Movies 1955 Page 7

A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.

Boyhood friends grow up, form a tango orchestra, one of them writes a brilliant song commemorating their friendship before he dies.

A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before...

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin...

Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police...

Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn...

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a...

Multiple stories unfold over the course of twenty-four hours in and around a bustling central airport.

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she...

Pseudonym Dr. Falke follows his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna.

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...

Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his...

Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a...

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

The film follows Lord Vishnu's fifth incarnation as the dwarf-like Vamana. He descends to earth to curb the ego and pride of the demon King Bali...

Sivagnanam works as a bank clerk. Though his pay is meagre, he deals with a lot of cash at the bank. His family consists of his wife Lakshmi, a...

Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.

Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert...

An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is...

In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.

An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.

Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is...

In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's...

A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and...

A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and...

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old...

The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.

In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note...

When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her...

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where,...

In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet will do anything to get it. After robbing...

Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an...

In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.

Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin...