Search results for "1955"
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
IMDb: 7.4
103

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan’s greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge…

I Live in Fear

I Live in Fear

I Live in Fear
IMDb: 7.3
103

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to…

Genre: Drama
Dementia

Dementia

Dementia
IMDb: 6.8
56

Shot entirely without dialogue and filled with suggestive violence and psycho-sexual imagery, it’s like a skid row expressionist thriller following the nocturnal prowling of a young woman haunted by homicidal…

Genre: Crime, Horror
A Kid for Two Farthings

A Kid for Two Farthings

A Kid for Two Farthings
IMDb: 6.5
96

Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Female on the Beach

Female on the Beach

Female on the Beach
IMDb: 6.3
97

Lynn Markham moves into her late husband’s beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent…

Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause
IMDb: 7.7
111

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching…

Genre: Drama
Man Without a Star

Man Without a Star

Man Without a Star
IMDb: 6.9
89

Man Without a Star is a 1955 western film starring Kirk Douglas as a wanderer who gets dragged into a range war. It was based on the novel of the…

Genre: Western
The Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier
IMDb: 8
181

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next…

Genre: Drama, War
The Court Jester

The Court Jester

The Court Jester
IMDb: 7.9
101

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs
IMDb: 6.7
126

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old residen, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Diabolique

Diabolique

Diabolique
IMDb: 8.1
117

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo — his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become…

The Kentuckian

The Kentuckian

The Kentuckian
IMDb: 6.3
104

A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.

Genre: Western
The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story
IMDb: 7
94

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an “escape-proof” German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

Genre: Drama, War
The Big Combo

The Big Combo

The Big Combo
IMDb: 7.4
84

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster’s girlfriend.

Untamed

Untamed

Untamed
IMDb: 6.1
111

When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O’Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised…

Smiles of a Summer Night

Smiles of a Summer Night

Smiles of a Summer Night
IMDb: 7.8
109

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik’s son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock
IMDb: 7.7
81

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and…

Genre: Thriller, Western
Chief Crazy Horse

Chief Crazy Horse

Chief Crazy Horse
IMDb: 6.2
86

When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial…

Genre: Western
Artists and Models

Artists and Models

Artists and Models
IMDb: 6.6
109

Eugene and Rick are two struggling artists who share apartment. However, Rick has problems with that, because Eugene is obsessed with pulp fiction comic books and has nightmares because of…

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Violent Men

The Violent Men

The Violent Men
IMDb: 7
96

A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor’s crippled owner and the outfit’s…

Genre: Western
Marty

Marty

Marty
IMDb: 7.7
90

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married…

Genre: Drama, Romance
To Catch a Thief

To Catch a Thief

To Catch a Thief
IMDb: 7.4
107

An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.

Ordet

Ordet

Ordet
IMDb: 8.3
125

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father’s religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle…

Genre: Drama
This Island Earth

This Island Earth

This Island Earth
IMDb: 5.9
87

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

Count Three and Pray

Count Three and Pray

Count Three and Pray
IMDb: 6.4
102

A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

Genre: Drama, Western
The Night My Number Came Up

The Night My Number Came Up

The Night My Number Came Up
IMDb: 7.1
94

At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a…

The Dam Busters

The Dam Busters

The Dam Busters
IMDb: 7.4
124

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron ‘The…

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
IMDb: 6.2
6

A film interpretation of the poem ‘The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Margaret Tait speaks the poem throughout the film.

Genre: Documentary
Pete Kelly’s Blues

Pete Kelly’s Blues

Pete Kelly’s Blues
IMDb: 6.4
95

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Pearl of the South Pacific

Pearl of the South Pacific

Pearl of the South Pacific
IMDb: 5.5
86

Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but…

Genre: Adventure
East of Eden

East of Eden

East of Eden
IMDb: 7.9
115

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Cell 2455 Death Row

Cell 2455 Death Row

Cell 2455 Death Row
IMDb: 6.4
77

A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Crooked Web

The Crooked Web

The Crooked Web
IMDb: 6
77

Undercover agents investigate a murderer in Chicago.

Genre: Crime
Interrupted Melody

Interrupted Melody

Interrupted Melody
IMDb: 6.7
106

Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s…

Genre: Drama, Music
Contraband Spain

Contraband Spain

Contraband Spain
IMDb: 5.3
82

An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.

Genre: Crime, Drama
5 Against the House

5 Against the House

5 Against the House
IMDb: 5.9
84

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

Conquest of Space

Conquest of Space

Conquest of Space
IMDb: 5.7
81

A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain’s religious beliefs may get in the way.

Miss Tulip Stays the Night

Miss Tulip Stays the Night

Miss Tulip Stays the Night
IMDb: 5.6
68

Gorgeous Kate Dax (Diana Dors) and her crime-writer husband, Andrew (Patrick Holt), investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip (Cicely Courtneidge) at a remote country cottage.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
New Orleans Uncensored

New Orleans Uncensored

New Orleans Uncensored
IMDb: 5.9
76

William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dial Red O

Dial Red O

Dial Red O
IMDb: 6.7
63

The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff’s department, Dial Red “O” (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery