Movies by Year - 1951 (465)Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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13th Letter, TheRespectable citizens receive anonymous letters revealing their adulterous relationships. | 1951 | Otto Preminger (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.3 (453 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Abbott And Costello Meet The Invisible ManTwo bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name. | 1951 | Charles Lamont | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi, Sport | 6.8 (5.3K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Ace in the HoleA frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. | 1951 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.1 (34.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Across the Wide MissouriTrapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief. | 1951 | William A. Wellman (*) | Adventure, Romance, Western | 6.2 (2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Adventures of Captain FabianA sea captain becomes involved with a servant girl in early New Orleans. She sees him as a way to gain access into wealthy households. | 1951 | William Marshall, Robert Florey | Adventure | 5.6 (343 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
African Queen, TheIn WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship. | 1951 | John Huston (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 7.8 (77.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Aila, Pohjolan tytärOn IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1951 | Jack Witikka | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (26 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Alice in WonderlandAlice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way. | 1951 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.4 (137K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
All That I HaveDr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to the church, and, apparently, to some nef... | 1951 | William F. Claxton | Drama | 6.0 (39 votes) | 55 | 20240515 |
Along the Great DivideA U.S. Marshall and two deputies rescue a cattle rustler from a lynch mob led by a local cattle baron convinced that the rustler also killed his son. | 1951 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Western | 6.8 (2.2K votes) | 88 | 20231001 |
Amazing Monsieur Fabre [Monsieur Fabre]Pierre Fresnay plays the title role of a dedicated man, living in the south of France in the 19th-century and somewhat ahead of his time. Fabre ekes out a meager existence for his huge family as a mathematics instructor who studie... | 1951 | Henri Diamant-Berger | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (65 votes) | 90 | 20221116 |
An American in ParisThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (32.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
Angels in the OutfieldThe brash and abusive manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team receives the help of an angel to win games and to become a better person in the process. | 1951 | Clarence Brown | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport | 7.1 (2.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
AnnaAnna is a nurse and a nun, whose history catches up on her. | 1951 | Alberto Lattuada | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (397 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Anne of the IndiesIn order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence. | 1951 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Another Man's PoisonA mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels. | 1951 | Irving Rapper | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.0 (2.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Apache DrumsA gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches. | 1951 | Hugo Fregonese | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western | 6.6 (766 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Appointment with VenusDuring WW2, British Major Valentine Moreland is tasked with rescuing a prized pedigree cow from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel. | 1951 | Ralph Thomas | Comedy, Drama, War | 6.1 (313 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
As Young as You FeelA 65-year-old printer hatches an elaborate scheme to avoid forced retirement. | 1951 | Harmon Jones | Comedy | 6.4 (1.2K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
AsphaltOn IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1951 | Harald Röbbeling | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (34 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Assassin for HirePretending to be rare stamp dealer, a man devotedly supports wife and musically talented younger brother as a professional hit-man. | 1951 | Michael McCarthy | Crime, Mystery | 5.9 (71 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Attention! Bandits! [Achtung! Banditi!]About a group of Italian resistance fighters from Genoa and led by Commander Vento. They must seize a shipment of weapons destined for the German occupation. | 1951 | Carlo Lizzani | Drama, War | 6.4 (274 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Axe of Wandsbek, The [Das Beil von Wandsbek]After a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader, a ship owner, needs to find an executioner to kill the perpetrators and turns to a butcher. | 1951 | Falk Harnack | Drama | 7.1 (165 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Baby Sitters JittersThe stooges are facing eviction and decide to raise some money by becoming baby-sitters. Their first client is a women separated from her husband, who entrusts her son ""Junior"" to the boys' care. When The husband steals the baby, ... | 1951 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 6.8 (368 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
Bakonja fra BrneA young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline. | 1951 | Fedor Hanzekovic | Comedy | 6.8 (71 votes) | 104 | 20240625 |
BannerlineA cub reporter finagled a fake front page showing a dying professor's plan for civic reform. | 1951 | Don Weis | Drama | 5.7 (141 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Barefoot Mailman, TheA 19th-century con artist flees to the wilds of Florida to elude the law. | 1951 | Earl McEvoy | Adventure, Comedy | 6.0 (121 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Basketball Fix, TheA college basketball star collaborates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving.' A sportswriter tries to get him back on the right track. | 1951 | Felix E. Feist | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport | 5.5 (178 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Bedtime for BonzoA college professor attempts to salvage his personal and professional reputation by using a laboratory chimpanzee to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development. | 1951 | Frederick De Cordova | Comedy, Family, Romance | 5.4 (973 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Behave Yourself!When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law? | 1951 | George Beck | Comedy, Crime | 5.5 (686 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Behind Closed Shutters [Persiane chiuse]Sandra searches for her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa. | 1951 | Luigi Comencini | Drama | 6.5 (52 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
Belle Le GrandAfter serving a prison sentence in 1850, a New Orleans woman becomes a rich gambler, opens a casino on the Barbary Coast, gets romantically involved with Nevada mine owners and watches over the interests of her little sister. | 1951 | Allan Dwan | Western | 5.9 (184 votes) | 90 | 20220315 |
BellissimaA woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies. | 1951 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (4.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Best of the BadmenThe outlaws of the Clanton and Younger gangs are the heroes of this fictionalized biography. | 1951 | William D. Russell | Western | 6.0 (590 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Bibi FricotinBibi Fricotin is looking for the Z trunk to restore to Catherine the heritage of her ancestors. | 1951 | Marcel Blistène | Comedy | 5.0 (48 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Big Night, TheA teenager comes of age while seeking revenge on the man who beat up his father. | 1951 | Joseph Losey (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.3 (952 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Bikini Baby [Lady Godiva Rides Again]An unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant. | 1951 | Frank Launder | Comedy | 5.8 (338 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Black Crown [La corona negra]An amnesiac woman discovers her past was that of criminal. | 1951 | Luis Saslavsky | Drama, Mystery | 6.9 (113 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Black Sky [Cielo negro]A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man. | 1951 | Manuel Mur Oti | Drama | 7.3 (294 votes) | 113 | 20220414 |
Black Widow, TheMark Sherwin ( Robert Ayres) is the victim of a brutal beating and car theft. The thief dies in a crash; Mark suffers from amnesia, and recuperates on a horse-training property. Discovering a clue, he returns home to find he had b... | 1951 | Vernon Sewell | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (108 votes) | 62 | 20240524 |
Bloody Christmas [Matomena Hristougenna]Returning to Athens after the end of the World War II, Captain Nikolas finds out what happened to his family from a neighbor. | 1951 | Giorgos Zervos | Drama, War | 6.9 (56 votes) | 95 | 20220723 |
Blue BloodTim, an old race-horse trainer down on his luck, is thumbing his way from San Francisco to Los Angeles when he is given a ride by Eileen and Sue Buchanan, daughters of a wealthy Southen California race horse breeder. Tim sees "Tangle | 1951 | Lew Landers | Drama | 6.4 (31 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Blue Veil, TheLouise Mason is a young widow who fills her empty life with the task of becoming a children's nurse. As the years pass, and the widow tries to find her own place in life, her young charges, the children of various employers, grow and | 1951 | Curtis Bernhardt, Busby Berkeley | Drama | 7.1 (400 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Bolt Of Lightning, AThe story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during the American Revolutionary War. | 1951 | Paul Nickell | Drama | 6.1 (54 votes) | 60 | 20220414 |
Bonnadieu House, The [La maison Bonnadieu]nan | 1951 | Carlo Rim | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (71 votes) | 102 | 20240412 |
Bountiful Summer [Shchedroe leto]On IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1951 | Boris Barnet | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 5.8 (99 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Bowery BattalionIn order to trap some spies, the Bowery Boys join the Army. | 1951 | William Beaudine | Action, Comedy | 6.3 (308 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Boyhood [Shônenki]When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community. | 1951 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Drama, War | 6.8 (100 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Brave Bulls, TheIn 1950s Mexico, a famous bullfighter loses his nerve after he's injured and witnesses the death of another matador in the ring. | 1951 | Robert Rossen (*) | Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.1 (206 votes) | 106 | 20240416 |
Bride Of The GorillaThe owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. | 1951 | Curt Siodmak | Horror | 4.4 (1.3K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Bright VictoryAfter he gets blinded by a German sniper's bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery. | 1951 | Mark Robson | Drama, Romance, War | 7.3 (843 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Browning Version, TheAndrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife (Jean Kent). His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employmen | 1951 | Anthony Asquith | Drama | 8.2 (4.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Bullfighter and the LadyHoping to impress a beautiful senorita, an American visiting Mexico trains with a famous Mexican bullfighter and becomes a competing bullfighter himself. | 1951 | Budd Boetticher | Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.8 (578 votes) | 87 | 20220531 |
Bushwhackers, TheAn evil arthritic rancher and his murderous daughter are having settlers killed to prevent them from selling their land to the railroad. | 1951 | Rod Amateau | Film-Noir, Western | 5.6 (347 votes) | 70 | 20240515 |
Call Me MisterA G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops. | 1951 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Musical | 5.7 (231 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Callaway Went ThatawayTwo marketing professionals hire a lookalike of classic western actor Smoky Callaway to impersonate the actor and make new films, but things go awry when the real Callaway, thought long missing, returns. | 1951 | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Comedy, Western | 6.6 (683 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Calling Bulldog DrummondWith a ruthless gang terrorizing London, Scotland Yard calls Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond out of retirement. With the help of detective Helen Smith, Drummond infiltrates the gang under an assumed name. He and Smith become trusted gang-mem | 1951 | Victor Saville | Crime, Mystery | 6.2 (409 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters. | 1951 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.3 (6.5K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
Cárcel de mujeresEvangelina asesina a su amante Alberto. En prisión ella conoce a Dora, la novia de Alberto, quien fue privada de su libertad por los negocios ilicitos de él. Una interesante historia esta a punto de tejerse. | 1951 | Miguel M. Delgado | Drama, Crime | 6.9 (89 votes) | 83 | 20220315 |
Carmen Comes Home [Karumen kokyô ni kaeru]A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper. | 1951 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Comedy | 6.6 (594 votes) | 86 | 20220414 |
Case for PC 49, APC 49 grapples with a beautiful artist's model in a case involving the murder of a millionaire. | 1951 | Francis Searle | Mystery, Crime, Drama | 5.8 (85 votes) | 80 | 20240524 |
Cattle DriveA cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values. | 1951 | Kurt Neumann | Western | 6.5 (646 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Cause for AlarmAn invalid husband wrongly believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway. | 1951 | Tay Garnett | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (2.2K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Cavalry ScoutAfter 3 Gatling Guns are stolen from a Montana army arsenal, a Cavalry scout is dispatched there to retrieve them before the thieves can sell them to the Indians. | 1951 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.0 (141 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Cave of OutlawsReleased after serving 15 years in prison for train robbery Pete Carver being the only survivor of the gang goes looking for the loot in the caves where it was hidden. | 1951 | William Castle | Action, Drama, Romance, Western | 5.9 (315 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Chicago CallingA poor father makes monumental efforts to get money to keep his phone installed, so he can get word on his critically injured little daughter. | 1951 | John Reinhardt | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (263 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
China CorsairIn 'The Green Dragon' gambling club, operated by Hu Chang (Ernest Borgnine), a merchant marine, McMillen (Jon Hall), bets the last of his money. He is cheated out of his winnings. He gets a job on the Sally Ann as the engineer. On... | 1951 | Ray Nazarro | Adventure | 5.5 (53 votes) | 76 | 20221116 |
Christmas Carol, AEbenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the errors of his | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | Drama, Family, Fantasy | 8.1 (22.6K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Circle of DangerIn the 1950s, an American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid in Nazi-occupied France. | 1951 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (632 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Close to My HeartA columnist and his wife deal with obstacles when they try to adopt an abandoned baby. | 1951 | William Keighley | Drama | 6.5 (467 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
Clothes of Deception [Itsuwareru seiso]The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board. | 1951 | Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Drama | 7.1 (66 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
CloudburstA Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife. | 1951 | Francis Searle | Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.7 (613 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Come Fill the CupAlcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics. His boss enlists his help to sob | 1951 | Gordon Douglas | Drama | 6.9 (469 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Comin' Round The MountainBud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions. | 1951 | Charles Lamont | Comedy, Musical | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Company She Keeps, TheFollows the progress of a female ex-convict as she tries to rebuild her life after being released from prison. | 1951 | John Cromwell | Drama | 6.4 (513 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Cops and Robbers [Guardie e ladri]Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito. | 1951 | Mario Monicelli, Steno | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (1.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Crazy Over HorsesThe boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers. | 1951 | William Beaudine | Comedy | 6.3 (248 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Criminal LawyerAlcoholic lawyer sobers up to defend friend in murder case. | 1951 | Seymour Friedman | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (115 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
CrosswindsAdventurer tries to recover gold from sunken plane. | 1951 | Lewis R. Foster | Adventure, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (192 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Cry DangerEx-con Rocky Mulloy seeks the real culprit in the crime for which he was framed in a night world of deceptive dames and double crosses. | 1951 | Robert Parrish, Dick Powell | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (2.4K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Cry, the Beloved CountryIn the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier) | 1951 | Zoltan Korda | Drama | 7.0 (761 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Cyclone FuryJohnny is a young Indian boy who falls heir to thousands of wild horses when his adoptive white father is murdered by henchmen of the town's leading citizen, Grat Hanlon. With the aid of his protector Steve Reynolds, he acquires a... | 1951 | Ray Nazarro | Western | 6.3 (78 votes) | 53 | 20241019 |
Dancer, The [Maihime]The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family. | 1951 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama | 6.7 (128 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Danger ZoneClaire Underwood hires San Francisco private-detective Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at an auction, and O'Brien is promptly slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien snoops around and learns that Claire... | 1951 | William Berke | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.3 (143 votes) | 56 | 20240515 |
Dark Light, TheThe crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law. | 1951 | Vernon Sewell | Drama | 4.8 (33 votes) | 75 | 20240515 |
Dark Man, TheA killer known as 'The Dark Man' commits double murder. This is witnessed by the young aspiring actress Molly Lester. The Dark Man tries everything to put Molly out of the way. Detective Inspector Viner of Scotland Yard investigates | 1951 | Jeffrey Dell | Crime, Thriller, Drama | 6.3 (211 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Darling, How Could You!When an imaginative girl has fantasies that her mother is having an affair, her visions almost ruin her parents domestic life. Based on the play "Alice Sit By The Fire" by James M. Barrie. | 1951 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy | 6.3 (270 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
David and BathshebaAfter King David sees the beautiful Bathsheba bathing from the palace roof, he enters into an adulterous affair which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel. | 1951 | Henry King | Drama, Family, History, Romance | 6.1 (2.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
Day the Earth Stood Still, TheAn alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. | 1951 | Robert Wise (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (80.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Dear BratWoman gets involved with a crook trying to reform. | 1951 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (148 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Death of a SalesmanAn over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family. | 1951 | Laslo Benedek | Drama | 7.2 (1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
DeburauJean-Gaspard Deburau is a very successful mime, the most famous in his category. One day, he falls head over heels in love with Marie Duplessis, a courtesan better known as ""La Dame aux Camélias"". But he soon realizes that he is b... | 1951 | Sacha Guitry (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (77 votes) | 93 | 20240303 |
Decision Before DawnAs the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines. | 1951 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, War | 7.2 (2.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
Desert Fox, The - The Story of RommelThe story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel. | 1951 | Henry Hathaway | Biography, Drama, War | 6.9 (6.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Detective StoryOn one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod. | 1951 | William Wyler (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.6 (8.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Diary of a Country PriestA young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment. | 1951 | Robert Bresson (*) | Drama | 7.9 (11K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Distant DrumsAfter destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety. | 1951 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, War, Western | 6.4 (2.4K votes) | 101 | 20240419 |
Don't Throw That KnifeThe stooges become census takers and wind up in the apartment of a lady whose husband is both jealous and a knife thrower. When the husband arrives home, the boys try to hide, but are discovered, and after dodging some knives, lea... | 1951 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (334 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
Double Cross [Il tradimento]Pietro, an honest businessman, is wrongly accused of the murder of his business associate and jailed. Actually the man is alive and has set him up to avoid bankruptcy. Pietro's life is shattered of course and when after many years he | 1951 | Riccardo Freda | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (67 votes) | 85 | 20220315 |
Double CrossbonesAfter being falsely accused of dishonesty, a young man decides to become a pirate. | 1951 | Charles Barton | Adventure, Comedy, History, Musical, Romance | 5.9 (307 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Double DynamiteAn innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter. | 1951 | Irving Cummings | Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.9 (1.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Dr. Knock [Knock]Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this on | 1951 | Guy Lefranc | Comedy | 7.3 (530 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Drums In The Deep SouthTwo old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain. | 1951 | William Cameron Menzies | Drama, History, Romance, War, Western | 5.8 (376 votes) | 87 | 20220531 |
Early SummerA family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans. | 1951 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Drama | 8.2 (8.3K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
Edward and Caroline [Édouard et Caroline]Edouard is a pianist, married with Caroline. This evening, they are invited to Claude's. Claude is the snobbish uncle of Caroline, his son Alain (as snobbish as his father) is in love with Caroline. They spite Edouard a little becaus | 1951 | Jacques Becker (*) | Comedy | 7.0 (584 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Elephant StampedeElephant poachers Joe Collins and Bob Warren plan to steal a load of ivory which the natives want to give to the missionary, Miss Banks, but Bomba the Jungle Boy calls on friendly elephants to trample them to death. | 1951 | Ford Beebe | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller | 5.5 (172 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
ElopementIndustrial designer Howard Osborne (Clifton Webb) wants his daughter Jacqueline (Anne Francis), shortened to Jake by her efficient-minded father, to follow in his footsteps and study abroad. But, following her graduation dance, she f | 1951 | Henry Koster (*) | Comedy | 6.4 (166 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
EncoreAdaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham comprise this anthology film where the celebrated author introduces each segment of the film in front of the camera. | 1951 | Harold French, Pat Jackson, Anthony Pelissier | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (574 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Enforcer, TheA crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc. | 1951 | Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (4.9K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Excuse My DustJoe, an inventor in an American small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", and only his girlfriend believes in him. When he's halfw | 1951 | Roy Rowland, Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (353 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
F.B.I. GirlA governor planning to run for U.S. Senate has a secret past that could prove damaging to his political aspirations: he's a convicted murderer, and that will come to light if the FBI does an investigative check on him. He goes to a l | 1951 | William Berke | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.0 (225 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Family Circus, TheFive-year-old Patsy has competition for her father's attention from the family's new baby daughter. Her attempts to win her father's praise receive instead a rebuke. The father slips on a roller-skate, knocking himself unconscious... | 1951 | Art Babbitt, John Hubley | Animation, Short, Family | 5.8 (44 votes) | 7 | 20240803 |
Family Secret, TheA lawyer faces a difficult decision when his son accidentally kills his best friend with no witnesses present, and a rift develops when his mother and father offer contradictory solutions to their son's dilemma. | 1951 | Henry Levin | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (124 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Fanfares of Love [Fanfaren der Liebe]Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue. | 1951 | Kurt Hoffmann | Comedy, Romance | 5.5 (147 votes) | 91 | 20230424 |
Far Away in the Bushveld [Daar Doer in die Bosveld]The film is a comedy about a shy farmer named Hans Botha who is asked to pick up a young school teacher named Martie du Toit. When Hans arrives at the bus stop to pick up Martie he is completely dumbstruck by her beauty and only able | 1951 | Jamie Uys | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (34 votes) | 61 | 20220414 |
Fat Man, TheA dentist's murder is investigated by hefty sleuth Brad Runyan. | 1951 | William Castle | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.2 (429 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Father's Little DividendShortly after coming to terms with his daughter's marriage, a father faces the prospect of becoming a grandfather. | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 (3.7K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Fighting Coast GuardStory of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II. | 1951 | Joseph Kane | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 6.6 (105 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Finders KeepersThe amusing story of a young child, who, after playing outside, goes back into the house with - literally - a truckload of money, the spoils of a robbers' heist.... | 1951 | Frederick De Cordova | Comedy | 6.1 (29 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Fireworks Over the Sea [Umi no hanabi]The Kamiya family struggles to keep the town fishing association from going bankrupt as they deal with a dishonest captain and his degenerate crew. | 1951 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Action, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (62 votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
FiveThe world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk. | 1951 | Arch Oboler | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (1.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Five Men of Edo [Oedo go-nin otoko]During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo. Opposing them was Banzui-in Chobei,whose sole aim was to save Edo from the hatamoto as their vio | 1951 | Daisuke Itô | Action, Drama, History | 6.6 (57 votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
Fixed Bayonets!The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility. | 1951 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Action, Drama, War | 6.9 (1.9K votes) | 92 | 20220731 |
Flame of ArabyAn Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords. | 1951 | Charles Lamont | Adventure | 5.6 (276 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Flame of StamboulA gang of thieves in Istanbul, led by a mastermind criminal known as "The Voice", are planning to steal defense plans important to the protection of the Suez Canal during a peace conference to be held there. Larry Wilson, an American | 1951 | Ray Nazarro | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.4 (57 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Flesh and BloodThree generations of a Scottish family suffer from the effects of heredity | 1951 | Anthony Kimmins | Drama | 6.0 (77 votes) | 102 | 20220414 |
Flight To MarsFive astronauts successfully fly to Mars where they encounter seemingly friendly and advanced inhabitants who harbor covert plans to use their ship to invade Earth. | 1951 | Lesley Selander | Drama, Sci-Fi | 5.2 (1.1K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Flying LeathernecksMajor Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal. | 1951 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Action, Drama, War | 6.4 (4.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Forbidden Christ, The [Il Cristo proibito]Back in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager. But nobody wants to give him the name of the culprit. At long l | 1951 | Curzio Malaparte | Drama, Mystery, War | 7.1 (236 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Force Of ArmsDuring World War II in Italy, an American sergeant and WAC lieutenant take time out for romance. | 1951 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.5 (581 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Fort DefianceA former Civil War solider bent on killing the man whose surrender got his brother killed, later finds out a rancher wants that same man and his blind brother killed. | 1951 | John Rawlins | Western | 6.1 (398 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Fortune in Diamonds [The Adventurers]Peter Brandt is a soldier journeying across the countryside of South Africa after the Boer War. | 1951 | David MacDonald | Adventure, Drama | 5.5 (177 votes) | 74 | 20240727 |
Four DaysThe bored wife of a business man has an affair with one of his employees. | 1951 | John Guillermin | Drama | 5.9 (69 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
Four in a Jeep [Die Vier im Jeep]Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna. | 1951 | Leopold Lindtberg, Elizabeth Montagu | Drama | 6.5 (298 votes) | 80 | 20220315 |
Four Ways Out [La città si difende]Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police. | 1951 | Pietro Germi | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (375 votes) | 74 | 20220723 |
Fourteen HoursAn unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours. | 1951 | Henry Hathaway | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (2.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Franchise Affair, TheMichael Denison plays a lawyer investigating kidnapping charges against Dulcie Gray. Based on a novel of Josephine Tey. | 1951 | Lawrence Huntington | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (271 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Francis Goes to the RacesThe owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters. | 1951 | Arthur Lubin | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 6.4 (483 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Frogmen, TheThe new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed ""Frogmen""--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one. | 1951 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 96 | 20240622 |
Fury of the CongoJungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider. | 1951 | William Berke | Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.0 (275 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Galloping Major, TheA syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they decide to enter him as a jumper. | 1951 | Henry Cornelius | Comedy | 6.5 (178 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Game of Chance, A [Baazi]An ace gambler is forced to join a gambling syndicate in order to pay for the treatment of his ill sister and is framed for murder when he expresses his desire to get out. | 1951 | Guru Dutt (*) | Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (384 votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
Gasoline AlleyThe popular Frank O. King comic strip characters go from newspaper page to screen in this 1951 feature film from legendary comedy director Edward Bernds (of Three Stooges and Bowery Boys fame). Scotty Beckett and Jimmy Lydon are C... | 1951 | Edward Bernds | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.4 (128 votes) | 76 | 20230715 |
Ghost ChasersA ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor. | 1951 | William Beaudine | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 6.3 (418 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Gigolo [Gibier de potence]Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady wo | 1951 | Roger Richebé | Drama | 6.9 (59 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Girl on the Bridge, TheAn elderly watchmaker stops a beautiful young blonde from committing suicide by throwing herself off a bridge. They eventually marry, and things go well until a man from the woman's somewhat unsavory past shows up and attempts to bla | 1951 | Hugo Haas | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (177 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Go for Broke!The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II. | 1951 | Robert Pirosh | Drama, History, War | 6.7 (1.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Gold RaidersOn his way to Red Mesa to insure mine owners against loss from raids on their ore shipments, George O'Brien is ambushed by the raiders, and is accidentally saved by the Three Stooges who run a traveling variety store. O'Brien sell... | 1951 | Edward Bernds | Comedy, Family, Western | 5.6 (283 votes) | 56 | 20240228 |
Golden GirlAgainst the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular. | 1951 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Drama, Musical, Western | 5.9 (268 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Golden Horde, TheThe princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan. | 1951 | George Sherman | Action, Adventure | 5.5 (195 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Good Enough to Eat [Une fille à croquer]Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hire... | 1951 | Raoul André | Comedy | 5.1 (12 votes) | 83 | 20240219 |
Goodbye My FancyCongresswoman Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for commencement, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. Their attempts at rekindling any sparks are thwarted by t | 1951 | Vincent Sherman | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (853 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Great Caruso, TheThis film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to | 1951 | Richard Thorpe | Biography, Drama, Music | 6.5 (1.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Green Grow the RushesAfter their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers. | 1951 | Derek N. Twist | Comedy, Thriller | 5.9 (237 votes) | 77 | 20220731 |
Groom Wore Spurs, TheAn attorney is hired to keep a dumb cowboy out of trouble. | 1951 | Richard Whorf | Comedy | 5.3 (340 votes) | 81 | 20220414 |
Grounds for MarriageOpera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett. | 1951 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Musical | 6.0 (223 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Guy Who Came Back, TheFormer football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light. | 1951 | Joseph M. Newman | Drama, Sport | 6.3 (67 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Hakuchi [The Idiot]A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman. | 1951 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (5.1K votes) | 166 | 20220823 |
Half AngelNurse Nora Gilpin is attracted to lawyer John Raymond whom she dislikes during the day and seduces during the night, when she sleepwalks. | 1951 | Richard Sale | Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (355 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Halls of MontezumaA company of Marines races against the clock to find a Japanese rocket base. | 1951 | Lewis Milestone | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 6.6 (2.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Hanna AmonHanna Amon and her brother Thomas live on an estate they've inherited from their parents. Local veterinarian Brunner loves Hanna from afar, and Thomas is in love with the daughter of the local mayor. Love, however, doesn't always mea | 1951 | Veit Harlan | Drama | 6.0 (78 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Happy Go LovelyA chorus girl gets a ride from millionaire Bruno's driver. The cash-strapped theater director thinks, she's Bruno's girlfriend and makes her the lead. She meets Bruno, thinking he's a reporter. More confusion follows. | 1951 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (799 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Hard Fast and BeautifulTennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions. | 1951 | Ida Lupino (*) | Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.3 (586 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Hard, Fast and BeautifulTennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions. | 1951 | Ida Lupino (*) | Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.2 (583 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Harlem Globetrotters, TheAbe Saperstein, owner/manager of the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional basketball team, signs Billy Townsend, an All-American, to play with the "Globetrotters." Saperstein wants Billy to finish school fir | 1951 | Phil Brown, Will Jason | Drama, Sport | 6.1 (232 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
He Ran All the WayNick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manh | 1951 | John Berry | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (2.4K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Heart of the RockiesRoy Rogers, a highway engineer, strongly favors a youth-rehabilitation camp sponsored by retired State Prison Warden Parker where young first-offenders can be reformed without being exposed to penitentiary life. Andrew Willard, throu | 1951 | William Witney | Western | 6.2 (83 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Her First RomanceBetty Foster (Margaret O'Brien), a high school student, has a crush on Bobby Evans (Allen Martin Jr.), who is more interested in sports than girls. Betty and her kid brother,Herbie (Jimmy Hunt), follow Bobby and Lucille Stewart (Elin | 1951 | Seymour Friedman | Drama, Romance | 5.3 (134 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Here Comes the GroomForeign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted. | 1951 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (1.1K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
High TreasonA wave of sabotage has been sweeping England, taking lives and creating instability. Cmdr. Robert Brennan and Supt. Folland of the Special Branch and Major Elliott of MI5 are charged with putting an end to this internal terrorism. | 1951 | Roy Boulting | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (321 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Highwayman, TheDuring the 1700s, a masked bandit robs the rich and aids the poor, to the chagrin of the authorities and the corrupt nobility, and prompting the king to task a ruthless man from the Colonies to capture the outlaw. | 1951 | Lesley Selander | Adventure, Drama, Music | 7.0 (89 votes) | 82 | 20230715 |
His Kind of WomanA deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle. | 1951 | John Farrow, Richard Fleischer | Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (4.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Hollywood StoryDuring the 1950s Hollywood, an independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms when he decides to make a movie about the 1929 unsolved murder of a famous silent-film director. | 1951 | William Castle | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (616 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Home Sweet Home [Waga ya wa tanoshi]There's no place like home: even with four children, the Uemura family is able to live a modest but happy life in their cramped, rented flat. | 1951 | Noboru Nakamura | Drama | 6.5 (31 votes) | 91 | 20230424 |
Home to DangerA drug dealer tries to kill his partner's daughter after she inherits an old house. | 1951 | Terence Fisher (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.9 (260 votes) | 66 | 20220723 |
Home Town StoryAfter failing to be re-elected, politician Blake Washburn returns home and becomes editor of the local newspaper. When he notices the influence the paper has on the public, he uses it to appeal to potential voters in the next electio | 1951 | Arthur Pierson | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.0 (928 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Hoodlum, TheParoled sociopath and career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his family's trust when he masterminds a complex armored car robbery. | 1951 | Max Nosseck | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.2 (970 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Hotel SaharaIn World War II, desert hotel proprietors Emad and Yasmin are caught between the warring armies and have to constantly shift their political allegiance to whichever army happens to control the area. | 1951 | Ken Annakin | Comedy, Romance, War | 6.2 (282 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
House on Telegraph Hill, TheConcentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder after she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America. | 1951 | Robert Wise (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (2.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Hula La LaThe stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to ... | 1951 | Hugh McCollum | Short, Comedy | 7.0 (315 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
Hurricane IslandExplorer Ponce de Leon searches for the Fountain of Youth in the Florida swamps. | 1951 | Lew Landers | Adventure | 5.1 (81 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
I Can Get It For You WholesaleA ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves. | 1951 | Michael Gordon | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (513 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
I Want YouIn 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription. | 1951 | Mark Robson | Drama | 6.5 (508 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red. | 1951 | Gordon Douglas | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (800 votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
I Was an American SpyDuring WW2, an American woman posing as an Italian cabaret owner spies on the Japanese in Manila but becomes the target of a suspicious Japanese intelligence officer. | 1951 | Lesley Selander | Biography, Drama, War | 6.6 (269 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
I'd Climb the Highest MountainThe simply told story, based on Corra Harris' biographical book of a Methodist minister, called to a north-Georgia mountain-community in 1910 who, with his gently-bred new bride, meets the problems and crises of his circuit-riding co | 1951 | Henry King | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (538 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
I'll Get You For This [Lucky Nick Cain]American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. He is puzzled by the reception and welcome he receives from the management of the casino until he f | 1951 | Joseph M. Newman | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (154 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
I'll Never Forget YouA scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th-century London, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman. | 1951 | Roy Ward Baker | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.1 (919 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
I'll See You In My DreamsThe success and decline of songwriter Gus Kahn is portrayed, with his wife, Grace Kahn, sticking by him the whole time. | 1951 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Biography, Comedy, Musical | 6.8 (1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
In Old AmarilloA drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by | 1951 | William Witney | Western | 6.3 (68 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
In the Palm of Your Hand [En la palma de tu mano]A fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died. | 1951 | Roberto Gavaldón | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (257 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Inside StraightRip MacCool has learned early in life that "money talks" (and other stuff walks), as does the audience via flashbacks, and after he arrives in San Francisco, he has no qualms about being ruthless in business, and his first fast-deal | 1951 | Gerald Mayer | Drama, Romance, Western | 6.2 (225 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Inside the Walls of Folsom PrisonAt California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden. | 1951 | Crane Wilbur | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (264 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Insurance InvestigatorWhen a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened. | 1951 | George Blair | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.3 (72 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Iron ManAn ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother. | 1951 | Joseph Pevney | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport | 6.3 (275 votes) | 82 | 20240303 |
Isleros, LosLeandro and the Carancha are inhabitants of the islands of the Parana Delta and agree a pair. They are rough persons done to the hard fight for the life in these places. They have a son who takes to the house a girl; the presence ... | 1951 | Lucas Demare | Drama | 7.5 (126 votes) | 112 | 20230830 |
It's a Big Country - An American AnthologyThe story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning. The parables represent a broad cross-section of the Amer | 1951 | Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 (592 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
It's Him!... Yes! Yes! [Era lui, sì, sì!]Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose. One day a | 1951 | Marino Girolami, Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz | Comedy | 5.8 (75 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Ivory Hunter [Where No Vultures Fly]A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park to protect them. He acquires more than 1000 square miles of lan | 1951 | Harry Watt | Adventure, Drama | 6.4 (157 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Jim Thorpe, All-AmericanThe triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality. | 1951 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, Sport | 6.9 (2.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Joe Palooka in Triple CrossJoe and Anne Palooka, along with Joe's trainer Knobby, are vacationing when they a kidnapped by The Professor and his gang. The Professor plans to make Joe throw a fight (and shows up at the fight dressed as Anne's aunt). | 1951 | Reginald Le Borg | Drama, Sport | 5.8 (33 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Juliette, or Key of Dreams [Juliette ou La clef des songes]Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all th | 1951 | Marcel Carné (*) | Drama | 7.0 (393 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Jungle ManhuntFootball player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim. | 1951 | Lew Landers | Action, Adventure, Romance | 5.7 (363 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
KekecIn an alpine valley lies an idyllic village. High up in the mountains, facing each others across live two men: a ""good grandpa"" and an ""evil man"". The first is herbe picker Kosobirin, the other Bedanec is a poacher. The latter has... | 1951 | Joze Gale | Adventure, Family | 7.9 (870 votes) | 97 | 20240224 |
Kentucky JubileeA Hollywood film director has been sent to Hickory, Kentucky to find material and acts for a hillbilly picture. He is kidnapped by henchmen of a big-town city slicker who has taken over the operation of the town's annual jubilee, mos | 1951 | Ron Ormond | Comedy, Music | 5.5 (26 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Kilties Are Coming, TheThe Royal Kiltie Juniors perform a variety show, and are interviewed by Peter Sinclair, while McDonald Hobley speaks to their parents. | 1951 | Robert Jordan Hill | Documentary, Musical | 4.7 (12 votes) | 52 | 20211228 |
Kind LadyMary Herries (Ethel Barrymore) has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Harry Springer Elcott | 1951 | John Sturges (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (941 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Krane's Confectionery [Kranes konditori]A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life. | 1951 | Astrid Henning-Jensen | Drama | 6.5 (79 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
La PoisonThrough a series of circumstances and plot twists an enterprising man manages to get away with murdering his wife, even though he cheerfully admits his guilt in court. | 1951 | Sacha Guitry (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.5 (1.3K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Lady and the Bandit, TheA dramatization of the life of the English bandit Dick Turpin. | 1951 | Ralph Murphy | Adventure, Biography, Romance | 6.2 (77 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Lady from Boston, The [Pardon My French]A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who h | 1951 | Bernard Vorhaus | Comedy, Romance | 5.5 (33 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Lady from Musashino, The [Musashino fujin]Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close. | 1951 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (646 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Lady Pays Off, TheThe naive Evelyn Warren, elected shool-teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino-manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter | 1951 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 (118 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Lady Says No, TheA woman writes a best-selling book for women warning them about the "dangers" of men. A handsome photographer for a national magazine arrives in her town to do a feature story on her. Complications ensue. | 1951 | Frank Ross | Comedy | 5.4 (366 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Lady With A Lamp, TheBased on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Travel | 1951 | Herbert Wilcox | Drama, History, War | 6.6 (162 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Last Outpost, TheDespite their fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War, brothers Vance and Jeb Britton have to set their differences aside in order to survive an Indian attack. | 1951 | Lewis R. Foster | Western | 5.9 (507 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Late Edwina Black, TheAfter a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery | 1951 | Maurice Elvey | Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (304 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Laughter in ParadiseAfter a millionaire practical joker dies, his fortune is divided among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in. | 1951 | Mario Zampi | Comedy | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Lavender Hill Mob, TheA meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. | 1951 | Charles Crichton (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.6 (13.9K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Law and the Lady, TheA beguiling international jewel thief loses her heart. | 1951 | Edwin H. Knopf | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (457 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Law of the BadlandsThe Texas Rangers send Dave and Chito into the badlands to see if they can locate a counterfeiting operation. They arrive posing as wanted outlaws and this gets them into the gang. But as soon as they uncover the operation and locate | 1951 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.3 (84 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
Lemon Drop Kid, TheA New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive. | 1951 | Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin | Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance | 7.1 (2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Let's Go CrazyA short musical featurette set in a nightclub combining variety acts with linking comedy sketches written by Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. | 1951 | Alan Cullimore | Comedy, Short, Musical | 5.4 (163 votes) | 32 | 20211228 |
Let's Go Navy!The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors. | 1951 | William Beaudine | Comedy, Family | 6.4 (267 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Let's Make It LegalThe nearly-final divorce of the Halsworths suddenly gets complicated when Miriam's old flame comes to town. | 1951 | Richard Sale | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (1.2K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Life of a Horsetrader, The [Bakurô ichidai]This early gem starring the great Mifune Toshiro tells the tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's rugged northernmost territory of Hokkaddo.. always ready to drink, fight, gamble and cha | 1951 | Keigo Kimura | Drama | 7.7 (64 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Light Touch, TheAfter a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it. | 1951 | Richard Brooks | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (379 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Lightning Strikes TwiceSent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife. | 1951 | King Vidor (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.5 (851 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Lion Hunters, TheBomba the Jungle Boy informs ne'er-do-well lion hunters that the lions were meant to roam the jungle freely. Since they pay him no attention, Bomba must save the lions (and Jean, incidentally). | 1951 | Ford Beebe | Adventure | 5.5 (166 votes) | 75 | 20220315 |
Little Big HornA small band of cavalry attempt to warn Custer of an impending massacre. Friction develops when commander of the patrol suspects his subordinate of having an affair with his wife. | 1951 | Charles Marquis Warren | Western | 6.6 (420 votes) | 86 | 20220414 |
Little EgyptA belly dancer causes a scandal with her "suggestive" and "immoral" dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century. | 1951 | Frederick De Cordova | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (44 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Long Dark Hall, TheA devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the only suspect when someone else murders her. | 1951 | Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (453 votes) | 86 | 20220414 |
Lord Epping ReturnsIn an effort to get a contract from a British industrialist, Errol arranges a stag party featuring exotic dancer Claire Carleton, whom he is forced to introduce to his wife as Lady Epping; Errol must then disguise himself as Lord Epp | 1951 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (29 votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
Lorna DooneSet in 17th century Scotland, a young woman falls in love with a humble villager whose community suffers under the rule of her despotic landowning family. | 1951 | Phil Karlson (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (203 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Los islas MariasThe live and hardship of the inmates at Las Islas Marias Penal Colony, a Mexican Federal Corrections Center placed on these very wild islands. | 1951 | Emilio Fernández | Drama | 6.9 (97 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Lost ContinentMajor Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing. | 1951 | Sam Newfield | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 3.3 (1.5K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Lost One, The [Der Verlorene]German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy. | 1951 | Peter Lorre | Crime, Drama, Thriller, War | 7.1 (1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Love NestTwo married New Yorkers purchase an old, run-down building full of colorful tenants. | 1951 | Joseph M. Newman | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (1.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Lovers of Bras-Mort, The [Les amants de Bras-Mort]Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named ""Bras-Mort"". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family... | 1951 | Marcello Pagliero | Drama | 5.9 (21 votes) | 95 | 20240803 |
Lullaby of BroadwayA showgirl returns to her New York home to visit her alcoholic mother, where she catches the eye of a Broadway producer. | 1951 | David Butler | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (1.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
LyntogetCan you make the perfect crime? This movie is about that it is the small things, that decide if the plan will put people in jail or make the perfect crime. | 1951 | Aage Wiltrup | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (37 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
MIn this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious killer who preys on small children. | 1951 | Joseph Losey (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the FarmThe Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygienically". | 1951 | Edward Sedgwick | Comedy | 7.0 (738 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Madame Gambles [Madame Louise], TheEmployees of a dress shop battle with a crooked gambler to get their jobs back. | 1951 | Maclean Rogers | Comedy | 5.5 (49 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Magic Box, TheA chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema. | 1951 | John Boulting | Biography, Drama | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Magic Carpet, TheUsing a magic flying carpet and a handful of friends, the son of a murdered Caliph must fight the usurper in order to win the throne of the Caliphate. | 1951 | Lew Landers | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | 5.1 (279 votes) | 84 | 20220414 |
Magic Face, TheActor becomes Hitler's valet, murders him, takes his place and ruins Nazi Germany's war efforts. | 1951 | Frank Tuttle | Drama, War | 7.0 (92 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Mamma mia, che impressione!Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race. | 1951 | Roberto Savarese | Comedy | 5.9 (135 votes) | 75 | 20221212 |
Man from Planet X, TheAs a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions. | 1951 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (2.7K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Man in the SaddleA private deadly feud ensues when ruthless wealthy rancher Will Isham attempts a takeover of small rancher Owen Merritt's land and marries Owen's old flame, Laurie Bidwell. | 1951 | André De Toth | Western | 6.3 (1.6K votes) | 87 | 20240622 |
Man in The White Suit , TheAn altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons. | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick (*) | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.3 (9.6K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Man of Straw [Der Untertan]Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the | 1951 | Wolfgang Staudte | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (869 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Man With A Cloak,TheIn 1848 NYC, a Frenchwoman visits exiled former French Marshal Thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his French grandson but Thevenet's house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune. | 1951 | Fletcher Markle | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Man With My Face, TheA man arrives home one night to find that a look- alike has taken over his life completely. | 1951 | Edward Montagne | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.1 (367 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Mark of the Renegade, TheSet in 19th century California Marcos Zappa goes undercover as a pirate to expose the crooked Don Pedro Garcia. | 1951 | Hugo Fregonese | Adventure, Romance, Western | 6.0 (208 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Mask of the AvengerDuring the European revolutionary fervor of 1848, Italian Captain Renato Dimorna tries to avenge his father's death, goes against the corrupt local military governor Larocca and prevents an Austrian military invasion. | 1951 | Phil Karlson (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | 5.5 (305 votes) | 83 | 20240625 |
Mask of the DragonLt. Dan Oliver, an American soldier in Korea, agrees to deliver a jade dragon statuette to a curio shop in Los Angeles. Soon after his arrival, he is murdered. Phil Ramsey and Ginny O'Donnell trace the murder to the shop of Professor | 1951 | Sam Newfield | Drama | 3.8 (98 votes) | 53 | 20211228 |
Mating Season, TheEllen McNulty loses her hamburger joint and goes to see her son, who marries a socialite at the same time. Due to her modest background and a case of mistaken identity, Ellen poses as the newlyweds' cook. | 1951 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (1.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Medium, TheMadame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent séances. Menotti's first international success, "The Medium" is a tragedy in two acts for five singers, a dance-mime role, and a chambe | 1951 | Gian Carlo Menotti | Drama, Music | 6.2 (159 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Meet Me After the ShowDelilah Lee is the star of husband Jeff Ames' Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show's vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day. | 1951 | Richard Sale | Comedy, Music, Musical | 6.2 (184 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Merry MavericksSet in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an Indian Chief. The crooks es... | 1951 | Edward Bernds | Comedy, Western, Short | 7.1 (356 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
Million Dollar PursuitAfter finding a lost key for a cashier's office in a large department store, a small-time criminal recruits four hoodlums to aid him in robbing the store's cash vault. | 1951 | R.G. Springsteen | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.0 (72 votes) | 60 | 20240515 |
Millionaire for Christy, AThis hilarious comedy gave MacMurray a chance to show his comedic chops as Peter, a radio personality who is told he's just inherited two million dollars by a gold-digging secretary. | 1951 | George Marshall (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (504 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano]An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan. | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.7 (7.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Miss Julie [Fröken Julie]An heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family's servants. | 1951 | Alf Sjöberg | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Miss Oyu [Oyû-sama]Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke | 1951 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama | 7.5 (1.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Missing WomenAfter newlywed Claudia Rankin's husband is murdered, she sets out to avenge his killing by posing as a criminal and successfully infiltrating the gang of car thieves responsible for his death. However, this puts her own life in peril | 1951 | Philip Ford | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport | 6.6 (111 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Mister UniverseA gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man and a wrestling prompter. He wins match after match, legitimately, and then balks when he is told he must lose a match, as all in the p | 1951 | Joseph Lerner | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 6.7 (63 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Mob, TheJohnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force. In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way. Will Johnny be next in line? | 1951 | Robert Parrish | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Model and the Marriage Brokers, TheMarriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients' affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can't resist meddling in her life, by disentangling her from a married man and fixing her up with a nice radiologis | 1951 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.1 (712 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Mr Drake's DuckMr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search | 1951 | Val Guest | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 5.5 (87 votes) | 75 | 20220414 |
Mr. Belvedere Rings the BellAn urbane, sharp-tongued expert on how to stay young interrupts a lecturing tour to prove his theory at a dilapidated old people's home. To the despair of his agent and the alarm of the priest running it, he infiltrates the home by l | 1951 | Henry Koster (*) | Comedy | 7.0 (477 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Mr. Denning Drives NorthA British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed. | 1951 | Anthony Kimmins | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (483 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Mr. ImperiumA beautiful romance between a singer and a persistent prince | 1951 | Don Hartman | Drama, Musical, Romance | 5.0 (476 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Mr. Peek-a-boo [Le Passe-Muraille]A mild-mannered government bureaucrat discovers that he has the ability to walk through walls. | 1951 | Jean Boyer | Comedy, Fantasy | 6.2 (466 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Murder In The CathedralThe tape version, if one exists, may be 114 minutes but the film, on original release, ran the same 140 minutes in the USA as it did in England. It is an experimental transposition of the Eliot play to the screen and, as such, and El | 1951 | George Hoellering | Drama | 7.0 (90 votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
My Favorite SpyA burlesque comic, who resembles an international spy, is recruited by the government and sent to Tangier to retrieve a sensitive microfilm before it's captured by hostile foreign agents. | 1951 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
My Forbidden PastBarbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800's. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. Barbara's family is of the high society stratum | 1951 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (922 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
My Outlaw BrotherA young man travels to Mexico in search of his brother, who has become involved with a dangerous gang. | 1951 | Elliott Nugent | Western | 5.2 (290 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
My True StoryStory of a female jewel thief. | 1951 | Mickey Rooney | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (118 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
My Wife is Formidable [Ma femme est formidable]Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the f... | 1951 | André Hunebelle | Comedy | 5.4 (53 votes) | 92 | 20240820 |
Mystery JunctionLarry Gordon, well-known crime writer, is on a train journey when a scream is heard. Upon investigation, the guard had been mugged and a man murdered. Another man is arrested but the full story is yet to be discovered. | 1951 | Michael McCarthy | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.9 (176 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Naalen [Nålen]The police suspect smuggling, theft and black-market racketeering of insulin after investigating the murder of a user. The superintendent suspects someone only known as Nålen (the needle) to be behind it all. | 1951 | Johan Jacobsen | Crime | 5.0 (38 votes) | 83 | 20240614 |
Native SonIn 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up. | 1951 | Pierre Chenal | Drama | 6.1 (357 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Never Trust a GamblerA small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house, accidentally kills a drunken detective during a fight, and takes his ex-wife hostage during a shootout with the LAPD. | 1951 | Ralph Murphy | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.2 (249 votes) | 79 | 20230424 |
Night Before Christmas, The [Noch pered Rozhdestvom]A cartoon based on the works of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress f | 1951 | Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.3 (239 votes) | 49 | 20211228 |
Night Into MorningBerkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son. | 1951 | Fletcher Markle | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (419 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Night Is My Kingdom, The [La nuit est mon royaume]After an accident Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child. Fortunately, a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read with the Braille alphabet. | 1951 | Georges Lacombe | Drama | 7.0 (318 votes) | 110 | 20220414 |
Night Was Our FriendMartin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil and nobody believes he survived. His wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man while Martin is found and returns. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life. | 1951 | Michael Anderson | Drama, Thriller | 5.5 (136 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Night Without StarsA partially blind Englishman (David Farrar) retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the lovely widow (Nadia Gray) of a French Resistance fighter, but is horrified after he discovers she is involved with smugglers and mu | 1951 | Anthony Pelissier | Crime, Drama | 6.1 (121 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
No Highway in the SkyAn aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of plane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number flying hours. | 1951 | Henry Koster (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (3.7K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
No Questions AskedAn insurance lawyer unhappy with his rate of company advancement becomes a middleman in deals to recover stolen property from the Mob, thus earning a nice living. But his actions attract police attention and set him up for a double-c | 1951 | Harold F. Kress | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.6 (680 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
No Resting PlaceAlex Kyle is an Irish Traveller. Whilst out poaching he is disturbed by the local gamekeeper. In an attempt to escape he hurls a rock at the man and kills him. One veteran Garda Officer, Mannigan, is determined he will not escape jus | 1951 | Paul Rotha | Drama | 6.7 (15 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Nobody's Children [I figli di nessuno]The tragic love story between marble-quarry owner Mario and Luisa, daughter of one of his employees. | 1951 | Raffaello Matarazzo | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (374 votes) | 102 | 20231001 |
O.K. Nero [O.K. Nerone]Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero. They embark on a series of mis-adventures that include a pocket billiard contest ... | 1951 | Mario Soldati | Comedy | 6.7 (97 votes) | 105 | 20240319 |
Oh! SusannaA cavalry unit defends settlers against rampaging Sioux Indians. | 1951 | Joseph Kane | Western | 5.7 (124 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
Olivia [The Pit of Loneliness]Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia. | 1951 | Jacqueline Audry | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (530 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
On Dangerous GroundRough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case. | 1951 | Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (6.9K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
On Moonlight BayDuring World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father. | 1951 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (2.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
On the LooseShunned by her self-absorbed parents, a teenage girl's need for love and attention drives her to delinquency and a suicide attempt - an act that finally brings her parents to their senses. | 1951 | Charles Lederer | Drama | 6.0 (185 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
On the RivieraAn American entertainer impersonates a wealthy aviator and flirts with his lookalike's neglected wife. | 1951 | Walter Lang | Comedy, Musical | 6.4 (1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
One Summer of Happiness [Hon dansade en sommar]After graduation, a Swedish youth goes to live with his uncle in the countryside and immediately takes a liking to a local girl. | 1951 | Arne Mattsson | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (767 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
One Wild OatA barrister attempts to discourage his daughter's infatuation for a philanderer, by revealing his past. The plan backfires when the daughter's would-be father-in-law threatens to reveal the barrister's shady background. | 1951 | Charles Saunders | Comedy | 5.1 (217 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Operation PacificDuring WWII, a submarine's second in command inherits the problem of torpedoes that don't explode. When on shore, he is eager to win back his ex-wife. | 1951 | George Waggner | Drama, Romance, War | 6.7 (3.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Oriental EvilSet in post war Japan, an American woman tries to clear her brother's reputation as a drug smuggler after his apparent suicide. She gets help from a seemingly kind Englishman. | 1951 | George P. Breakston, C. Ray Stahl | Drama | 5.1 (66 votes) | 64 | 20230328 |
OthelloThe Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. | 1951 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 7.6 (8.4K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Outcast of the IslandsA 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. | 1951 | Carol Reed (*) | Adventure, Drama | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Painted Hills, TheAn intrepid dog comes to the rescue when a boy's life is put at risk by the greed inflamed by a gold strike. | 1951 | Harold F. Kress | Drama, Family, Western | 4.1 (1.1K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Painting the Clouds with SunshineTired of her boyfriend's gambling, a young woman joins two vaudeville performers on a trek to Las Vegas to search for millionaires to marry. | 1951 | David Butler | Musical | 6.0 (217 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Pals of the Golden WestCattle smugglers are working along the U.S. border with Mexico. Hoof-and-mouth disease is discovered among the stolen cattle. Roy becomes involved when a fellow border patrolman is murdered by the rustlers. | 1951 | William Witney | Western | 6.1 (69 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Pandora and the Flying DutchmanA seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain. | 1951 | Albert Lewin | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance | 6.9 (4K votes) | 122 | 20220414 |
Paris Is Always Paris [Parigi è sempre Parigi]A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance. | 1951 | Luciano Emmer | Comedy | 6.2 (174 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Passage WestIn 1864, six Salt Lake prison escapees join a wagon train headed for California but tensions between inmates and settlers complicate the perilous voyage. | 1951 | Lewis R. Foster | Western | 6.1 (220 votes) | 80 | 20231001 |
Passaguai Family, The [La famiglia Passaguai]A Sunday at the beach for the Passaguai family is a succession of more or less pleasant adventures. | 1951 | Aldo Fabrizi | Comedy | 6.6 (190 votes) | 95 | 20220731 |
Payment on DemandThe film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce occurs. | 1951 | Curtis Bernhardt | Drama | 7.2 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Peking ExpressA group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws. | 1951 | William Dieterle (*) | Action, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 5.8 (105 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Pendiente, ElWhen a woman goes to see an ex-boyfriend who blackmails her, she leaves behind an earring and when she returns to retrieve it, she finds that he has been murdered. | 1951 | León Klimovsky | Thriller | 7.2 (31 votes) | 72 | 20220912 |
Penny Points to ParadiseHarry Flakers is a pools winner who is targeted by a forger. | 1951 | Anthony Young | Comedy, Crime | 5.1 (155 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
People Against O'Hara, TheJim Curtayne, formerly a successful defense attorney who is now a recovering alcoholic, attempts a comeback when he defends a neighbor's son facing a homicide charge. | 1951 | John Sturges (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
People Will TalkDr. Noah Praetorius falls in love with Debra, a student who finds out that she is pregnant by her old boyfriend. | 1951 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (6.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Pest Man WinsThe stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ... | 1951 | Jules White | Short, Comedy, Romance | 7.3 (335 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
PickupLow-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who's busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they're married. Nasty verbal encounters and above all, Beverly Michaels, spike u | 1951 | Hugo Haas | Drama, Film-Noir | 6.6 (351 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Pier 23Private detective finds himself framed for the murders of a wrestler and a crooked referee, then for the murder of a mystery man posing as a new parolee from Alcatraz. | 1951 | William Berke | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sport | 5.5 (68 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Pit of Loneliness [Olivia], TheLate nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia. | 1951 | Jacqueline Audry | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (530 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Place In The Sun, AA poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. | 1951 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (22K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
Pool of LondonWhen their ship docks the crew disembark as usual to pick up their lives in postwar London. For one of them his petty smuggling turns more serious when he finds himself caught up with a robbery in the City. | 1951 | Basil Dearden | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (797 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Prettiest Sin in the World, The [Le plus joli péché du monde]Two lovers pretend they have a child, so that the man cannot marry his fiancee. | 1951 | Gilles Grangier | Comedy, Romance | 4.8 (30 votes) | 85 | 20230619 |
Prince Who Was a Thief, TheIn 13th-century Tangiers, regent Mustapha hires a paid assassin to kill baby Prince Hussein in order to usurp his throne but the assassin has second thoughts and steals the baby for himself. | 1951 | Rudolph Maté | Adventure | 6.4 (721 votes) | 88 | 20220414 |
Prowler, TheAfter Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way. | 1951 | Joseph Losey (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.2 (3.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Quiet Woman, TheCoastal pub proprietress is inveigled into a smuggling plot. | 1951 | John Gilling | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (193 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Quo VadisAfter fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero. | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.2 (14.8K votes) | 171 | 20211228 |
Racket GirlsA money launderer uses women's wrestling as a front for his illegal activities, but earns the enmity of a powerful mobster. | 1951 | Robert C. Dertano | Action, Crime, Drama, Sport | 1.8 (1.1K votes) | 70 | 20231213 |
Racket, TheIn New York, two honest cops try to hinder a crime syndicate from moving into the precinct and also to prevent the mob's plan of electing a corrupt prosecutor to a judgeship. | 1951 | John Cromwell, Mel Ferrer, Tay Garnett, Nicholas Ray, Sherman Todd | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.7 (3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Radio tekee murronEager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book the | 1951 | Matti Kassila | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 (309 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Raging Tide, TheAfter a San Francisco gangster murders a rival criminal, he seeks shelter on a fisherman's boat while the police are man-hunting him and pressuring his girlfriend into betrayal. | 1951 | George Sherman | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.2 (223 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Raton PassIn the midst of a feud between two rancher families, a shrewd woman marries one of the ranchers and later tries to take his land through divorce and violent tactics involving a gang of outlaws. | 1951 | Edwin L. Marin | Western | 6.3 (287 votes) | 84 | 20230328 |
RawhideA stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment. | 1951 | Henry Hathaway | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.1 (2.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Reckless [Balarrasa]Javier is used to make the best of his military life. When a companion is killed in his place, he makes up his mind and enters religious life. Reencountering his rich and spoiled family will show him that not all the battles were ... | 1951 | José Antonio Nieves Conde | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (162 votes) | 90 | 20221116 |
Red Badge of Courage, TheTruncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle. | 1951 | John Huston (*) | Drama, War | 7.2 (4.3K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Red Inn, The [L'Auberge Rouge]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 unfo | 1951 | Claude Autant-Lara | Comedy, Crime | 7.3 (1.5K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Red MountainIn 1865 Confederate Capt. Sherwood is heading to Colorado where Confederate Gen. Quantrill is stirring up rebellion using various Indian Nations. | 1951 | William Dieterle, John Farrow | Drama, Western | 6.1 (528 votes) | 1 | 20220912 |
Red Rose, The [La rose rouge]The Brothers Jacques, who were to sing that night at ""The Red Rose"", are failing. | 1951 | Marcello Pagliero | Comedy | 5.0 (61 votes) | 95 | 20240820 |
Redhead and the Cowboy, TheFramed for murder during the Civil War, Gil Kyle's only alibi is Confederate agent Candace Bronson who he must track down in dangerous territory filled with foes. | 1951 | Leslie Fenton | Western | 6.3 (316 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Repast [Meshi]Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband. | 1951 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama | 7.7 (1.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Reunion in RenoA little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy which was loosely remade as IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES(1984). | 1951 | Kurt Neumann | Comedy | 6.8 (27 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Revenge of Black Eagle [La vendetta di Aquila Nera]When a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empir | 1951 | Riccardo Freda | Adventure, Drama | 6.3 (51 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
RhubarbRich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces | 1951 | Arthur Lubin | Comedy, Family, Sport | 6.9 (666 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Rich, Young and PrettyJim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, takes his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. He is concerned that his daughter might come in contact with her mother, Marie Devarone, a Parisian si | 1951 | Norman Taurog | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.8 (432 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
River, TheThe growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold. | 1951 | Jean Renoir (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (6.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Road of Hell [Camino del infierno]When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way. | 1951 | Miguel Morayta | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 7.1 (35 votes) | 90 | 20220315 |
RoadblockHonest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane. | 1951 | Harold Daniels | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.2K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Roaring CityDennis O'Brien is hired by Barton to bet on Harper, an old fighter, against Lundy, placing the bets in the name of Steve Belzig. Lundy dies of a blood clot during the bout. At Barton's hotel, after the fight, Dennis finds Gannon and | 1951 | William Berke | Drama | 6.2 (98 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
Rossiter Case, TheA husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns out that he may not be the killer after all. | 1951 | Francis Searle | Drama, Mystery | 6.1 (57 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Royal WeddingA brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding. | 1951 | Stanley Donen (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (5.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Santa FeAfter their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown. | 1951 | Irving Pichel | Western | 6.2 (934 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Savage Triangle [Le garçon sauvage]A prostitute takes back her child, a boy who does not even know how to play. | 1951 | Jean Delannoy | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (115 votes) | 112 | 20230126 |
Scarf, TheA man believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one who actually killed her using the scarf she was wearing. | 1951 | Ewald André Dupont | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (499 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Scarlet ThreadTwo villains team up to steal some jewelry. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot. | 1951 | Lewis Gilbert | Drama | 5.5 (143 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Scrambled BrainsShemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On th... | 1951 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.6 (396 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
Sealed CargoIn 1943, an American fishing boat has a fateful encounter with a seriously damaged Danish schooner off of Canada's Atlantic coast. | 1951 | Alfred L. Werker | Drama, Romance, War | 6.7 (784 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Secret of Convict Lake, TheIn 1871 a convict escapes, with other prisoners, to kill the man that framed him, but has second thoughts after meeting the man's beautiful future wife. | 1951 | Michael Gordon | Western | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
Secrets of Monte CarloAn Eastern potentate, the Rajah of Bandor (Charles Lung), and his American bride (Sue Casey), are robbed of a fortune in jewels on the Riviera, by a quartet of thieves led by Otto Von Herzen (Stephen Bekassy). The gang flees to Hong | 1951 | George Blair | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 5.4 (24 votes) | 60 | 20220414 |
SensualidadSaloon singer Aurora is sentenced to two years in prison for a prostitution conviction. When she gets out of prison, she gets romantically involved with Alejandro Luque, the respected judge who tried her case. Aurora and her boyfr... | 1951 | Alberto Gout | Crime, Drama, Musical, Thriller | 7.1 (157 votes) | 96 | 20240515 |
Sherlock Holmes - The Man Who DisappearedAn adaptation of the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a very wealthy businessman with a strange secret. | 1951 | Richard M. Grey | Mystery | 6.2 (74 votes) | 26 | 20211228 |
Show BoatThe daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour. | 1951 | George Sidney | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (4.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Silver CanyonDuring the Civil War, McQuarrie leads guerrilla raiders, Gene and Cougar serve as Union scouts stationed in Utah. | 1951 | John English | Western | 6.4 (76 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Sinner, TheMarina, a prostitute, lives with the unsuccessful artist Alexander. He suffers from a brain tumor that threatens to make him blind. In order to finance an operation Marina takes up her old profession. | 1951 | Willi Forst | Drama | 6.8 (334 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
SiroccoA cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation. | 1951 | Curtis Bernhardt | Action, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, War | 6.3 (2.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Six Men, TheA crime gang "The Six Men" is tracked down by Scotland Yard, and finally killed by one of its own members. | 1951 | Michael Law | Crime, Drama | 5.3 (80 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Skipalong RosenbloomThe town of Buttonhole Bend is in the clutches of the Butcher Baer (Max Baer) gang who have killed every sheriff and robbed every bank in the territory. The brains behind the gang is saloon owner Square Deal Sal9Hillary Brooke). S... | 1951 | Sam Newfield | Comedy, Western | 7.4 (41 votes) | 72 | 20230424 |
Slaughter TrailFort Marcy's commandant has a dilemma when 3 outlaws, who killed a few Navajo for their horses, request protection from the vengeful Indians. | 1951 | Irving Allen | Western | 4.5 (282 votes) | 78 | 20230328 |
Sleepwalker, The [Boniface somnambule]Victor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine : Victor is both a store detective and a - shoplifter (only when he walks in his sleep, mind you). And falling in love while sleepwalking is no bed of roses either, a... | 1951 | Maurice Labro | Comedy | 5.8 (163 votes) | 89 | 20240820 |
Smart AlecA bizarre attempt at a humorous murder mystery. A fat rich man snoozing on a balcony is bludgeoned to death while the Smart Alec of the title has one of the dumbest alibis ever. Antics from Kynaston Reeves and young Charles Hawtrey i | 1951 | John Guillermin | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 5.8 (131 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Smuggler's IslandIn 1950s Macao, an American expat diver is hired by a mysterious woman to retrieve a sunken cargo that eventually attracts unwanted attention from a crooked banker, corrupt authorities and local pirates. | 1951 | Edward Ludwig | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (96 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Soldiers ThreeRetired British general Brunswick reminisces about the days when he was a colonel in charge of a British Army battalion fighting against native rebels in colonial India during the late 1800s. | 1951 | Tay Garnett | Adventure, Comedy, War | 6.0 (414 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Son of Dr. JekyllEdward Jekyll, ignorant of how his father had brought forth death and destruction with his experiments, is pursuing a chemist career despite the fact that he has been discharged from school or his unorthodox experimentations. When th | 1951 | Seymour Friedman | Crime, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 4.9 (315 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Sono ato no hachi no su no kodomotachi [Children of the Beehive - What Happened Next]nan | 1951 | Hiroshi Shimizu | Unknown | 7.9 (10 votes) | 95 | 20240820 |
South of CalienteRoy Rogers (Roy Rogers), owner of a transportation service for moving race horses from track to track, prepares to take a number of thoroughbreds to the Pan American fair races at Monterey. Among them is "Dancing Girl", a fine mare o | 1951 | William Witney | Western | 6.8 (93 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Spoilers of the PlainsThis is an odd one for Roy. There are foreign spies, desert sites for rocket-launching and artificial satellites. The climax is a one-on-one fight on top of an oil derrick. | 1951 | William Witney | Western | 6.4 (102 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
St. Benny The DipA gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them. | 1951 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Comedy, Crime | 5.7 (269 votes) | 80 | 20220414 |
StarliftTo impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues. | 1951 | Roy Del Ruth | Musical | 5.8 (508 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Steel Helmet, TheA ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War. | 1951 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Action, Drama, War | 7.4 (4.3K votes) | 85 | 20220731 |
Stooge, TheEgotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana. | 1951 | Norman Taurog | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.8 (1.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Storm WarningMarsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha sees the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey in bringing the criminals to justice | 1951 | Stuart Heisler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.1 (1.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Story of a Beloved Wife [Aisai monogatari]Shindo's directorial debut is the fictionalized account of the death of his first wife. Following the breakout of the Pacific War, the Japanese film industry was forcibly downsized. Numazaki, a mediocre screenwriter, faces imminent d | 1951 | Kaneto Shindô (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (97 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Strange Door, TheNoble-born cad Denis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton), an evil madman who can't get over the death of his beloved, twenty years after she married his brother (Cavana | 1951 | Joseph Pevney | Horror, Thriller | 6.3 (1K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Strange Madame X [L'étrange Madame X]Can a person really lead a double life? It looks as though Irène can. On the one hand, she is the wife of Jacques Voisin-Larive, a big name in the publishing world. On the other hand she pretends to be a simple chambermaid when sh... | 1951 | Jean Grémillon | Drama | 6.7 (183 votes) | 91 | 20231001 |
Strangers on a TrainA psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (131K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Streetcar Named Desire, ADisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. | 1951 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 8.0 (105.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
Streetwalker [Trotacalles]Life is hard for a humble young woman, who arrives in the capital, and is forced to prostitute herself against her will. | 1951 | Matilde Landeta | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (109 votes) | 101 | 20231207 |
Strictly DishonorableAn Italian opera singer (Ezio Pinza) has a marriage of convenience with an innocent fan (Janet Leigh) from Mississippi | 1951 | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 (161 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Strip, TheDrummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder. | 1951 | László Kardos | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Music | 6.0 (625 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Submarine CommandSubmarine commander Ken White reminisces about his wartime years aboard submarine USS Tiger Shark and struggles with feelings of personal guilt. | 1951 | John Farrow | Drama, War | 6.2 (650 votes) | 87 | 20230619 |
SugarfootArriving in Arizona on a wagon train in 1866 former Confederate officer Jackson Redan partners with local businessman Don Miguel while their competitor Asa Goodhue is joined by opportunistic drifter Jacob Stint. | 1951 | Edwin L. Marin | Western | 6.2 (223 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Summer Interlude [Sommarlek]A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation. | 1951 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (5.9K votes) | 96 | 20220423 |
Superman and the Mole-MenWhen underground beings explore the surface world from a deep oil well and inadvertently cause a panic, only Superman can prevent a tragedy. | 1951 | Lee Sholem | Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi | 5.5 (2.3K votes) | 58 | 20231114 |
SurcosThe struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the country to Madrid circa 1950. | 1951 | José Antonio Nieves Conde | Drama | 7.6 (642 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
SusanaAn unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the membe | 1951 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Drama | 7.2 (2K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Sword of Monte Cristo, TheIn 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La Roche and Major Nicolet to Normandy in search of the members of a group of rebels. A Masked Cavalier - Lady Christianne, niece of the ... | 1951 | Maurice Geraghty | Adventure | 5.0 (197 votes) | 80 | 20240715 |
Take Care of My Little GirlA young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing. | 1951 | Jean Negulesco | Drama | 6.4 (328 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Tale of Genji, The [Genji monogatari]Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one | 1951 | Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Drama | 6.6 (130 votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
Tales of Hoffmann, TheA melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer. | 1951 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Fantasy, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (3.3K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
Tales of Robin HoodAn outlaw and his band sally forth from their hideout in Sherwood Forest to do battle with the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham and his oppressive tax collectors, who are stripping the poor villagers of what little they have left. | 1951 | James Tinling | Adventure, Family | 5.6 (47 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Tall Target, TheA New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861. | 1951 | Anthony Mann (*) | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Tanks Are Coming, TheAn American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II. | 1951 | Lewis Seiler | Action, Drama, War | 6.3 (304 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Target UnknownIn 1944, an American bomber squadron is tense and discontented from too many missions over France. Luck runs out for Capt. Stevens and his crew; they must bail out and are promptly taken prisoner. Their wily German captors, sensing t | 1951 | George Sherman | Drama, War | 5.8 (69 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Tarzan's PerilEscaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe. | 1951 | Byron Haskin | Adventure | 5.9 (573 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Temptress, The [Le due verità]The young Lut Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot his mistress making it then end up under the wheels of a tram. On the remains of | 1951 | Antonio Leonviola | Drama, Mystery | 6.8 (24 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Ten Tall MenDuring the Riff War in Morocco, the French Foreign Legion's outpost of Tarfa is threatened by Khalif Hussein's tribes but Sergeant Mike Kincaid devises a plan of survival until the arrival of French reinforcements. | 1951 | Willis Goldbeck | Action, Adventure, War | 6.2 (965 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
TeresaA reluctant soldier, Peter, serves in Italy during WWII. He marries a local girl named Teresa and brings her to the US. | 1951 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama | 6.5 (669 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Texas CarnivalA showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister. | 1951 | Charles Walters (*) | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.7 (485 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Texas Rangers, TheIn 1874, unable to eliminate a gang of notorious outlaws, the Texas Rangers hire two former convicts to assist with the tracking and the destruction of the Sam Bass gang. | 1951 | Phil Karlson (*) | Western | 6.1 (332 votes) | 74 | 20220414 |
That's My BoyThe greatest player in Ridgefield College history uses his influence and reputation to get his only son, a sickly, uncoordinated nerd, on the college football team with comic results. | 1951 | Hal Walker | Comedy, Music, Sport | 6.3 (997 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
They Were Five [Ils étaient cinq] Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a ... | 1951 | Jacques Pinoteau | Drama | 7.0 (32 votes) | 89 | 20240820 |
Thing From Another World, TheScientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost. | 1951 | Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (29.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Third Visitor, TheMr. Richard Carling is found dead in his home with a house full of suspects. | 1951 | Maurice Elvey | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.5 (217 votes) | 85 | 20240515 |
Three Arabian NutsThe stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get the ""genius"", (as Shemp calls the genie) ... | 1951 | Edward Bernds | Comedy, Short | 7.4 (391 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
Three Guys Named MikeA stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor and a successful businessman, all of whom are named Mike. After the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most | 1951 | Charles Walters (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (738 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Three Steps NorthAfter a prison sentence an American GI stationed in Italy discovers that his hidden loot has disappeared and goes searching for it. | 1951 | W. Lee Wilder | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (145 votes) | 85 | 20220315 |
Thunder on the HillConvicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) becomes convinced of her innocence and | 1951 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.7 (784 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
To Have and to HoldIn this melodrama, a man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon die. He spends his last few days taking care of his family and trying to get his wife to find another man. | 1951 | Godfrey Grayson | Drama | 5.0 (42 votes) | 63 | 20240524 |
Tokyo File 212A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatch... | 1951 | Dorrell McGowan, Stuart E. McGowan | Crime, Drama | 5.2 (147 votes) | 84 | 20240515 |
Tom Brown's SchooldaysTom Brown (John Howard Davies) starts at Rugby boarding school. He is tormented by Flashman (John Forrest), the school bully. | 1951 | Gordon Parry | Drama | 7.0 (447 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
TomahawkIn 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty. | 1951 | George Sherman | History, Romance, Western | 6.4 (887 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Tomorrow Is Another DayAn ex-convict and a woman fall in love, after she shoots her police Lt. boyfriend dead in self defense, and falsely leads him to believe that he did the shooting. | 1951 | Felix E. Feist | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (1.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Too Young to KissEric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When sh | 1951 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (535 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
The Tooth Will OutThe stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a practice. Everything goes well until Shemp ""cures"" an outlaw's toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys must leave on the run. | 1951 | Edward Bernds | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (375 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
TopazeAlbert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Top | 1951 | Marcel Pagnol (*) | Comedy | 7.1 (350 votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
Toto the Third Man [Totò terzo uomo]In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women. | 1951 | Mario Mattoli | Comedy | 6.4 (108 votes) | 95 | 20220414 |
Two Lost WorldsWhen the American clipper ship "The Queen" is attacked by pirates off the Hebrides in 1830, Mate Kirk Hamilton is injured and must be put ashore at Queensland Colony, Australia, for treatment and recuperation. There, he meets and fal | 1951 | Norman Dawn | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi | 4.3 (251 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Two of a KindA lawyer for a rich elderly industrialist works out a complex inheritance scam to pass off a con as the industrialist's long-lost son and claim the huge inheritance. | 1951 | Henry Levin | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (690 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Two On The TilesA smarmy butler blackmails his two employers after they both make minor indiscretions. | 1951 | John Guillermin | Comedy | 4.8 (50 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Two Tickets to BroadwayNancy Peterson and her friends want to get a spot on Bob Crosby's TV show, but their agent has linked them. | 1951 | James V. Kern | Musical, Romance | 5.6 (527 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Under the GunAfter a cunning, unscrupulous mobster is sentenced to a Florida prison farm, he launches a deadly escape plan. | 1951 | Ted Tetzlaff | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.8 (156 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Under the Paris Sky [Sous le ciel de Paris]Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day. | 1951 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Drama | 7.1 (232 votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
Unknown Man, TheAn attorney successfully defends a young hoodlum charged with murder but later has doubts about his client's innocence and starts investigating his background and associations. | 1951 | Richard Thorpe | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.5 (419 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Unknown WorldScientists use a gigantic drilling machine for an expedition to the center of the earth. | 1951 | Terry O. Morse | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 4.1 (1.1K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Up FrontBased on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military snafus with a barrage of wry comments. On a 3-day | 1951 | Alexander Hall | Action, Adventure, Comedy, War | 7.3 (97 votes) | 92 | 20220414 |
Vagabond, The [Awaara]A poor young man named Raj joins a criminal gang to feed his mother. But when he falls in love with Rita, he decides to reform himself for her. | 1951 | Raj Kapoor | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.9 (4K votes) | 193 | 20211228 |
ValentinoItalian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves. | 1951 | Lewis Allen | Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (309 votes) | 102 | 20220414 |
Valley of the Eagles [Valley of Eagles]A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and | 1951 | Terence Young | Adventure, Drama | 5.8 (232 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Vengeance ValleyThe sons of a Colorado cattle baron, one biological and the other adopted, resent one another and fight for control of their father's cattle empire. | 1951 | Richard Thorpe | Western | 6.0 (2.1K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Venom And EternityIn this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the s | 1951 | Isidore Isou | Drama | 6.7 (402 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Venom and Eternity [Traité de bave et d'éternité]In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the s | 1951 | Isidore Isou | Drama | 6.7 (402 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Victims of Sin [Víctimas del pecado]In México City, a Cuban dancer from "Cabaret Changó" rescues a baby from a garbage can and decides to raise him, but her pachuco pimp gets in her way. | 1951 | Emilio Fernández | Crime, Drama, Musical, Thriller | 7.5 (278 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Wall of Death [There Is Another Sun]The story about a prizefighter and a motorcycle daredevil that vie for the beautiful girl from the Carnival. | 1951 | Lewis Gilbert | Drama | 5.9 (140 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
WarpathJohn Vickers joins Custer's cavalry regiment seeking private revenge. | 1951 | Byron Haskin | Drama, Western | 6.2 (464 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
We Will All Go to Monte Carlo [Nous irons à Monte Carlo]A cranky film star loses own child because of her levity. | 1951 | Jean Boyer | Comedy, Musical | 5.7 (280 votes) | 101 | 20240222 |
Week-End With Father.Single parents Jean Bowen and Brad Stubbs meet at the train station when they send their kids (his two girls, her two boys) off to camp. Love inevitably blooms. But there are complications: Brad's other flame, TV star Phyllis, thinks | 1951 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (254 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Well, TheA small, racially-mixed American town succumbs to violence and utter mayhem after a white man suspected of kidnapping a missing black girl is released by the white authority. | 1951 | Leo C. Popkin, Russell Rouse | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (787 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Westward the WomenA trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there. | 1951 | William A. Wellman (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.6 (3.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
When I Grow Up"When I Grow Up" is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years). Bobby Driscoll plays a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, Bobby chances | 1951 | Michael Kanin | Drama | 7.6 (90 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
When Worlds CollideAs a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically work to complete the rocket which will take them to their new home. | 1951 | Rudolph Maté | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.6 (7.8K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Whip Hand, TheMatt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it, but Corbin learns that a group of former-Na | 1951 | William Cameron Menzies | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War | 6.0 (578 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Whistle at Eaton Falls, TheBrad Adams is the new manager of a manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town. He is brought in by owner Mrs. Doubleday to calm labor relations plus layoff employees. Brad manages to also find romance. | 1951 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Drama | 6.9 (228 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
White CorridorsHospital drama set at the Yeoman's Hospital, in the English Midlands, during the early 1950s. | 1951 | Pat Jackson | Drama | 7.4 (99 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Wild Blue Yonder, TheTraining Boeing B-29 Superfortress Crew. | 1951 | Allan Dwan | Drama, War | 6.3 (124 votes) | 98 | 20230806 |
Without Leaving an Address [...Sans laisser d'adresse]Thérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as she told him that she was expecting his baby. To trace her unworthy lover, she boards a taxi driven by friendly cabdriver Emil... | 1951 | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (190 votes) | 90 | 20240820 |
Wonder Boy [The Wonder Kid]A child pianist (Bobby Henrey) is exploited by his manager who plans to adopt him. His governess helps him to get away, where he befriends some colourful characters and acquires a faithful pet dog. | 1951 | Karl Hartl | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (37 votes) | 85 | 20240826 |
Yes Sir, Mr. BonesA young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much as he can about them, and flashbacks show what it was like back in the days of the minstrel shows. | 1951 | Ron Ormond | Comedy, Music | 5.4 (70 votes) | 54 | 20240412 |
You Never Can TellAn ex-army dog inherits a fortune from his eccentric millionaire owner, and which is poisoned, asks the leader in the heaven for animals to send him back to Earth, as a human private investigator, to solve his own murder. | 1951 | Lou Breslow | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Romance | 7.1 (605 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Young Caruso, The [Enrico Caruso - Leggenda di una voce]This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame. | 1951 | Giacomo Gentilomo | Biography, Drama, Music | 5.6 (98 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Young Love [Une Histoire d'Amour]Caherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But ... | 1951 | Guy Lefranc | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (94 votes) | 95 | 20221212 |
Young Wives' TaleA post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new lodger becomes infatuated with one of the husbands. | 1951 | Henry Cass | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 (292 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
You're in the Navy NowWhen a new commander is assigned to a submarine chaser with an experimental engine, he finds the entire crew has as little experience as he does. | 1951 | Henry Hathaway | Comedy, War | 6.3 (690 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |