Search results for "1952"
La Villa Santo-Sospir

La Villa Santo-Sospir

La Villa Santo-Sospir
IMDb: 6.4
36

Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend’s villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly…

Genre: Documentary
The Golden Coach

The Golden Coach

The Golden Coach
IMDb: 7
105

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 16th-century Peru.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Angels One Five

Angels One Five

Angels One Five
IMDb: 6.4
98

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain….

Genre: Drama, War
The White Reindeer

The White Reindeer

The White Reindeer
IMDb: 7
68

Pirita and Aslak are newly married. However, Aslak is a shepherd and his work takes him away from home for long periods of time, leaving his wife lonely and heartbroken….

Genre: Fantasy, Horror
The World in His Arms

The World in His Arms

The World in His Arms
IMDb: 6.8
104

A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.

Ikiru

Ikiru

Ikiru
IMDb: 8.3
N/A

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name,…

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
IMDb: 7.7
115

Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country. After a crisis, she understands better…

Genre: Drama
Europe ’51

Europe ’51

Europe ’51
IMDb: 7.4
118

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is tacked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life,…

Genre: Drama
My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel
IMDb: 7.1
98

A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.

The Truth About Bebe Donge

The Truth About Bebe Donge

The Truth About Bebe Donge
IMDb: 6.8
110

François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married…

Genre: Drama
Waiting Women

Waiting Women

Waiting Women
IMDb: 7
107

Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages….

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge
IMDb: 7
119

Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Genre: Drama, Music
Road to Bali

Road to Bali

Road to Bali
IMDb: 6.4
91

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the…

Genre: Comedy
Don’t Bother to Knock

Don’t Bother to Knock

Don’t Bother to Knock
IMDb: 6.8
76

Jed, an airline pilot, is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell, a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realises…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Limelight

Limelight

Limelight
IMDb: 8
137

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man
IMDb: 7.7
129

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The White Sheik

The White Sheik

The White Sheik
IMDb: 7.2
83

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Secret People

Secret People

Secret People
IMDb: 6.2
96

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential
IMDb: 7.3
99

A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he’s finally released for lack of evidence–after having been beaten up and tortured by the police–he sets out…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear
IMDb: 7.5
110

Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson’s new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn’t look like a romantic leading man. On…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
High Noon

High Noon

High Noon
IMDb: 8
85

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train….

Genre: Thriller, Western
Come Back, Little Sheba

Come Back, Little Sheba

Come Back, Little Sheba
IMDb: 7.5
96

A mismatched couple’s marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk
IMDb: 5.8
78

A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans.

Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata!
IMDb: 7.3
113

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Genre: History, Western
Plymouth Adventure

Plymouth Adventure

Plymouth Adventure
IMDb: 6.2
105

During the Mayflower pilgrims’ long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford’s wife Dorothy.

The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful
IMDb: 7.8
118

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Duel at Silver Creek

The Duel at Silver Creek

The Duel at Silver Creek
IMDb: 6.3
77

A gang of claim jumpers is infesting the territory, gaining ownership of undermanned mining operations through extortion…and leaving no live witnesses. But one victim, quick-drawing gambler Luke Cromwell, escapes. Meanwhille,…

Genre: Western
A Portrait of Ga

A Portrait of Ga

A Portrait of Ga
IMDb: 6.3
4

The ‘Ga’ of the title refers to the film maker’s mother. The film gathers together this elderly lady’s everyday actions to offer an abstract insight into her life. Margaret Tait…

Genre: Documentary
Son of Ali Baba

Son of Ali Baba

Son of Ali Baba
IMDb: 5.7
75

In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a…

The Devil Makes Three

The Devil Makes Three

The Devil Makes Three
IMDb: 6.2
96

Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.

The Card

The Card

The Card
IMDb: 7.1
85

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some not quite so. If he can…

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet
IMDb: 7.4
82

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

Genre: Thriller
Wide Boy

Wide Boy

Wide Boy
IMDb: 6.9
67

Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal (Sidney Tafler) in London.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Holly and the Ivy

The Holly and the Ivy

The Holly and the Ivy
IMDb: 7.3
83

An English clergyman’s neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

Genre: Drama
Assignment: Paris

Assignment: Paris

Assignment: Paris
IMDb: 6.1
85

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Bells of Atlantis

Bells of Atlantis

Bells of Atlantis
IMDb: 5.5
9

A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin provides dialogue from her novella “House…

The Crimson Pirate

The Crimson Pirate

The Crimson Pirate
IMDb: 7.1
105

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A…

Monkey Business

Monkey Business

Monkey Business
IMDb: 6.9
97

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Big Sky

The Big Sky

The Big Sky
IMDb: 6.9
140

Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is…

The Narrow Margin

The Narrow Margin

The Narrow Margin
IMDb: 7.7
71

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s widow on a tense train ride.