Forbidden Planet (1956), Madhumati (1958), Forbidden Planet (1956), Panic in the Streets (1950), The Red and the Black (1954), Ride Lonesome (1959), The Hitch-Hiker (1953), Broken Lance (1954) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1950s Cinema movies.
Storyline: An astronaut (Leslie Nielsen) and crew land on Altair-4 in 2200 and find a mad doctor (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis) and Robby the robot.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, classic, space adventure, aliens, future technology, robots, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While driving his car on a rainy night, Anand's car breaks down, and he goes to seek shelter in a nearby house. He is let into the house by the servant, and he is permitted to stay until the rains stop be able to get his car fixed. It is here that he will find out about his previous birth, his true love, Madhumati, their ill-fated, star-crossed and tragic romance, and how events in his previous birth are going to effect him in this life-time.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, musical, bollywood, indian cinema, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet inhabited by scientists, he finds all but two have died. Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira have somehow survived a hideous monster which roams the planet. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, and has no intention of sharing it (or his daughter!) with anyone.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, space adventure, artificial intelligence, psychological thriller, classic film, future technology, visual effects ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it's pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. The police surgeon notices that the man is also displaying other symptoms and Lt. Commander Clint Reed, a doctor with the U.S. Public Health Service, diagnoses a highly contagious disease, pneumonic plague. He tries to convince local officials to find everyone who may have been in contact with the dead man. The Mayor supports his efforts but many, including the police, are doubtful. Reed wants to avoid publicity so as not to panic the public. They have little information to go on - they don't know the dead man's identity - and Reed estimates they have 48 hours before disease begins to spread. With police Capt. Tom Warren going through the motions, Reed sets out to find the killers.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: film noir, thriller, crime, drama, suspense, medical, epidemic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.—Johannes Stahl <jstahl@lri.ucsf.edu>
Plot Keywords: classic film, black and white film, social class, psychological drama, historical setting, french cinema, literary adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post, where he saves the manager's wife from an Indian attack, and enlists the help of two outlaws to continue his journey more safely. However, the Indian attacks persist, the outlaws plan to take Billy for themselves, tempted by the offer of amnesty for his captor, and Billy's brother Frank is in hot pursuit to rescue him. But Brigade has plans of his own ...—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: western, classic film, black and white, revenge, bounty hunter, desert, gunfight ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two friends on a fishing trip pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be a psychotic escaped convict. This sociopath has already murdered other good Samaritans in his efforts to evade authorities. He sadistically taunts and threatens the two men and perversely delights in telling them that he has them both marked for death sometime before the end of the trip. His destination is a ferryboat in Baja, California, which he hopes will help him get to the mainland. The hostages hope to stay alive long enough to escape or be rescued by Mexican authorities.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: film noir, thriller, suspense, crime, psychological thriller, road movie, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, drama, father-son relationship, revenge, power struggle, american west, sibling rivalry ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port. He's sacked after he's caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide, and a Captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading post.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, colonialism, betrayal, downfall, british literature adaptation, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an enchanted place. It appears once every hundred years for one day, then disappears back into the mists of time, to wake up to its next day a century hence. When Tommy falls in love with Fiona, a girl of the village, he realizes that she can never be part of his life back in America. Can he be part of hers in Brigadoon?—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, fantasy, romance, song and dance, scotland, time travel, village ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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 a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground. Subplots involve the secret past of Buttons the Clown and the efforts of racketeers to move in on the game concessions. Let the show begin!
Plot Keywords: circus, drama, romance, golden age hollywood, epic, spectacle, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The first spaceship to visit Venus crash lands in the sea, freeing a small native Venusian creature called the Ymir. Eventually growing to enormous size, it threatens the city of Rome.—Steve Hill <shill@harper.cc.il.us>
Plot Keywords: science fiction, monster, alien creature, space exploration, cold war era, black and white, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, drama, mystery, psychological thriller, romance, betrayal, amnesia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a giant blob of jelly, lands on earth. The people of a nearby small town refuse to listen to some teenagers who have witnessed the blob's destructive power. In the meantime, the blob just keeps on getting bigger.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, b-movie, alien creature, color film, independent production, steve mcqueen ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, black and white, historical, action, adventure, crime, law enforcement ...
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