The Flowers of St. Francis

1950

Italian

7.3

♡ 2

Roberto Rossellini Director

Severino Pisacane as Fra' Ginapro

Peparuolo as Giovanni il Sempliciotto

Gianfranco Bellini as Narrator

Aldo Fabrizi as Nicolaio, il tiranno di Viterbo

In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.

The Munekata Sisters

1950

Japanese

7.4

♡ 3

89%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Hideko Takamine as Mariko Munekata

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Mieko

Reikichi Kawamura as Sangin's customer

Sanae Takasugi as Yoriko Mashita

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

Sierra

1950

English

6.4

♡ 6

43%

Alfred E. Green Director

Dean Jagger as Jeff Hassard

Wanda Hendrix as Riley Martin

Audie Murphy as Ring Hassard

John Roy as Trial Spectator

Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).

The Man Who Cheated Himself

1950

English

6.8

♡ 6

100%

san francisco, california

Felix E. Feist Director

John Dall as Andy Cullen

Jane Wyatt as Lois Frazer

Lee J. Cobb as Lt. Ed Cullen

Marjorie Bennett as Muriel Quimby

A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

Two Flags West

1950

English

6.7

♡ 3

30%

transport of prisoners

War

Western

Robert Wise Director

Joseph Cotten as Col. Clay Tucker

Robert Adler as Hank

Dale Robertson as Lem

Marjorie Bennett as Mrs. Simpkins

A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

Fancy Pants

1950

English

6.4

♡ 5

86%

George Marshall Director

Lea Penman as Effie Floud

Bob Hope as Humphrey

Norma Varden as Lady Maude

Edgar Dearing as Mr. Jones

An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.

The Asphalt Jungle

1950

English

7.8

♡ 25

98%

87%

Action

based on novel or book

John Huston Director

Brad Dexter as Bob Brannom

George Lynn as Detective at Ciavelli's Apartment

Sam Jaffe as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider

Thomas Browne Henry as James X. Connery

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

Beauty and the Devil

1950

French

7.3

♡ 1

René Clair Director

Tullio Carminati as Le Diplomate

Carlo Ninchi as Le Prince

Michel Simon as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

Paolo Stoppa as Official

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

1950

English

7.1

♡ 6

71%

Gordon Douglas Director

Ward Bond as Inspector Charles Weber

Luther Adler as Keith 'Cherokee' Mandon

Mack Williams as Mr. Hartford

Barton MacLane as Police Lt. John Reece

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.

The Young and the Damned

1950

Spanish

8.2

♡ 14

91%

Luis Buñuel Director

Estela Inda as La madre de Pedro

Charles Rooner as Pederasta elegante

Alfonso Mejía as Pedro

José Loza as Un asilado

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

The Invisible Monster

1950

English

4.6

♡ 2

Fred C. Brannon Director

Carey Loftin as Dirk - Dynamite Thug [Ch.6]

Harold Goodwin as Kirk - Body-Shop Henchman [Ch.11]

Marshall Reed as MacDuff - Roadblock Cop [Chs.1, 7-9]

Dale Van Sickel as Otto Wagner / Frank Martin [Chs. 1, 10]

Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.

Cage of Gold

1950

English

6.4

♡ 4

Crime

Drama

ealing

father son relationship

love triangle

old flame

Basil Dearden Director

David Farrar as Bill

Arthur Hambling as Jenkins

Jean Simmons as Judith

Sam Kydd as Waiter

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

Orpheus

1950

French

7.8

♡ 24

97%

Jean Cocteau Director

Juliette Gréco as Aglaonice

François Périer as Heurtebise

Jean-Pierre Melville as Le directeur de l'hôtel

Roger Blin as The Poet

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.

The Breaking Point

1950

English

7.5

♡ 16

100%

89%

Action

based on novel or book

Michael Curtiz Director

William Campbell as Concho

Peter Brocco as Macho

Victor Sen Yung as Mr. Sing

John Alvin as Reporter

A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

Variety Lights

1950

Italian

7.1

♡ 6

100%

Federico Fellini Director

Silvio Bagolini as Bruno Antonini

Giulietta Masina as Melina Amour

Vittorio Caprioli as Night Club Comic

Italo Dragosei as Night guard

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

Singing Guns

1950

English

6.2

♡ 1

R.G. Springsteen Director

Ella Raines as Nan Morgan

George Chandler as Smitty - Piano Player

Herman Hack as Townsman

Robert Rockwell as Townsman

Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.

Three Little Words

1950

English

6.9

♡ 4

78%

Richard Thorpe Director

Keenan Wynn as Charlie Kope

Arlene Dahl as Eileen Percy

Pierre Watkin as Philip Goodman

Gale Robbins as Terry Lordel

Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their professional relationship.

Devil's Doorway

1950

English

7.2

♡ 4

100%

Anthony Mann Director

Paula Raymond as Orrie Masters

Frank McGrath as Posse Member

Chief John Big Tree as Thundercloud

Edgar Buchanan as Zeke Carmody

A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

Treasure Island

1950

English

6.9

♡ 21

100%

67%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Byron Haskin Director

Sam Kydd as Cady

Gordon Mulholland as Durgin

Geoffrey Keen as Israel Hands

Robert Newton as Long John Silver

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.