Search results for "1958"
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
Red Pier

Red Pier

Red Pier
IMDb: 6.9
99

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, “Jiro the Lefty”, a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for…

Genre: Action, Crime
Shadows

Shadows

Shadows
IMDb: 7.3
87

John Cassavetes’s directorial debut revolves around a romance in New York City between Lelia, a light- skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man. The relationship is put in jeopardy…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Run Silent, Run Deep

Run Silent, Run Deep

Run Silent, Run Deep
IMDb: 7.3
93

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded…

Genre: Drama, War
The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer
IMDb: 7.4
115

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman’s Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman’s Bend…

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember
IMDb: 7.9
123

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner’s second…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
IMDb: 7.1
115

British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue…

Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife
IMDb: 6.7
90

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an…

The Flower in Hell

The Flower in Hell

The Flower in Hell
IMDb: 6.2
87

A country bumpkin goes to Seoul in order to bring his older brother back to the country. Little does he know Young-shik is a petty crook involved with a prostitute…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Man of the West

Man of the West

Man of the West
IMDb: 7.1
100

Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is…