Search results for "1950"
Bright Leaf

Bright Leaf

Bright Leaf
IMDb: 6.6
110

Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Love That Brute

Love That Brute

Love That Brute
IMDb: 6.2
85

Director Alexander Hall’s 1950 comedy, about a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee, stars Paul Douglas, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis, Arthur…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Over the Garden Wall

Over the Garden Wall

Over the Garden Wall
IMDb: 5.6
94

In Over the Garden Wall, a working class couple (Jimmy James and Norman Evans) are planning to give their only daughter and their new GI son-in-law a right Northern welcome….

Genre: Comedy
The Capture

The Capture

The Capture
IMDb: 5.9
91

A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
The Young and the Damned

The Young and the Damned

The Young and the Damned
IMDb: 8.3
85

A group of juvenile delinquents lives a criminal, violent life in the festering slums of Mexico City, among them the young Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Two Weeks with Love

Two Weeks with Love

Two Weeks with Love
IMDb: 6.9
92

The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Western Pacific Agent

Western Pacific Agent

Western Pacific Agent
IMDb: 6
N/A

In a uniquely hilarious odyssey of self-discovery and cultural observation, documentary filmmaker and self-described “anxious New Yorker” John Wilson covertly and obsessively films the lives of his fellow New Yorkers…

Deported

Deported

Deported
IMDb: 6.1
89

The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy…

Genre: Drama
The Gorbals Story

The Gorbals Story

The Gorbals Story
IMDb: 5
74

A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.

Genre: Drama
Shadow on the Wall

Shadow on the Wall

Shadow on the Wall
IMDb: 6.7
84

Angered that her sister Celia has stolen her fiance, Dell Faring kills her and allows Celia’s husband David, knocked out in an argument with Celia, to take the blame and…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard

Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard

Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
IMDb: 6
67

A federal agent (Howard St. John) joins forces with a British lawman (Ron Randell) to foil a spy ring.

Right Cross

Right Cross

Right Cross
IMDb: 6
90

A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager’s daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

Genre: Drama
The Toast of New Orleans

The Toast of New Orleans

The Toast of New Orleans
IMDb: 6.2
97

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
This Side of the Law

This Side of the Law

This Side of the Law
IMDb: 6.4
74

A man – trapped in a cistern – reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment.

Genre: Crime
Pygmy Island

Pygmy Island

Pygmy Island
IMDb: 6.2
69

Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) fights a gorilla, finds a Wac (Ann Savage) and keeps high fiber from falling into enemy hands.

Genre: Adventure
Fortunes of Captain Blood

Fortunes of Captain Blood

Fortunes of Captain Blood
IMDb: 5.8
91

When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They’ve been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Destination Murder

Destination Murder

Destination Murder
IMDb: 6.1
72

Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman…

Genre: Crime
Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby
IMDb: 6.5
92

A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

Genre: Comedy
The Great Jewel Robber

The Great Jewel Robber

The Great Jewel Robber
IMDb: 6.5
91

Director Peter Godfrey’s 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as “The Hollywood Raffles”, whose famous robbery victims included such real-life…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Lost Volcano

The Lost Volcano

The Lost Volcano
IMDb: 5.8
76

Little David Gordon lives in the jungle with his parents Ruth and Fred Gordon along with their servant Nona. David likes living there while his father captures wild animals. He’s…

Genre: Adventure
Bomba and the Hidden City

Bomba and the Hidden City

Bomba and the Hidden City
IMDb: 5.4
72

A photographer and his guide meet a corrupt Emir with a dirty secret. Only Bomba knows the truth and the Emir wants him silenced! Bomba defeats the Emir and his…

September Affair

September Affair

September Affair
IMDb: 6.8
104

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren’t on the…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Bitter Springs

Bitter Springs

Bitter Springs
IMDb: 6.3
89

A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Yellow Cab Man

The Yellow Cab Man

The Yellow Cab Man
IMDb: 6.5
85

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kim

Kim

Kim
IMDb: 6.6
113

During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

A Ticket to Tomahawk

A Ticket to Tomahawk

A Ticket to Tomahawk
IMDb: 6.1
90

Comedy western about a cowboy who is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Western
Trio

Trio

Trio
IMDb: 7.1
91

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Genre: Drama
So You Think You’re Not Guilty

So You Think You’re Not Guilty

So You Think You’re Not Guilty
IMDb: 6
10

Joe McDoakes pleads “not guilty” to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.

Genre: Comedy
Ambush

Ambush

Ambush
IMDb: 6.5
90

A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.

Genre: Western
The Miniver Story

The Miniver Story

The Miniver Story
IMDb: 6.5
104

The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.

Genre: Drama
Walk Softly, Stranger

Walk Softly, Stranger

Walk Softly, Stranger
IMDb: 6.5
81

A petty crook (Joseph Cotten) moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner’s disabled daughter (Valli).

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Three Secrets

Three Secrets

Three Secrets
IMDb: 6.9
98

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred…

Genre: Drama
The Desert Hawk

The Desert Hawk

The Desert Hawk
IMDb: 5.6
77

A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph’s daughter.

Genre: Action, Adventure
Comanche Territory

Comanche Territory

Comanche Territory
IMDb: 5.7
76

Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James ‘Jim’ Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers…

Genre: Western
Never Fear

Never Fear

Never Fear
IMDb: 6.4
82

A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.

Genre: Drama
Tarzan and the Slave Girl

Tarzan and the Slave Girl

Tarzan and the Slave Girl
IMDb: 5.9
74

The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola,…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Buccaneer’s Girl

Buccaneer’s Girl

Buccaneer’s Girl
IMDb: 6.1
77

Buccaneer’s Girl is a 1950 American romantic adventure film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend and Robert Douglas. A New Orleans singer becomes involved…

The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow
IMDb: 6.9
88

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

Story of a Love Affair

Story of a Love Affair

Story of a Love Affair
IMDb: 7.1
102

Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Massimo Girotti). In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private…

Armored Car Robbery

Armored Car Robbery

Armored Car Robbery
IMDb: 7
67

The film tells the story of a well-planned robbery of an armored car when it stops at a sports stadium. Yet, the heist goes awry, and a tough Los Angeles…