Movies: Mid-century Modern
Films prominently featuring contemporaneous "mod" architecture, decor, and design.
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- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsJames GarnerNatalie WoodNina FochJames Garner put in a winning performance as a similarly unreconstructed capitalist in the grip of merger mania.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonLouis JourdanAs fog delays departure for a group of travelers bound for New York City, they wait at the lounge of London's Heathrow airport, each passenger at a moment of crisis in his or her life.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsJennifer JonesMontgomery CliftGino CerviPrior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsDoris DayRichard HarrisRay WalstonAn industrial designer causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsJane RussellVictor MatureVincent PriceThe arrival in Las Vegas of a businessman and his glamorous wife creates a complex web of murder and deceit.
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsPeter SellersClaudine LongetNatalia BorisovaA clerical mistake results in a bumbling Indian film star being invited to an exclusive Hollywood party instead of being fired.
- DirectorGene NelsonStarsRoddy McDowallDebbie WatsonGil PetersonA young, millionaire rock promoter decides to create a new boy/girl duo team for his teen TV dance show by teaming up an ambitious go-go dancer and a has-been pop star and presenting them to the public as a new romantic pair.
- Westinghouse shows women how to improve their lives by selecting the ideal design for their refrigerators.
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsRock HudsonDoris DayTony RandallAn interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.
- DirectorDavid SwiftStarsJack LemmonCarol LynleyDean JonesA love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.
- DirectorNat HikenStarsDon KnottsAnne FrancisEdmond O'BrienAbner Audubon Peacock (Don Knotts) is the publisher of a bird-watcher's magazine which is converted into a girlie mag by an unscrupulous operator Osborn Tremaine (Edmond O'Brien).
- DirectorFranco RossiStarsEnrico Maria SalernoAnnie GirardotRenato SalvatoriAn ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a brief affair with a beautiful Italian expatriate.
- DirectorSonja O'HaraStarsShane WestSarah HayChelsea GilliganA husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.