Search results for "1956"
Don’t Knock The Rock

Don’t Knock The Rock

Don’t Knock The Rock
IMDb: 5.7
84

Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor and other concerned adults have banned him from performing in his hometown because they…

Genre: Music
The Black Tent

The Black Tent

The Black Tent
IMDb: 5.5
93

During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief’s daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Giant

Giant

Giant
IMDb: 7.6
201

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is…

Genre: Drama, Western
The Benny Goodman Story

The Benny Goodman Story

The Benny Goodman Story
IMDb: 6.7
102

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by…

Genre: Drama, Music
The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed
IMDb: 7.4
129

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda — as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for…

Anything Goes

Anything Goes

Anything Goes
IMDb: 6
106

Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each ‘discovers’ the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises…

Genre: Comedy, Music
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
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
Baby Doll

Baby Doll

Baby Doll
IMDb: 7.3
114

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie…

Genre: Drama
The Creature Walks Among Us

The Creature Walks Among Us

The Creature Walks Among Us
IMDb: 5.6
79

Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on…

The Catered Affair

The Catered Affair

The Catered Affair
IMDb: 7.4
92

At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
High Society

High Society

High Society
IMDb: 6.9
111

Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me
IMDb: 7.5
113

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano’s rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Genre: Drama
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
The Girl He Left Behind

The Girl He Left Behind

The Girl He Left Behind
IMDb: 5.2
103

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler’s 1956 film stars ’50s teen favorites Tab…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
IMDb: 6.3
81

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call ‘Godzilla’. The only hope…

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Solid Gold Cadillac
IMDb: 7.4
99

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones
IMDb: 6.9
94

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn’t enough, a…

Genre: Action, Western
The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man
IMDb: 7.4
106

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

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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…

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: Adventure
The Tall T

The Tall T

The Tall T
IMDb: 7.3
78

Having lost his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan hitches a ride with a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, Willard and Doretta Mims. At the next station the coach and its passengers…

Genre: Thriller, Western
Patterns

Patterns

Patterns
IMDb: 7.7
83

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time…

Genre: 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: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Great Day in the Morning

Great Day in the Morning

Great Day in the Morning
IMDb: 6.4
92

After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women – one who came with the hotel, and one newly arrived…

Genre: Western
Bob le Flambeur

Bob le Flambeur

Bob le Flambeur
IMDb: 7.6
103

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling — and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob’s…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Gamma People

The Gamma People

The Gamma People
IMDb: 5.3
79

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

Rock Rock Rock!

Rock Rock Rock!

Rock Rock Rock!
IMDb: 5.1
85

A teenage girl, Dori Graham, can’t convince her dad to buy her a strapless gown so she decides to get the money together herself in time for the prom.

Genre: Music
Carousel

Carousel

Carousel
IMDb: 6.6
128

Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard…

Genre: Music, Romance
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 teller Leon Poole as inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole’s young wife, and at his…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
IMDb: 6.9
80

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
IMDb: 6.7
182

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short…

Hollywood or Bust

Hollywood or Bust

Hollywood or Bust
IMDb: 6.4
95

The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins…

Genre: Comedy
7 Men from Now

7 Men from Now

7 Men from Now
IMDb: 7.4
78

Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife’s murderers.

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 mothers trade in the late days…

Genre: Drama
Street of Shame

Street of Shame

Street of Shame
IMDb: 7.8
87

The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.

Genre: Drama
Anastasia

Anastasia

Anastasia
IMDb: 7
105

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While…

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
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
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…