Search results for "1957"
The Giant Claw

The Giant Claw

The Giant Claw
IMDb: 4.6
74

Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.

The Witches of Salem

The Witches of Salem

The Witches of Salem
IMDb: 7.2
145

Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven…

Genre: Drama, History
The Tijuana Story

The Tijuana Story

The Tijuana Story
IMDb: 5.4
72

Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.

Genre: Crime
The Pride and the Passion

The Pride and the Passion

The Pride and the Passion
IMDb: 5.7
132

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat…

The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes Are Flying
IMDb: 8.3
97

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight….

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood
IMDb: 8.1
108

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit’s prophecy comes true, Washizu’s…

Genre: Drama, History
The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal
IMDb: 8.2
96

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
The Girl in Black Stockings

The Girl in Black Stockings

The Girl in Black Stockings
IMDb: 5.5
75

Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover…

The Abominable Snowman

The Abominable Snowman

The Abominable Snowman
IMDb: 6.4
85

A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

The Monster That Challenged the World

The Monster That Challenged the World

The Monster That Challenged the World
IMDb: 5.8
84

Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.

Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces
IMDb: 7.2
122

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even…

Genre: Drama
The Deadly Mantis

The Deadly Mantis

The Deadly Mantis
IMDb: 5.2
79

The calving of an Arctic iceberg releases a giant praying mantis, trapped in suspended animation since prehistoric times. It first attacks military outposts to eat their occupants, then makes its…

Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria
IMDb: 8.1
110

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical…

Genre: Drama
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men
IMDb: 9
97

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father….

Genre: Drama
Campbell’s Kingdom

Campbell’s Kingdom

Campbell’s Kingdom
IMDb: 6.4
102

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits “Campbell’s Kingdom” in the Canadian Rockies on the death of his grandfather. He has…

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai
IMDb: 8.1
161

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow…

Genre: Drama, History, War
3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma
IMDb: 7.6
92

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade’s gang…

The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels
IMDb: 7.2
91

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper…

Genre: Drama
A Face in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd
IMDb: 8.2
125

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah…

Genre: Drama
Designing Woman

Designing Woman

Designing Woman
IMDb: 6.8
118

A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Incredible Shrinking Man
IMDb: 7.6
81

While on a boating trip, Scott Carey is exposed to a radioactive cloud. Nothing seems amiss at first, but several months later Scott realizes that he’s shrunk in height by…

An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember
IMDb: 7.5
111

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building – but will it happen?

Genre: Drama, Romance
Town on Trial

Town on Trial

Town on Trial
IMDb: 6.4
95

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings,…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Jet Pilot

Jet Pilot

Jet Pilot
IMDb: 5.7
112

John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who’s tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming — at the height of the Cold War — that…

Genre: Action
The Strange One

The Strange One

The Strange One
IMDb: 6.9
100

A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.

Genre: Drama
Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2
IMDb: 6.8
85

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design…

Decision at Sundown

Decision at Sundown

Decision at Sundown
IMDb: 6.8
77

Bart Allison arrives in Sundown after a three year search for Tate Kimbrough. Although it is Kimbrough’s wedding day, Allison makes it clear he blames him for the death of…

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries
IMDb: 8.2
91

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along…

Genre: Drama
Legend of the Lost

Legend of the Lost

Legend of the Lost
IMDb: 6.1
109

American ne’er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.

Genre: Adventure
Forty Guns

Forty Guns

Forty Guns
IMDb: 7
80

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for…

Genre: Action, Western
A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms
IMDb: 5.9
152

An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success
IMDb: 8
97

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can’t control is his younger sister, Susan, who…

Genre: Drama
The Enemy Below

The Enemy Below

The Enemy Below
IMDb: 7.5
97

The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.

Genre: War
Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution
IMDb: 8.4
116

When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a…

The Living Idol

The Living Idol

The Living Idol
IMDb: 5.3
100

An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.

Sayonara

Sayonara

Sayonara
IMDb: 7.1
147

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because…

Genre: Drama, Romance
From Hell It Came

From Hell It Came

From Hell It Came
IMDb: 3.8
73

A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.

Genre: Horror
Men in War

Men in War

Men in War
IMDb: 7.2
102

In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson’s platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Quiet Gun

The Quiet Gun

The Quiet Gun
IMDb: 6.4
77

A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.

Genre: Western
High Flight

High Flight

High Flight
IMDb: 5.6
89

The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.

Genre: Drama, War