1956
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1. Julie (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A terrified wife tries to escape from her insanely jealous husband who is bent on killing her.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy
Votes: 2,225
2. Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In 1950s Las Vegas, a gambling rancher and a ballerina discover that some people have luck at cards while others have luck at love.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead, Lili Darvas
Votes: 992
3. Lovers and Lollipops (1956)
82 min | Romance, Drama
Ann, an attractive widowed New York model, lives in an apartment with her daughter Peggy. The courtship of Ann by visiting engineer Larry, and accompanying misadventures, are seen ... See full summary »
Directors: Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin | Stars: Lori March, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn, Bill Ward
Votes: 394
4. Her Bridal Night (1956)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine and becomes a top model.
Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Micheline Presle, Louis Jourdan, Marcel Amont
Votes: 235
5. The Unguarded Moment (1956)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A beautiful teacher is protective of a high school boy who sexually harassed her, and later he becomes a murder suspect.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Esther Williams, George Nader, John Saxon, Edward Andrews
Votes: 488
6. The Gentle Touch (1956)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
The public and private lives of 5 girls, who start out as student nurses in the National Health service during the 1950's.
Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: George Baker, Belinda Lee, Delphi Lawrence, Adrienne Corri
Votes: 125
7. That Certain Feeling (1956)
103 min | Comedy
Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan is hired as a ghost-writer by pompous client Larry Larkin who happens to be the fiancé of Dignan's ex-wife.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey
Votes: 419
8. Donatella (1956)
96 min | Comedy
Donatella is a simple and honest Roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Elsa Martinelli, Gabriele Ferzetti, Walter Chiari, Aldo Fabrizi
Votes: 204
9. Heute heiratet mein Mann (1956)
91 min | Comedy
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Liselotte Pulver, Johannes Heesters, Paul Hubschmid, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 79
10. Lo scapolo (1955)
90 min | Comedy
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Sandra Milo, Nino Manfredi, Madeleine Fischer
Votes: 459
11. The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)
Approved | 104 min | Biography, Musical
Ray joins Buddy and Lew to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. Soon, they've got several hits on Broadway, but Buddy's ambition leads to friction among the group, as the other 2 feel increasingly left out.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North
Votes: 381
12. Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In wartime a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles
Votes: 286
13. The Forty-First (1956)
88 min | War, Drama, Romance
An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Nikolai Dupak
Votes: 1,719
14. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Passed | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 9,021
15. Full of Life (1956)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Married Angelenos, Italian Nick Rocco and Anglo Emily Rocco, live off of what Nick makes as a writer of fiction, which can be difficult at times because of the instability of their cash ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Judy Holliday, Richard Conte, Salvatore Baccaloni, Esther Minciotti
Votes: 622
16. Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter
Votes: 4,865
17. Waldwinter (1956)
97 min | Drama
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Claus Holm, Sabine Bethmann, Rudolf Forster, Helene Thimig
Votes: 62
18. The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Judy Holliday, John Williams, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark
Votes: 2,286
19. Loser Takes All (1956)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy
Bertrand is an accountant employed by a large London firm. After he uncovers an accounting error, his employer is so thrilled that he sends Bertrand and his new wife to Monte Carlo. The trip, however, is not completely as it seems.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Glynis Johns, Rossano Brazzi, Robert Morley, Tony Britton
Votes: 202
20. The Killing (1956)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Votes: 97,496
21. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan
Votes: 54,754
22. Now and Forever (1956)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Kay Walsh, Jack Warner
Votes: 192
23. The Harder They Fall (1956)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane
Votes: 9,028
24. Patterns (1956)
Approved | 83 min | Drama
When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight
Votes: 3,543
25. The Catered Affair (1956)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When Jane tells her parents that she is getting married to Ralph Halloran, her mother Agnes starts planning an elaborate wedding, even though Jane does not wish it.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald
Votes: 3,826
26. Ein Herz kehrt heim (1956)
90 min | Drama, Musical
A talented young musician for the first time meets his real father, a famous orchestra conductor, and finds he will have to make a decision where his future lies: in the business of his ... See full summary »
Director: Eugen York | Stars: Hans Nielsen, Erni Mangold, Maria Holst, Maximilian Schell
Votes: 34
27. The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Privileged college student Andy Shaeffer is a mama's boy who flunks out of school and is drafted by the army where he becomes a real man, to the astonishment of everyone.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jessie Royce Landis, Jim Backus
Votes: 591
28. The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western
In the western frontier town of Cross Creek, storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past. When 3 bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses, George's past comes back to haunt him.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn
Votes: 3,575
29. Giant (1956)
G | 201 min | Drama, Western
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker
Votes: 42,238
30. The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Music
A gangster hires a down-and-out press agent to make his airheaded girlfriend a singing star.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London
Votes: 3,918
31. It's Never Too Late (1956)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy
To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don't know it, she is a very successful novelist.
Director: Michael McCarthy | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Patrick Barr, Susan Stephen, Guy Rolfe
Votes: 54
32. The Third Key (1956)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Michael Brooke
Votes: 1,375
33. Rock, Pretty Baby! (1956)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Jimmy Daley and Angelo Barrato are teenage members of a band who learn of a contest that they believe will bring them fame. Jimmy must fight the opposition of his father and his feelings for the lovely Joan.
Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: Sal Mineo, John Saxon, Luana Patten, Edward Platt
Votes: 130
34. Bigger Than Life (1956)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert F. Simon
Votes: 8,146
35. The Burmese Harp (1956)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Music, War
A conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi, Jun Hamamura
Votes: 6,461
36. ...And God Created Woman (1956)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
In sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jane Marken
Votes: 9,375 | Gross: $2.00M
37. On the Bowery (1956)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, Drama
By focusing on the lives of three down-and-out alcoholic transients, the film creates a wrenching portrait of the tragic hopelessness of life on "The Bowery" in New York City.
Director: Lionel Rogosin | Stars: Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews, George L. Bolton
Votes: 1,161 | Gross: $0.01M
38. Foreign Intrigue (1956)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Geneviève Page, Ingrid Thulin, Frédéric O'Brady
Votes: 1,450
39. Congo Crossing (1956)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Attractive Louise Whitman catalyzes action and adventure in an African country that offers haven to foreign fugitives.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Virginia Mayo, George Nader, Peter Lorre, Michael Pate
Votes: 273
40. A Cry in the Night (1956)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A deranged man kidnaps the nubile daughter of a police captain.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr
Votes: 968
41. Teenage Rebel (1956)
Approved | 94 min | Drama
Nancy Fallon gets custody of her teenage daughter Dodie back from her ex-husband after she remarries, but she must win her love.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Michael Rennie, Mildred Natwick, Rusty Swope
Votes: 395
42. The Scarlet Hour (1956)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance, James Gregory
Votes: 726
43. Dany, bitte schreiben Sie (1956)
99 min | Comedy, Romance
The day before Danny Ruland wants to marry, she learns that her expected husband is a marriage impostor, and has left with all of her money. But she's lucky and finds by chance a job as ... See full summary »
Director: Eduard von Borsody | Stars: Sonja Ziemann, Rudolf Prack, Anneliese Uhlig, Fita Benkhoff
Votes: 57
44. Bonjour Kathrin (1956)
96 min | Musical
Three young penniless musicians travel to San Remo to work as hotel clerks and to get a chance to show their talent on the San Remo festival.
Director: Karl Anton | Stars: Caterina Valente, Peter Alexander, Silvio Francesco, Dietmar Schönherr
Votes: 77
45. Lügen haben hübsche Beine (1956)
93 min | Comedy
Director: Erik Ode | Stars: Paul Hörbiger, Adrian Hoven, Doris Kirchner, Annie Rosar
Votes: 18
46. Dort oben, wo die Alpen glühen (1956)
96 min | Drama
Andrea is vacationing in the mountains. She employs the young mountain guide Bertl to accompany her on a tour to a mountain top - and falls in love with him. Because of a storm they have to... See full summary »
Director: Otto Meyer | Stars: Rudolf Carl, Lotte Ledl, Albert Rueprecht, Erik Frey
Votes: 39
47. Verlobung am Wolfgangsee (1956)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Helmut Weiss | Stars: Ingrid Andree, Wolf Albach-Retty, Maria Andergast, Michael Cramer
Votes: 40
48. The Birds and the Bees (1956)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 248
49. The Spanish Gardener (1956)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
Rather undiplomatic British diplomat Harrington Brande (Sir Michael Hordern) takes up his new post in Spain accompanied by his son Nicholas (Jon Whiteley). The posting is something of a ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 1,031
50. The Rack (1956)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, War
A decorated Korean War hero inexplicably collaborates with the enemy while interred in a POW camp and is court-martialed.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 1,656
51. Qivitoq (1956)
119 min | Drama, Family, Romance
In this visual masterpiece and first Oscar nominated Danish film, young teacher Eva arriving in Greenland, surprising her fiancée in the arms of a woman. Seeking refuge, she meets a man also carrying a broken heart in the scenic landscape.
Director: Erik Balling | Stars: Astrid Villaume, Gunnar Lauring, Randi Michelsen, Bjørn Watt-Boolsen
Votes: 310
52. The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy
In this hilarious romp starring Tom Ewell, Sheree North and Rita Moreno, a middle-aged ex-serviceman who plans to re-enlist (Ewell) is shocked to learn that not only did he fail his medical... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tom Ewell, Sheree North, Rita Moreno, Rick Jason
Votes: 292
53. Great Day in the Morning (1956)
Approved | 92 min | Western
A Confederate drifter wins a hotel saloon at poker in Denver but two rival female admirers, local Union sympathizers, Southern gold miners and an orphaned boy complicate his life.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol
Votes: 1,038
54. The Wild Party (1956)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A night of terror in a sleazy nightspot, when an over-the-hill football star holds a thrill-seeking couple captive.
Director: Harry Horner | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Carol Ohmart, Arthur Franz, Jay Robinson
Votes: 310
55. Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André... See full summary »
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Robert Arnoux, Liliane Bert
Votes: 1,694
56. Toward the Unknown (1956)
Approved | 115 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the dawn of supersonic flight in the 1950s, a group of Edwards Air Force Base experimental aircraft test pilots push themselves to the limit.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: William Holden, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Leith, Charles McGraw
Votes: 656
57. Two in a Sleeping Bag (1956)
93 min | Comedy
Director: Rainer Geis | Stars: Claus Biederstaedt, Susanne Cramer, Eva Kerbler, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 21
58. A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward
Votes: 4,324
59. La adúltera (1956)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Irene, a former air hostess, is the only suspect involved in the supposed murder of Cecilia, cousin (and ex-lover) of Irene's husband, Raúl.
Director: Tulio Demicheli | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Víctor Junco, Luis Aldás
Votes: 44
60. Triple Deception (1956)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Due to his physical resemblance to criminal Steve Chancellor, law enforcement recruits seaman Larry Ellis to pose as Chancellor and infiltrate an organized crime ring in France.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Michael Craig, Julia Arnall, Brenda de Banzie, Barbara Bates
Votes: 225
61. O Pintor e a Cidade (1956)
26 min | Documentary, Short
A painter wanders around the city of Oporto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Star: António Cruz
Votes: 248
62. Der Glockengießer von Tirol (1956)
99 min | Drama
Director: Richard Häussler | Stars: Heinrich Gretler, Nicole Heesters, Claus Holm, Erica Beer
Votes: 25
63. Wo der Wildbach rauscht (1956)
95 min | Drama
Well to do land owner Andrä Muralt can choose any of the unmarried women he wants, but has set his mind on Maria the virgin. Unfortunately for him she would rather marry the Mayors son.
Director: Heinz Paul | Stars: Walter Richter, Ingeborg Cornelius, Ingmar Zeisberg, Helga Frank
Votes: 49
64. Main Street (1956)
99 min | Drama
A couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Therefore one of them has to pretend to fall in love with her.
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Betsy Blair, José Suárez, Yves Massard, Luis Peña
Votes: 1,662
65. Attack (1956)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Drama, War
In 1944, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, Robert Strauss
Votes: 5,835
66. Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An urban wheeler-dealer gets involved in organized crime, corrupt city politics and graft while falling in love with the fiancée of the newly elected mayor.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, Kent Taylor
Votes: 1,288
67. Written on the Wind (1956)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 13,419
68. High Society (1956)
Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm
Votes: 17,527 | Gross: $13.00M
69. Nightfall (1956)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith, Jocelyn Brando
Votes: 4,562
70. Rock Rock Rock! (1956)
G | 85 min | Drama, Music
Dori is trying to get together enough money to buy a strapless gown; Daddy has cut off Dori's allowance, but gee, she's gotta go to the prom.
Director: Will Price | Stars: Alan Freed and his Rock 'n Roll Band, Fran Manfred, Tuesday Weld, Connie Francis
Votes: 643
71. The Weapon (1956)
77 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
Directors: Val Guest, Hal E. Chester | Stars: Steve Cochran, Lizabeth Scott, George Cole, Herbert Marshall
Votes: 432
72. Female Jungle (1955)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Several persons, including an off duty policeman and a weird rich guy, are suspects in the murder of a beautiful actress.
Director: Bruno VeSota | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine, Burt Kaiser
Votes: 604
73. Child in the House (1956)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Young Elizabeth is left with her relatives, a married couple, while her mother is in the hospital. The friendly husband likes her, but the wife hates kids. One day her father, an often-absent crook on the lam, visits her in secret.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman, Stanley Baker, Mandy Miller
Votes: 215
74. The King and I (1956)
G | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson
Votes: 27,916 | Gross: $21.30M
75. Storm Center (1956)
Approved | 85 min | Drama
During the 1950s, a small-town librarian is shunned by the locals after she refuses the City Council's request to remove a book on Communism from the library's shelves.
Director: Daniel Taradash | Stars: Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly
Votes: 1,649
76. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,284
77. 7 Men from Now (1956)
Approved | 78 min | Western
A former sheriff blames himself for his wife's death during a Wells Fargo robbery and vows to track down and kill the seven men responsible.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed
Votes: 5,997
78. Symphonie in Gold (1956)
95 min | Musical, Romance, Sport
Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Germaine Damar, Hannelore Bollmann, Susi Nicoletti
Votes: 46
79. Bundle of Joy (1956)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
After finding a baby outside an orphanage, a salesgirl receives sympathy from those around her, including her boss' son, as they all assume the baby is hers.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy Noonan
Votes: 1,414
80. If All the Guys in the World... (1956)
95 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Crew members of a French fishing ship in the North Sea fall ill one by one, poisoned by rotten meat. They can only survive by getting serum within the following hours. Joint actions of rescuers from different countries commence.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: André Valmy, Jean Gaven, Marc Cassot, Georges Poujouly
Votes: 216
81. Nina (1956)
89 min | Drama
Love story of a girl, secretary to a Russian news agency, and an American journalist, thwarted by a wall of difficulties that has been erected by the girl's superior, a Russian major.
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Karlheinz Böhm, Peter Carsten, Werner Hinz
Votes: 45
82. Eyewitness (1956)
82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig
Votes: 338
83. Kaiserball (1956)
95 min | Music, Romance
A marriage shall be arranged during the Kaiserball (emperor's ball). But all get mixed-up and they have to suffer some turbulences until they end happily in two marriages.
Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Sonja Ziemann, Rudolf Prack, Hannelore Bollmann, Maria Andergast
Votes: 89
84. Time Table (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Arizona, a train's baggage car is robbed of a large payroll, prompting an investigation led by a railroad official-insurance investigator team.
Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr, Marianne Stewart
Votes: 916
85. The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
In order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin
Votes: 5,786
86. While the City Sleeps (1956)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the first of his senior executives who can get the earliest scoops on the case.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff
Votes: 7,079
87. Raznye sudby (1956)
107 min | Drama, Romance
A story of different persons with their different love experiences.
Director: Leonid Lukov | Stars: Tatyana Piletskaya, Yulian Panich, Lev Sverdlin, Olga Zhizneva
Votes: 171
88. It's Great to Be Young! (1956)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
It's heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr. Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music-making. Dingle, a very unconventional music master, helps the students in their time of need.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: John Mills, Cecil Parker, John Salew, Elizabeth Kentish
Votes: 337
89. Tea and Sympathy (1956)
Approved | 122 min | Drama
A new senior at a boy's prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach's wife.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews
Votes: 3,214
90. Miracle in the Rain (1956)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle, Fred Clark
Votes: 1,382
91. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Approved | 153 min | Drama, Romance, War
An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Marisa Pavan
Votes: 4,104 | Gross: $10.88M
92. Forbidden Planet (1956)
G | 98 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Votes: 53,198 | Gross: $3.00M
93. Hollywood or Bust (1956)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical
A singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Pat Crowley, Maxie Rosenbloom
Votes: 2,358
94. Anything Goes (1956)
TV-PG | 106 min | Musical, Romance
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each discovers the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lewis | Stars: Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor
Votes: 1,029
95. Away All Boats (1956)
Approved | 114 min | Drama, War
The story of a U.S. Naval ship and its crew in the Pacific, from 1943 to 1945.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Lex Barker, Julie Adams
Votes: 1,626
96. The Secret of the Forest (1956)
61 min | Adventure, Family
A forester's two children, Knight and Day, become friends with two spoiled rich kids, Terrington and Cox, when the latter two come to the woods for a visit. The quartet gets involved with a... See full summary »
Director: Darcy Conyers | Stars: Kit Terrington, Jacqueline Cox, Barry Knight, Diana Day
Votes: 26
97. The Last Wagon (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Western
Wagon train survivors of an Apache attack entrust the sheriff's prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, with their lives despite his wanted-for-murder status.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 3,670
98. Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (1956)
96 min | Drama
Dr. Danwitz (Karlheinz Böhm) and Dr. Hauser are assistant doctors at a hospital and they are not getting paid for their work, like it was usual in the Fifties of post-war Germany. While Dr.... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: Marianne Koch, Karlheinz Böhm, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Paul Dahlke
Votes: 40
99. Run for the Sun (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Adventure, Thriller
In Central America, an action-adventure novelist and a journalist for a magazine find themselves at the mercy of Nazi war criminals.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 1,517
100. Teenage Wolfpack (1956)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
"Think of a law, they've broken it. Think of a crime, they've committed it." A tense, tough story of teenage gangs committing acts of robbery, violence, and murder. The leader of the gang ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Tressler | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Karin Baal, Christian Doermer, Jo Herbst
Votes: 537
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