Search results for "1955"
Stranger on Horseback

Stranger on Horseback

Stranger on Horseback
IMDb: 6.6
66

A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer’s rich cattle baron father in the process.

Genre: Western
The Looters

The Looters

The Looters
IMDb: 6
87

A rescue team is dispatched to look for the survivors of a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies. They find the survivors–and also find $250,000 in cash among the debris.

Genre: Adventure
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
IMDb: 7.6
89

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it –…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Timeslip

Timeslip

Timeslip
IMDb: 5.6
93

An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead…

Rage at Dawn

Rage at Dawn

Rage at Dawn
IMDb: 5.9
87

In this film’s version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who…

Genre: Action, Western
Sissi

Sissi

Sissi
IMDb: 7
102

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph,…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
TMDb: 5.75
30 min

Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.

Status: Ended
Genre: Western
This is Your Life (UK)

This is Your Life (UK)

This is Your Life (UK)
TMDb: 6.3
30 min

This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same name. It was hosted by Eamonn Andrews from 1955 until 1964,…

Status: Canceled
Genre: Documentary
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
IMDb: 6.2
6

A film interpretation of the poem ‘The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Margaret Tait speaks the poem throughout the film.

The Green Music Box

The Green Music Box

The Green Music Box
IMDb: 5.5
90

Ruriko’s father is a well known scientist who’s involved in secret research that even his family doesn’t know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido,…

The Moon Has Risen

The Moon Has Risen

The Moon Has Risen
IMDb: 7.2
102

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Back to School

Back to School

Back to School
IMDb: 7.4
24

In a small village in Provence, on the first day of school, a young boy throws his bag into the river on a bet, and the retrieval of it leads…

A Time to Kill

A Time to Kill

A Time to Kill
IMDb: 5.9
65

A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist…

Genre: Thriller
The Eternal Breasts

The Eternal Breasts

The Eternal Breasts
IMDb: 7.7
109

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides…

Genre: Drama, Romance
One Way Out

One Way Out

One Way Out
IMDb: 5.9
61

A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices finds that once he’s set foot on the path of corruption he is trapped…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Marital Relations

Marital Relations

Marital Relations
IMDb: 7.3
121

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director,…

Genre: Drama
The Phantom Horse

The Phantom Horse

The Phantom Horse
IMDb: 6.4
90

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy’s family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Genre: Drama
The Time of His Life

The Time of His Life

The Time of His Life
IMDb: 5.7
74

Mr Pastry’s social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives…

Genre: Comedy
Man On A Bus

Man On A Bus

Man On A Bus
IMDb: 5.1
29

Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded overnight in the bus. To pass…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
The Wicked Go to Hell

The Wicked Go to Hell

The Wicked Go to Hell
IMDb: 6.5
93

Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Beautiful Days

Beautiful Days

Beautiful Days
IMDb: 6.9
120

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Scandal in Sorrento

Scandal in Sorrento

Scandal in Sorrento
IMDb: 6.5
106

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Cast a Dark Shadow

Cast a Dark Shadow

Cast a Dark Shadow
IMDb: 7
83

Edward “Teddy” Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he’s hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don’t go…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Wiretapper

Wiretapper

Wiretapper
IMDb: 5.7
80

A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Storm Fear

Storm Fear

Storm Fear
IMDb: 6.4
88

A wounded bank robber takes over his brother’s home.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Richard III

Richard III

Richard III
IMDb: 7.4
155

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against…

Genre: Drama, History
The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment
IMDb: 6.6
82

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer’s field, and is found to contain…

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
IMDb: 3.6
80

A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor…

Barbados Quest

Barbados Quest

Barbados Quest
IMDb: 5.7
90

Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or…

Man in Space

Man in Space

Man in Space
IMDb: 7.7
49

With a combination of documentary footage and animation, the science and history of rockets, and the effects of space travel on man are illustrated.

Magic Fire

Magic Fire

Magic Fire
IMDb: 6
95

Director William Dieterle’s 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier
IMDb: 6.3
98

Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.

Genre: Western
Kentucky Rifle

Kentucky Rifle

Kentucky Rifle
IMDb: 4.1
84

A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians. Unfortunately the Indians…

Genre: Western
Three Stripes in the Sun

Three Stripes in the Sun

Three Stripes in the Sun
IMDb: 6.5
93

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Fun at St. Fanny’s

Fun at St. Fanny’s

Fun at St. Fanny’s
IMDb: 4.9
80

Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny’s School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is…

Genre: Comedy
Female Jungle

Female Jungle

Female Jungle
IMDb: 5.4
71

Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Day the World Ended

Day the World Ended

Day the World Ended
IMDb: 5.4
79

After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist…

The Court Jester

The Court Jester

The Court Jester
IMDb: 7.8
101

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

The Cockleshell Heroes

The Cockleshell Heroes

The Cockleshell Heroes
IMDb: 6.5
97

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

Genre: War
The Beast with a Million Eyes

The Beast with a Million Eyes

The Beast with a Million Eyes
IMDb: 3.7
78

At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through their…