During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.

Auntie Mame

1958

English

7.9

♡ 11

88%

93%

Action

based on novel or book

based on play or musical

Morton DaCosta Director

Forrest Tucker as Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside

Lee Patrick as Doris Upson

Barbara Pepper as Mrs. Krantz

Ron Nyman as Party Guest

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

Carve Her Name with Pride

1958

English

7.2

♡ 1

78%

based on novel or book

Lewis Gilbert Director

John G. Heller as Gestapo Interrogator

Geoffrey Keen as Narrator

Aileen Lewis as Shopper in Woolworths

Michael Caine as Thirsty Prisoner on Train

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.

Bell Book and Candle

1958

English

6.8

♡ 17

Richard Quine Director

Jack Lemmon as Nicky Holroyd

Elsa Lanchester as Queenie Holroyd

James Stewart as Shepherd Henderson

Ernie Kovacs as Sidney Redlitch

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

Suicide Battalion

1958

English

4.3

♡ 6

Drama

philippines

War

Edward L. Cahn Director

Jackie Joseph as Cho-Cho

John McNamara as Colonel Craig

Bing Russell as Lt. Chet Hall

Mike Connors as Major Matt McCormack

Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".

The Vikings

1958

English

7.0

♡ 20

77%

72%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Richard Fleischer Director

Frank Thring as Aella

Kirk Douglas as Einar

Alexander Knox as Father Godwin

Janet Leigh as Morgana

Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.

Damn Yankees

1958

English

7.0

♡ 4

79%

Stanley Donen Director

Rae Allen as Gloria Thorpe

Ray Walston as Mr. Applegate

Jean Stapleton as Sister Miller

John Roy as Trial Spectator

Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958

English

7.9

♡ 43

97%

Richard Brooks Director

Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt

Vaughn Taylor as Deacon Davis

Jack Carson as Gooper Pollitt

Madeleine Sherwood as Mae Pollitt

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

The Revenge of Frankenstein

1958

English

6.7

♡ 13

87%

Terence Fisher Director

Francis Matthews as Doctor Hans Kleve

Peter Cushing as Doctor Victor Stein

Oscar Quitak as Dwarf

Michael Ripper as Kurt

Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he continues his gruesome experiments.

Buchanan Rides Alone

1958

English

6.8

♡ 5

100%

Budd Boetticher Director

Peter Whitney as Amos Agry

Joe De Santis as Esteban Gomez

Roy Jenson as Hamp

Randolph Scott as Tom Buchanan

Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.

Man of the West

1958

English

7.0

♡ 11

95%

Anthony Mann Director

Jack Williams as Alcutt

Lee J. Cobb as Dock Tobin

Robert J. Wilke as Ponch

Arthur O'Connell as Sam Beasley

Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.

Vertigo

1958

English

8.2

♡ 202

93%

san francisco, california

sense of guilt

suicide attempt

Thriller

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Lee Patrick as Car Owner Mistaken for Madeleine

Kenneth Gibson as Diner at Ernie's

Forbes Murray as Diner at Ernie's

Ellen Corby as Manager of McKittrick Hotel

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Cairo Station

1958

Arabic

7.5

♡ 34

100%

top 100 egyptian movies

violence against women

Youssef Chahine Director

Nadia Lutfi as

Farid Shawqi as Abu Siri

Hind Rustum as Hanuma

Youssef Chahine as Qinawi

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.

Bonjour Tristesse

1958

English

6.8

♡ 20

84%

68%

Action

based on novel or book

Otto Preminger Director

Jackie Raynal as Dancer

Roland Culver as Mr. Lombard

Jean Kent as Mrs. Helen Lombard

Geoffrey Horne as Philippe

David Niven as Raymond

A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to keep her frivolous lifestyle at all costs.

The Blob

1958

English

6.3

♡ 26

68%

Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. Director

Aneta Corsaut as Jane Martin

Olin Howland as Old Man

Pamela Curran as Smooching Teenager

Steve McQueen as Steve Andrews

A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

Equinox Flower

1958

Japanese

7.8

♡ 14

89%

father daughter conflict

shōwa era (1926-89)

tradition

wedding

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Fujio Suga as

Miyuki Kuwano as Hisako Hirayama

Ureo Egawa as Schoolmate Nakanishi

Toyo Takahashi as Wakamatsu's owner

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

Plan 9 from Outer Space

1958

English

3.9

♡ 19

66%

Edward D. Wood Jr. Director

Dudley Manlove as Eros

Gloria Dea as Girl

Lynn Lemon as Reverend

John Breckinridge as Ruler

In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay that was murdered by the couple. Their intention is not to conquest Earth but to stop mankind from developing the powerful bomb “Solobonite” that would threaten the universe. When the population of Hollywood and Washington DC sees flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

Showdown at Boot Hill

1958

English

6.3

♡ 2

53%

Bounty hunter Luke Welsh arrives looking for a wanted man. When that man draws on him he has to kill him. To collect his reward he needs a statement identifying him. But the man was well liked in town and no one will sign such a statement. When he outdraws another man who thought he was faster, some townsmen decide he should be killed and they organize a mob to go after him.

The Proud Rebel

1958

English

6.9

♡ 3

67%

Drama

Western

wrongful conviction

Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he's unfairly accused of starting a brawl in a small town. A local woman pays his fine, providing that he works it off on her ranch. He soon finds himself involved in the woman's struggle to keep her ranch from a local landowner who wants it--and whose sons were responsible for the man being framed for the fight.

Touch of Evil

1958

English

7.9

♡ 51

96%

Orson Welles Director

Keenan Wynn as Bartender

Joseph Cotten as Coroner

Joanna Moore as Marcia Linnekar

Valentin de Vargas as Pancho

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

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Bell Book and Candle

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Damn Yankees

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Revenge of Frankenstein

Buchanan Rides Alone

Man of the West

Vertigo

Cairo Station

Bonjour Tristesse

The Blob

Equinox Flower

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Showdown at Boot Hill

The Proud Rebel

Touch of Evil