Search results for "1956"
The Proud and Profane

The Proud and Profane

The Proud and Profane
IMDb: 6.1
111

In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her…

Genre: Drama, Romance
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
Back from Eternity

Back from Eternity

Back from Eternity
IMDb: 6.5
100

A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Insect to Injury

Insect to Injury

Insect to Injury
IMDb: 6.6
6

Popeye has just finished his house when a band of termites attacks.

Genre: Animation
Together

Together

Together
IMDb: 6.8
52

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London’s East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.

Genre: Drama
The Sword and the Dragon

The Sword and the Dragon

The Sword and the Dragon
IMDb: 5.7
91

Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic elixir that restores him to full…

Johnny, You’re Wanted

Johnny, You’re Wanted

Johnny, You’re Wanted
IMDb: 5.8
69

Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, but on returning…

Rock Around the Clock

Rock Around the Clock

Rock Around the Clock
IMDb: 6.1
77

A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes…

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
IMDb: 3.9
76

Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who…

Genre: Adventure, Horror
Sissi: The Young Empress

Sissi: The Young Empress

Sissi: The Young Empress
IMDb: 6.6
107

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Forty-First

The Forty-First

The Forty-First
IMDb: 7.5
88

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind
IMDb: 7.4
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
Not So Dusty

Not So Dusty

Not So Dusty
IMDb: 5.3
78

Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one of the dustmen pursues…

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
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
Three Maidens

Three Maidens

Three Maidens
IMDb: 8
100

Three sisters—Nunung (Chitra Dewi), Nana (Mieke Wijaya) and Nenny (Indriati Iskak)—are being raised by their grandmother (Fifi Young) in Jakarta after their mother’s death. Though the sisters’ father Sukandar (Hassan…

Genre: Drama, Music
Five Steps to Danger

Five Steps to Danger

Five Steps to Danger
IMDb: 6.3
81

Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?

Genre: Action, Thriller
Valley of Peace

Valley of Peace

Valley of Peace
IMDb: 7.6
82

When the planes bombed a Slovene town, a Slovene boy and a German girl set on a journey towards the valley, in which there is no war. On their way…

Genre: Drama, War
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
Battle Stations

Battle Stations

Battle Stations
IMDb: 6
81

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

Genre: Drama, War
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
IMDb: 7.4
81

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male…

Genre: Drama
Odongo

Odongo

Odongo
IMDb: 5.4
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
Behind the High Wall

Behind the High Wall

Behind the High Wall
IMDb: 6.3
85

A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang’s dough.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Sudden Rain

Sudden Rain

Sudden Rain
IMDb: 7.3
91

A husband and wife’s pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Hungry Soul, Part II

Hungry Soul, Part II

Hungry Soul, Part II
IMDb: 6.9
97

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow….

Genre: Drama, Romance
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment
IMDb: 6.6
107

A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders a pawnbroker to steal his…

Genre: Drama
World in My Corner

World in My Corner

World in My Corner
IMDb: 6.5
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
The Kreutzer Sonata

The Kreutzer Sonata

The Kreutzer Sonata
IMDb: 6.1
44

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the…

Genre: Drama
Donatella

Donatella

Donatella
IMDb: 6.4
96

Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman’s handbag containing valuables and…

Genre: Comedy
Assignment Redhead

Assignment Redhead

Assignment Redhead
IMDb: 4.6
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
The White Squaw

The White Squaw

The White Squaw
IMDb: 6.2
73

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

Genre: Western
Congo Crossing

Congo Crossing

Congo Crossing
IMDb: 5.3
85

Director Joseph Pevney’s 1956 jungle drama, set in Africa, stars Virginia Mayo, George Nader, Peter Lorre, Michael Pate, Kathryn Givney, Raymond Bailey and Rex Ingram.

Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan
IMDb: 7.1
112

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
The Scarlet Hour

The Scarlet Hour

The Scarlet Hour
IMDb: 6.9
95

An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.

Genre: Thriller
Fighting Trouble

Fighting Trouble

Fighting Trouble
IMDb: 5
61

An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.

The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch
IMDb: 5.9
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
The Red Balloon

The Red Balloon

The Red Balloon
IMDb: 8.1
34

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities…

Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male
IMDb: 7.5
113

In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the restaurateur André Chatelin, leads an uneventful life until the arrival from Marseille of Catherine, the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle. She…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
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
When Gangland Strikes

When Gangland Strikes

When Gangland Strikes
IMDb: 6.1
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