Search results for "1956"
World Without End

World Without End

World Without End
IMDb: 5.8
N/A

A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his…

Genre: Drama
A Woman’s Devotion

A Woman’s Devotion

A Woman’s Devotion
IMDb: 5.8
88

An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the…

Who Done It?

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
IMDb: 5.6
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
The Wild Party

The Wild Party

The Wild Party
IMDb: 5.7
91

An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The White Squaw

The White Squaw

The White Squaw
IMDb: 5.9
73

A Swedish settler (David Brian) starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.

Genre: Western
While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps
IMDb: 6.9
100

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

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Werewolf

The Werewolf

The Werewolf
IMDb: 5.9
79

The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt…

When Gangland Strikes

When Gangland Strikes

When Gangland Strikes
IMDb: 5.9
70

In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him…

Genre: Crime
War and Peace

War and Peace

War and Peace
IMDb: 6.7
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.

Walk the Proud Land

Walk the Proud Land

Walk the Proud Land
IMDb: 6.6
88

Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow (Bancroft)…

Genre: Western
Walk Into Paradise

Walk Into Paradise

Walk Into Paradise
IMDb: 6.8
93

Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned ‘Shark-Eye’ Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major…

Genre: Adventure
Spring on Zarechnaya Street

Spring on Zarechnaya Street

Spring on Zarechnaya Street
IMDb: 7.4
96

An idealistic, sophisticated young woman meets a rough-around-the-edges, blue collar man and rejects him, only to find out later that they are destined for true love together, despite the fact…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Violent Years

The Violent Years

The Violent Years
IMDb: 3.5
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
Uranium Boom

Uranium Boom

Uranium Boom
IMDb: 5.7
67

Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town,…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Unguarded Moment

The Unguarded Moment

The Unguarded Moment
IMDb: 6.3
95

A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.

A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped
IMDb: 8.2
101

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

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Warning from Space

Warning from Space

Warning from Space
IMDb: 4.7
87

Large star shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien takes the form of a popular…

The Trip Across Paris

The Trip Across Paris

The Trip Across Paris
IMDb: 7.3
80

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Trapeze

Trapeze

Trapeze
IMDb: 6.8
105

A pair of men try to perform the dangerous “triple” in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy…

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice
IMDb: 7.2
117

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Toward the Unknown

Toward the Unknown

Toward the Unknown
IMDb: 6.5
115

Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed…

All the World’s Memory

All the World’s Memory

All the World’s Memory
IMDb: 7.7
21

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material,…

Genre: Documentary
A Touch of the Sun

A Touch of the Sun

A Touch of the Sun
IMDb: 5.5
80

A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.

Genre: Comedy
Totò Double or Nothing?

Totò Double or Nothing?

Totò Double or Nothing?
IMDb: 6.6
92

The penniless Duke decides to participate in “Lascia o raddoppia”, a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success…

Genre: Comedy
Three Violent People

Three Violent People

Three Violent People
IMDb: 6.3
100

A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

Genre: Drama, Western
Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat
IMDb: 5.3
84

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

Genre: Comedy
The Long Arm

The Long Arm

The Long Arm
IMDb: 7
96

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
There’s Always Tomorrow

There’s Always Tomorrow

There’s Always Tomorrow
IMDb: 7.4
84

When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Roof

The Roof

The Roof
IMDb: 7.4
97

Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect…

Genre: Drama
Tension at Table Rock

Tension at Table Rock

Tension at Table Rock
IMDb: 6.4
93

When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.

Genre: Western
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 Teahouse of the August Moon

The Teahouse of the August Moon

The Teahouse of the August Moon
IMDb: 6.7
123

An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.

Genre: Comedy
Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy
IMDb: 7.3
123

At a high school reunion, a middle-aged man recalls his boarding school days, when the only person who seemed to sympathize with him was his housemaster’s wife.

Genre: Drama
The Swan

The Swan

The Swan
IMDb: 6.4
112

Princess Beatrice’s days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stranger at My Door

Stranger at My Door

Stranger at My Door
IMDb: 6.6
85

Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay’s horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby…

Genre: Drama, Western
A Strange Adventure

A Strange Adventure

A Strange Adventure
IMDb: 5.6
70

A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Storm Center

Storm Center

Storm Center
IMDb: 6.6
85

Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She’s quickly labeled a Communist.

Genre: Drama
Stars in Your Eyes

Stars in Your Eyes

Stars in Your Eyes
IMDb: 5.5
97

A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Star in the Dust

Star in the Dust

Star in the Dust
IMDb: 6
80

The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won’t…

Genre: Western
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, Romance