Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "1950s", "sailor"

1. Paprika (1991)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama

A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.

Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Debora Caprioglio, Stéphane Ferrara, Martine Brochard, Stéphane Bonnet

Votes: 4,713

2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond

Votes: 696,409 | Gross: $127.51M

3. Godzilla (1954)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable dinosaur-like beast.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi

Votes: 39,852 | Gross: $2.42M

4. The Producers (2005)

PG-13 | 134 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.

Director: Susan Stroman | Stars: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell

Votes: 44,799 | Gross: $19.38M

5. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

PG | 122 min | Drama

Disturbed 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.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden

Votes: 114,458 | Gross: $8.00M

6. Men of Honor (2000)

R | 129 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.

Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Votes: 125,250 | Gross: $48.82M

7. Hail, Caesar! (2016)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes

Votes: 143,250 | Gross: $30.50M

8. The Finest Hours (2016)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Drama, History

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana

Votes: 70,714 | Gross: $27.57M

9. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Biography, Drama

A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Michael Learned

Votes: 32,894 | Gross: $35.11M

10. Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

R | 102 min | Drama

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Peter Dobson

Votes: 6,968 | Gross: $1.73M

11. Invisible Life (2019)

R | 139 min | Drama

Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.

Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão, António Fonseca

Votes: 9,682

12. Black Orpheus (1959)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

Director: Marcel Camus | Stars: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia

Votes: 12,272

13. Panic in the Streets (1950)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance

Votes: 8,871

14. The Case of the Red Monkey (1955)

Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A US agent protects a defecting Russian scientist in London as scientists are murdered. The agent finds the killers' hideout, is captured with a policeman's niece, escapes, and stops the killings.

Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier, John Horsley

Votes: 191

15. My Sister Eileen (1955)

Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

After submitting a story of her beautiful sister, a woman assumes her identity to maintain the attention of a playboy publisher.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse

Votes: 2,113

16. The Adultress (1953)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A truck driver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail.

Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby, Maria Pia Casilio

Votes: 1,903

17. This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder. Things complicate when their feeble-minded mother begins to suspect something.

Director: Michael Oblowitz | Stars: Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Christian Durango, Sloan Cobb

Votes: 1,329 | Gross: $0.01M

18. Howl (2010)

R | 84 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.

Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott, Aaron Tveit

Votes: 13,413 | Gross: $0.62M

19. The California Kid (1974 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

A deranged desert town sheriff has a murderous habit of forcing speeders to their deaths, until a young man with a souped-up hotrod arrives to possibly end it.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Phillips, Stuart Margolin

Votes: 1,191

20. Crazy (II) (2008)

R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Inspired by the life of Hank Garland, CRAZY is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950's.

Director: Rick Bieber | Stars: Waylon Payne, Ali Larter, Lane Garrison, Scott Michael Campbell

Votes: 836

21. Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Zombie-like, dead crewmen of a sunken ship have always prevented salvagers from claiming the wreck's legendary box of diamonds, but will a new group of treasure hunters succeed?

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes, Autumn Russell, Joel Ashley

Votes: 1,216

22. Common Ground (2000 TV Movie)

R | 105 min | Drama

This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy," a woman joins the Navy during the 1950s and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts,... See full summary »

Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Erik Knudsen, Brittany Murphy, Jason Priestley, Margot Kidder

Votes: 1,099

23. Testing Movie1 (2015)

PG-13 | 1,234 min | Crime, Drama, Family

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Directors: Dom Fantana, James Hannay, James P Savage, Ruarc Sorensen, Timothy Fantastic, Elise Huard | Stars: Dom Fantana, Paul Ohlhaut, Brent Aliverti, Andrew Zhang

Votes: 128 | Gross: $0.01M

24. Before Stonewall (1984)

Unrated | 87 min | Documentary, History

The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.

Directors: Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg | Stars: Rita Mae Brown, Bruce Nugent, Henry Otis, Donna Smith

Votes: 1,190 | Gross: $0.02M

25. Waterfront Women (1950)

80 min | Drama

A worthless sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives, but the eldest daughter is not happy when her father decides to return.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott, Susan Shaw

Votes: 489

26. Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (1958)

Approved | 142 min | Documentary, Romance

Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again.

Directors: Bill Colleran, Louis De Rochemont III | Stars: Bjørn Amvik, Arne Andersen, Per Antonsen, Niels Arntsen

Votes: 299

27. Up the Creek (1958)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy

During the Cold War, an idiotic R.N. lieutenant, who cannot be fired due to his connections, is transferred from the Admiralty to the far away Mothball Fleet to a rusty destroyer whose crew is running an illegal money-making scheme.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Vera Day

Votes: 417

28. Undersea Girl (1957)

Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama

A woman reporter, a navy investigator, and a heavyset police detective come across a gang which scuttled a ship in order to loot her later, underwater, for a Navy money consignment.

Director: John Peyser | Stars: Mara Corday, Pat Conway, Florence Marly, Dan Seymour

Votes: 49

29. Return from the Sea (1954)

Approved | 79 min | Drama, Romance, War

A hardened career U.S. Navy chief petty officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Sterling, Neville Brand, John Doucette, Paul Langton

Votes: 177

30. Le sang à la tête (1956)

83 min | Drama

François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.

Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Claude Sylvain, Georgette Anys

Votes: 271

31. Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)

7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy

Shanghai Sam needs a new crew for his ship. Bugs signs on but rebels at the captain's cruelty.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 535

32. The Shanghai Story (1954)

Approved | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In post-WW2 Shanghai, expatriate Westerners are detained in the Waldorf Hotel until the Communists can identify a suspected spy among them but some prisoners try to outwit the interrogators and the armed guards and flee.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel, Barry Kelley

Votes: 204

33. Smuggler's Island (1951)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In 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.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Philip Friend, Marvin Miller

Votes: 126

34. Der Untergang der Pamir (2006 TV Movie)

180 min | Action, Drama

The Story of the German Sail-School Ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.

Director: Kaspar Heidelbach | Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Milanovic Miki, Jan Josef Liefers, Dietmar Bär

Votes: 188

35. Ça va barder (1955)

90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A con man (Eddie Constantine) is approached by a shipping magnate to become one of his security agents.

Director: John Berry | Stars: Eddie Constantine, May Britt, Jean Danet, Lyla Rocco

Votes: 135

36. Let's Stick Together (1952)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy

Even with his long white beard and aching back, an aging Donald still has to make ends meet by lancing trash in the park. When he happens upon his old partner, an elderly honey bee named Spike, it conjures up memories of the good ol' days.

Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: June Foray, Jack Hannah, Clarence Nash, Bill Thompson

Votes: 623

37. Laivaston monnit maissa (1954)

79 min | Comedy

A military farce about a reluctant sailor, who is recruited into the Navy. His time in the unit turns into a holiday resort, where a spy ring operates.

Director: Ville Salminen | Stars: Ari Laine, Irja Rannikko, Mej-Ling Axberg, Jussi Jurkka

Votes: 42

38. Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä (1955)

64 min | Comedy

Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. They meet and offer to shelter an orphan boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son together with Miss Raikas.

Director: Armand Lohikoski | Stars: Esa Pakarinen, Masa Niemi, Siiri Angerkoski, Risto Jussila

Votes: 363

39. Magoo Goes Overboard (1957)

Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short

Mr. Magoo and Waldo are on a cruise aboard an ocean liner when the near-sighted MaGoo accidentally falls into the ship's swimming pool and thinks he has fallen overboard. When he tries to ... See full summary »

Director: Pete Burness | Stars: Jim Backus, Daws Butler

Votes: 43

40. Camp Jamboree (1953)

Approved | 18 min | Short, Musical

A group of entertainers arrive at the San Diego Naval Training Base to put on a show for the brass, sailors and marines. Romo Vincent opens with the fast-paced "It's a Good Day", and the ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Romo Vincent, Arthur Lee Simpkins, Gisele MacKenzie, Dorothy Dorben

41. American Masters (1985– )
Episode: Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)

TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary on Gene Kelly.

Director: Robert Trachtenberg | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Fred Astaire, Jeanine Basinger, Betsy Blair

Votes: 377

42. Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode: The Americanization of Machiko - August 4, 1953 (1989)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

As a returning sailor Sam brings home a Japanese wife and must battle the prejudice of his hometown and his own mother.

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, K Callan, Wayne Tippit

Votes: 638

43. Watchmen (2008–2009)
Episode: Chapter XI: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty... (2009)

Not Rated | 29 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

In Antarctica as Nite-Owl and Rorschach prepare to face him, Ozymandias explains his life and plans even as he executes them.

Director: Jake Strider Hughes | Star: Tom Stechschulte

Votes: 120