81. Forbidden Games ( Jeux interdits )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: René Clément
Actors: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie, Madeleine Barbulée, Suzanne Courtal
Plot: A young girl is orphaned during WWII and, breaking away from a group of refugees, finds herself with a peasant family - where she bonds with a young boy. Together they form their own ideas about the death that surrounds them - and the rituals involved - even if it is often at odds with the adults around them.
82. Ordet
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Actors: Sylvia Eckhausen, Emil Hass Christensen, Ejner Federspiel, Gerda Nielsen, Cay Kristiansen, Henrik Malberg
83. Panic in the Streets
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
Plot: One of film noir's finest. When a Dead man found in the streets is found to have the bubonic plague, a police detective and public health doctor scour the city for his killer, who may also be infected. Lots of suspense and a good, nostalgic look at New Orleans.
84. Julius Caesar
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Deborah Kerr, Edmond O'Brien
Plot: Caesar is murdered by some of the men closest to him - who worried his ambition would lead to tyranny. Yet a moving speech by Antony divides the empire into two factions - those supporting the conspirators and those supporting Antony.
85. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Musical
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Jacques d'Amboise, Jane Powell, Julie Newmar
Plot: Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin.
86. 3:10 to Yuma
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Delmer Daves
Actors: Van Heflin, Glenn Ford, Henry Jones, Robert Emhardt, Richard Jaeckel, Felicia Farr
Plot: The leader of a western gang is finally captured and held at a volunteers
farm house while his gang ruthlessly tries to get their leader back to
reek more havoc.
87. Night and Fog ( Nuit et brouillard )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher, Reinhard Heydrich
Plot: Alain Resnais presents a chilling history lesson - the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. With color footage and vintage news reel, and allies' footage as well - it's not just about the camps, but a reminder of how inhumane humanity can be.
88. The Incredible Shrinking Man
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Arnold
Actors: Grant Williams, April Kent, Randy Stuart, Paul Langton, William Schallert
Plot: A man and his significant other are on a boating adventure when he
experiences a strange mist. After a short time he begins to get smaller in
size and goes through struggles of everyday life.
89. Sleeping Beauty
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Actors: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen
Plot: A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse on a princess that only a prince can break, with the help of three good fairies.
90. Sansho the Bailiff ( Sanshô dayû )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Eitarô Shindô, Masao Shimizu, Ken Mitsuda
Plot: When a compassionate governor finds himself ousted and banished in medieval Japan, he attempts to keep his family together. Yet his wife and children become separated, and they are raised amidst suffering and oppression.
