Duel on the Mississippi

1955

English

5.7

♡ 6

William Castle Director

Jean Del Val as Bidault

Herman Hack as Delta Man

Carl Sklover as Merchant

Larry Arnold as Riverboat Patron

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 Jules Tulane’s estate of his crop, Scarlet takes over Tulane’s land debt and forces him to pay or go to prison. In exchange for postponing his debt, Scarlet allows Tulane’s son, André, to work as her servant. When André and Scarlet fall in love, it leads to jealous rage from Scarlet’s former paramour, expert swordsman Hugo — and when Hugo looks to raid the Tulane estate again, it is up to André and Scarlet to take him down and save the estate.

This Island Earth

1955

English

5.9

♡ 10

75%

45%

Action

extraterrestrial technology

Jack Arnold Director

Jeff Morrow as Exeter

Jack Byron as Photographer

Edward Hearn as Reporter

Douglas Spencer as The Monitor

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

Ordet

1955

Danish

♡ 28

100%

religious fundamentalism

Carl Theodor Dreyer Director

Gerda Nielsen as Anne Petersen

Preben Lerdorff Rye as Johannes Borgen

Henrik Malberg as Morten Borgen Ove Rud

Ove Rud as Pastor

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.

Lola Montès

1955

French

7.2

♡ 9

82%

new orleans, louisiana

Romance

Max Ophüls Director

Peter Ustinov as Circus Master

Philippe Richard as Colonel

Martine Carol as Lola Montes

Oskar Werner as Student

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

The Tall Men

1955

English

6.7

♡ 6

78%

Raoul Walsh Director

Harry Carter as Cattle Buyer / Saloon Owner

Cameron Mitchell as Clint Allison

Robert Ryan as Nathan Stark

Robert Adler as Wrangler

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

Yôkihi

1955

Japanese

7.1

♡ 11

75%

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Masayuki Mori as Emperor Xuan Zong

Michiko Ai as Honghua

Chieko Murata as Lu-hua

Machiko Kyô as Princess Yang Kwei-fei

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.

All That Heaven Allows

1955

English

7.6

♡ 18

91%

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

widow

Douglas Sirk Director

Nestor Paiva as Manuel

Merry Anders as Mary Ann

Forrest Lewis as Mr. Weeks

Agnes Moorehead as Sara Warren

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

The Court Jester

1955

English

7.8

♡ 12

97%

Melvin Frank Director

Noel Drayton as Fergus

John Roy as Forester

Mildred Natwick as Griselda

Larry Pennell as Novice Knight

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

1955

English

6.2

♡ 22

18%

Charles Lamont Director

Michael Ansara as Charlie

Eddie Parker as Klaris

Marie Windsor as Madame Rontru

Kem Dibbs as Policeman

Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.

Pather Panchali

1955

Bangla

8.2

♡ 47

98%

Satyajit Ray Director

Binoy Mukherjee as Baidyanath Majumdar

Kanu Bannerjee as Harihar Ray

Tulsi Chakraborty as Prasanna, school teacher

Roma Ganguli as Roma

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. His wife, Sarbojaya, looks after their rebellious daughter, Durga, and young son, Apu. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life.

The Looters

1955

English

6.1

♡ 4

Abner Biberman Director

Thomas Gomez as George Parkinson

Rory Calhoun as Jesse Hill

Ray Danton as Pete Corder

Frank Faylen as Stan Leppich

A rescue team is dispatched to look for the survivors of a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies. They find the survivors--and also find $250,000 in cash among the debris.

The Man from Bitter Ridge

♡ 3

Jack Arnold Director

Dan White as Bender

Frank Sully as Billy Bundy

Trevor Bardette as Sheriff Walter Dunham

George DeNormand as Townsman

The Man from Bitter Ridge is a film directed by Jack Arnold. Jeff Carr, a special investigator, arrives in Tomahawk. His assignment is to discover who has been holding up the local stagecoach and is guilty for a series of killings that terrorize the town. Sheepman Alec Black is suspected by the local population but it is not long before Jeff realizes the man is innocent. Alec even becomes a good friend although he is in love with the same woman as him, Holly. Jeff will manage to arrest the real culprits but not before the latter try to compromise him down.

One Desire

1955

English

6.2

♡ 3

based on novel or book

Jerry Hopper Director

William Hopper as 'Mac' MacBain

Rory Mallinson as Mr. Gray

Edward Earle as Mr. Hathaway

Anne Baxter as Tacey Cromwell

The "one desire" of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. With Clint's younger brother and an orphaned girl in tow, the couple moves to a Colorado mining town where their love is tested by Judith Watrous, daughter of the town banker, who has her sights on Clint.

No Man's Woman

1955

English

6.4

♡ 7

33%

Franklin Adreon Director

Marie Windsor as Carolyn Ellenson Grant

Louis Jean Heydt as Det. Lt. Colton

Richard Crane as Dick Sawyer

Nancy Gates as Louise Nelson

A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among them a rich husband she wouldn't divorce unless he paid her a huge settlement, a lover she caused to be fired from his job and an assistant whose fiancé she tried to seduce.

East of Eden

1955

English

7.8

♡ 56

86%

90%

Action

based on novel or book

Elia Kazan Director

Ramsay Hill as English Officer

Timothy Carey as Joe

Robert Foulk as Man at Boxcar

Nick Dennis as Rantani

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

The Night of the Hunter

1955

English

8.0

♡ 54

93%

90%

Action

based on novel or book

Charles Laughton Director

John Dennis as Prison Guard

Lillian Gish as Rachel Cooper

Frank Mills as Townsman

Don Beddoe as Walt Spoon

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Hi-Jack Highway

1955

French

6.3

♡ 3

Gilles Grangier Director

Jeanne Moreau as Alice

Albert Dinan as Émile Serin

Charles Bouillaud as Le gendarme dactylographe

Jacques Marin as Un gendarme au commissariat

A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.

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.

Many Rivers to Cross

1955

English

6.2

♡ 3

45%

Roy Rowland Director

Rosemary DeCamp as Lucy Hamilton

Eleanor Parker as Mary Stuart Cherne

Darryl Hickman as Miles Henderson

Louis Jean Heydt as Noah Crawford

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.

Napoleon

1955

French

6.0

♡ 6

86%

Sacha Guitry Director

Micheline Presle as Hortense de Beauharnais

Michèle Morgan as Joséphine de Beauharnais

Sami Frey as Petit rôle

Louis de Funès as Soldier Laurent Passementier

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.

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This Island Earth

Ordet

Lola Montès

The Tall Men

Yôkihi

All That Heaven Allows

The Court Jester

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Pather Panchali

The Looters

The Man from Bitter Ridge

One Desire

No Man's Woman

East of Eden

The Night of the Hunter

Hi-Jack Highway

Rebel Without a Cause

Many Rivers to Cross

Napoleon