1955
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- DirectorVincente MinnelliStanley DonenStarsHoward KeelAnn BlythDolores GrayA roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsErnest BorgnineBetsy BlairEsther MinciottiA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsJanet LeighJack LemmonBetty GarrettAfter submitting a story of her beautiful sister, a woman assumes her identity to maintain the attention of a playboy publisher.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDan DaileyCyd CharisseThree soldiers meet ten years after their last meeting in New York, and find out that they have little in common now.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSpencer TracyRobert RyanAnne FrancisA one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsBroderick CrawfordRichard BasehartGiulietta MasinaA trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.
- DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsJohanna MatzPaul HubschmidPaul Edwin RothIngrid, a young and inexperienced girl, is elected "Miss Mannequin". The photojournalist Walter is happy because he is her friend, the journalist Robert, because he senses a good story.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsMarlon BrandoJean SimmonsFrank SinatraIn New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsDean MartinJerry LewisShirley MacLaineRick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsCornel WildeRichard ConteJean WallaceA police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJames DeanNatalie WoodSal MineoA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsDirk BogardeVirginia McKennaBasil SydneyA European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGordon MacRaeGloria GrahameGene NelsonIn Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
- DirectorBurt LancasterStarsBurt LancasterDiana LynnDianne FosterA Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsAlec GuinnessPeter SellersCecil ParkerFive oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsRichard AttenboroughGeorge BakerBill OwenA trio of ex-servicemen begin smuggling innocuous black market items into post-war Britain, but through greed they graduate to more sinister cargo.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsDeborah KerrVan JohnsonJohn MillsIn WW2 London, a writer falls in love with the wife of a British civil servant but both men suspect her of infidelity with yet another man.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsJack BuchananJanette ScottJeannie CarsonA stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husbands also visit, and the stockbroker notes the effect of the singer on his lovelorn family.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsAlberto SordiSilvana PampaniniPaolo StoppaNannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsBetty GrableMarge ChampionGower ChampionA widowed singer marries her late husband's songwriting partner, which leads to trouble when her first husband turns up very much alive.
- DirectorRobert A. StemmleStarsVico TorrianiIna HalleyRuth Stephan
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsDoris DayJames CagneyCameron MitchellA fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartArthur KennedyDonald CrispNewcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJune AllysonFrank LovejoyAn ex-pilot and current baseballer is recalled into the U.S. Air Force and assumes an increasingly important role in Cold War deterrence.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanJohn WayneStarsJohn WayneLauren BacallPaul FixHis ship seized by the Chinese Communists, American Merchant Captain Tom Wilder languishes in prison but Chinese villagers help him escape to sail them to Hong-Kong.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsRichard ConteRona AndersonRussell NapierA 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.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsJane WymanCharlton HestonClaire TrevorThe success story of a dressmaker who comes to run a group of fashion shops at the expense of her love life.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsJane WymanRock HudsonAgnes MooreheadAn upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRalph MeekerAlbert DekkerPaul StewartA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsFrank SilveraIrene KaneJamie SmithReady to catch a train to his hometown, a washed-up boxer tells us about the strange and twisty events that happened to him the past couple of days.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsEleonora Rossi DragoGabriele FerzettiFranco FabriziA young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsJean ServaisCarl MöhnerRobert ManuelFour men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...
- DirectorLeslie NormanStarsMichael RedgraveSheila SimAlexander KnoxOn a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft's fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.
- DirectorRichard SaleStarsJane RussellJeanne CrainAlan YoungTwo Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsGiovanna RalliAntonella LualdiFranca ValeriThe lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsWalter ChiariAldo FabriziPeppino De FilippoRoberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Roberto does not agree.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsJane RussellJeff ChandlerDan DuryeaIn Arizona, during the 1950s, privileged white girl Amanda Lawrence marries half-Apache mining engineer Jonathan Dartland who dreams of finding gold in an old abandoned Apache mine.
- DirectorRichard WilsonStarsRobert MitchumJan SterlingKaren SharpeWhen a notorious tough 'town tamer' is hired by the citizenry to rid of the gunmen driving them off their land, he finds the local saloon madam to be an old friend.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJohn ForsytheShirley MacLaineEdmund GwennHarry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
- DirectorGilles GrangierStarsJean GabinJeanne MoreauGaby BassetAfter a spending the night with his girlfriend, trucker Jean encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTom EwellEvelyn KeyesWhen his family goes away for the summer, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbor.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsSophia LorenFranca ValeriVittorio De SicaAgnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsDaniel GélinFrançoise ArnoulTrevor HowardHe is a French taxi driver in Lisbon carrying the scars of a wife's infidelity that ended in tragedy when he found her with his lover upon returning from the war. She is a French woman in trouble with the law and she has a police inspector on her tail. They fall passionately in love, but because of his past he is not able to trust that she is not using him to escape the police. She must choose between escaping with him and remaining under a shred of doubt or turn herself in to prove that she indeed loves him.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsJohn MillsYvonne MitchellAlastair SimThis movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his causes he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are going to be expelled for fighting, which he finds ironic, in as much as the father is a known pacifist. When they get to the school, their sons have disappeared.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantGrace KellyJessie Royce LandisA retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
- DirectorHans QuestStarsRudolf SchockWaltraut HaasElma Karlowa
- DirectorJosé FerrerStarsJosé FerrerJune AllysonJoy PageA successful theatrical director is driven to failure by the machinations of his vengeful wife. Eventually, he lands in a mental hospital where both his wife and his new love, a young actress named Charlotte, are waiting to see him.
- DirectorHarald BraunStarsHans AlbersRomy SchneiderRudolf ForsterNiddy is the paternal Niece of the deceased Owner of the Hotel Hovelmann, She lives in the Hotel and is watched over by Karl, a kindly, father figure, who is a long time Servant and friend to the family and Mother. Her Cousin Alwin shows up and She eventually falls in love with him Alwin wants to eliminate Karl who interferes with his plans to convince Her to marry him. Niddy is guaranteed a place to live in the Hotel and Karl is guaranteed a job there, a common deal in that Era. Niddy fall for Alwin. Karl stops Alwin once, because he can not be fired, He is "degraded" to supervision of the washroom. He quits,and later meets Till, a Ten year old House-Boy from the Hotel while sitting in the Park. He takes Karl home and there, Karl decides to return to the Hotel and take the Job as Bathroom Attendant. There he meets his old Friend Claasen, the owner of a whole Hotel Chain. Claasen buys the "Hövelmann". Hotel, and Cousin Alwin and His plans are destroyed by Karl.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsWilliam BendixArthur KennedyLuther AdlerThe survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsKatharine HepburnRossano BrazziIsa MirandaAn American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsRobert RyanRobert StackShirley YamaguchiPlanted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsUlla JacobssonEva DahlbeckHarriet AnderssonIn Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbJanet LeighEdmond O'BrienIn 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
- DirectorAlexandre AstrucStarsJean-Claude PascalAnouk AiméeGaby SylviaA woman tells her life story to a police investigator after a doctor's suicide.
- DirectorPaul MartinStarsRudolf PrackNadja TillerPeter W. Staub
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsLiselotte PulverGunnar MöllerWera FrydtbergAndreas, a young German student, comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas must leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return someday.
- DirectorRussell RouseStarsBroderick CrawfordRichard ConteAnne BancroftA top syndicate crime boss and his corrupt politicians make multi-million deals and order murders until the vicious pattern finally catches up to them.
- DirectorJoshua LoganStarsWilliam HoldenKim NovakBetty FieldEmotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisDiana LynnWhen an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsCurd JürgensViktor de KowaKarl JohnDuring WW2, German general Harry Harras is a test pilot and chief engineer for the Luftwaffe but his contempt for the Nazis and sabotage at the aircraft plant land him in hot water with the Gestapo.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsGlenn FordAnne FrancisLouis CalhernA new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsFrank SinatraDebbie ReynoldsDavid WayneSuccessful theater agent Charlie Reader lives a playboy's life in New York City. When his childhood friend shows up with a desire to leave his wife, the two are awestruck by each other's lifestyle.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddMichael RedgraveUrsula JeansDrama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsEdward G. RobinsonNina FochHugh MarloweAfter an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsStewart GrangerJean SimmonsBill TraversIn early-1900s England, a maid tries to blackmail her master into romancing her when she discovers that he murdered his wife.
- DirectorHans WolffStarsGermaine DamarAdrian HovenWalter MüllerThree friends buy a gas station together and work separate shifts. They all fall in love with a customer, not realizing it's the same woman.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsGuy MadisonKim NovakBrian KeithFour vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime.
- DirectorHall BartlettStarsElroy 'Crazylegs' HirschBarbara HaleChester MorrisA convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish his sentence and get back to his wife and family, and his desire to escape the confines of prison.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsSam WanamakerMandy MillerAndré MorellDiamond smuggling, and the disappearance of the mother of several children, in the seaside resort of Brighton after World War II.
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsEddie ConstantineBella DarviOlivier HussenotMichel was just released from prison when he is suspected of having killed his wife as she was the one who brought him into prison. She also betrayed him with Rupert, a journalist not wanting to become a part of the newspaper stories. Thus Rupert asks the reporter Barney to find proof for Michel's innocence. But the police already sees Michel back in prison.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsVittorio De SicaSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniA kind-hearted taxi driver runs into a glamorous girl and falls in love with her, but she turns out to be a cheap thief.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsVittorio De SicaSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniLuca runs a mill and is married to Carmela, a beautiful wife. But his wife's beauty catches the eye of Don Teofilo the Governor.
- DirectorJesse HibbsStarsAnne BaxterJeff ChandlerRory CalhounIn 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsAntonio CifarielloFranco FabriziGiovanna RalliAlvaro is been in jail, so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello, and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They only need a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanJack ArnoldStarsJeff MorrowFaith DomergueRex ReasonAliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsAntonio CifarielloRossana PodestàGiovanna RalliThe story deals with the amorous escapades of handsome garage mechanic Bob (Antonio Cifariello).
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsDale RobertsonEvelyn KeyesFrank LovejoyA jet pilot, Dale Robertson, find himself assigned to the barren wastes of Alaska where it becomes his duty to man an observation post.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsSydney ChaplinAudrey DaltonJefferson CliffordA falling-out between thieves over the proceeds of a stickup results in several killings and a priest being marked for murder because of a confession he heard from one of the gang members.
- DirectorHarry HornerRafael PortilloStarsRicardo MontalbanAnne BancroftLee MarvinIn Mexico City, a poor single father is mistaken for a serial killer by the local cops, but the man's son stumbles upon the real killer and tries to warn the police after being abducted.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsOlivia de HavillandFrank SinatraRobert MitchumAn ego-driven, aspiring physician, intolerant of the weaknesses of others, especially those closest to him, comes to grips with his own imperfections.
- DirectorCarson DavidsonStarsRobert FleuryJoseph TulOsmond BeckwithThis Oscar-nominated short is a selection of images of, on and around New York's 3rd Ave El throughout a day showing a variety of the riders and many scenes of New York around the tracks.
- DirectorMuriel BoxStarsPeter FinchKay KendallMuriel PavlowIn the 1950s days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily-married actor couple. Unfortunately, he chooses the Fosters, who need the money and so do the show. Actors they may be, but happily married they most surely are not.
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsDennis O'KeefeAbbe LanePaul StewartA former military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with her own agenda.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsJennifer JonesRobert StackKipp HamiltonAfter her admission to the hospital, town-famous stern teacher Miss Dove nostalgically reminisces about her youth and about the pupils she taught over the years.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsVictor MatureRichard EganStephen McNallyThree hoodlums carefully case a small town while planning to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday. On Saturday, things turn violent and deadly.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonJulio SalvadorStarsRichard GreeneAnouk AiméeMichael DenisonA government agent is sent to the French-Spanish border to round up smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered. He is helped by singer Anouk Aimee, who he falls in love with.
- DirectorFritz KortnerStarsLuise UllrichEwald BalserFranz StossThe film portrays the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914.
- DirectorHarry EssexStarsFrank LovejoyKeefe BrasselleCathy O'DonnellThe infant baby of Sam and Anne Bennett is critically hurt after being hit by a bottle thrown by a gang of juvenile delinquent hoodlums known as the Wolf Pack. Police Detective Tom Lynn takes charge of the investigation and orders a shakedown of youth gangs in Chicago's toughest section, but this fails to locate members of the Wolf Pack gang. A savage beating is given to an innocent witness by Bennett, who takes matters into his own hands in the belief that the law authorities are too slow.
- DirectorJohn FordMervyn LeRoyJoshua LoganStarsHenry FondaJames CagneyWilliam PowellIn the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritations.
- DirectorErnst MarischkaStarsRomy SchneiderMagda SchneiderGretl SchörgYoung Stanzi who is visiting Vienna helps a young corporal and musician to become famous for his marching song "Die Deutschmeister".
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsGerhard RiedmannHans MoserDoris KirchnerThe Berlin bar pianist Peter drives with his friend Hans to Tirol. There both fall in love with the pretty Gretel daughter of restaurant operator Ignaz Musbauer. But Gretel may marry only after her fewer delightful sister Liesel came under the hood. In hope to be able to be divorced soon again Hans sacrifices himself and marries Liesel first.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsKirk DouglasJeanne CrainClaire TrevorSharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsJames DeanRaymond MasseyJulie HarrisTwo brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
- DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVan HeflinAldo RayMona FreemanYoung Marines have adventures in love and war.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsJohn MillsEric PortmanChristopher RhodesAllied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".
- DirectorDavid EadyGeorge More O'FerrallWendy ToyeStarsOrson WellesJohn GregsonElizabeth SellarsA trilogy of fantastic stories involving murder and the supernatural.