Search results for "1956"
Crime Against Joe

Crime Against Joe

Crime Against Joe
IMDb: 5.8
70

Down-and-out artist Joe Manning (John Bromfield) wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he’s being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Accused of Murder

Accused of Murder

Accused of Murder
IMDb: 5.5
74

The story tells of nightclub singer Vera Ralston, who is accused of murder; and it looks like she’s guilty as she was the last person to see crooked attorney Hobart…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Over-Exposed

Over-Exposed

Over-Exposed
IMDb: 6.1
80

This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of “B” films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie…

Genre: Drama
A Cry in the Night

A Cry in the Night

A Cry in the Night
IMDb: 6.1
75

A police captain’s emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.

Genre: Drama
A Woman’s Devotion

A Woman’s Devotion

A Woman’s Devotion
IMDb: 6
88

An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
All the World’s Memory

All the World’s Memory

All the World’s Memory
IMDb: 7.7
21

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material,…

Genre: Documentary
Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff
IMDb: 6.6
16

The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio…

Genre: Comedy
Merry-Go-Round

Merry-Go-Round

Merry-Go-Round
IMDb: 7.7
92

In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Don Juan

Don Juan

Don Juan
IMDb: 6.1
93

Don Juan is arrested during one of his raids loving, just as he intended to seduce the daughter of the Governor, who was about to marry. His faithful servant, too…

The Country I Come From

The Country I Come From

The Country I Come From
IMDb: 6
94

One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love…

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
The Power and the Prize

The Power and the Prize

The Power and the Prize
IMDb: 6.1
98

An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.

Genre: Drama
The Bitter Stems

The Bitter Stems

The Bitter Stems
IMDb: 7.6
88

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Foreign Intrigue

Foreign Intrigue

Foreign Intrigue
IMDb: 6
95

Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer’s life. Surprisingly, not even his…

Night and Fog

Night and Fog

Night and Fog
IMDb: 8.6
32

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler’s concentration camps.

Elena and Her Men

Elena and Her Men

Elena and Her Men
IMDb: 6.3
95

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
It’s Great to be Young!

It’s Great to be Young!

It’s Great to be Young!
IMDb: 6.5
94

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle…

Genre: Comedy, Music
That Naughty Girl

That Naughty Girl

That Naughty Girl
IMDb: 5.8
86

Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the ‘baby’ he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
On the Bowery

On the Bowery

On the Bowery
IMDb: 7.4
65

A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing,…

Genre: Documentary
The Intruder

The Intruder

The Intruder
IMDb: 5.7
100

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters her…

Genre: Drama
Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy
IMDb: 6.1
118

Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal…

Showdown at Abilene

Showdown at Abilene

Showdown at Abilene
IMDb: 6.1
80

Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged…

Genre: Western
Season of the Sun

Season of the Sun

Season of the Sun
IMDb: 6.5
89

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend…

House of Secrets

House of Secrets

House of Secrets
IMDb: 6.1
97

Police in Paris recruit an English ship’s officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Stranger at My Door

Stranger at My Door

Stranger at My Door
IMDb: 6.6
85

Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay’s horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby…

Reprisal!

Reprisal!

Reprisal!
IMDb: 6.6
74

New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There…

Genre: Western
Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat
IMDb: 5.5
84

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

Genre: Comedy
Everything But the Truth

Everything But the Truth

Everything But the Truth
IMDb: 6.2
83

Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison.

Genre: Comedy
The Cruel Tower

The Cruel Tower

The Cruel Tower
IMDb: 5.9
79

The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.

Genre: Drama
Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy
IMDb: 7.3
122

Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom’s school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him…

Genre: Drama
Shake, Rattle and Rock!

Shake, Rattle and Rock!

Shake, Rattle and Rock!
IMDb: 5.6
83

A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock ‘n’ roll palace for teens.

Genre: Music
Gunslinger

Gunslinger

Gunslinger
IMDb: 3.6
71

After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.

Rebel in Town

Rebel in Town

Rebel in Town
IMDb: 6.7
78

Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious “click,” Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing…

Genre: Western
Bhowani Junction

Bhowani Junction

Bhowani Junction
IMDb: 6.4
110

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind
IMDb: 7.4
99

Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jared, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Black Tent

The Black Tent

The Black Tent
IMDb: 5.4
93

The Black Tent is a 1956 British war film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, André Morell and Donald Pleasence. It is…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Giant

Giant

Giant
IMDb: 7.6
N/A

A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.

The Benny Goodman Story

The Benny Goodman Story

The Benny Goodman Story
IMDb: 6.7
102

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by…

Genre: Drama, Music
The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed
IMDb: 7.5
129

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda — as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for…

Anything Goes

Anything Goes

Anything Goes
IMDb: 6.1
106

Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each ‘discovers’ the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Who Done It?

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
IMDb: 5.7
85

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a…

Genre: Action, Comedy