1951
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- DirectorNicholas RayIda LupinoStarsIda LupinoRobert RyanWard BondRough 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.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMichael RedgraveJean KentNigel PatrickAndrew 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 employment.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJeanne CrainThelma RitterScott BradyMarriage 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 radiologist. Of course things go wrong...
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJeanne CrainDale RobertsonMitzi GaynorA young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMaj-Britt NilssonBirger MalmstenAlf KjellinA lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDoris DayGordon MacRaeJack SmithDuring World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsGene TierneyJohn LundMiriam HopkinsEllen 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.
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsDieter BorscheInge EggerGrethe WeiserTwo out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsRay MillandPatricia RocMarius GoringIn 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.
- DirectorJohn FarrowRichard FleischerStarsRobert MitchumJane RussellVincent PriceA deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsFarley GrangerRobert WalkerRuth RomanA psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJohn Drew BarrymorePreston FosterJoan LorringA teenager comes of age while seeking revenge on the man who beat up his father.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsJames StewartMarlene DietrichGlynis JohnsAn aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of plane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number flying hours.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJane PowellDanielle DarrieuxWendell CoreyJim 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 singer he met and loved more than twenty-five years ago.
- DirectorDerek N. TwistStarsRoger LiveseyHonor BlackmanRichard BurtonAfter 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.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorShelley WintersA poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
- DirectorArch ObolerStarsWilliam PhippsSusan Douglas RubesJames AndersonThe 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.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsBonar ColleanoSusan ShawRenée AshersonWhen 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.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsAlec GuinnessStanley HollowaySidney JamesA 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.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDoris DayDanny ThomasFrank LovejoyThe success and decline of songwriter Gus Kahn is portrayed, with his wife, Grace Kahn, sticking by him the whole time.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsLloyd BridgesDorothy GishCarleton CarpenterBrad 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.
- DirectorFederico FelliniAlberto LattuadaStarsPeppino De FilippoCarla Del PoggioGiulietta MasinaA beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
- DirectorFletcher MarkleStarsRay MillandJohn HodiakNancy ReaganBerkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsPatricia WaltersNora SwinburneEsmond KnightThe growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.
- DirectorHarry WattStarsAnthony SteelDinah SheridanHarold WarrenderA 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 land, but he finds himself up against ivory poachers and local tribesmen in their employ.
- DirectorWalter JanssenStarsRichard HäusslerInge EggerWilly Rösner
- DirectorHarold FrenchPat JacksonAnthony PelissierStarsNigel PatrickRoland CulverAlison LeggattAdaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham comprise this anthology film in which the celebrated author introduces each segment of the film in front of the camera.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSpencer TracyPat O'BrienDiana LynnJim 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.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsJohn DerekDonna ReedSidney BlackmerA star high school football player goes through the ups and downs of 'big-time' college athletics in the 1950's.
- DirectorBretaigne WindustRaoul WalshStarsHumphrey BogartZero MostelTed de CorsiaA crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsMitzi GaynorDale RobertsonDennis DayAgainst the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsJohn GarfieldShelley WintersWallace FordNick 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 manhunt.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsVan HeflinEvelyn KeyesJohn MaxwellAfter 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.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsAlec GuinnessJoan GreenwoodCecil ParkerAn 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.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsKathryn GraysonAva GardnerHoward KeelThe daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsClaire TrevorSally ForrestCarleton G. YoungTennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJames MasonCedric HardwickeJessica TandyThe story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
- DirectorReginald BeckAnthony BushellStarsRex HarrisonLilli PalmerTania HealdA devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the only suspect when someone else murders her.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsJohn MillsPhyllis CalvertEileen MooreA British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsClifton WebbAnne FrancisCharles BickfordIndustrial 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 finds herself in the arms of and in love with her psychology professor, Matt Reagan (William Lundigan), and they decide to elope, telling only her godfather. He, when the Osbornes discovering Jake missing, tells them of her plans. They descend furiously on the Reagans, only to find Matt's father, (Tom (Charles Bickford), equally upset at the news. The two families, with a great dislike for each other, start off for a marriage mill across the state line, and join forces when the Reagan car breaks down. Meanwhile, Jake and Matt quarrel and decide they have made a mistake and start for home.
- DirectorCharles LedererStarsJoan EvansMelvyn DouglasLynn BariShunned 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.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisPolly BergenEgotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsRalph RichardsonTrevor HowardRobert MorleyA 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.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsDick PowellPaula RaymondAdolphe MenjouA 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.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsBroderick CrawfordBetty BuehlerRichard KileyJohnny 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?
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsKirk DouglasEleanor ParkerWilliam BendixOn one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsDavid FarrarGeraldine FitzgeraldRoland CulverAfter 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 of her death, over a cup of tea.
- DirectorMarcello PaglieroStarsAndré BellecGeorges BellecFrançois SoubeyranThe Brothers Jacques, who were to sing that night at "The Red Rose", are failing.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsErn WestmoreJulie BishopRichard DenningA housewife, suspecting her husband of having an affair with a younger woman, enlists the help of a make-up artist to become more attractive to him.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsDavid WayneHoward Da SilvaMartin GabelIn this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsTyrone PowerAnn BlythMichael RennieA scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th-century London, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsFrank LovejoyDorothy HartPhilip CareyIn 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.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDoris DayGene NelsonS.Z. SakallA showgirl returns to her New York home to visit her alcoholic mother, where she catches the eye of a Broadway producer.
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsFredric MarchMildred DunnockKevin McCarthyAn over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsDennis PriceJohn McCallumStanley HollowayAn unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant.
- DirectorRobert ParrishDick PowellStarsDick PowellRhonda FlemingRichard ErdmanEx-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.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsDana AndrewsDorothy McGuireFarley GrangerIn 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsRichard BasehartGene EvansMichael O'SheaThe 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.
- DirectorJohn CromwellMel FerrerTay GarnettStarsRobert MitchumLizabeth ScottRobert RyanIn 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.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsDane ClarkCathy O'DonnellTom DrakeA 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.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtBusby BerkeleyStarsJane WymanCharles LaughtonJoan BlondellLouise 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 soon find themselves ready to face the world. When it seems that she will be alone, the nurse finds that her 'children' have ideas of their own in regards to helping their beloved mentor.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsRichard ConteJulie AdamsRichard EganAn independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.
- DirectorLeo C. PopkinRussell RouseStarsGwendolyn LasterRichard RoberMaidie NormanA 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.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsYvonne De CarloPeter UstinovDavid TomlinsonIn 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.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsRichard BasehartGary MerrillOskar WernerAs the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners of war to spy behind German lines.
- DirectorWilli ForstStarsHildegard KnefGustav FröhlichÄnne BruckMarina passes from a dysfunctional family to love with an unsuccessful artist. But he is going blind due to a brain tumor.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsJune HaverWilliam LundiganFrank FayTwo married New Yorkers purchase an old, run-down building full of colorful tenants.
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsTony MartinJanet LeighGloria DeHavenNancy Peterson and her friends want to get a spot on Bob Crosby's TV show, but their agent has linked them.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsBetty GrableDan DaileyDanny ThomasA G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsSusan ShawMaxwell ReedLaurence HarveyThe story about a prizefighter and a motorcycle daredevil that vie for the beautiful girl from the Carnival.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsAudie MurphyBill MauldinDouglas DickTruncated 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.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsPier AngeliJohn EricsonPatricia CollingeA reluctant soldier, Peter, serves in Italy during WWII. He marries a local girl named Teresa and brings her to the US.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsRobert TaylorDenise DarcelHope EmersonA trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsHideko TakamineShûji SanoChishû RyûA 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.
- DirectorJohn BoultingStarsRobert DonatMaria SchellRenée AshersonA chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.
- DirectorAlbert LewinStarsJames MasonAva GardnerNigel PatrickA seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsBurt LancasterRobert WalkerJoanne DruThe 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.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsPaul DouglasRichard BasehartBarbara Bel GeddesAn unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWilliam HoldenNancy OlsonFrank LovejoyDuring World War II in Italy, an American sergeant and WAC lieutenant take time out for romance.
- DirectorHarmon JonesStarsMonty WoolleyThelma RitterDavid WayneA 65-year-old printer hatches an elaborate scheme to avoid forced retirement.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsArthur KennedyPeggy DowJulie AdamsAfter he gets blinded by a German sniper's bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsFrank SinatraShelley WintersAlex NicolA nightclub singer has a racketeer for a manager and a rivalry with his pianist for a girl.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsJohn IrelandMercedes McCambridgeJames BartonA 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.
- DirectorJeffrey DellStarsEdward UnderdownMaxwell ReedNatasha ParryA 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 the murders.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsWilliam HoldenNancy OlsonWilliam BendixSubmarine commander Ken White reminisces about his wartime years aboard submarine USS Tiger Shark and struggles with feelings of personal guilt.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsKirk DouglasJan SterlingRobert ArthurA 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.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsShelley WintersRichard ConteStephen McNallyAfter 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.
- DirectorRudolph MatéStarsRichard DerrBarbara RushPeter HansenAs 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.
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsGlenn FordGene TierneyEthel BarrymoreIn 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.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsRichard WidmarkDana AndrewsGary MerrillThe 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.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsBrigitte AuberJean BrochardRené BlancardFates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
- DirectorAnthony PelissierStarsDavid FarrarNadia GrayMaurice TeynacA 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 murderers.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsLinda DarnellStephen McNallyGigi PerreauThe 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 Diana.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsHerbert LomHugh McDermottBrenda BruceA smarmy butler blackmails his two employers after they both make minor indiscretions.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesMicheál MacLiammóirRobert CooteThe 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.
- DirectorHans DeppeStarsHans StüweSonja ZiemannOtto GebührThe former landowner Lüder Lüdersen had to flee East Prussia because of the war and is now working as an administrator for his cousin in Lüneburg.
- DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsSilvana PampaniniDelia ScalaFranca MarziTwo chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBing CrosbyJane WymanAlexis SmithForeign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsMichael DenisonDulcie GrayAnthony NichollsMichael Denison plays a lawyer investigating kidnapping charges against Dulcie Gray. Based on a novel of Josephine Tey.