50s romance
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1. Broken Arrow (1950)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael
Votes: 9,687
2. Quo Vadis (1951)
Not Rated | 171 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov
Votes: 16,757 | Gross: $24.29M
3. 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: 4,568
4. There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Romance
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds
Votes: 3,596
5. Auntie Mame (1958)
Approved | 143 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.
Director: Morton DaCosta | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark
Votes: 12,703 | Gross: $23.30M
6. The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
Approved | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A New York socialite climbs the ladder of success man by man until a life among rich gangsters gives her what she thought she always wanted.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith
Votes: 3,568 | Gross: $1.54M
7. Hit and Run (1957)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mechanic wants his boss's younger wife for himself, and plans on using a junkyard car to run him over, then dismantling it.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Vince Edwards, Dolores Reed
Votes: 579
8. Watch the Birdie (1950)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A cameraman helps an heiress to get rid of her financial adviser, who wants to get her money.
Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames
Votes: 419
9. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Three American women working in Rome, Italy share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage. Each one experiences a few bumps in her journey to romance.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan
Votes: 3,765
10. Titanic (1953)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton
Votes: 7,665 | Gross: $4.91M
11. Lure of the Wilderness (1952)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In a Georgia swamp, a young hunter stumbles upon a wanted fugitive and his daughter, and helps them return to civilization.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan
Votes: 428
12. Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Approved | 126 min | Musical, Romance
A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow orphans.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 4,290
13. Ruby Gentry (1952)
82 min | Drama, Romance
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Tom Tully
Votes: 1,766 | Gross: $3.85M
14. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
G | 89 min | Family, Fantasy, Music
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 4,463
15. Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Tennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton G. Young, Robert Clarke
Votes: 671
16. Thunder in the Sun (1959)
Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
1850 adventure story of the Basque immigrants on their way to California, their struggle with the Indians, and the development of a complicated love triangle.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler, Jacques Bergerac, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 484
17. Sea Fury (1958)
84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Off the Spanish coast, two tug-boat captains are caught in a violent feud over a woman but their rivalry is set aside when a sinking freighter carrying explosives must be salvaged and towed to port.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen, Luciana Paluzzi, Grégoire Aslan
Votes: 234
18. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell
Votes: 16,466
19. The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
Nicky and Tacy are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels--a trailer.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 5,512
20. Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Western
With no law within 200 miles horse rancher Jeremy Rodak runs his spread with an iron hand and deals with rustlers even more ruthlessly.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Stephen McNally, Irene Papas
Votes: 1,724
21. The Furies (1950)
Passed | 109 min | Western
A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson
Votes: 3,906
22. Inside Detroit (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Gus Linden (Pat O'Brien)former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vickers (Dennis O'Keefe),so he ... See full summary »
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Pat O'Brien, Tina Carver, Margaret Field
Votes: 84
23. The Female Animal (1958)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
An aging film star and her alcoholic daughter compete for a handsome extra.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling, George Nader
Votes: 616
24. The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon
Votes: 4,240
25. The Cruel Tower (1956)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Romance
Tension and rivalry among a crew of steeplejacks.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Ericson, Mari Blanchard, Charles McGraw, Steve Brodie
Votes: 142
26. Four Desperate Men (1959)
100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three men attempt a prison break, but their plan derails when their boat falters near an island, where the caretaker recognizes the convict. A hostage situation erupts, leading to a tense standoff with authorities.
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Aldo Ray, Heather Sears, Neil McCallum, Victor Maddern
Votes: 327
27. Room at the Top (1958)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit
Votes: 7,331
28. Hell on Devil's Island (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Corrupt prison authorities use convict labor to run mines.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Helmut Dantine, William Talman, Donna Martell, Jean Willes
Votes: 34
29. The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Passed | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Story of the fraught friendship between an eccentric journalist and a team of daredevil flying acrobats.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson
Votes: 4,098
30. Tripoli (1950)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Adventure, History
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag
Director: Will Price | Stars: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed
Votes: 517
31. Too Much, Too Soon (1958)
Passed | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore becomes reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.
Director: Art Napoleon | Stars: Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ray Danton
Votes: 767
32. Outside the Wall (1950)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A paroled convict's infatuation with a gold-digger nurse working at a sanitarium leads him to crime.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell, Signe Hasso, Dorothy Hart
Votes: 410
33. Hell's Horizon (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Interaction among men of a bombing squadron during the Korean War.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: John Ireland, Marla English, Bill Williams, Hugh Beaumont
Votes: 137
34. 5 Fingers (1952)
Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden
Votes: 5,476
35. Phffft (1954)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
While pursing new companions, a former married couple keep running into each other all over town.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson, Kim Novak
Votes: 2,001
36. His Kind of Woman (1951)
Approved | 120 min | Action, Crime, Film-Noir
A deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle.
Directors: John Farrow, Richard Fleischer | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt
Votes: 4,963
37. Hollywood Story (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An 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.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull
Votes: 923
38. Massacre Canyon (1954)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Cavalrymen disguised as civilians must drive a wagon train loaded with army rifles through dangerous Apache territory to Fort Collins.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Philip Carey, Audrey Totter, Douglas Kennedy, Jeff Donnell
Votes: 158
39. The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The body of a Jane Doe turns up in an abandoned car in New York and the police's only clue revolves around the tattoo she has on her arm, and the fact that someone tried to destroy the corpse to erase the fingerprints.
Director: Edward Montagne | Stars: John Miles, Patricia Barry, Walter Kinsella, Frank Tweddell
Votes: 1,109
40. Hondo (1953)
PG | 83 min | Drama, Romance, War
Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate
Votes: 12,424
41. Voice in the Mirror (1958)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Jim Burton has become a chronic alcoholic since the death of his young daughter, and is cared for by his hard-working wife. A doctor's warning that Jim could become mentally ill strikes ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Richard Egan, Julie London, Walter Matthau, Troy Donahue
Votes: 164
42. Inside Straight (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Rip MacCool has learned early in life that "money talks" and after he arrives in San Francisco, he has no qualms about being ruthless in business, and his first fast-deal bilks Ada Stritch ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: David Brian, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Mercedes McCambridge
Votes: 305
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