Search results for "1955"
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
IMDb: 6.6
80

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman’s trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he…

Genre: Comedy
Apache Woman

Apache Woman

Apache Woman
IMDb: 4.9
69

A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of frontier attacks. Begins to suspect a set-up.

Genre: Western
The Littlest Outlaw

The Littlest Outlaw

The Littlest Outlaw
IMDb: 6.8
73

A little boy runs away with a star jumping horse after the horse is abused.

Genre: Drama, Family
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
IMDb: 7.7
103

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan’s greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge…

The Tall Men

The Tall Men

The Tall Men
IMDb: 6.1
122

Two brothers, Ben and Clint, join a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. While heading for Texas they save Nella from the Indians, and she decides to ride with them….

Genre: Western
The Violent Men

The Violent Men

The Violent Men
IMDb: 7.2
96

A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor’s crippled owner and the outfit’s…

Genre: Western
Lady and the Tramp

Lady and the Tramp

Lady and the Tramp
IMDb: 7.3
76

Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady’s home…

Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali
IMDb: 8.4
125

The film is a coming-of-age story of a young boy named Apu, and life in his small Indian village in the early years of the 20th century. Apu is born…

Genre: Drama
All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows
IMDb: 7.7
89

Predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott, is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener-landscaper Ron Kirby. Throwing conventional behavior to…

Genre: Drama, Romance
It Came from Beneath the Sea

It Came from Beneath the Sea

It Came from Beneath the Sea
IMDb: 5.9
79

A Giant Octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.

Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause
IMDb: 7.8
111

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching…

Genre: Drama
East of Eden

East of Eden

East of Eden
IMDb: 8.0
115

In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam….

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter
IMDb: 8.0
93

In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Diaboliques

Diaboliques

Diaboliques
IMDb: 8.1
116

In this classic of French suspense, the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, becomes the target of a murder plot hatched by an unlikely duo —…

Tarantula

Tarantula

Tarantula
IMDb: 6.5
80

A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town’s doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of…

The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment
IMDb: 6.7
82

Professor Bernard Quatermass is in charge of a rocket mission that has gone awry. They lose contact with the spaceship and have no idea how far into space it may…

Marty

Marty

Marty
IMDb: 7.7
90

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Trouble with Harry

The Trouble with Harry

The Trouble with Harry
IMDb: 7.1
99

Trouble erupts in a small, quiet New England town when a man’s body is found in the woods. The problem is that almost everyone in town thinks that they had…

A Journey to the Beginning of Time

A Journey to the Beginning of Time

A Journey to the Beginning of Time
IMDb: 7.5
93

Most classical sci-fi from K. Zeman. Four young boys visit a dinosaur exhibit at the New York city Museum of Natural History. They then row out onto Central Park Lake…

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers
IMDb: 7.8
91

A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two-room apartment in an old house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The group’s…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Man Without a Star

Man Without a Star

Man Without a Star
IMDb: 7.0
89

Man Without a Star is a 1955 western film starring Kirk Douglas as a wanderer who gets dragged into a range war. It was based on the novel of the…

Genre: Western
Oklahoma!

Oklahoma!

Oklahoma!
IMDb: 7.2
145

This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900’s, with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s…

Richard III

Richard III

Richard III
IMDb: 7.5
161

Shakespeare’s powerful tale of the wicked deformed king and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.

The Man from Laramie

The Man from Laramie

The Man from Laramie
IMDb: 7.4
104

Will Lockhart (James Stewart) becomes entangled in the happenings of Coronado, an isolated western town, after delivering supplies there. He is especially involved with the Waggomans, an influential ranching family,…

Genre: Western
Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday
IMDb: 6.9
90

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

Conquest of Space

Conquest of Space

Conquest of Space
IMDb: 5.8
81

A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain’s religious beliefs may get in the way.

Chief Crazy Horse

Chief Crazy Horse

Chief Crazy Horse
IMDb: 6.1
86

When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial…

The Man from Bitter Ridge

The Man from Bitter Ridge

The Man from Bitter Ridge
IMDb: 6.1
80

The Man from Bitter Ridge is a film directed by Jack Arnold. Jeff Carr, a special investigator, arrives in Tomahawk. His assignment is to discover who has been holding up…

Genre: Romance, Western
Run for Cover

Run for Cover

Run for Cover
IMDb: 6.7
93

Western that starts when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town’s sheriff shoots the kid he’s riding with, Dow clears his name and ends…

Genre: Action, Western
Revenge of the Creature

Revenge of the Creature

Revenge of the Creature
IMDb: 5.6
82

Men capture the creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.

Captain Lightfoot

Captain Lightfoot

Captain Lightfoot
IMDb: 6.4
92

A boggy swashbuckler of Irish freedom-fighter Michael Martin.

No Man’s Woman

No Man’s Woman

No Man’s Woman
IMDb: 6.3
70

A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead–among them a rich…

Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock
IMDb: 7.8
81

A stranger visits a tiny Western town determined to keep a horrible secret.

Pete Kelly’s Blues

Pete Kelly’s Blues

Pete Kelly’s Blues
IMDb: 6.5
95

In 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a speakeasy. A local gangster starts to move in on them and when their drummer is killed…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Eternal Sea

The Eternal Sea

The Eternal Sea
IMDb: 6.6
103

Biography of Admiral John Hoskins’ efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.

Genre: Biography, Drama, War
The Tender Trap

The Tender Trap

The Tender Trap
IMDb: 6.4
111

Charlie Reader is a successful theater agent. He is also successful with young ladies. One day he is visited by his old friend Joe, married with three children. Joe falls…

The Cockleshell Heroes

The Cockleshell Heroes

The Cockleshell Heroes
IMDb: 6.7
97

During WW2, German ships are “safely” docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs
IMDb: 6.7
126

Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire) has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, Julie Andre (Leslie Caron). He anonymously pays for her education…

It’s Always Fair Weather

It’s Always Fair Weather

It’s Always Fair Weather
IMDb: 7.1
102

Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they’ve…

The Court Jester

The Court Jester

The Court Jester
IMDb: 7.9
101

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

Blood Alley

Blood Alley

Blood Alley
IMDb: 6.4
110

A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, is “shanghaied” into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.

Land of the Pharaohs

Land of the Pharaohs

Land of the Pharaohs
IMDb: 6.7
105

In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the “second life.” To this end he enlists the aid…

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch
IMDb: 7.2
105

With his family away for their annual summer holiday, Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor’s life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
To Catch a Thief

To Catch a Thief

To Catch a Thief
IMDb: 7.5
106

To prevent being accused of the crimes, an ex-burglar must catch a thief who’s been copying his style.

The Kentuckian

The Kentuckian

The Kentuckian
IMDb: 6.3
104

A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin
IMDb: 7.6
93

Orson Welles’s “Mr. Arkadin” tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past. Welles missed the editing deadline, so the producer handed over…

The Left Hand of God

The Left Hand of God

The Left Hand of God
IMDb: 7.6
87

A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O’Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his…

Genre: Drama
Man with the Gun

Man with the Gun

Man with the Gun
IMDb: 6.6
83

A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared…

Genre: Western