1957

Old Yeller

Old Yeller

Old Yeller
IMDb: 7.3
83 min

Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s….

The Enemy Below

The Enemy Below

The Enemy Below
IMDb: 7.5
97 min

The American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes commanded by Robert Mitchum, detects a German U-Boat, commanded by Curt Jürgens, resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.

The Three Faces of Eve

The Three Faces of Eve

The Three Faces of Eve
IMDb: 7.2
91 min

Classic dramatization of America’s best-known case of a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder, and her road to recovery.

Raintree County

Raintree County

Raintree County
IMDb: 6.4
168 min

A graduating poet/teacher falls in love with a Southern woman, and then the Civil War and her past create problems.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution
IMDb: 8.4
116 min

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…

Legend of the Lost

Legend of the Lost

Legend of the Lost
IMDb: 6.1
109 min

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

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms
IMDb: 5.9
152 min

A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was…

Peyton Place

Peyton Place

Peyton Place
IMDb: 7.2
151 min

Grace Metalious’ once-notorious bestseller Peyton Place is given a lavish — and necessarily toned-down — film treatment in this deluxe 20th Century-Fox production. Set during WWII, the film concentrates on…

Wild is the Wind

Wild is the Wind

Wild is the Wind
IMDb: 6.7
114 min

Wild Is the Wind represents a (perhaps deliberate) reversal of the situation in The Rose Tattoo (1955). Whereas in Tattoo, Anna Magnani played a widow who could never find a…

Plunder Road

Plunder Road

Plunder Road
IMDb: 6.9
72 min

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

April Love

April Love

April Love
IMDb: 6.3
97 min

A teenager (Pat Boone), recently in trouble with the police, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle on their Kentucky farm in order to rediscover life’s values. Director…

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries
IMDb: N/A
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
The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels
IMDb: 7.1
91 min

Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.

All Mine To Give

All Mine To Give

All Mine To Give
IMDb: 7.2
103 min

This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850’s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens…

Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Decision at Sundown

Decision at Sundown

Decision at Sundown
IMDb: 6.8
77 min

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…

The Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind
IMDb: 5.0
100 min

The Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman) debates history with the devil (Vincent Price) before a court of fate, because of the hydrogen bomb.

Man in the Shadow

Man in the Shadow

Man in the Shadow
IMDb: 6.9
80 min

In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of Virgil’s henchmen go a little too far and beat…

Jet Pilot

Jet Pilot

Jet Pilot
IMDb: 5.7
112 min

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, Drama
Night of the Demon

Night of the Demon

Night of the Demon
IMDb: 7.5
96

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the…

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai
IMDb: 8.1
161 min

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…

Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory
IMDb: 8.4
88 min

During World War I, commanding officer General Broulard orders his subordinate, General Mireau, to attack a German trench position, offering a promotion as an incentive. Though the mission is foolhardy…

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….

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…

Forty Guns

Forty Guns

Forty Guns
IMDb: 7.0
80 min

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…

The Abominable Snowman

The Abominable Snowman

The Abominable Snowman
IMDb: 6.4
91 min

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

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3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma
IMDb: 7.6
92 min

Dave 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…

Genre: Best Western
Edge of the City

Edge of the City

Edge of the City
IMDb: 7.3
85 min

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.

Genre: Drama
Desk Set

Desk Set

Desk Set
IMDb: 7.3
103 min

Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network’s research department.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
IMDb: 7.0
93 min

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick. But she wants something too: he has to pretend to be her new lover.

Night Passage

Night Passage

Night Passage
IMDb: 6.7
90 min

Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing…

Genre: Western
The Quiet Gun

The Quiet Gun

The Quiet Gun
IMDb: 6.4
77 min

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

Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings
IMDb: 6.9
117 min

A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember
IMDb: 7.5
111 min

Nickie Ferrante’s return to New York to marry a rich heiress is well publicized as are his many antics and affairs. He meets a nightclub singer Terry McKay who is…

The Pride and the Passion

The Pride and the Passion

The Pride and the Passion
IMDb: 5.8
125 min

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…

Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon
IMDb: 7.2
130 min

Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success
IMDb: 8.0
96 min

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…

What’s Opera, Doc?

What’s Opera, Doc?

What’s Opera, Doc?
IMDb: 8.3
7

Bugs is in drag as the Valkyrie Brunhilde who sits on an overwieght horse. “She” is pursued by Elmer playing the demigod “Siegfried”.

The Monster That Challenged the World

The Monster That Challenged the World

The Monster That Challenged the World
IMDb: 5.8
84 min

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

The Burglar

The Burglar

The Burglar
IMDb: 6.6
90 min

Burglar Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune — including a renowned emerald necklace — from…

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
IMDb: 7.2
122 min

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Genre: Western
Enemy from Space

Enemy from Space

Enemy from Space
IMDb: 6.9
85 min

Quatermass is the director of an important scientific base, where he builds nuclear rockets for the colonization of the Moon. A strange fall of meteorites in a nearby village leads…

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The Curse Of Frankenstein

The Curse Of Frankenstein

The Curse Of Frankenstein
IMDb: 7.1
82 min

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life’s secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to…

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Hellcats of the Navy

Hellcats of the Navy

Hellcats of the Navy
IMDb: 5.5
82 min

Future ”first couple” Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy…

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
The Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis
IMDb: 7.2
135 min

Charles ’Slim’ Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Boy on a Dolphin

Boy on a Dolphin

Boy on a Dolphin
IMDb: 6.3
111 min

Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold stature of a boy riding a dolphin, which…

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

The Guns of Fort Petticoat
IMDb: 6.4
82 min

Opposing his commanding officer’s decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to Texas. He knows that…

Genre: Action, War, Western
Cinderella

Cinderella

Cinderella
IMDb: 7.6
77 min

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella is a musical written for television, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Cinderella is the only Rodgers and…

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men
IMDb: 9.0
97 min

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….

The True Story of Jesse James

The True Story of Jesse James

The True Story of Jesse James
IMDb: 6.3
92 min

Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang…

Genre: Action, Western
Men in War

Men in War

Men in War
IMDb: 7.2
102 min

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…

Revolt at Fort Laramie

Revolt at Fort Laramie

Revolt at Fort Laramie
IMDb: 5.6
73 min

At the breaking of the Civil War the garrison of Fort Laramie splits between the sympathezers of the two different factions, but when the fort is attacked by the Sioux,…

Genre: Action, War, Western
The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Incredible Shrinking Man
IMDb: 7.6
81 min

When exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide causes Scott Carey to begin to shrink medical science is powerless to help him.

The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal
IMDb: 8.2
96 min

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…

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Genre: Best Fantasy
Funny Face

Funny Face

Funny Face
IMDb: 7.0
103 min

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

20 Million Miles to Earth

20 Million Miles to Earth

20 Million Miles to Earth
IMDb: 6.4
82 min

When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the…

Gun for a Coward

Gun for a Coward

Gun for a Coward
IMDb: 6.1
88 min

A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly…

Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood
IMDb: 8.1
108 min

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…

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Les Girls

Les Girls

Les Girls
IMDb: 6.6
114 min

After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe ”Barry Nichols and Les Girls”, Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance