The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 6: Sex & Melodrama
Documentary • 63 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 7.7/10
Episode synopsis
Sex and melodrama in the movies of the fifties: James Dean, On the Waterfront and glossy weepies. We travel to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, Britain and Japan to find that movies there were also full of rage and passion. Exclusive interviews include associates of Indian master Satyajit Ray; legendary Japanese actress Kyoko Kagawa, who starred in films by Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu; and the first great African director, Youssef Chahine.
About The Story of Film: An Odyssey
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Birth of the Cinema
- E2The Hollywood Dream
- E3The Golden Age of World Cinema
- E4The Arrival of Sound
- E5Post-War Cinema
- E7European New Wave
- E8New Directors, New Form
- E9American Cinema of the 70s
- E10Movies to Change the World
- E11The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
- E12Fight the Power: Protest in Film
- E13New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America