After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.

Adventures of Captain Fabian

1951

English

5.6

♡ 4

95%

William Marshall Director

Agnes Moorehead as Aunt Jezebel

Errol Flynn as Capt. Michael Fabian

Vincent Price as George Brissac

Roger Blin as Philippe

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.

Lullaby of Broadway

1951

English

6.7

♡ 3

77%

David Butler Director

Murray Alper as Joe the Bartender

Doris Day as Melinda Howard

George Ford as Ship Passenger

Gene Nelson as Tom Farnham

Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.

Red Mountain

1951

English

6.1

♡ 3

25%

John Farrow Director

John Ireland as Gen. William Quantrill

Dan White as Jim Braden, Assayer

Carleton Young as Lt. Morgan

Francis McDonald as Marshal Roberts

Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed.

Man in the Saddle

1951

English

6.3

♡ 3

50%

André De Toth Director

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Bourke Prine

Cameron Mitchell as George Virk

Richard Crane as Juke Virk

Don Beddoe as Love Bidwell

A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.

Another Man's Poison

1951

English

6.8

♡ 7

65%

Action

based on play or musical

older woman younger man relationship

seductress

Irving Rapper Director

Emlyn Williams as Dr. Henderson

Gary Merrill as George Bates

Bette Davis as Janet Frobisher

Anthony Steel as Larry Stevens

Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

The Browning Version

1951

English

8.0

♡ 17

89%

95%

Action

Drama

Anthony Asquith Director

Michael Redgrave as Andrew Crocker-Harris

Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dr. Frobisher

Nigel Patrick as Frank Hunter

Jean Kent as Millie Crocker-Harris

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

Repast

1951

Japanese

7.6

♡ 8

83%

based on novel or book

Mikio Naruse Director

Ranko Hanai as Koyoshi Dohya

Setsuko Hara as Michiyo Okamoto

Yôko Sugi as Mitsuko Murata, Michiyo's sister-in-law

Keiju Kobayashi as Shinzo Murata, Michiyo's brother

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Thunder on the Hill

1951

English

6.8

♡ 7

83%

Douglas Sirk Director

John Abbott as Abel Harmer

Gladys Cooper as Mother Superior

Norma Varden as Pierce

Michael Pate as Willie

Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent so Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the real killer to justice.

That's My Boy

1951

English

6.1

♡ 8

32%

Hal Walker Director

Ruth Hussey as Ann Jackson

John McIntire as Dr. Benjamin Green

Gregg Palmer as Student

Mickey Kuhn as Student

Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his only son Junior is an uncoordinated, allergy-ridden bookworm. He uses his athletic reputation and standing as #1 alumni contributor to pressure the coach to take Junior onto the team. In addition, he pays the tuition of Junior's financially needy classmate Bill Baker, a potential all-American, with the understanding that he will room with Junior and mentor him athletically and socially. Junior's initial efforts as quarterback prove disastrous and further complications arise when the room mates both fall in love with the same co-ed.

Venom and Eternity

1951

French

6.7

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Isidore Isou Director

Isidore Isou as Daniel

Albert J. LeGros as Daniel

Bernard Blin as Narrator

André Maurois as Self

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

1951

English

6.8

♡ 2

60%

Action

Drama

pre-code

Robert Siodmak Director

Murray Hamilton as Al Webster

Arthur O'Connell as Jim Brewster

James Westerfield as Joe London

Anne Seymour as Mary London

A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.

Caribbean

1951

English

5.1

♡ 1

Action

Documentary

Graham Wallace Director

Ernest Eytle as Self - Commentator

Tradition, dance and song, modern customs and development and welfare services in the Caribbean Islands.

The Raging Tide

1951

English

6.4

♡ 3

san francisco, california

Thriller

George Sherman Director

Richard Conte as Bruno Felkin

John McIntire as Corky Mullins

Minerva Urecal as Johnnie Mae Swanson

Ray Walker as Neil

A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.

Government Agents vs Phantom Legion

1951

English

5.8

♡ 2

Fred C. Brannon Director

Dale Van Sickel as Brice [Ch. 7] / Kern [Ch. 10]

Arthur Space as Crandall

Walter Reed as Hal Duncan

Eddie Parker as Payne [Ch. 8]

Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers.

Francis Goes to the Races

1951

English

6.3

♡ 4

78%

Action

animal character name in title

francis the mule character

horse actor

scene during opening credits

talking animal

Arthur Lubin Director

Peter Brocco as Dr. Marberry

Don Beddoe as Dr. Quimby

Donald O'Connor as Peter Stirling

Bill Walker as Sam

In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They end up saving it from financial ruin when Francis, who has the inside track with the racehorses, provides Peter with names of the winners before the races are run. Sure enough Peter finds himself with a fistful of cash and uses it to buy a racehorse for the farm. Unfortunately, the horse he chooses is suffering from a debilitating lack of confidence. When not dealing with the mare, Peter finds time to court the horse breeder's niece and trying to avoid the gangsters who want in on the winnings.

The Family Secret

1951

English

6.2

♡ 1

Henry Levin Director

John Baer as Boy at Birthday Party

Paul Dubov as Deputy District Attorney

Lee J. Cobb as Howard Clark

Bill Walker as Larry

When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.

Sirocco

1951

English

6.2

♡ 7

25%

Curtis Bernhardt Director

Lee J. Cobb as Col. Feroud

Everett Sloane as Gen. LaSalle

Nick Dennis as Nasir Aboud

Peter Brocco as The Barber

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

Native Son

1951

English

6.3

♡ 4

38%

accidental killing

Action

based on novel or book

Pierre Chenal Director

Ruth Robert as Helen Dalton

George Nathanson as Joe, a reporter

Georges Roos as Scoop

Lewis MacKenzie as Stanley

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.