Boom Town 1950

Heralded by Martin Scorsese as “an anthropologist who speaks with the voice of a poet,” Italian director Vittorio De Seta produced a string of extraordinary short documentaries in the 1950s that distill their subjects to pure cinema

The daily routine of two London policemen is interrupted by a killer.

La zia Agata ha una pupilla, Adelina, che intende far sposare con suo nipote Totò, per questo in una lettera acclude una fotografia della ragazza. Quando la apre, però, Totò si trova davanti a una sorpresa. La foto è quella di una negra dai capelli crespi. Totò freme e corre a chiedere consiglio ad un amico, che gli suggerisce di sposarsi immediatamente, prima dell'arrivo di questa fantomatica Adelina. Totò allora si mette alla ricerca di una moglie.

Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.

In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office.

Heralded by Martin Scorsese as “an anthropologist who speaks with the voice of a poet,” Italian director Vittorio De Seta produced a string of extraordinary short documentaries in the 1950s that distill their subjects to pure cinema

Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.

An insurance investigator looks into the death of a man who drove his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. After looking into the incident, the investigator begins to suspect it may not have been suicide after all.

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Glossy melodrama starring Lana Turner as a young woman from Kansas who moves to New York, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.