Search results for "1956"
Zarak

Zarak

Zarak
IMDb: 5.5
99

A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man
IMDb: 7.4
105

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

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Weapon

The Weapon

The Weapon
IMDb: 6.2
78

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male
IMDb: 7.5
113

In the heart of Paris, a restaurateur’s mundane life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife’s daughter, who claims to be in need after her mother’s death. After marrying…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Three Brave Men

Three Brave Men

Three Brave Men
IMDb: 6.9
88

A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he’s fired for suspected Communist beliefs.

Genre: Drama
The She-Creature

The She-Creature

The She-Creature
IMDb: 3.8
77

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

On the Bowery

On the Bowery

On the Bowery
IMDb: 7.3
65

A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing,…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
IMDb: 6.6
115

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy,…

Genre: Drama, History, Horror
The Green Man

The Green Man

The Green Man
IMDb: 7.1
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, Crime
The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch
IMDb: 5.8
91

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy’s Hospital), where…

Genre: Drama
Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion
IMDb: 6.4
83

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
5 Steps to Danger

5 Steps to Danger

5 Steps to Danger
IMDb: 6.3
81

Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?

Genre: Action, Thriller
You Can’t Run Away from It

You Can’t Run Away from It

You Can’t Run Away from It
IMDb: 5.9
95

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
X the Unknown

X the Unknown

X the Unknown
IMDb: 6.1
81

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear…

Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind
IMDb: 7.3
99

Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an…

Genre: Drama, Romance
World in My Corner

World in My Corner

World in My Corner
IMDb: 6.3
82

A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea — “born in a dump, educated in an alley” — catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him…

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…

World Without End

World Without End

World Without End
IMDb: 5.8
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,…

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: Comedy, Crime
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
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 White Squaw

The White Squaw

The White Squaw
IMDb: 6
73

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

Genre: Western
The Werewolf

The Werewolf

The Werewolf
IMDb: 5.8
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
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
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.

The Violent Years

The Violent Years

The Violent Years
IMDb: 3.6
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
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
Uranium Boom

Uranium Boom

Uranium Boom
IMDb: 5.8
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: 4.8
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 singer.

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
La Traversée de Paris

La Traversée de Paris

La Traversée de Paris
IMDb: 7.3
80

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
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…

Genre: Drama, War
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
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: 5.4
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