Search results for "1956"

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)
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137

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It’s not easy for them to meet the rules…

Genre: Drama, War
I Will Buy You (1956)

I Will Buy You (1956)

I Will Buy You (1956)
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A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

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Genre: Drama
The Railroad Man (1956)

The Railroad Man (1956)

The Railroad Man (1956)
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115

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes….

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Genre: Drama
Bigger Than Life (1956)

Bigger Than Life (1956)

Bigger Than Life (1956)
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95

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Genre: Drama
Flowing (1956)

Flowing (1956)

Flowing (1956)
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117

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her mother’s trade in the late days…

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Genre: Drama
A Woman’s Devotion (1956)

A Woman’s Devotion (1956)

A Woman’s Devotion (1956)
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An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the…

Love Me Tender (1956)

Love Me Tender (1956)

Love Me Tender (1956)
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89

At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until…

The Opposite Sex (1956)

The Opposite Sex (1956)

The Opposite Sex (1956)
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Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Gun the Man Down (1956)

Gun the Man Down (1956)

Gun the Man Down (1956)
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An outlaw is left for dead by his gang after being shot. A year later, he is released from jail with one thing on his mind: Revenge.

Genre: Action, Crime, Western
A Man Escaped (1956)

A Man Escaped (1956)

A Man Escaped (1956)
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101

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Nightfall (1956)

Nightfall (1956)

Nightfall (1956)
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An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Giant (1956)

Giant (1956)

Giant (1956)
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Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is…

Genre: Drama, Western
5 Steps to Danger (1956)

5 Steps to Danger (1956)

5 Steps to Danger (1956)
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81

Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?

Genre: Action, Thriller
The Bitter Stems (1956)

The Bitter Stems (1956)

The Bitter Stems (1956)
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92

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Hot Cars (1956)

Hot Cars (1956)

Hot Cars (1956)
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60

Story of a salesman lured into the “hot car” racket.

Genre: Action, Thriller
The Rack (1956)

The Rack (1956)

The Rack (1956)
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100

Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince…

Genre: Drama, War
Reprisal! (1956)

Reprisal! (1956)

Reprisal! (1956)
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New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There…

Genre: Western
The White Squaw (1956)

The White Squaw (1956)

The White Squaw (1956)
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A Swedish settler starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.

Genre: Western
Shake Rattle and Rock! (1956)

Shake Rattle and Rock! (1956)

Shake Rattle and Rock! (1956)
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83

A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock ‘n’ roll palace for teens.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Fool’s Mate (1956)

Fool’s Mate (1956)

Fool’s Mate (1956)
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Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
All the World’s Memory (1956)

All the World’s Memory (1956)

All the World’s Memory (1956)
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Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material,…

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Genre: Documentary
The Thick-Walled Room (1956)

The Thick-Walled Room (1956)

The Thick-Walled Room (1956)
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110

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

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Genre: Drama, War
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)

Death of a Scoundrel (1956)

Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
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119

A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
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119

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
You Can’t Run Away from It (1956)

You Can’t Run Away from It (1956)

You Can’t Run Away from It (1956)
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95

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Man from Del Rio (1956)

Man from Del Rio (1956)

Man from Del Rio (1956)
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Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town’s outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man’s shoes. But a tin star doesn’t bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by…

Genre: Western
Beyond Mombasa (1956)

Beyond Mombasa (1956)

Beyond Mombasa (1956)
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90

An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

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Genre: Action, Adventure
The Cruel Tower (1956)

The Cruel Tower (1956)

The Cruel Tower (1956)
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79

The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Brave One (1956)

The Brave One (1956)

The Brave One (1956)
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100

A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.

Genre: Drama, Family
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)

The Girl He Left Behind (1956)

The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
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A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler’s 1956 film stars ’50s teen favorites Tab…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
La Traversée de Paris (1956)

La Traversée de Paris (1956)

La Traversée de Paris (1956)
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Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Her Bridal Night (1956)

Her Bridal Night (1956)

Her Bridal Night (1956)
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A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
House of Secrets (1956)

House of Secrets (1956)

House of Secrets (1956)
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Police in Paris recruit an English ship’s officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
The Country I Come From (1956)

The Country I Come From (1956)

The Country I Come From (1956)
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One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love…

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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
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Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short…

Julie (1956)

Julie (1956)

Julie (1956)
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99

A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Forty-First (1956)

The Forty-First (1956)

The Forty-First (1956)
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88

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Between Heaven and Hell (1956)

Between Heaven and Hell (1956)

Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
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94

Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel. At the beginning of the war he was…

Genre: Drama, War
Aparajito (1956)

Aparajito (1956)

Aparajito (1956)
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110

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually…

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Genre: Drama
The Boss (1956)

The Boss (1956)

The Boss (1956)
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89

A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller