Search results for "1956"
Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion
IMDb: 7.3
137

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It’s not easy for them to meet the rules…

Genre: Drama, War, Western
Pillars of the Sky

Pillars of the Sky

Pillars of the Sky
IMDb: 6.2
95

First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.

Genre: Western
Julie

Julie

Julie
IMDb: 6.1
99

A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.

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
I Will Buy You

I Will Buy You

I Will Buy You
IMDb: 7
111

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Genre: Drama
Santiago

Santiago

Santiago
IMDb: 6
93

Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for…

Genre: Action, Adventure
The Thick-Walled Room

The Thick-Walled Room

The Thick-Walled Room
IMDb: 7.1
110

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

Genre: Drama
The Broken Star

The Broken Star

The Broken Star
IMDb: 5.8
82

A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican’s murder.

Genre: Romance, Western
Canyon River

Canyon River

Canyon River
IMDb: 6
79

A rancher’s (George Montgomery) foreman (Peter Graves) schemes against him on a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming.

Genre: Western
Aparajito

Aparajito

Aparajito
IMDb: 8.3
110

Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then…

Genre: Drama
7th Cavalry

7th Cavalry

7th Cavalry
IMDb: 5.8
75

An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers’s body after Little Big Horn.

Genre: Western
Beyond Mombasa

Beyond Mombasa

Beyond Mombasa
IMDb: 5.7
90

An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

Genre: Action, Adventure
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 Trip Across Paris

The Trip Across Paris

The Trip Across Paris
IMDb: 7.3
80

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

Genre: Comedy
Stars in Your Eyes

Stars in Your Eyes

Stars in Your Eyes
IMDb: 5.6
97

A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Serenade

Serenade

Serenade
IMDb: 5.8
121

A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Totò Double or Nothing?

Totò Double or Nothing?

Totò Double or Nothing?
IMDb: 6.6
92

The penniless Duke decides to participate in “Lascia o raddoppia”, a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success…

Genre: Comedy
Sunset in Naples

Sunset in Naples

Sunset in Naples
IMDb: 6
94

Two young men try to make it big as musicians.

Genre: Comedy, Music
It’s Never Too Late

It’s Never Too Late

It’s Never Too Late
IMDb: 6
N/A

When a sedate wife and mother decides her family takes her for granted, she pens a movie script — and it becomes a hit film. Suddenly faced with instant celebrity,…

The Monte Carlo Story

The Monte Carlo Story

The Monte Carlo Story
IMDb: 5.7
96

Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino (Vittorio De Sica) and Maria (Marlene Dietrich) pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold diggers…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Zarak

Zarak

Zarak
IMDb: 5.5
99

A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.

Crazed Fruit

Crazed Fruit

Crazed Fruit
IMDb: 7.3
86

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker
IMDb: 6.9
121

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can’t make up for the fact that she’s just…

Spring on Zarechnaya Street

Spring on Zarechnaya Street

Spring on Zarechnaya Street
IMDb: 7.4
96

An idealistic, sophisticated young woman meets a rough-around-the-edges, blue collar man and rejects him, only to find out later that they are destined for true love together, despite the fact…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Death in the Garden

Death in the Garden

Death in the Garden
IMDb: 6.8
104

Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives – a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Railroad Man

The Railroad Man

The Railroad Man
IMDb: 7.7
115

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes….

Genre: Drama
23 Paces to Baker Street

23 Paces to Baker Street

23 Paces to Baker Street
IMDb: 6.9
103

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no…

The She-Creature

The She-Creature

The She-Creature
IMDb: 3.7
77

A mysterious hypnotist (Chester Morris) reverts his beautiful assistant (Marla English) back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

My Uncle Jacinto

My Uncle Jacinto

My Uncle Jacinto
IMDb: 7.2
90

Jacinto, a former bullfighter who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding he, as agreed a few days before, he should go to a bullfight to be…

Genre: Drama
The Great American Pastime

The Great American Pastime

The Great American Pastime
IMDb: 5.6
90

Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.

Genre: Comedy
My Teenage Daughter

My Teenage Daughter

My Teenage Daughter
IMDb: 5.7
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
A Strange Adventure

A Strange Adventure

A Strange Adventure
IMDb: 5.6
70

A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
IMDb: 6.6
81

Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink (“King of the River”) in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle…

Hilda Crane

Hilda Crane

Hilda Crane
IMDb: 6.4
87

After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.

Genre: Drama
D-Day the Sixth of June

D-Day the Sixth of June

D-Day the Sixth of June
IMDb: 6
106

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Revolt of Mamie Stover

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

The Revolt of Mamie Stover
IMDb: 6.4
92

In 1941, prostitute Mamie Stover (Jane Russell) has no choice but to flee San Francisco when the police turn on her and want her out of town. Figuring Hawaii would…

Genre: Drama
The Last Hunt

The Last Hunt

The Last Hunt
IMDb: 6.9
108

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

Genre: Western
Gunslinger

Gunslinger

Gunslinger
IMDb: 3.7
71

After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.

Rebel in Town

Rebel in Town

Rebel in Town
IMDb: 6.7
78

Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious “click,” Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing…

Genre: Western
Bhowani Junction

Bhowani Junction

Bhowani Junction
IMDb: 6.4
110

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.