Search results for "1952"
Secret People

Secret People

Secret People
IMDb: 6.2
96

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Waiting Women

Waiting Women

Waiting Women
IMDb: 7
107

Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages….

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The World in His Arms

The World in His Arms

The World in His Arms
IMDb: 6.9
104

A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.

Come Back, Little Sheba

Come Back, Little Sheba

Come Back, Little Sheba
IMDb: 7.5
96

A mismatched couple’s marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.

Genre: Drama, Romance
My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel
IMDb: 7.1
98

A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.

Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear
IMDb: 7.5
110

Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson’s new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn’t look like a romantic leading man. On…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Ikiru

Ikiru

Ikiru
IMDb: 8.3
143

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his…

Genre: Drama
The Truth About Bebe Donge

The Truth About Bebe Donge

The Truth About Bebe Donge
IMDb: 6.8
110

François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married…

Genre: Drama
Stranger on the Prowl

Stranger on the Prowl

Stranger on the Prowl
IMDb: 6.6
90

A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects…

Genre: Drama
The White Sheik

The White Sheik

The White Sheik
IMDb: 7.2
83

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Road to Bali

Road to Bali

Road to Bali
IMDb: 6.5
91

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the…

Genre: Comedy
Don’t Bother to Knock

Don’t Bother to Knock

Don’t Bother to Knock
IMDb: 6.9
76

Jed, an airline pilot, is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell, a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realises…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
High Noon

High Noon

High Noon
IMDb: 8
85

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train….

Genre: Thriller, Western
Limelight

Limelight

Limelight
IMDb: 8.1
137

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Plymouth Adventure

Plymouth Adventure

Plymouth Adventure
IMDb: 6.3
105

The story of the voyage of the “Mayflower” in its historic voyage across the Atlantic to the New World. The passenger list includes John Alden and Priscilla Mullins among those…

A Portrait of Ga

A Portrait of Ga

A Portrait of Ga
IMDb: 6.3
4

The ‘Ga’ of the title refers to the film maker’s mother. The film gathers together this elderly lady’s everyday actions to offer an abstract insight into her life. Margaret Tait…

Genre: Documentary
Son of Ali Baba

Son of Ali Baba

Son of Ali Baba
IMDb: 5.9
75

In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a…

The Devil Makes Three

The Devil Makes Three

The Devil Makes Three
IMDb: 6.2
96

Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.

The Card

The Card

The Card
IMDb: 7.1
85

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some not quite so. If he can…

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet
IMDb: 7.4
82

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

Genre: Thriller
Bells of Atlantis

Bells of Atlantis

Bells of Atlantis
IMDb: 5.5
9

A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin provides dialogue from her novella “House…

Assignment: Paris

Assignment: Paris

Assignment: Paris
IMDb: 6.2
85

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Wide Boy

Wide Boy

Wide Boy
IMDb: 7.1
67

Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal (Sidney Tafler) in London.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Holly and the Ivy

The Holly and the Ivy

The Holly and the Ivy
IMDb: 7.7
83

An English clergyman’s neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

Genre: Drama
Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe
IMDb: 6.8
106

Sir Walter Scott’s classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

Francis Goes to West Point

Francis Goes to West Point

Francis Goes to West Point
IMDb: 6.4
81

Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.

Abstronic

Abstronic

Abstronic
IMDb: 6.9
6

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to classical music by the…

Genre: Animation
The Crimson Pirate

The Crimson Pirate

The Crimson Pirate
IMDb: 7.3
105

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A…

Monkey Business

Monkey Business

Monkey Business
IMDb: 7
97

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Big Sky

The Big Sky

The Big Sky
IMDb: 7
140

Kirk Douglas stars as the determined leader of a band of Tennessee fur trappers who set out to explore the uncharted Missouri river in 1830 and find them selves battling…

The Narrow Margin

The Narrow Margin

The Narrow Margin
IMDb: 7.7
71

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s widow on a tense train ride.

The Red Ball Express

The Red Ball Express

The Red Ball Express
IMDb: 6.4
83

August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton’s Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes…

Genre: Drama, War
Eight Iron Men

Eight Iron Men

Eight Iron Men
IMDb: 6.5
80

During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man’s…

Genre: Drama, War
Above and Beyond

Above and Beyond

Above and Beyond
IMDb: 6.9
122

The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers
IMDb: 6.9
109

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
5 Fingers

5 Fingers

5 Fingers
IMDb: 7.7
108

During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Lawless Breed

The Lawless Breed

The Lawless Breed
IMDb: 6.3
83

After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.

Genre: Action, Western
Here Come the Marines

Here Come the Marines

Here Come the Marines
IMDb: 6.2
66

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
IMDb: 7.1
88

When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.

Genre: Comedy
Scaramouche

Scaramouche

Scaramouche
IMDb: 7.5
115

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend’s murder.