Search results for "1958"
I Dutifully Report

I Dutifully Report

I Dutifully Report
IMDb: 7.4
91

A comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World War I. I Dutifully Report: In the introduction to the second part of…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Moonraker

The Moonraker

The Moonraker
IMDb: 5.9
82

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king’s escape depends on…

Genre: Action, Adventure
The Sign of Zorro

The Sign of Zorro

The Sign of Zorro
IMDb: 6.9
91

In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney’s hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego…

Genre: Western
Gunsmoke in Tucson

Gunsmoke in Tucson

Gunsmoke in Tucson
IMDb: 5.6
80

As young boys, two brothers, Jed (AKA: Chip) and John, witness their father being hung by a vigilante gang. Chip, angry and bitter, grows up to be an outlaw and…

Genre: Western
Dragstrip Riot

Dragstrip Riot

Dragstrip Riot
IMDb: 4.8
68

An adolescent arrives in a new town where he tries to join the drag-racing crowd.

Genre: Action, Drama
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama
IMDb: 7.8
98

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old…

Genre: Drama
Letter from Siberia

Letter from Siberia

Letter from Siberia
IMDb: 7.4
62

One of Chris Marker’s earliest documentaries (1957) and probably one of his best, the hour-long Letter From Siberia mixes new and found footage with inventive commentary, and is especially memorable…

Genre: Documentary
Apache Territory

Apache Territory

Apache Territory
IMDb: 5.7
71

Logan Cates sets out to rescue a white woman captured by Apache Indians and prevent a war. On the way he is joined by a few civilians and a small…

Genre: Action, Western
The Lovers of Montparnasse

The Lovers of Montparnasse

The Lovers of Montparnasse
IMDb: 7.4
108

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are…

The Purple Hooded Man

The Purple Hooded Man

The Purple Hooded Man
IMDb: 7.2
88

Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now under the rule of the evil Tanuma, the people look to Murasaki…

Fraulein

Fraulein

Fraulein
IMDb: 6.5
95

In melodramatic fashion, the film tells the tale of a young German woman who finds herself alone in the world when the rest of her family is killed in a…

Genre: Romance, War
Alone with the Monsters

Alone with the Monsters

Alone with the Monsters
IMDb: 5.5
16

An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

Genre: Fantasy
Butterflies Do Not Live Here

Butterflies Do Not Live Here

Butterflies Do Not Live Here
IMDb: 6.6
13

A documentary about the life of Jewish children forced to live in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Genre: Documentary
Miss Thompson Goes Shopping

Miss Thompson Goes Shopping

Miss Thompson Goes Shopping
IMDb: 6
23

Adaptation of Martin Armstrong’s poem about an elderly lady who becomes perturbed by something we can’t see. It becomes apparent that she is looking for her past, lost in a…

Genre: Documentary
Television Playwright

Television Playwright

Television Playwright
IMDb: N/A
84

In the winter of 1959, the mutilated bodies of nine hikers were found in the Ural Mountains of Russia. Were they slaughtered in cold blood by a yeti? If so,…

Appalachian Spring

Appalachian Spring

Appalachian Spring
IMDb: 6.4
32

A filmed version of Aaron Copland’s most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.

Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
IMDb: 6.5
145

During the 1200’s, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of…

The Power of the Resurrection

The Power of the Resurrection

The Power of the Resurrection
IMDb: 5.8
59

A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of fear he felt in…

Genre: Drama
The Flower in Hell

The Flower in Hell

The Flower in Hell
IMDb: 6.4
88

In post-Korean War Seoul, a young man from the countryside discovers that his older brother has become romantically involved in a prostitute and has no intentions of returning home.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife
IMDb: 6.7
90

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an…

Red Pier

Red Pier

Red Pier
IMDb: 6.9
99

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, “Jiro the Lefty”, a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for…

Genre: Action, Crime
A Slope in the Sun

A Slope in the Sun

A Slope in the Sun
IMDb: 7.3
209

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her…

Genre: Romance
Blue Jeans

Blue Jeans

Blue Jeans
IMDb: 6.5
22

The story of two seventeen year old boys. They are wearing medals around their necks. They have their pockets full of chewing gum something that they chew ceaselessly. They are…

Genre: Drama
Véronique and Her Dunce

Véronique and Her Dunce

Véronique and Her Dunce
IMDb: 6.4
18

Véronique gives a mathematics lesson to a dunce who answers the prepared questions with disconcertingly sound answers.

Genre: Comedy
Black Cat Mansion

Black Cat Mansion

Black Cat Mansion
IMDb: 6.6
69

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the…

Genre: Drama, Horror
The Spaniard’s Curse

The Spaniard’s Curse

The Spaniard’s Curse
IMDb: 5.7
80

A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Hell Squad

Hell Squad

Hell Squad
IMDb: 4.9
64

During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Finally only one man, Private…

Genre: War
Cat & Mouse

Cat & Mouse

Cat & Mouse
IMDb: 5.7
79

A GI deserter frames a girl for killing a blackmailer, and holds her captive while seeking gems.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Soapbox Derby

Soapbox Derby

Soapbox Derby
IMDb: 6.6
64

The Battersea Bats are a gang of four kids who have their den in an abandoned building near the Thames, and they have a plan of action in mind because…

Genre: Drama, Family
The Salvage Gang

The Salvage Gang

The Salvage Gang
IMDb: 6.2
52

Four children try to raise money to replace a broken saw, taking them on an unexpected journey through the capital.

Genre: Adventure, Family
I Only Arsked

I Only Arsked

I Only Arsked
IMDb: 5.7
82

A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at…

Genre: Comedy
Incognito

Incognito

Incognito
IMDb: 5.1
N/A

Bob Stanley was an American secret agent during World War II in France. After the war Stanley returns to France as a consul. In reality, he works for the FBI,…

Genre: Action
Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex
IMDb: 7.7
125

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Westbound

Westbound

Westbound
IMDb: 6.5
69

As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a…

Genre: Western
Timbuktu

Timbuktu

Timbuktu
IMDb: 5.6
91

An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel’s wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.

Genre: Adventure, War
Smiley Gets a Gun

Smiley Gets a Gun

Smiley Gets a Gun
IMDb: 6.6
90

The happy-go-lucky young Smiley gets into more strife as he attempts to prove himself a responsible citizen by helping others – all so he can earn a new gun from…

Genre: Comedy
Shadows

Shadows

Shadows
IMDb: 7.2
87

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Saga of Hemp Brown

The Saga of Hemp Brown

The Saga of Hemp Brown
IMDb: 6.1
80

Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to…

Genre: Western
Passport to Shame

Passport to Shame

Passport to Shame
IMDb: 6.5
86

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Room at the Top

Room at the Top

Room at the Top
IMDb: 7.5
115

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner’s daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

Genre: Drama, Romance