Search results for "1956"
The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex
IMDb: 6.1
116

Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Outside the Law

Outside the Law

Outside the Law
IMDb: 6.3
81

A government agent’s son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan
IMDb: 6.7
111

Ichikawa’s 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Odongo

Odongo

Odongo
IMDb: 5.3
85

Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) is a hardboiled hunter who catches and keeps wild animals in an African sanctuary in order to sell them to zoos and circuses. When he hires…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Nightfall

Nightfall

Nightfall
IMDb: 7.1
78

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

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Nightmare

Nightmare

Nightmare
IMDb: 6.4
89

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream,…

Genre: Crime
Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye
IMDb: 6.1
96

In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his “dead” wife’s now boyfriend, berates…

Genre: Drama, Romance
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…

Genre: Documentary
Flowing

Flowing

Flowing
IMDb: 7.5
117

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her mother’s trade in the late days…

Genre: Drama
My Teenage Daughter

My Teenage Daughter

My Teenage Daughter
IMDb: 5.6
100

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing…

Genre: Drama
The Mountain

The Mountain

The Mountain
IMDb: 6.8
105

Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Death in the Garden

Death in the Garden

Death in the Garden
IMDb: 6.7
105

In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
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.

The Monte Carlo Story

The Monte Carlo Story

The Monte Carlo Story
IMDb: 5.7
102

Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold diggers to turn their attention to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Miracle in the Rain

Miracle in the Rain

Miracle in the Rain
IMDb: 7.1
108

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Moby Dick
IMDb: 7.3
116

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Assignment Redhead

Assignment Redhead

Assignment Redhead
IMDb: 4.7
79

An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Uncle Hyacynth

Uncle Hyacynth

Uncle Hyacynth
IMDb: 7.3
87

Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must participate in a bullfight to…

Genre: Drama
Meet Me in Las Vegas

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Meet Me in Las Vegas
IMDb: 6.1
112

Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he’s lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn’t like to hold hands with…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Her Bridal Night

Her Bridal Night

Her Bridal Night
IMDb: 5.7
95

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Massacre

Massacre

Massacre
IMDb: 5.6
75

Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.

Genre: Western
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 is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate…

Genre: Drama
Man from Del Rio

Man from Del Rio

Man from Del Rio
IMDb: 6.4
82

Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town’s outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man’s shoes. But a tin star doesn’t bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by…

Genre: Western
The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was
IMDb: 7.4
103

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted…

Man Beast

Man Beast

Man Beast
IMDb: 4.2
62

Connie Hayward mounts an expedition into the Himalayan Mountains looking for her brother, who has not returned from a previous trek trying to locate the Yeti, or “Abominable Snowman”. Arriving…

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much
IMDb: 7.4
120

A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Magic Fire

Magic Fire

Magic Fire
IMDb: 5.9
95

Director William Dieterle’s 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.

Lovers and Lollipops

Lovers and Lollipops

Lovers and Lollipops
IMDb: 7
82

Ann, an attractive widowed New York model, lives in an apartment with her daughter Peggy. The courtship of Ann by visiting engineer Larry, and accompanying misadventures, are seen alternately from…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Lust for Life

Lust for Life

Lust for Life
IMDb: 7.3
122

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo,…

Genre: Drama, History
Loser Takes All

Loser Takes All

Loser Takes All
IMDb: 5
88

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed…

Genre: Comedy
Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender
IMDb: 6.2
89

At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until…

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
IMDb: 5.8
99

TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life with a young wife, Katy. A letter from the war department arrives that Katy…

Genre: Comedy
Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon
IMDb: 5.9
90

For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he’s hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment — sneaking an…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Last Hunt

The Last Hunt

The Last Hunt
IMDb: 6.8
108

A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.

Genre: Western
The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon
IMDb: 7
99

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 King and I

The King and I

The King and I
IMDb: 7.4
133

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a…

A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying
IMDb: 6.7
94

A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The King and Four Queens

The King and Four Queens

The King and Four Queens
IMDb: 6.1
86

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

The Killing

The Killing

The Killing
IMDb: 7.9
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, Thriller
The Killer Is Loose

The Killer Is Loose

The Killer Is Loose
IMDb: 6.6
73

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole’s young wife, and…

Genre: Crime, Thriller