An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

The True Story of Jesse James

1957

English

6.2

♡ 9

88%

Nicholas Ray Director

Kay E. Kuter as Fleming

Carleton Young as Neighboring Farmer

Gene Roth as Railroad Engineer

Marian Seldes as Rowena Cobb

Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing trains and becoming folk heroes in the process. Jesse marries his sweetheart, Zee, and maintains an aura of domesticity, but after a group of lawmen launch an attack on his mother's house, Jesse plans one more great raid -- on a Minnesota bank.

King of Kings

1961

English

7.0

♡ 13

80%

Nicholas Ray Director

Harry Guardino as Barabbas

Carmen Sevilla as Mary Magdalene

Adriano Rimoldi as Melchior

Ray Milland as Satan

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.

The Lusty Men

1952

English

7.3

♡ 5

100%

83%

Action

Drama

husband wife relationship

Nicholas Ray Director

Frank Faylen as Al Dawson

Robert Bray as Fritz

Sheb Wooley as Gambler with Buster

Marshall Reed as Jim-Bob Tyler

Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.

Androcles and the Lion

1952

English

6.0

♡ 3

43%

based on play or musical

Nicholas Ray Director

Alan Young as Androcles

Alex Sharp as Officer

Robert Foulk as Soldier

Charlie Hall as Town Crier

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.

Run for Cover

1955

English

6.7

♡ 3

68%

Nicholas Ray Director

Denver Pyle as Harvey

Jack Lambert as Larsen

Trevor Bardette as Paulsen

Irving Bacon as Scotty

An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.

Bitter Victory

1957

English

6.7

♡ 3

78%

Nicholas Ray Director

Richard Burton as Captain Leith

Curd Jürgens as Major Brand

Harry Landis as Private Browning

Nigel Green as Private Wilkins

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.

They Live by Night

1948

English

7.4

♡ 13

96%

Nicholas Ray Director

Frank Ferguson as Bum

Harry Harvey as Hagenheimer

Ian Wolfe as Hawkins

Mickey Simpson as Shadow

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

Lightning Over Water

1980

English

6.6

♡ 4

67%

70%

Action

Documentary

Nicholas Ray Director

Wim Wenders as Self

Gerry Bamman as Self

Martin Schäfer as Self

Ronee Blakley as Self

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

Born to Be Bad

1950

English

6.6

♡ 5

71%

Nicholas Ray Director

Kenneth Gibson as Charity Ball Guest

Joan Fontaine as Christabel

John Mitchum as Guest

Irving Bacon as Jewelry Salesman

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.

On Dangerous Ground

1951

English

7.2

♡ 8

89%

78%

Action

based on novel or book

Nicholas Ray Director

Nestor Paiva as Bagganierri

Ida Lupino as Mary Malden

Ian Wolfe as Sheriff Carrey

William Challee as Thug

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.

Flying Leathernecks

1951

English

6.3

♡ 7

75%

Nicholas Ray Director

Mack Williams as Colonel

Carleton Young as Col. Riley

John Mitchum as Lt. Black

Hal Bokar as Lt. Deal

Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to make the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.

55 Days at Peking

1963

English

6.7

♡ 13

57%

Nicholas Ray Director

Ava Gardner as Baroness Natalie Ivanoff

Walter Gotell as Capt. Hoffman

Massimo Serato as Garibaldi

John Ireland as Sgt. Harry

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

Knock on Any Door

1949

English

6.6

♡ 7

69%

Nicholas Ray Director

George Chandler as Cashier

John Indrisano as Man

Helen Mowery as Miss Holiday

Frank Hagney as Suspect

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

In a Lonely Place

1950

English

7.9

♡ 43

96%

Nicholas Ray Director

John Mitchum as Bar Patron

Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele

David Bond as Dr. Richards

Gloria Grahame as Laurel Gray

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

Bigger Than Life

1956

English

7.4

♡ 14

91%

83%

abraham's sacrifice of isaac

Nicholas Ray Director

Hal Taggart as Churchgoer

Robert F. Simon as Dr. Norton

James Mason as Ed Avery

Barbara Rush as Lou Avery

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Rebel Without a Cause

1955

English

7.6

♡ 66

91%

parent child relationship

street gang

underground world

unsociability

Nicholas Ray Director

Chuck Hicks as Ambulance Attendant

Robert Foulk as Gene

William Hopper as Judy's Father

Ann Doran as Mrs. Carol Stark

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

Johnny Guitar

1954

English

7.6

♡ 12

94%

Nicholas Ray Director

Trevor Bardette as Jenks

Ward Bond as John McIvers

Frank Ferguson as Marshal Williams

Sheb Wooley as Posseman

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.

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The Savage Innocents

The True Story of Jesse James

King of Kings

The Lusty Men

Androcles and the Lion

Run for Cover

Bitter Victory

They Live by Night

Lightning Over Water

Born to Be Bad

On Dangerous Ground

Flying Leathernecks

55 Days at Peking

Knock on Any Door

In a Lonely Place

Bigger Than Life

Rebel Without a Cause

Johnny Guitar