Search results for "1951"
Symphony in Slang

Symphony in Slang

Symphony in Slang
IMDb: 7.6
7

At the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer’s life story with all his contemporary slang.

Daredevil Droopy

Daredevil Droopy

Daredevil Droopy
IMDb: 7.3
6

Droopy and Spike are applying for the job of Dare Devil Dog at the Circus, and the one who give the best performance in a variety of “feats of strength…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
My Favorite Spy

My Favorite Spy

My Favorite Spy
IMDb: 6.7
93

A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy’s girlfriend, who is also a spy.

Genre: Action, Comedy
David and Bathsheba

David and Bathsheba

David and Bathsheba
IMDb: 6.1
123

King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
IMDb: 7
122

Albert Lewin’s interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a…

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob
IMDb: 7.6
78

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Ginza Cosmetics

Ginza Cosmetics

Ginza Cosmetics
IMDb: 6.9
87

Italy is usually cited as the anchor of the neo-realist movement in cinema, but Mikio Naruse’s Ginza Cosmetics (1951) is a reminder that Japan had its own output equally rooted…

Genre: Drama
Awaara

Awaara

Awaara
IMDb: 8
168

A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief’s…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
You’re in the Navy Now

You’re in the Navy Now

You’re in the Navy Now
IMDb: 6.4
93

When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle’s veterans will afford him…

Genre: Comedy, War
Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman
IMDb: 7.2
115

Willy Loman is an aging salesman who was recently fired from his job. Dealing with feelings of failure, Willy begins to relive events from the past that involve his older…

Genre: Drama
Insurance Investigator

Insurance Investigator

Insurance Investigator
IMDb: 6.3
60

When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Silver Canyon

Silver Canyon

Silver Canyon
IMDb: 6.5
N/A

At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry…

Genre: Western
Roadblock

Roadblock

Roadblock
IMDb: 6.7
73

An insurance agent’s greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

Genre: Crime
Close to My Heart

Close to My Heart

Close to My Heart
IMDb: 6.5
90

A journalist’s wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.

Genre: Drama
A Millionaire for Christy

A Millionaire for Christy

A Millionaire for Christy
IMDb: 6.3
91

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who’s in financial straits, decides…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Chicago Calling

Chicago Calling

Chicago Calling
IMDb: 7.2
75

Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Crosswinds

Crosswinds

Crosswinds
IMDb: 6.1
95

A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he’s set up for a crime.

Genre: Action, Adventure
Lady Godiva Rides Again

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Lady Godiva Rides Again
IMDb: 5.8
90

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva – though not in the buff. This leads by…

Genre: Comedy
Storm Warning

Storm Warning

Storm Warning
IMDb: 7.1
93

On the way to her new job, Marsha Mitchell takes the opportunity to visit her sister Lucy, whom she has not seen in a few years. There she not only…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Call Me Mister

Call Me Mister

Call Me Mister
IMDb: 5.8
96

A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who’s putting on a show for the troops.

The House on Telegraph Hill

The House on Telegraph Hill

The House on Telegraph Hill
IMDb: 7
93

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

The Long Dark Hall

The Long Dark Hall

The Long Dark Hall
IMDb: 6.2
86

A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Great Caruso

The Great Caruso

The Great Caruso
IMDb: 6.5
109

Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera’s patrons….

Genre: Drama, Music
Starlift

Starlift

Starlift
IMDb: 6
103

Air Force fliers Rick Williams and Mike Nolan attempt to meet film star Nell Wayne, with whom Rick shares a hometown but not much else. Fellow film stars Doris Day…

Genre: Music
Gunplay

Gunplay

Gunplay
IMDb: 6.3
61

Landry has Sam Martin killed. When Tim and Chito find Martin and his son, Chip says Matt Potter was responsible. But when Tim and Chito start their search, no ones…

Genre: Western
Bedtime for Bonzo

Bedtime for Bonzo

Bedtime for Bonzo
IMDb: 5.4
83

College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.

Genre: Comedy
Criminal Lawyer

Criminal Lawyer

Criminal Lawyer
IMDb: 6.5
74

A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.

Genre: Crime
Father’s Little Dividend

Father’s Little Dividend

Father’s Little Dividend
IMDb: 6.6
82

In this sequel to Father of the Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Ghost Chasers

Ghost Chasers

Ghost Chasers
IMDb: 6.3
69

A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.

Genre: Action, Comedy
My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past
IMDb: 6.2
70

An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor’s love with her tainted family fortune.

Genre: Drama
Heart of the Rockies

Heart of the Rockies

Heart of the Rockies
IMDb: 6.4
56

Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are…

Genre: Western
Kind Lady

Kind Lady

Kind Lady
IMDb: 6.9
78

Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Appointment with Venus

Appointment with Venus

Appointment with Venus
IMDb: 6
90

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can’t prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the…

Genre: Romance
The Hoodlum

The Hoodlum

The Hoodlum
IMDb: 6.3
61

Vincent Lubeck is a vicious ex-convict. His criminal activities are despised by his family, but he uses and abuses them in the course of his crimes. Eventually his own brother…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Too Young to Kiss

Too Young to Kiss

Too Young to Kiss
IMDb: 6.3
91

Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
In Old Amarillo

In Old Amarillo

In Old Amarillo
IMDb: 6.6
67

A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen’s plans…

Genre: Western
Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri
IMDb: 6.2
78

In the 1830’s beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a…

The Model and the Marriage Broker

The Model and the Marriage Broker

The Model and the Marriage Broker
IMDb: 7.1
103

A marriage broker can’t resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
You Never Can Tell

You Never Can Tell

You Never Can Tell
IMDb: 7.2
78

Ex-police/army dog Rex inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring…

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Apache Drums

Apache Drums

Apache Drums
IMDb: 6.4
75

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Genre: Action, Western