Search results for "1956"
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
Miracle in the Rain

Miracle in the Rain

Miracle in the Rain
IMDb: 7.1
108

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Baby Doll

Baby Doll

Baby Doll
IMDb: 7.3
114

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie…

Genre: Drama
The Creature Walks Among Us

The Creature Walks Among Us

The Creature Walks Among Us
IMDb: 5.8
79

The third film in The “Creature From The Black Lagoon” franchise sees the Gill Man suspicious turned into an air-breather by a mad scientist.

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
TMDb: 10
30 min

Sons of the great detective Fenton Hardy, Frank and Joe are eager to impress their father with their mystery solving skills. When an opportunity comes to help prove the new…

Status: Ended
High Society

High Society

High Society
IMDb: 7
111

Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Catered Affair

The Catered Affair

The Catered Affair
IMDb: 7.5
92

At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me
IMDb: 7.5
113

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano’s rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Genre: Drama
The Girl He Left Behind

The Girl He Left Behind

The Girl He Left Behind
IMDb: 5.3
103

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler’s 1956 film stars ’50s teen favorites Tab…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Green Man

The Green Man

The Green Man
IMDb: 7.2
80

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a…

Genre: Comedy
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
IMDb: 6.4
81

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call ‘Godzilla’. The only hope…

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Solid Gold Cadillac
IMDb: 7.5
99

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon
IMDb: 6
90

For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he’s hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment — sneaking an…

Genre: Adventure
Patterns

Patterns

Patterns
IMDb: 7.9
83

A New York corporate boss grooms an Ohio engineer for the No. 2 man’s job.

Genre: Drama
The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones
IMDb: 7
94

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn’t enough, a…

Genre: Action, Western
The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man
IMDb: 7.4
106

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel “Manny” Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender
IMDb: 6.2
89

At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until…

The Searchers

The Searchers

The Searchers
IMDb: 7.9
119

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Genre: Western
Lust for Life

Lust for Life

Lust for Life
IMDb: 7.4
122

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo,…

Genre: Drama
The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall
IMDb: 7.6
109

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant,…

Genre: Drama
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
IMDb: 7.6
105

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He’s sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan’s most powerful clan leader. He’s also challenged to…

Rock Rock Rock!

Rock Rock Rock!

Rock Rock Rock!
IMDb: 5.3
85

A teenage girl, Dori Graham, can’t convince her dad to buy her a strapless gown so she decides to get the money together herself in time for the prom.

Genre: Music
The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp
IMDb: 8.1
116

In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Genre: Drama, Music, War
The Gamma People

The Gamma People

The Gamma People
IMDb: 5.3
79

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

Bus Stop

Bus Stop

Bus Stop
IMDb: 6.4
96

Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Attack

Attack

Attack
IMDb: 7.4
107

At the end of World War II, a National Guard infantry company must set up artillery observation posts in a strategic area. Lt. Costa (Jack Palance) knows that Capt. Cooney…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
War and Peace

War and Peace

War and Peace
IMDb: 6.8
208

Napoleon’s tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

7 Men from Now

7 Men from Now

7 Men from Now
IMDb: 7.4
78

Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife’s murderers.

The King and I

The King and I

The King and I
IMDb: 7.4
133

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a…

Flowing

Flowing

Flowing
IMDb: 7.6
117

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days…

Genre: Drama
Early Spring

Early Spring

Early Spring
IMDb: 7.8
144

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama
While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps
IMDb: 7
100

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed “The Lipstick Killer”

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Great Day in the Morning

Great Day in the Morning

Great Day in the Morning
IMDb: 6.4
92

After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women – one who came with the hotel, and one newly arrived…

Genre: Western
The Mountain

The Mountain

The Mountain
IMDb: 6.8
105

Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Street of Shame

Street of Shame

Street of Shame
IMDb: 7.8
87

The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.

Genre: Drama
The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep
IMDb: 6.1
82

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey…

The Killer Is Loose

The Killer Is Loose

The Killer Is Loose
IMDb: 6.6
73

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies teller Leon Poole as inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole’s young wife, and at his…

Genre: Drama, Thriller