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Decade: 1950sEffacer les filtres
12 Angry Men: A giant ivory 12 surrounds a small jury table beneath the shadow of a ceiling fan.
12 Angry Men
1957 · Sidney Lumet96 min · Drama

Une pièce, aucune échappatoire, toute la tension.

TenduFacile à regarder
Seven Samurai: Seven paper banners stand above seven distant figures and a rain-soaked village.
Seven Samurai
1954 · Akira Kurosawa207 min · Action
Résumé en anglais

Three hours that fly. The template for the epic.

TenduDouxAvec patience
Some Like It Hot — Momo holds sheet music beside a golden saxophone and a paper staircase, with coral background visible above his raised arm.
Some Like It Hot
1959 · Billy Wilder120 min · Comedy
Résumé en anglais

Maybe the funniest film ever made. Still is.

DrôleRomantiqueFacile à regarder
Godzilla — Monumental ivory lettering towers over a dark city, sea and distant creature beneath a red sun.
Godzilla
1954 · Ishiro Honda96 min · Science fiction
Résumé en anglais

Before the icon came the nightmare: destruction with a memory.

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
Rashomon: A ruined gate stands beneath conflicting layers of rainy and sunlit paper forest.
Rashomon
1950 · Akira Kurosawa88 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

One crime, four truths, no easy answers.

ÉtrangeMystèreModéré
Sunset Blvd.: Gold lettering and burgundy curtains frame an indoor monochrome film projection beside a colorful sunset and pool.
Sunset Blvd.
1950 · Billy Wilder110 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

A faded star, a kept writer, Hollywood's darkest joke.

SombreÉtrangeFacile à regarder
Tokyo Story: Momo sits with tea in a sunlit tatami room overlooking a Japanese coastal town.
Tokyo Story
1953 · Yasujirō Ozu137 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

Quiet, domestic, and devastating in the softest way.

DouxSombreModéré
The Seventh Seal: A chessboard and distant cloaked figures stand on an engraved seashore.
The Seventh Seal
1957 · Ingmar Bergman96 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

A knight plays chess with Death. Unforgettable.

SombreÉtrangeAvec patience
ALL ABOUT EVE lettering beside an original painted backstage composition: two women, an oval mirror and burgundy curtains.
All About Eve
1950 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz138 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

Theatre claws out. The wittiest knife-fight on film.

TenduDrôleModéré
Blue THE 400 BLOWS lettering and sketched city streets cover lined paper, crossed by a red pencil trail.
The 400 Blows
1959 · François Truffaut99 min · Drama

Un garçon laissé pour compte. Tendre et juste.

DouxSombreModéré
Pather Panchali: Children follow a path through sunlit grasses toward a distant train while Momo watches a dragonfly.
Pather Panchali
1955 · Satyajit Ray125 min · Drama

Découvertes de l’enfance, tensions familiales et monde vivant au-delà du chemin.

DouxBeauModéré
Ikiru: Snow falls around an empty swing, a streetlamp and a stack of official papers.
Ikiru
1952 · Akira Kurosawa143 min · Drama

Une vie mesurée en paperasse découvre une chose inachevée qui compte.

DouxSombreModéré
On the Waterfront: A white pigeon, work gloves and a rooftop overlook cranes and a glowing harbour.
On the Waterfront
1954 · Elia Kazan108 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

A dockworker caught inside a corrupt system begins to understand the cost of silence.

SombreTenduModéré
The Night of the Hunter: Children drift in a small boat through layered paper reeds beneath a crescent moon.
The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Charles Laughton92 min · Thriller
Résumé en anglais

Two children flee a murderous preacher through an American landscape turned into a dream.

MystèreSombreModéré
Gun Crazy — A couple, reflected light and a car meet a dark marsh landscape.
Gun Crazy
1950 · Joseph H. LewisFilm noir
Résumé en anglais

A gifted marksman and a thrill-seeking sharpshooter fall in love, then turn their shared fascination with guns into a life of robbery and flight.

RomantiqueTenduFacile à regarder
Original illustration for In a Lonely Place: A typewriter and loose pages sit on a desk beside a window overlooking a dim courtyard.
In a Lonely Place
1950 · Nicholas Ray93 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

A screenwriter suspected of murder begins a romance with the neighbour who gave him an alibi, while his volatility makes trust increasingly fragile.

RomantiqueTenduFacile à regarder
A boy stands with his back to us against a bare wall beneath the title.
Los Olvidados
1950 · Luis Buñuel80 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

Children surviving on the margins of Mexico City become trapped in cycles of violence, abandonment, labour, and retaliation.

SombreTenduModéré
NIGHT AND THE CITY lettering rises like tightly packed buildings in petrol green, ivory and vermilion, crossed by a thin wrestling-rope line. 1950.
Night and the City
1950 · Jules Dassin95 min · Film noir
Résumé en anglais

A London hustler tries to control professional wrestling and discovers that every shortcut places him deeper inside another person’s territory.

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
The Asphalt Jungle — A safe, diamond and city map emerge from dark engraved textures.
The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · John Huston112 min
Résumé en anglais

A criminal planner assembles specialists for a jewellery robbery whose careful design cannot contain the weaknesses around it.

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
A fraying rope stretches across dark water below a weathered boat hull.
The Breaking Point
1950 · Michael Curtiz97 min
Résumé en anglais

A struggling charter-boat captain accepts increasingly dangerous work as debt and pride narrow the choices available to his family.

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
Original illustration for A Streetcar Named Desire: A tram approaches on a wet, lamplit street beyond an open shutter, lace curtain, tumbler and wilted flowers.
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 · Elia KazanDrama
Résumé en anglais

A fragile visitor enters her sister’s crowded home and meets a man determined to expose every illusion.

TenduSombreModéré
Original illustration: Giant black, red and ochre Ace in the Hole lettering with a mine lamp inside the O, above a newspaper and distant circus tent.
Ace in the Hole
1951 · Billy Wilder111 min
Résumé en anglais

A disgraced reporter turns a man trapped in a cave into a prolonged national spectacle that may restore his career.

SombreTenduFacile à regarder
Early Summer 1951
Early Summer
1951 · Yasujiro Ozu
Résumé en anglais

Noriko’s family wants to find her a husband. Ozu follows the wider household and its neighbours as her own wishes unsettle what everyone assumes a marriage should accomplish.

The Lavender Hill Mob — Momo inspects a golden Eiffel Tower in a lavender and gold paper workshop.
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · Charles Crichton78 min · Heist comedy
Résumé en anglais

A modest bank clerk who has supervised gold deliveries for years finally finds the partner and export scheme needed to steal one.

DrôleDouxFacile à regarder
HIGH NOON lettering beside a clock above empty railway tracks under harsh light. Original screenprint-style illustration.
High Noon
1952 · Fred Zinnemann85 min · Western
Résumé en anglais

A marshal watches the clock while an entire town discovers reasons to leave.

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
The Life of Oharu 1952
The Life of Oharu
1952 · Kenji Mizoguchi
Résumé en anglais

An older woman recalls the successive roles society has assigned her, from court attendant to sex worker. Kinuyo Tanaka gives continuity to a life repeatedly redirected by status and power.

Two dark overcoat shoulders compress a narrow title-bearing gap beside a train-window reflection.
The Narrow Margin
1952 · Richard FleischerFilm noir thriller
Résumé en anglais

A detective escorts a murder witness by train while killers search the carriages and identities become dangerously uncertain.

TenduMystèreFacile à regarder
Umberto D. lettering on a golden umbrella over Momo and a small dog in a layered paper Roman street.
Umberto D.
1952 · Vittorio De Sica88 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

An elderly pensioner facing eviction tries to preserve his dignity and his bond with his small dog in postwar Rome.

DouxSombreFacile à regarder
Original illustration for Mr. Hulot's Holiday: A sunlit seaside hotel composed of playful paper balconies overlooks striped bathing huts and a tiny sailboat.
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
1953 · Jacques Tati87 min · Comedy
Résumé en anglais

Monsieur Hulot arrives at a seaside hotel and gently disrupts the routines by which everyone else is trying to enjoy a proper holiday.

DrôleDouxFacile à regarder
Pickup on South Street — A purse and microfilm appear over fragments of a city map.
Pickup on South Street
1953 · Samuel Fuller80 min · Film noir
Résumé en anglais

A pickpocket unknowingly steals microfilm from a courier and becomes the target of both federal agents and Communist spies.

TenduRomantiqueFacile à regarder
The Big Heat — Bold lettering and spilled coffee form a stark black and red composition.
The Big Heat
1953 · Fritz Lang89 min
Résumé en anglais

A homicide detective’s inquiry into a suspicious suicide exposes a city where organised crime and official authority protect one another.

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
An empty chair sits between the cropped edges of two dining tables viewed from above.
The Bigamist
1953 · Ida Lupino85 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

An adoption investigation exposes a travelling salesman’s two marriages and the loneliness, compromise, and deception that produced them.

SombreDouxFacile à regarder
Original illustration: Oversized paper earrings, ballroom cards, red ribbon and mirror fragments beneath The Earrings of Madame de lettering.
The Earrings of Madame de . . .
1953 · Max Ophuls100 min
Résumé en anglais

A pair of earrings passes through sale, gift, concealment, and return as an aristocratic marriage gives way to forbidden love.

RomantiqueSombreFacile à regarder
The Hitch-Hiker — A watching eye in a rear-view mirror interrupts a lonely desert road.
The Hitch-Hiker
1953 · Ida Lupino71 min · Film noir
Résumé en anglais

Two friends offer a stranger a lift and find themselves trapped on a desert road by a killer who never seems to sleep.

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
THE WAGES OF FEAR lettering on a timber crate below a mountain bridge and two cargo trucks, with Momo crouching to check a bridge plank.
The Wages of Fear
1953 · Henri-Georges Clouzot152 min · Thriller
Résumé en anglais

Four men, two trucks, and a road where every bump can end the film.

TenduSombreModéré
Ugetsu: A moonlit boat and misty castle are echoed inside a ceramic bowl.
Ugetsu
1953 · Kenji Mizoguchi97 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

War, ambition, and a ghostly shore draw two families away from the lives they have.

BeauSombreModéré
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 Fellini108 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

DouxSombreFacile à regarder
Two women stand side by side on rough ground beneath a streaked sky.
Salt of the Earth
1954 · Herbert J. Biberman94 min · Social drama
Résumé en anglais

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.

TenduBeauFacile à regarder
Sansho the Bailiff: Distant figures stand apart on a sunset coast beneath a windswept pine.
Sansho the Bailiff
1954 · Kenji Mizoguchi124 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

SombreBeauModéré
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 Bardem88 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
Diabolique: An empty engraved swimming pool, a key and a long doorway shadow create a quiet green interior.
Diabolique
1955 · Henri-Georges Clouzot117 min · Thriller
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduMystèreModéré
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 Naruse124 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

RomantiqueSombreModéré
Ordet: An empty wooden chair faces an open doorway and a pale snow-covered landscape.
Ordet
1955 · Carl Th. Dreyer120 min · Drama

Dans une ferme danoise, la foi et le doute attendent aux côtés du travail ordinaire d’une famille.

DouxÉtrangeAvec patience
Rififi: Giant black lettering is pierced by a rope descending from a ceiling into an open umbrella.
Rififi
1955 · Jules Dassin118 min · Crime
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduSombreModéré
Smiles of a Summer Night 1955
Smiles of a Summer Night
1955 · Ingmar Bergman
Résumé en anglais

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 Bresson101 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduModéré
An open book rests beside broad stone steps descending to a river, with buildings lining the water.
Aparajito
1956 · Satyajit Ray110 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

DouxSombreFacile à regarder
Street of Shame 1956
Street of Shame
1956 · Kenji Mizoguchi
Résumé en anglais

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 KubrickCrime thriller
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduMystèreFacile à regarder
Black telephone receivers and coiled cords hang beside a red block and the title.
While the City Sleeps
1956 · Fritz Lang88 min · Crime drama
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
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 KazanSatirical drama
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduDrôleFacile à regarder
Paths of Glory: An engraved trench opens into a bright military courtroom with an empty chair.
Paths of Glory
1957 · Stanley Kubrick88 min · War
Résumé en anglais

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

SombreTenduModéré
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 Dutt139 min · Musical drama
Résumé en anglais

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

RomantiqueSombreFacile à regarder
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 Mackendrick96 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduSombreFacile à regarder
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 Kalatozov96 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

RomantiqueSombreFacile à regarder
Throne of Blood 1957
Throne of Blood
1957 · Akira Kurosawa
Résumé en anglais

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
Résumé en anglais

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 Bergman92 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

DouxÉtrangeModéré
Ashes and Diamonds: Large ivory lettering rises above burning glasses and a broken window overlooking a city.
Ashes and Diamonds
1958 · Andrzej Wajda102 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduSombreModéré
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 Chahine76 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

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

TenduÉtrangeModéré

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