Cinematic Era: 1950s Vintage
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0.0 1958 • Cinematic -
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
The Vampire
6.2 1957 • Cinematic -
The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
7.5 1952 • Cinematic -
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....
The Outriders
7.3 1950 • Cinematic -
A year ago, Tetsuo Yazaki was unemployed and wanted money, attacked a police box in Kobe, robbed a policeman of his pistol, attacked Hamamatsu OS Theater and Nagoya Shinwa Bank, and succeeded in robbing a large amount of money.
The Murderer Must Die
0.0 1959 • Cinematic -
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
Last Holiday
7.2 1950 • Cinematic -
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
The Good Humor Man
6.3 1950 • Cinematic -
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
Tea for Two
6.1 1950 • Cinematic -
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
A Kid for Two Farthings
6.7 1955 • Cinematic -
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
The Story of Three Loves
6.0 1953 • Cinematic -
My Wonderful Yellow Car
7.0 1953 • Cinematic -
In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.
For the First Time
6.4 1959 • Cinematic -
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
Little Peach
6.1 1958 • Cinematic -
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
Wolves of the Night
0.0 1958 • Cinematic -
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.
Farewell Rabaul
8.5 1954 • Cinematic -
An alley cat is foraging for food when he sees Tom's house and decides it's a rich haul. He dresses as a foundling baby and lands on the doorstep. Tom takes him in and Butch proceeds to raid the fridge between Tom's babying him. What he doesn't know is that Jerry's going to grab the ham Butch swiped every chance he gets.
Baby Butch
6.8 1954 • Cinematic -
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.
Rock-a-Bye Baby
6.8 1958 • Cinematic -
A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.
Come Back, Little Sheba
7.3 1953 • Cinematic -
A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
That Kind of Woman
6.2 1959 • Cinematic -
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
On Dangerous Ground
6.6 1951 • Cinematic -
In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.
All I Desire
7.0 1953 • Cinematic -
The Bloody Cherry Blossom Magistrate
0.0 1954 • Cinematic -
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.
The Crawling Eye
4.8 1958 • Cinematic -
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
The Desert Rats
6.3 1953 • Cinematic -
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
The Desperate Hours
7.0 1955 • Cinematic -
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.
The Lone Journey
9.0 1955 • Cinematic -
After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.
A Secret Rendezvous
4.5 1959 • Cinematic -
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Sands of Iwo Jima
6.4 1950 • Cinematic -
George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly gets his confidence from his Thompson SMG and his girl Flo. After a botched robbery, Flo, Kelly and his gang try their hand at a more lucrative job: kidnapping.
Machine-Gun Kelly
5.9 1958 • Cinematic -
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
The Gazebo
6.9 1959 • Cinematic -
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
The Best of Everything
6.3 1959 • Cinematic -
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
The Last Command
6.7 1955 • Cinematic -
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.
The Three Musketeers
6.4 1953 • Cinematic -
A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.
Royal Wedding
6.5 1951 • Cinematic -
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.
A Man in the Storm
7.0 1957 • Cinematic -
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy military governor with land holdings in Owari province. Nobunaga lived a life of continuous military conquest, eventually conquering a third of Japanese daimyo before his death in 1582. Telling the story of his rise to prominence as he leads an army of 4,000 men against the 40,000 troops of Lord Imagawa Yoshimoto to prevent the arrogant daimyo from crushing the Oda clan and taking control of the entire nation. From a newly restored anamorpic widescreen print, this is the ultimate warlord movie.
Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
7.5 1959 • Cinematic -
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
Foxfire
6.7 1955 • Cinematic -
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
Night Passage
6.5 1957 • Cinematic -
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of those around her.
With Songs in My Heart
0.0 1958 • Cinematic -
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
The Human Wall
6.3 1959 • Cinematic -
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Love Me or Leave Me
6.9 1955 • Cinematic -
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Illegal
6.4 1955 • Cinematic -
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.
Stranger on Horseback
5.8 1955 • Cinematic -
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others.
Battle Hymn
6.6 1957 • Cinematic -
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.
My Sister Eileen
6.6 1955 • Cinematic -
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
The Red Light Military Base
9.0 1953 • Cinematic -
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
Her Twelve Men
5.8 1954 • Cinematic -
Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
Tall Man Riding
5.8 1955 • Cinematic -
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.
Comin' Round the Mountain
6.0 1951 • Cinematic -
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
Iron Man
6.2 1951 • Cinematic -
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Father Brown
6.5 1954 • Cinematic -
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Nonki saiban
0.0 1955 • Cinematic -
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.
Striving to Live
0.0 1955 • Cinematic -
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
7.0 1955 • Cinematic -
Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom.
Stranger from Venus
5.2 1954 • Cinematic -
Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.
Aparajito
7.9 1956 • Cinematic -
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his professional baseball career.
Strategic Air Command
6.2 1955 • Cinematic -
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
Run for Cover
6.8 1955 • Cinematic -
The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.
Five
6.6 1951 • Cinematic -
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
Captain China
5.5 1950 • Cinematic