191. Black Orpheus ( Orfeu Negro )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Marcel Camus
Actors: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Fausto Guerzoni, Ademar Da Silva, Marcel Camus, Lourdes de Oliveira
Plot: The Greek myth of doomed lovers Orpheus and Eurydice, is transferred to a contemporary setting at the Carnivale in Rio de Janiero. It's a lively blend of sight and sound stimulation. This film won the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
192. Shadows
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Cassavetes
Actors: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd, Anthony Ray, Dennis Sallas, Tom Reese
193. Titanic
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Negulesco
Actors: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Richard Basehart, Thelma Ritter, Brian Aherne
Plot: Julia Sturges is unhappy with her marriage and her life and plans to take her two children with her to America, aboard the new luxury liner Titanic. Her husband, however, isn't about to let her go and also manages to get aboard the ship - but the ship's maiden voyage is to be its last.
194. Mon oncle
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tati
Actors: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider, Jean-François Martial
Plot: Monsieur Hulot visits his sister's family - and enters a world driven by technology. it's a world that he doesn't quite fit into - and as he starts to influence his nephew away from this automated world - his brother-in-law decides to employ him at his factory to keep him occupied.
195. The Seven Year Itch
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Oskar Homolka
196. Born Yesterday
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Howard St. John, Frank Otto, Larry Oliver
Plot: The loud, brash and uncouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock comes to Washington D.C. looking to pocket a Congressman or two. His mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn, needs to be taught how to fit into to more high-class society, so he hires a tutor, Paul Verrall to soften up her rough edges. Yet the more Billie learns, the more she realizes what a brute her husband really is - and starts to fall for her tutor instead.
197. The Desert Rats
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, Torin Thatcher, Chips Rafferty
198. Dracula ( Horror of Dracula )
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh
Plot: After Dr. Van Helsing's partner, Jonathan Harker, fails to kill Dracula at his castle. Dracula seeks revenge on Jonathan's fiancé Lucy and her family.
199. The Horse Soldiers
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt, Hoot Gibson, Ken Curtis
200. Les miserables
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester
Plot: Adaptation of the novel by Victor Hugo in which ex-convict Jean Valjean vows to change his life after a bishop shows him a kind act but the obsessive Inspector Javert, who believes in law over everything else, does not give up his pursuit.
