert J. Biberman 94 Min. · Social drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Mexican-American miners strike for safer and fairer conditions, while the women who sustain the action force the community to confront inequality inside its own homes.

SpannungsvollSchön Wenig fordernd
Sansho the Bailiff: Distant figures stand apart on a sunset coast beneath a windswept pine.
Sansho the Bailiff
1954 · Kenji Mizoguchi 124 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A family torn apart by slavery carries one moral instruction across years of cruelty.

DüsterSchön Mäßig fordernd
A bicycle wheel and its long shadow fill the foreground, with two human shadows farther along the road.
Death of a Cyclist
1955 · Juan Antonio Bardem 88 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An adulterous couple leave a cyclist dying after a collision, then discover that guilt and class privilege produce different kinds of fear.

SpannungsvollDüster Wenig fordernd
Diabolique: An empty engraved swimming pool, a key and a long doorway shadow create a quiet green interior.
Diabolique
1955 · Henri-Georges Clouzot 117 Min. · Thriller
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A carefully planned murder leaves behind one impossible problem: the body will not stay where it belongs.

SpannungsvollRätselhaft Mäßig fordernd
Original illustration: A rain-softened Japanese hillside town seen from a wooden veranda with an umbrella and suitcase beneath the title.
Floating Clouds
1955 · Mikio Naruse 124 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A woman returns to postwar Japan and tries to revive a wartime affair with a man whose promises repeatedly dissolve into avoidance.

RomantischDüster Mäßig fordernd
Ordet: An empty wooden chair faces an open doorway and a pale snow-covered landscape.
Ordet
1955 · Carl Th. Dreyer 120 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

In a Danish farmhouse, belief and doubt wait beside a family’s ordinary work.

SanftUngewöhnlich Mit Geduld
Rififi: Giant black lettering is pierced by a rope descending from a ceiling into an open umbrella.
Rififi
1955 · Jules Dassin 118 Min. · Crime
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Four thieves prepare a silent heist whose precision cannot protect what follows.

SpannungsvollDüster Mäßig fordernd
Smiles of a Summer Night 1955
Smiles of a Summer Night
1955 · Ingmar Bergman
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A country weekend brings a tangle of lovers, spouses and former lovers together. Bergman makes desire a contest in which the people most certain of themselves are especially vulnerable.

A Man Escaped: Engraved hands braid fabric into rope beneath a small prison window.
A Man Escaped
1956 · Robert Bresson 101 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A prisoner prepares an escape one sound, tool, and repeated gesture at a time.

Spannungsvoll Mäßig fordernd
An open book rests beside broad stone steps descending to a river, with buildings lining the water.
Aparajito
1956 · Satyajit Ray 110 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

As Apu grows from child to student, education opens a future whose distance from home becomes increasingly painful for his mother.

SanftDüster Wenig fordernd
Street of Shame 1956
Street of Shame
1956 · Kenji Mizoguchi
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Women working in a Tokyo brothel try to secure a future while money, family and changing public attitudes restrict their choices. Mizoguchi keeps several lives in view rather than offering one representative victim.

Original illustration: Enormous black The Killing lettering above a stopwatch, racetrack and small horse silhouettes.
The Killing
1956 · Stanley Kubrick Crime thriller
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A meticulously timed racetrack robbery is retold from the angles most likely to break it.

SpannungsvollRätselhaft Wenig fordernd
Black telephone receivers and coiled cords hang beside a red block and the title.
While the City Sleeps
1956 · Fritz Lang 88 Min. · Crime drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A media heir turns a serial-murder investigation into a competition among executives, reporters, and photographers seeking promotion.

SpannungsvollDüster Wenig fordernd
A FACE IN THE CROWD in oversized black lettering on citron-yellow paper, with a silver microphone grille and cobalt broadcast arcs. 1957.
A Face in the Crowd
1957 · Elia Kazan Satirical drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A charismatic drifter discovered on local radio learns how quickly intimacy can be manufactured for a mass audience.

SpannungsvollLustig Wenig fordernd
Paths of Glory: An engraved trench opens into a bright military courtroom with an empty chair.
Paths of Glory
1957 · Stanley Kubrick 88 Min. · War
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A failed attack becomes a courtroom, and military order reveals its machinery.

DüsterSpannungsvoll Mäßig fordernd
Original illustration for Pyaasa: Loose handwritten-looking but illegible manuscript sheets become rooftops and a long staircase in an imagined 1950s Indian city.
Pyaasa
1957 · Guru Dutt 139 Min. · Musical drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An unpublished poet is dismissed by family and publishers, then becomes valuable to the same society after he is mistakenly reported dead.

RomantischDüster Wenig fordernd
Original illustration for Sweet Smell of Success: A tall midcentury Manhattan skyscraper is built from tightly spaced newspaper columns without legible newsprint; an enormous black fountain pen and tiny jazz-club light cut across it.
Sweet Smell of Success
1957 · Alexander Mackendrick 96 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A desperate press agent accepts a powerful columnist’s demand to break up his sister’s romance and regain professional favour.

SpannungsvollDüster Wenig fordernd
Original illustration for The Cranes Are Flying: A steep upward view through silver birches to a flock of small cranes across a vast pale sky, an empty city stair railing spirals below.
The Cranes Are Flying
1957 · Mikhail Kalatozov 96 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

War separates two young lovers and leaves the woman at home to endure loss, coercion, judgement, and uncertainty.

RomantischDüster Wenig fordernd
Throne of Blood 1957
Throne of Blood
1957 · Akira Kurosawa
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Kurosawa relocates Macbeth to feudal Japan, where a warrior’s rise is inseparable from ambition and betrayal. Fog, landscape and Noh-derived performance give the familiar tragedy a different dramatic language.

Tokyo Twilight 1957
Tokyo Twilight
1957 · Yasujiro Ozu
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Two sisters face a family past that refuses to stay separate from their adult lives. Marital conflict and an unwanted pregnancy give Ozu’s domestic world an unusually harsh emotional register.

Wild Strawberries: Momo carries berries beside a giant open watch framing a Swedish lakeside landscape.
Wild Strawberries
1957 · Ingmar Bergman 92 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An elderly professor’s road journey opens into dreams, memories, and an unsparing look at the life behind him.

SanftUngewöhnlich Mäßig fordernd
Ashes and Diamonds: Large ivory lettering rises above burning glasses and a broken window overlooking a city.
Ashes and Diamonds
1958 · Andrzej Wajda 102 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

On the day war ends, a young assassin receives one more political order.

SpannungsvollDüster Mäßig fordernd
Original illustration for Cairo Station: Cairo station becomes a layered vertical paper city: sweeping platform roof, a large station clock without tiny numerals, tracks with coherent vanishing point, stacks of folded newspapers and a drinks tray foreground.
Cairo Station
1958 · Youssef Chahine 76 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

At Cairo’s main railway station, a disabled newspaper seller’s obsession with a drinks vendor turns a crowded social world towards violence.

SpannungsvollUngewöhnlich Mäßig fordernd
The Hidden Fortress 1958
The Hidden Fortress
1958 · Akira Kurosawa
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A general escorts a defeated clan’s princess and treasure through enemy territory, accompanied by two unreliable peasants. The mission has a clear goal and a persistently awkward human complication.

The Lovers 1958
The Lovers
1958 · Louis Malle 90 Min.
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A restless married woman finds a new attraction that unsettles both her domestic life and an existing affair.

RomantischUngewöhnlich Mäßig fordernd
The Music Room 1958
The Music Room
1958 · Satyajit Ray
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A declining aristocrat clings to the concerts that once confirmed his standing. Ray places the pleasures of listening inside a story about wealth, pride and resistance to change.

Touch of Evil: A midnight clock and a border-town street overlap in black, red and ochre paper.
Touch of Evil
1958 · Orson Welles 110 Min. · Crime
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A border explosion opens a night of corruption, surveillance, and unstable identities.

SpannungsvollUngewöhnlich Mit Geduld
Original illustration for Anatomy of a Murder: A black grand-piano keyboard crosses a pale courtroom document whose angular edge becomes a jury bench; one empty wooden chair and a long shadow.
Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · Otto Preminger Courtroom drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A murder trial becomes a contest over which version of motive, memory, and respectability a jury will accept.

RätselhaftSpannungsvoll Wenig fordernd
Ballad of a Soldier — A young soldier walks along a golden railway platform toward distant homes.
Ballad of a Soldier
1959 · Grigori Chukhrai 89 Min. · War drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A young soldier receives a short leave to visit his mother, but the journey home fills with people whose wartime needs consume his limited time.

RomantischDüster Wenig fordernd
Hiroshima mon amour: An anonymous embracing couple fades into a softly painted river and Hiroshima skyline.
Hiroshima mon amour
1959 · Alain Resnais 90 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A brief affair in Hiroshima opens a difficult passage between public catastrophe and private memory.

RomantischDüster Mit Geduld
Letter Never Sent 1959
Letter Never Sent
1959 · Mikhail Kalatozov 96 Min.
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Four geologists searching for diamonds find themselves stranded in the Siberian wilderness.

SpannungsvollSchön Mäßig fordernd
Original illustration: An engraved wallet and gloved hands on a station bench, with rails receding beneath Pickpocket lettering.
Pickpocket
1959 · Robert Bresson Crime drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A solitary young man treats theft as proof that ordinary rules do not apply to him.

UngewöhnlichDüster Mit Geduld
A pair of worn lace-up boots stands beside crumpled socks on a grey floor.
The Bridge
1959 · Bernhard Wicki 103 Min. · War drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

In the final days of the Second World War, teenage boys are ordered to defend a bridge that the retreating army no longer considers important.

SpannungsvollDüster Wenig fordernd
Original illustration for Eyes Without a Face: An empty luminous white theatrical face mask, realistic thin smooth ceramic, hangs within a narrow ivy-covered window over a soft foggy garden.
Eyes Without a Face
1960 · Georges Franju Horror
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A surgeon hides his injured daughter while pursuing a series of experiments intended to restore her face.

UngewöhnlichSchön Mäßig fordernd
L'Avventura: A white paper dress lies on dark rocks beside layered blue sea and an orange sun.
L'Avventura
1960 · Michelangelo Antonioni 143 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A woman disappears from a rocky island, and the search slowly exposes a different kind of absence.

RätselhaftSchön Mit Geduld
Original illustration for La Dolce Vita: A silver camera flash and elegant stemmed glass seen close up; the glass reflection contains an abstract Roman dome and a flowing nocturnal boulevard.
La Dolce Vita
1960 · Federico Fellini 174 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Rome, glamour, emptiness — beautiful and exhausting.

UngewöhnlichSchön Mit Geduld
Rocco and His Brothers — Five coats and boxing gloves hang near a Milan window.
Rocco and His Brothers
1960 · Luchino Visconti 179 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A mother and her five sons move from southern Italy to Milan, where work, boxing, ambition, and desire pull the family into competing futures.

DüsterSchön Mit Geduld
A young worker turns his shoulders while standing with his weight on one leg, rendered in rough charcoal and orange.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960 · Karel Reisz 89 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A young Nottingham factory worker treats weekends as rebellion until an affair and its consequences make freedom harder to define.

LustigDüster Wenig fordernd
The Bad Sleep Well 1960
The Bad Sleep Well
1960 · Akira Kurosawa
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A young executive pursues the person responsible for his father’s death. Kurosawa carries the revenge story into the offices and hierarchies of postwar corporate Japan.

Original illustration for The Cloud-Capped Star: Torn blue-grey hills fill the upper two-thirds like overlapping wounded musical staves; beneath them a modest room's open window, folded sari cloth and a small working desk.
The Cloud-Capped Star
1960 · Ritwik Ghatak 127 Min. · Melodrama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A young refugee woman supports her family after Partition while each relative treats her sacrifice as a resource that will continue indefinitely.

DüsterSchön Mäßig fordernd
The Housemaid — A staircase, piano keys and a maid are assembled from black, red and ochre paper.
The Housemaid
1960 · Kim Ki-young 108 Min. · Thriller
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A music teacher hires a housemaid, and the family’s new middle-class home becomes a volatile system of desire, labour, and revenge.

SpannungsvollUngewöhnlich Mäßig fordernd
The Naked Island 1960
The Naked Island
1960 · Kaneto Shindō 96 Min.
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A family’s island life depends on the repeated labour of bringing water across the sea.

Schön Mit Geduld
The Virgin Spring 1960
The Virgin Spring
1960 · Ingmar Bergman
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

After his daughter is raped and murdered, a father seeks revenge in medieval Sweden. Bergman places the violence within a world divided between Christian belief and older faiths.

Original illustration: Layered paper formal gardens, clipped hedges, colonnades, steps and empty chairs beneath the title.
Last Year at Marienbad
1961 · Alain Resnais 94 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

In a vast hotel, a man insists that a woman promised to leave with him last year—or perhaps in another version of the past.

UngewöhnlichRätselhaft Mit Geduld
Original illustration: Giant ivory The Hustler lettering on billiard green, with a cue, chalk and three small balls.
The Hustler
1961 · Robert Rossen Sports drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A gifted pool player tries to prove himself against a legend and discovers how many people wish to own the result.

SpannungsvollDüster Mäßig fordernd
A lace curtain casts leafy shadows beside an open window overlooking a bright garden.
The Innocents
1961 · Jack Clayton Gothic horror
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A governess becomes convinced that two children and their country house are haunted by a corrupt past.

RätselhaftSpannungsvoll Mäßig fordernd
Through a Glass Darkly 1961
Through a Glass Darkly
1961 · Ingmar Bergman
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

On an island retreat, Karin’s mental illness brings a family’s fragile relationships under pressure. Her father’s use of her condition for his writing makes care difficult to separate from exploitation.

Viridiana: A white cloth cuts across a dark dining room with bread, wine and thorny branches.
Viridiana
1961 · Luis Buñuel 91 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A novice nun attempts charity in a world Buñuel refuses to make morally tidy.

DüsterUngewöhnlich Mit Geduld
Original illustration for Cléo from 5 to 7: Paris late-afternoon street unfolds from an elegant oval cafe mirror into layered pavement arcs, plane-tree leaves and a giant clock dial whose only numerals are 5 and 7.
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962 · Agnès Varda 89 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.

SanftSchön Mäßig fordernd
Ivan's Childhood: A small boy stands among engraved birch trees, marsh reflections and a ruined windmill.
Ivan's Childhood
1962 · Andrei Tarkovsky 95 Min. · War
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A child scout crosses wartime marshes while dreams preserve a world already lost.

DüsterSchön Mäßig fordernd
Original illustration: Three overlapping paper bicycle wheels, river scenes and postcards beneath Jules and Jim lettering.
Jules and Jim
1962 · François Truffaut 105 Min. · Romantic drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Two friends love the same mercurial woman across years of art, war, marriage, travel, and changing agreements.

RomantischSchön Wenig fordernd
Knife in the Water: Huge blue and ivory lettering rises above a small sailboat and a dark knife-shaped reflection.
Knife in the Water
1962 · Roman Polanski 94 Min. · Thriller
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A couple invite a young stranger onto their yacht, where status and rivalry have nowhere to escape.

SpannungsvollDüster Mäßig fordernd
L’eclisse 1962
L’eclisse
1962 · Michelangelo Antonioni 126 Min.
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

After ending one relationship, a woman drifts into another amid the spaces and distances of modern Rome.

RomantischUngewöhnlich Mit Geduld
Sanjuro 1962
Sanjuro
1962 · Akira Kurosawa
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A scruffy, experienced samurai helps a group of idealistic young warriors confront corruption within their clan. His methods make their ideas of proper conduct look dangerously naive.

Strongroom 1962
Strongroom
1962 · Vernon Sewell 79 Min. · Crime
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Bank robbers must return to free the two people they have locked in an airtight vault.

Original illustration for The Exterminating Angel: An extravagant dining room viewed through an enormous completely open doorway: empty table setting, chandelier, rugs and doors that loop into further doors, all precise overlapping paper planes.
The Exterminating Angel
1962 · Luis Buñuel Surrealist satire
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

After an elegant dinner, a group of wealthy guests discover that none of them can bring themselves to leave the room.

UngewöhnlichLustig Mit Geduld
The House Is Black — A white flower and a child's slate sit in a stark black-and-ivory classroom.
The House Is Black
1962 · Forugh Farrokhzad 22 Min. · Documentary short
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Poetry, daily routine, and direct observation meet inside an Iranian leper colony.

DüsterSchön Mäßig fordernd
A lone runner follows a red track from an institutional yard into open countryside.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962 · Tony Richardson Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A young offender’s talent for distance running becomes a reform-school governor’s favourite proof of success.

DüsterSpannungsvoll Mäßig fordernd
The Manchurian Candidate — Large ivory lettering and repeated queen-of-diamonds cards form a hypnotic pattern.
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 · John Frankenheimer Political thriller
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A decorated soldier returns from war with a heroic story that his former commander cannot make fit his dreams.

RätselhaftSpannungsvoll Mäßig fordernd