Search results for "1956"
The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon
IMDb: 7
98

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 Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much
IMDb: 7.4
120

A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When…

The Killing

The Killing

The Killing
IMDb: 8
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, Drama, Thriller
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.

A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped
IMDb: 8.3
101

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

Gervaise

Gervaise

Gervaise
IMDb: 7.4
112

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Three Violent People

Three Violent People

Three Violent People
IMDb: 6.3
100

A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

Genre: Drama, Western
The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate
IMDb: 6.6
119

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing…

Genre: Drama, History, War
…And God Created Woman

…And God Created Woman

…And God Created Woman
IMDb: 6.3
95

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn’t dream of settling down with…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Searchers

The Searchers

The Searchers
IMDb: 7.9
119

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Genre: Western
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
The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall
IMDb: 7.5
109

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant,…

Genre: Drama
The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep
IMDb: 6
82

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey…

Early Spring

Early Spring

Early Spring
IMDb: 7.8
144

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama
X: The Unknown

X: The Unknown

X: The Unknown
IMDb: 6.1
81

When a fissure explosively opens in an English mud flat during a military exercise, injuring one soldier and killing another, an American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins…

Attack

Attack

Attack
IMDb: 7.4
107

Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney’s…

Genre: Drama, War
Bus Stop

Bus Stop

Bus Stop
IMDb: 6.4
96

Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Come Next Spring

Come Next Spring

Come Next Spring
IMDb: 7.1
92

Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help….

Genre: Drama
The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp
IMDb: 8
116

In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Genre: Drama, Music, War
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great
IMDb: 5.8
136

He was a fierce military commander who led huge armies into battle without a single defeat; a magnificent warrior who many believed was part god – this was Alexander the…

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…

The Price of Fear

The Price of Fear

The Price of Fear
IMDb: 6.2
79

A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn’t have at the track.

Genre: Crime, 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.

Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet
IMDb: 7.5
98

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship “Bellerophon,” a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome…

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
IMDb: 7.6
105

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He’s sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan’s most powerful clan leader. He’s also challenged to…

Rose Street

Rose Street

Rose Street
IMDb: 6.3
15

The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh’s Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.

Genre: Documentary
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…

Seven Wonders of the World

Seven Wonders of the World

Seven Wonders of the World
IMDb: 7.4
106

Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience to try to update…

A Hill in Korea

A Hill in Korea

A Hill in Korea
IMDb: 6.1
80

Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Bandido!

Bandido!

Bandido!
IMDb: 6.1
92

American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the “regulares” in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and…

Genre: Action, Western
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,…

Nightfall

Nightfall

Nightfall
IMDb: 7.2
78

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

Rumble on the Docks

Rumble on the Docks

Rumble on the Docks
IMDb: 5.6
82

A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old’s loyalty is torn between his parents’ old-fashion values and a local gangster’s flashy lifestyle.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
IMDb: 7.9
220

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his…

Genre: Drama, History
Spin a Dark Web

Spin a Dark Web

Spin a Dark Web
IMDb: 6.1
76

A boxer is lured into a murder plot by a scheming woman.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The March Hare

The March Hare

The March Hare
IMDb: 5.3
85

Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is ‘pulled’, and Sir Charles is forced to sell his…

Genre: Comedy
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France

Marie-Antoinette Queen of France

Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
IMDb: 6.2
120

While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how…

Genre: Drama, History
The Wormwood Star

The Wormwood Star

The Wormwood Star
IMDb: 5.9
10

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings and recitations of her poems.

Genre: Documentary
Run for the Sun

Run for the Sun

Run for the Sun
IMDb: 6.4
99

Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope…

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 (Gregory Peck) is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria (Marisa Pavan), which…

Genre: Drama