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Return of the Monster
Return of the Monster (1958)
, 1h3
Directed by Joselito Rodríguez
Origin Mexique
Genres Science fiction, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Arturo Martínez, Fanny Schiller

Le Docteur Kracken, un scientifique fou, cherche le secret de la vie éternelle. Il découvre un squelette animé parlant qui s'avère être la sorcière déjà aperçue dans le film précédent. Kracken l'aide à ranimer son monstrueux fils et cherche un moyen pour lui rendre son corps. Pour leurs expériences, ils envoient le monstre enlever de jeunes femmes.
Zorro vs. the Teenage Monster
Zorro vs. the Teenage Monster (1958)
, 1h11
Origin Mexique
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Irma Dorantes, Emma Roldán

Luis et son compagnon de voyage Pascual arrivent dans un village où se déroule l'exécution publique de Tomás García. Celui-ci est pendu pour meurtre. Alors que son corps est laissé exposé pour servir d'exemple, il est volé durant la nuit par sa mère. Sorcière, elle utilise la magie pour ressusciter son fils. Revenu sous une apparence monstrueuse et contrôlé par sa mère, le zombie s'attaque à tous ceux qui ont participé à sa mort. Les victimes sont retrouvées étranglées par un foulard ou une corde de pendaison.
Man of a Thousand Faces
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
, 2h2
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about television, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Jim Backus, Robert Evans, Troy Donahue

In the early 1900s, actor Lon Chaney (James Cagney) is working in vaudeville with his wife Cleva (Dorothy Malone). Chaney quits the show and Cleva announces that she is pregnant. Lon is happy and tells Cleva that he has been hired by the famous comedy team Kolb and Dill for an upcoming show.
An Affair to Remember
An Affair to Remember (1957)
, 1h59
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities, Children's films
Actors Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Cathleen Nesbitt, Fortunio Bonanova, Robert Q. Lewis

Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant), a well-known playboy and dilettante in the arts, meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) aboard the Transatlantic ocean liner SS Constitution en route from Europe to New York. Each is involved with someone else. After a series of chance meetings aboard the ship, they establish a friendship. When Terry joins Nickie on a brief visit to his grandmother when the ship anchors near her home at Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast, she sees Nickie with new eyes and their feelings blossom into love. During their visit, it is revealed that Nickie has had a talent for painting, but has dropped said trait due to his critical attitude towards his own art. As the ship returns to New York City, they agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months' time, if they have succeeded in ending their relationships and starting new careers.
Anastasia
Anastasia (1956)
, 1h45
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Martita Hunt, Akim Tamiroff, Sacha Pitoëff

Ten years of turmoil have passed since the teenage Anastasia and her family (parents, sisters and brother) were presumed to have been killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries. Does the refugee Anna who has turned up in Paris have the bearing, speech, and intimate knowledge of the imperial family that the real grand duchess would have? Or is she merely a recovering amnesiac with a striking resemblance who has been cleverly groomed by the émigré General Bounine (Brynner) to stake a claim to 10 million pounds left by the Tsar in an English bank? In a series of encounters with former familiars and members of the imperial court, Anna begins to display a confidence and style that astonish her skeptical interlocutors, yet retains our sympathy by seeming more interested in recovering her own identity than the imperial bank account. In a climactic meeting with the Empress in Copenhagen, Anna and the Empress take the measure of each other, alternately projecting imperial self-possession and the anguish of family longing. Meanwhile, Bounine has become increasingly jealous of the attentions the fortune-hunting Prince Paul pays to Anna. At a grand ball at which her engagement to Paul is to be announced, the Empress has a private word with Anna/Anastasia, who subsequently elopes with Bounine.
Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves (1956)
, 1h47
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene, Shepperd Strudwick, Ruth Donnelly

Spinsterish Millicent "Millie" Wetherby (Joan Crawford) works at home as a self-employed typist. One evening in a diner, she meets a lonely Army veteran named Burt Hanson (Cliff Robertson). They share a romantic date at the beach, kissing amidst the crashing waves, but Millie tells Burt to date someone his own age. A month later, Burt is waiting for the still-lonely Millie at her home and the two celebrate his new job at a department store. He proposes to her in a movie theater, and while she initially rejects the proposal, she reconsiders when she sees him walking away.
23 Paces to Baker Street
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
, 1h43
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité, Children's films
Actors Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Isobel Elsom, Estelle Winwood, Patricia Laffan

Le dramaturge à succès Hanon s'est installé à Londres, fuyant les États-Unis et la femme qu'il aime depuis qu'il est devenu subitement aveugle. Or, sa fiancée le relance et entend renouer. Il tente de l'écarter en lui expliquant qu'il s'est refait une vie, secondé par un secrétaire, qui lui fait également office de valet de chambre, ayant même appris à se déplacer sans aide jusqu'au pub du coin. Un jour que, dans cet établissement, il est attablé, seul, il entend une conversation où il est question de kidnapping et de meurtre. Il alerte la police qui n'est guère convaincue par sa déposition, même s'il a enregistré de mémoire, l'échange entendu dès son retour à l'appartement.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick (1956)
, 1h55
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Cétacé, Films about disabilities, Mise en scène d'un cétacé
Actors Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, Ronald Lacey, James Robertson Justice

Set in 19th-century New England, the story follows the whaling ship Pequod and its crew. Leading them is Captain Ahab, who was almost killed in an encounter with the "great white whale", Moby Dick. Now he is out for revenge. With the crew that has joined him, Ahab is out to destroy the huge sea mammal, but his obsession with vengeance is so great that he cannot turn back, eventually leading to the death of Ahab and all of his crew, save his newest able seaman, Ishmael.
Singing in the Dark
Singing in the Dark (1956)

Directed by Max Nosseck
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Mickey Knox, Lawrence Tierney, Kay Medford, Wolfgang Zilzer

Leo, the main character, is a Holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia. When he immigrates to the U.S. he manages to find a job as a hotel desk clerk. When he accepts a drink in the hotel bar, he suddenly starts singing, amazing those around him—and himself—with his magnificent voice. Taking advantage of his gift, he begins singing in nightclubs. Eventually, with the help of a psychiatrist and partly as a result of a blow to the head during a mugging, his memories begin to return, and he realizes that he is the son of a great Jewish Hazzan (Cantor) in Europe. As memories of his parents, who perished in the Holocaust, return to him, he abandons his nightclub career to follow his father's footsteps as a synagogue cantor. The final scene shows Leo (who now remembers that his real name is "David") singing during a synagogue service.
Mr. Arkadin
Mr. Arkadin (1955)
, 1h39
Directed by Orson Welles
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Akim Tamiroff, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Orson Welles

Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler working in Europe, is at the scene of the murder of a man named Bracco. The dying man whispers two names that he claims are very valuable, one of which is Gregory Arkadin. Using this small bit of information and lots of bluffing, Van Stratten manages to meet the apparent multi-millionaire business magnate and socialite Arkadin, and Arkadin then hires Van Stratten to research his own past, of which he claims to have no memory before 1927.
Rear Window
Rear Window (1954)
, 1h49
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Assassinat, Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities
Actors James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn

After breaking his leg photographing a racetrack accident, professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies (James Stewart) is confined to his Greenwich Village apartment, using a wheelchair while he recuperates. His rear window looks out onto a small courtyard and several other apartments. During a summer heat wave, he passes the time by watching his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool. The tenants he can see include a dancer he nicknames "Miss Torso", a lonely woman he nicknames "Miss Lonelyhearts", a composer-pianist, several married couples, a middle-aged sculptor, and Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), a traveling jewelry salesman with a bedridden wife.