Drama Movies
Le Plaisir (1952)

Le Plaisir (1952)

Le Plaisir (1952)
IMDb: N/A
97

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women – pleasure and youth….

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Okinawa (1952)

Okinawa (1952)

Okinawa (1952)
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67

On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they’ve been reassigned…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Retreat Hell! (1952)

Retreat Hell! (1952)

Retreat Hell! (1952)
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95

During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of…

Genre: Drama, War
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
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152

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin…

Genre: Drama, Romance
This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)

This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)

This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
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100

A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
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105

Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were,…

Genre: Drama
Invitation (1952)

Invitation (1952)

Invitation (1952)
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84

A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Umberto D. (1952)

Umberto D. (1952)

Umberto D. (1952)
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91

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end…

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Genre: Drama
The African Queen (1952)

The African Queen (1952)

The African Queen (1952)
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105

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and…

The Magic Box (1952)

The Magic Box (1952)

The Magic Box (1952)
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118

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife’s so that…

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Genre: Drama
B-Girl Rhapsody (1952)

B-Girl Rhapsody (1952)

B-Girl Rhapsody (1952)
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77

Filmed record of a burlesque performance.

Chicago Calling (1951)

Chicago Calling (1951)

Chicago Calling (1951)
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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
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)

Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)

Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)
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93

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter’s current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he…

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Genre: Drama
On Dangerous Ground (1951)

On Dangerous Ground (1951)

On Dangerous Ground (1951)
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82

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The House in the Square (1951)

The House in the Square (1951)

The House in the Square (1951)
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90

Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather’s diaries. He falls in love with his forefather’s cousin, Helen, but…

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The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)

The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)

The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)
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98

Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and…

Genre: Drama, War
Repast (1951)

Repast (1951)

Repast (1951)
IMDb: N/A
97

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

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Genre: Drama
Nobody’s Children (1951)

Nobody’s Children (1951)

Nobody’s Children (1951)
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98

The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to their…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Five Men of Edo (1951)

Five Men of Edo (1951)

Five Men of Edo (1951)
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132

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at every turn. The leader of…

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Genre: Action, Drama
It’s a Big Country (1951)

It’s a Big Country (1951)

It’s a Big Country (1951)
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89

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios’ best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern….

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Cry the Beloved Country (1951)

Cry the Beloved Country (1951)

Cry the Beloved Country (1951)
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103

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and…

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Genre: Drama
The Unknown Man (1951)

The Unknown Man (1951)

The Unknown Man (1951)
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86

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he’s gotten off was really guilty.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Raging Tide (1951)

The Raging Tide (1951)

The Raging Tide (1951)
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93

A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Golden Girl (1951)

Golden Girl (1951)

Golden Girl (1951)
IMDb: N/A
108

Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.

Genre: Drama, Western
Submarine Command (1951)

Submarine Command (1951)

Submarine Command (1951)
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87

Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground…

Genre: Drama, War
Let’s Make It Legal (1951)

Let’s Make It Legal (1951)

Let’s Make It Legal (1951)
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77

A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Elephant Stampede (1951)

Elephant Stampede (1951)

Elephant Stampede (1951)
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71

Bomba the jungle boy swings into action when an elephant herd is threatened by ivory hunters.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Surcos (1951)

Surcos (1951)

Surcos (1951)
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99

A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything…

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Genre: Drama
Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)

Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)

Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)
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122

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

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Genre: Drama
Detective Story (1951)

Detective Story (1951)

Detective Story (1951)
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103

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Family Secret (1951)

The Family Secret (1951)

The Family Secret (1951)
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85

When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Anne of the Indies (1951)

Anne of the Indies (1951)

Anne of the Indies (1951)
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81

After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when Captain Blackbeard reveals LaRochelle’s true identity as a former…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)

Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)

Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)
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100

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle’s fortune and…

The Well (1951)

The Well (1951)

The Well (1951)
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86

In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police…

Genre: Drama
Iron Man (1951)

Iron Man (1951)

Iron Man (1951)
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82

In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke can be more successful as a…

Genre: Drama
Murder in the Cathedral (1951)

Murder in the Cathedral (1951)

Murder in the Cathedral (1951)
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114

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.

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Genre: Drama, History
The River (1951)

The River (1951)

The River (1951)
IMDb: N/A
99

Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Mystery Junction (1951)

Mystery Junction (1951)

Mystery Junction (1951)
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65

In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)

Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)

Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)
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107

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.

Genre: Drama
Force of Arms (1951)

Force of Arms (1951)

Force of Arms (1951)
IMDb: N/A
99

During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson’s platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War