Search results for "1956"
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
IMDb: 6.9
80

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped
IMDb: 8.3
101

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
The Mystery of Picasso

The Mystery of Picasso

The Mystery of Picasso
IMDb: 7.6
78

Using a specially designed transparent ‘canvas’ to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush…

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great
IMDb: 5.8
136

He was a fierce military commander who led huge armies into battle without a single defeat; a magnificent warrior who many believed was part god – this was Alexander the…

The Price of Fear

The Price of Fear

The Price of Fear
IMDb: 6.3
79

A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn’t have at the track.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Hollywood or Bust

Hollywood or Bust

Hollywood or Bust
IMDb: 6.5
N/A

The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins…

Genre: Comedy
Carousel

Carousel

Carousel
IMDb: 6.6
128

Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard…

Genre: Music, Romance
Anastasia

Anastasia

Anastasia
IMDb: 7.1
105

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While…

The Mole People

The Mole People

The Mole People
IMDb: 5
77

A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.

Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet
IMDb: 7.6
98

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship “Bellerophon,” a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome…

Gervaise

Gervaise

Gervaise
IMDb: 7.4
112

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Violent Years

The Violent Years

The Violent Years
IMDb: 3.4
57

A newspaper publisher’s daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bob le Flambeur

Bob le Flambeur

Bob le Flambeur
IMDb: 7.7
103

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling — and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob’s…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon
IMDb: 7
98

When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived…

Genre: Western
The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much
IMDb: 7.4
120

A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When…

The Killing

The Killing

The Killing
IMDb: 8
85

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
…And God Created Woman

…And God Created Woman

…And God Created Woman
IMDb: 6.3
95

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn’t dream of settling down with…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
IMDb: 6.8
175

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short…

Three Violent People

Three Violent People

Three Violent People
IMDb: 6.3
100

A rancher (Charlton Heston), his shady bride (Anne Baxter) and his one-armed brother (Tom Tryon) fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

Genre: Drama, Western
The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate
IMDb: 6.6
119

In the opening years of World War II the Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open and the British Isles supplied. Of great…

Come Next Spring

Come Next Spring

Come Next Spring
IMDb: 7.1
92

Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help….

Genre: Drama
X: The Unknown

X: The Unknown

X: The Unknown
IMDb: 6.2
81

When a fissure explosively opens in an English mud flat during a military exercise there, injuring one soldier and killing another, an American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant…

Rose Street

Rose Street

Rose Street
IMDb: 6.2
15

The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh’s Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.

Genre: Documentary
Toward the Unknown

Toward the Unknown

Toward the Unknown
IMDb: 6.5
115

The story of a US Air Force major who was captured during the Korean War, and cracked signing a confession. After his release he ultimately arrives at Edwards Air Force…

Seven Wonders of the World

Seven Wonders of the World

Seven Wonders of the World
IMDb: 7.4
106

Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience to try to update…

A Hill in Korea

A Hill in Korea

A Hill in Korea
IMDb: 6.2
80

Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Bandido!

Bandido!

Bandido!
IMDb: 6.2
92

American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the “regulares” in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and…

Genre: Action, Western
World Without End

World Without End

World Without End
IMDb: 5.9
80

Four astronauts returning from man’s first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are,…

Spin a Dark Web

Spin a Dark Web

Spin a Dark Web
IMDb: 6.1
76

A boxer is lured into a murder plot by a scheming woman.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Rumble on the Docks

Rumble on the Docks

Rumble on the Docks
IMDb: 5.6
82

A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old’s loyalty is torn between his parents’ old-fashion values and a local gangster’s flashy lifestyle.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Nightfall

Nightfall

Nightfall
IMDb: 7.2
78

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
IMDb: 7.9
220

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his…

Genre: Drama, History
The March Hare

The March Hare

The March Hare
IMDb: 5.3
85

Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is ‘pulled’, and Sir Charles is forced to sell his…

Genre: Comedy
The Girl Can’t Help It

The Girl Can’t Help It

The Girl Can’t Help It
IMDb: 6.8
99

A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do when he finds…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France

Marie-Antoinette Queen of France

Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
IMDb: 6.2
120

While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how…

Genre: Drama, History
The Wormwood Star

The Wormwood Star

The Wormwood Star
IMDb: 6
10

Documentary on occultist Marjorie Cameron.

Genre: Documentary
Run for the Sun

Run for the Sun

Run for the Sun
IMDb: 6.4
99

Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope…

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
IMDb: 7.1
153

Tom Rath (Gregory Peck) is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria (Marisa Pavan), which…

Genre: Drama
Woodpecker from Mars

Woodpecker from Mars

Woodpecker from Mars
IMDb: 6.3
6

Woody Woodpecker is a guest at a television show and walks off with a space helmet and a space gun as souvenirs. He pretends to be a man from Mars,…

Genre: Animation
The Rawhide Years

The Rawhide Years

The Rawhide Years
IMDb: 6.3
85

Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena’s leading citizen is murdered on…

Genre: Western