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American cinema: 1950s
Titanic (1953)
Jean Negulesco
Richard Sturges, a wealthy American living in Europe, is so desperate to find his runaway wife Julia that he buys a steerage-class ticket on the RMS Titanic for its maiden voyage across the Atlantic...
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Jean Negulesco
Touch of Evil (1958)
Orson Welles
Miguel Vargas, a Mexican drugs enforcement official, is on his honeymoon when a car is blown up right in front of his eyes, shortly after crossing the border from Mexico into the United States...
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Orson Welles
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock
On a hill just outside a small Vermont village, retired sea captain Albert Wiles is out rabbit hunting when he comes across the body of a dead man...
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Alfred Hitchcock
Un acte d'amour (1953)
Anatole Litvak
Some years after the war, an American, Robert Teller, pays a visit to a seaside town in the South of France. He casts his mind back to 1944, recalling his time in Paris immediately after the Liberation...
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Anatole Litvak
Vertigo (1958)
Alfred Hitchcock
When a rooftop chase ends in the death of one of his colleagues, San Francisco cop John Ferguson suddenly develops chronic acrophobia, an irrational fear of heights which forces him into early retirement...
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Alfred Hitchcock
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Elia Kazan
In 1909, the Mexican President, Porfirio Díaz, is visited by a delegation of peasants who complain that their land has been illegally taken from them... [More...]
Elia Kazan
In 1909, the Mexican President, Porfirio Díaz, is visited by a delegation of peasants who complain that their land has been illegally taken from them... [More...]
War and Peace (1956)
King Vidor
Moscow, 1805. Pierre Bezukhov, a pacifist wastrel, is in love with Natasha, the daughter of the wealthy Count Rostov, but knows he cannot marry her since he is of illegitimate birth... [More...]
King Vidor
Moscow, 1805. Pierre Bezukhov, a pacifist wastrel, is in love with Natasha, the daughter of the wealthy Count Rostov, but knows he cannot marry her since he is of illegitimate birth... [More...]
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Byron Haskin
The peace of a small Californian town is disturbed when a huge meteorite crashes into the ground. Dr Clayton Forrester, an eminent physicist, happens to be holidaying in the area and cannot resist examining the meteorite... [More...]
Byron Haskin
The peace of a small Californian town is disturbed when a huge meteorite crashes into the ground. Dr Clayton Forrester, an eminent physicist, happens to be holidaying in the area and cannot resist examining the meteorite... [More...]
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Otto Preminger
New York detective Mark Dixon has a reputation for brutality when it comes to dealing with criminals and his boss warns him that unless he changes his ways he can expect a demotion... [More...]
Otto Preminger
New York detective Mark Dixon has a reputation for brutality when it comes to dealing with criminals and his boss warns him that unless he changes his ways he can expect a demotion... [More...]
The Whip Hand (1951)
William Cameron Menzies
Whilst on a fishing holiday at Lake Winnoga, Wisconsin, reporter Matt Corbin stumbles across a town with a mysterious secret... [More...]
William Cameron Menzies
Whilst on a fishing holiday at Lake Winnoga, Wisconsin, reporter Matt Corbin stumbles across a town with a mysterious secret... [More...]
White Christmas (1954)
Michael Curtiz
Christmas Eve, 1944 - somewhere in Europe. After staging a show in honour of their departing commanding officer, Major General Waverly, a platoon of U.S... [More...]
Michael Curtiz
Christmas Eve, 1944 - somewhere in Europe. After staging a show in honour of their departing commanding officer, Major General Waverly, a platoon of U.S... [More...]
The Wild One (1953)
Laslo Benedek
One eventful day, a group of leather-jacked young motorcyclists invade the peace of a small Californian town. Their attempt to gatecrash a motorcycle race is thwarted by its organisers, but their leader, Johnny, does not go away empty handed: he makes off with one of the prize trophies... [More...]
Laslo Benedek
One eventful day, a group of leather-jacked young motorcyclists invade the peace of a small Californian town. Their attempt to gatecrash a motorcycle race is thwarted by its organisers, but their leader, Johnny, does not go away empty handed: he makes off with one of the prize trophies... [More...]
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Nicholas Ray
In the early 1900s, an idealistic young schoolteacher named Walt Murdock arrives in Miami, Florida, to take up a new post... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
In the early 1900s, an idealistic young schoolteacher named Walt Murdock arrives in Miami, Florida, to take up a new post... [More...]
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Billy Wilder
Despite his ill health and the protestations of his nurse, the celebrated barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to defend Leonard Vole, who is charged with the murder of a widow he had befriended... [More...]
Billy Wilder
Despite his ill health and the protestations of his nurse, the celebrated barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to defend Leonard Vole, who is charged with the murder of a widow he had befriended... [More...]
Written on the Wind (1956)
Douglas Sirk
Kyle Hadley, the son of one of America's wealthiest oil magnates, is used to getting what he wants. As soon as he meets Lucy Moore, the secretary of an advertising executive, he is determined to take her as his wife... [More...]
Douglas Sirk
Kyle Hadley, the son of one of America's wealthiest oil magnates, is used to getting what he wants. As soon as he meets Lucy Moore, the secretary of an advertising executive, he is determined to take her as his wife... [More...]
The Wrong Man (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock
Working as a bass player in an exclusive New York nightclub, Manny Balestrero earns just enough to keep himself, his wife Rose and his two young sons... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Working as a bass player in an exclusive New York nightclub, Manny Balestrero earns just enough to keep himself, his wife Rose and his two young sons... [More...]
The Young Lions (1958)
Edward Dmytryk
On the eve of World War II, Christian Diestl has high hopes that Hitler's National Socialist Party will bring about a better future for his country, but his illusions are soon shattered by the harsh realities of warfare... [More...]
Edward Dmytryk
On the eve of World War II, Christian Diestl has high hopes that Hitler's National Socialist Party will bring about a better future for his country, but his illusions are soon shattered by the harsh realities of warfare... [More...]