On the Bowery (1956), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Postman (1994), Godzilla (1954), James Dean (2001), Mahanagar (1963), The Wide Blue Road (1956), Lovers and Lollipops (1956) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1950s movies.
Storyline: Affairs strewn from Paris to the Alps disintegrate a couple's (Gérard Philipe, Jeanne Moreau) marriage.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, beautiful woman, boyfriend, mistress, lover, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An alternate take on Superman portrays him as a Soviet hero after his rocket lands in the USSR.
Plot Keywords: superman, hero, soviet soldier, president, confident, engaging, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank.
Plot Keywords: thief, ex-convict, entertainer, girlfriend, police chief, wife, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In World War II Greece, a woman (Eva Kotamanidou) and her lover betray her husband, the leader of an acting troupe, then his son avenges him.
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, brother, sister, mother, father, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A widow (Phylicia Rashad), her son (Sean Combs) and other members of a black family have differing ideas on how to spend a $10,000 life-insurance check.
Plot Keywords: mother, maid, chauffeur, widow, daughter, son, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1950s Johannesburg, black South African reporter Henry Nxumalo (Taye Diggs) uncovers an explosive story.
Plot Keywords: journalist, investigator, south african man, photographer, nelson mandela, lover, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An alcoholic stage actor (Bing Crosby) leans on his wife (Grace Kelly) as he tries to make a comeback.
Plot Keywords: actor, wife, alcoholic, director, theatrical producer, bleak, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia (Krystyna Janda) decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
Plot Keywords: singer, guard, government official, husband, dark, gritty, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro (Francesco Giuffrida) is joined by his older brother, Giovanni (Enrico Lo Verso), who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to seek employment to support his brother's academic pursuits. Unfortunately, things don't go well for Giovanni and Pietro, and they face significant hardships as they try to improve their lives.
Plot Keywords: scholar, laborer, brother, emotional, melodramatic, turin, italy, apartment ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Haunted by his childhood, a psychotic loner (Ralph Fiennes) has difficulty after his release from a mental institution.
Plot Keywords: mental patient, schizophrenic, father, mother, mistress, friend, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Liberated from any form of attachment that was holding him back from immersing himself into Kolkata's urban lifestyle after Sarbojaya's death in Aparajito (1956), Apu, now an optimistic, 23-year-old idealist and struggling author, has no other choice but to give up his degree for lack of financial resources. Being no longer accountable to anyone, Apu barely manages to scrape by, content with a meagre income and a humble roof over his head, until an unforeseen complication during the wedding of Aparna, the delicate sister of his university friend, Pulu, leads to an act of kindness and a wonderful, youthful romance. All his life, death, and the sense of loss, have been accompanying Apu in his perpetual odyssey of spirituality and knowledge, and now, a lifetime of joys, hopes, sadness, and tragedies culminate in the most momentous decision of his life. But, life's mysterious duality cannot be defined by tragedy. What more could one ask for than a child's charming, wide-eyed smile?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: writer, husband, wife, friend, son, emotional, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In post-World War II Tokyo, Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is on a U.S. Army special assignment to investigate a murderous clique led by ex-soldier Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan). Kenner ingratiates himself with Dawson and his inner circle, gaining their trust while starting a relationship with Mariko (Shirley Yamaguchi), the wife of a murdered gang member. But the sinister Dawson suspects there's a traitor among them when the police are tipped off about a planned robbery.
Plot Keywords: soldier, crime boss, gang member, woman, police officer, brooding, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all ...
Plot Keywords: military officer, russian general, president, pilot, scientist, witty, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Britain, 1953. Upon his return to work following a heart attack, barrister takes on a murder case,. The case is defending American war vet Leonard Vole, a poor, out of work, struggling inventor who's accused of murdering his middle-aged lonely and wealthy acquaintance, Emily French. The evidence is circumstantial but points to Leonard as the murderer, butr the csse has constant revelations.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, wife, defendant, prosecutor, nurse, witness, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
Plot Keywords: journalist, photographer, girlfriend, nurse, assassin, dog, suspenseful ...
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