The BBCiplayer has a section of classic films…one of them, at the moment is Vincent Minnelli’s, The Bandwagon (1953). The film stars Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.
The film is a musical, with elaborate dance routines, an interest in jazz and a self-consciously modernist staging…You can see all of that in the design and framing of the shot, above…straight from Rodchenko.
Nowadays the film is best known for the Girl Hunt Ballet sequence…which inspired Michel Jackson. The ballet is derived from the narratives of Mickey Spillane’s hard-boiled street-based detective novels (thrillers).
Even if you don’t like musicals, this is an important film in the development of a film language beyond straightforward realism.
Vincente Minnelli is a very significant director. You can check his wiki entry, here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincente_Minnelli
Minnelli’s critical reputation has known a certain amount of fluctuation, being admired (or dismissed) in America as a “pure stylist” who, in Andrew Sarris’ words, “believes more in beauty than in art.”[13] Alan Jay Lerner (of Lerner and Loewe) described Minnelli as, “the greatest director of motion picture musicals the screen has ever seen.”
His work reached a height of critical attention during the late 1950s and early 1960s in France with extensive studies in the Cahiers du Cinéma magazine, especially in the articles by Jean Douchet and Jean Domarchi, who saw in him “a cinematic visionary obsessed with beauty and harmony”, and “an artist who could give substance to the world of dreams”. Minnelli served as a juror at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. The MGM compilation film That’s Entertainment! showed clips from many of his films.
Minnelli is obviously a great influence on the 1960s films of Jacques Demy and, more recently, of Damien Chazelle’s, La La Land (2016).