Search results for "1958"
Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex
IMDb: 7.8
125

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
The Geisha Boy

The Geisha Boy

The Geisha Boy
IMDb: 6.5
98

Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

Genre: Comedy
Gunman’s Walk

Gunman’s Walk

Gunman’s Walk
IMDb: 7
97

Tab Hunter plays Ed Hackett, the son of gunslinger-turned-land baron Lee Hackett (Van Heflin) in this wide-screen western.

Genre: Western
The Quiet American

The Quiet American

The Quiet American
IMDb: 6.8
120

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman, but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for the girl’s attention. In retaliation, Fowler…

The Law and Jake Wade

The Law and Jake Wade

The Law and Jake Wade
IMDb: 6.8
86

Jake Wade breaks Cling Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it’s clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns…

Genre: Action, Western
The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress
IMDb: 8.1
139

Japanese peasants Matashichi and Tahei try and fail to make a profit from a tribal war. They find a man and woman whom they believe are simple tribe members hiding…

The Last of the Fast Guns

The Last of the Fast Guns

The Last of the Fast Guns
IMDb: 6.3
82

A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At…

Genre: Western
The Case Against Brooklyn

The Case Against Brooklyn

The Case Against Brooklyn
IMDb: 6.6
82

A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Ten North Frederick

Ten North Frederick

Ten North Frederick
IMDb: 6.8
102

A wealthy, aging businessman with political ambitions conducts an adulturous affair with his daughter’s roommate.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Marjorie Morningstar

Marjorie Morningstar

Marjorie Morningstar
IMDb: 6.2
128

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day
IMDb: 6.6
91

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his ‘typical day” consists…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The H-Man

The H-Man

The H-Man
IMDb: 6.1
87

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

I Bury the Living

I Bury the Living

I Bury the Living
IMDb: 6.3
76

A newly appointed cemetery chairman believes that, merely by inserting a black plot-marking pin into a wall-sized map of the cemetery, he can cause the deaths of that plot’s owner.

The Duke Wore Jeans

The Duke Wore Jeans

The Duke Wore Jeans
IMDb: 5.4
90

A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Along the Coast

Along the Coast

Along the Coast
IMDb: 7.3
26

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and…

Genre: Documentary
Separate Tables

Separate Tables

Separate Tables
IMDb: 7.4
100

Boarders at an English resort struggle with emotional problems.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Barbarian and the Geisha

The Barbarian and the Geisha

The Barbarian and the Geisha
IMDb: 5.7
105

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love…

Ambush at Cimarron Pass

Ambush at Cimarron Pass

Ambush at Cimarron Pass
IMDb: 5.3
73

A small Army patrol unit and a couple of former Confederates reluctantly throw in their lot together after being attacked by a band of Native Americans.

Genre: Action, War, Western
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
IMDb: 8
108

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Roots of Heaven

The Roots of Heaven

The Roots of Heaven
IMDb: 6.4
121

In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining “roots of Heaven.” At…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Terror in a Texas Town

Terror in a Texas Town

Terror in a Texas Town
IMDb: 6.8
80

Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede’s land might be…

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
IMDb: 6
103

The story centres around Jonathon Tibbs, the young son of a family of English gunsmiths. He travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals….

Genre: Comedy, Western
The Return of Dracula

The Return of Dracula

The Return of Dracula
IMDb: 5.7
77

After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man’s American cousins.

Genre: Horror
Hell’s Five Hours

Hell’s Five Hours

Hell’s Five Hours
IMDb: 5.8
73

The manager (Stephen McNally) of a rocket-fuel plant deals with a worker (Vic Morrow) threatening to blow himself up.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Colossus of New York

The Colossus of New York

The Colossus of New York
IMDb: 5.9
70

A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son’s brain in a large robot body, with unintended results…

The Last Day of Summer

The Last Day of Summer

The Last Day of Summer
IMDb: 6.9
66

A subtle, almost quasi-documentary tale of a confrontation between two lonely people — one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea
IMDb: 7
86

Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Ô saisons, ô châteaux

Ô saisons, ô châteaux

Ô saisons, ô châteaux
IMDb: 7
20

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.

Genre: Documentary
Weddings and Babies

Weddings and Babies

Weddings and Babies
IMDb: 6.6
78

A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he’s delaying their marriage deliberately.

Genre: Drama
Another Time, Another Place

Another Time, Another Place

Another Time, Another Place
IMDb: 5.8
91

In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Grip of the Strangler

Grip of the Strangler

Grip of the Strangler
IMDb: 6.3
78

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
The Bravados

The Bravados

The Bravados
IMDb: 7
98

Jim is a rancher and a widower, and he rides into Rio Arriba, where four men are awaiting execution. He wants to see the hanging, but the town has issued…

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
The Lineup

The Lineup

The Lineup
IMDb: 7.3
86

An international drug-smuggling racket plants heroin on unsuspecting American tourists traveling in Asia, so that the dope traffic can pass through customs undetected. Two psychopathic killers (Eli Wallach and Robert…

Murder by Contract

Murder by Contract

Murder by Contract
IMDb: 7.3
81

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!
IMDb: 7.4
120

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs
IMDb: 6.5
88

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can’t live with himself after he accidently kills…

Genre: Drama
Houseboat

Houseboat

Houseboat
IMDb: 6.6
110

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

Appalachian Spring

Appalachian Spring

Appalachian Spring
IMDb: 6.4
32

A filmed version of Aaron Copland’s most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.

Genre: Music
Revolt in the Big House

Revolt in the Big House

Revolt in the Big House
IMDb: 6.3
79

A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.

Genre: Crime
Onionhead

Onionhead

Onionhead
IMDb: 6
111

Follow-up to Andy Griffith’s big hit in “No Time for Sergeants” moves the action to the Coast Guard and WW II.

Genre: Comedy, Drama