George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly gets his confidence from his Thompson SMG and his girl Flo. After a botched robbery, Flo, Kelly and his gang try their hand at a more lucrative job: kidnapping.

Ice Cold in Alex

1958

English

7.7

♡ 5

94%

J. Lee Thompson Director

Walter Gotell as 1st German Officer

Anthony Quayle as Captain van der Poel

David Lodge as C.M.P. Captain

Richard Marner as German Guard

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.

Terror in a Texas Town

1958

English

6.8

♡ 3

100%

Joseph H. Lewis Director

Sheb Wooley as Baxter

Hank Patterson as Brady

Frank Ferguson as Deacon Matt Holmes

Herman Hack as Townsman

Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be the guilty party.

The Barbarian and the Geisha

1958

English

5.7

♡ 9

40%

John Huston Director

Kodayû Ichikawa as Daimyo

Sô Yamamura as Governor Tamura

Sam Jaffe as Henry Heusken

John Wayne as Townsend Harris

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.

Letter from Siberia

1958

French

7.4

♡ 3

Documentary

Chris Marker Director

Georges Rouquier as Narrator

A faceless traveller takes a journey through the barren reaches of a Siberia caught between tradition and modernity, imparting his philosophical musings on its people and places, wildlife and culture.

Murder by Contract

1958

English

7.2

♡ 8

100%

los angeles, california

noir

Thriller

Irving Lerner Director

Vince Edwards as Claude

Joseph Mell as Harry

Phillip Pine as Marc

Kathie Browne as Mary

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.

The Music Room

1958

Bangla

7.8

♡ 28

100%

Satyajit Ray Director

Tarapada Nandy as

Padmadevi as Mahamaya, Roy's wife

Tulsi Lahiri as Manager of Roy's Estate

Kali Sarkar as Roy's Servant

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the opulent music room of his younger, richer neighbour.

Separate Tables

1958

English

7.3

♡ 18

68%

75%

Action

based on play or musical

Delbert Mann Director

Rod Taylor as Charles

Burt Lancaster as John Malcolm

Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Railton-Bell

Deborah Kerr as Sibyl Railton-Bell

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play.

The Sign of Zorro

1958

English

6.9

♡ 6

Norman Foster Director

Lisa Gaye as Constancia

Guy Williams as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro

Nestor Paiva as Innkeeper

Than Wyenn as Licenciado Pina

In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney's hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego dons the mask of Zorro to fight the evil commandant's tyranny, and, with the help of his mute servant Bernardo, free the pueblo from his oppression.

The Gun Runners

1958

English

6.3

♡ 2

30%

Don Siegel Director

Kenneth Gibson as Gambler

Everett Sloane as Harvey

John A. Alonzo as Soldier Checking Car

Paul Birch as Sy Phillips

Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.

Ambush at Cimarron Pass

1958

English

5.2

♡ 3

29%

Jodie Copelan Director

Irving Bacon as Judge Stanfield

Clint Eastwood as Keith Williams

Scott Brady as Sgt. Matt Blake

Margia Dean as Teresa Santos

A small Army patrol unit and a couple of former Confederates reluctantly throw in their lot together after being attacked by a band of Native Americans.

I Dutifully Report

1958

Czech

7.4

♡ 7

based on novel or book

Comedy

War

world war i

Karel Steklý Director

Frantisek Filipovský as Dub

Rudolf Hrusínský as Josef Svejk

Jan Skopecek as Kaprál v tábore

Frantisek Slégr as Schröder

A comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World War I. I Dutifully Report: In the introduction to the second part of the film adaptation of Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švějk presents his main character Josef Švejk. With the distinctive traditional Czech cartoon character of a soldier Svejk, this time you meet on the way to the front and eventually right in the firing line. You can look at his famous train events, and also probably the most famous episode of the novel, Švejk's Budějovice anabasis. Don't miss the scene with the secretly bought cognac, the episode with Svejk as a fake Russian prisoner of war, including the court scene, and the scene in which lieutenant Dub is caught in a brothel. Despite the criticism, Steklý's adaptation is undoubtedly the most famous and memorable at present.

The Young Lions

1958

English

7.1

♡ 21

75%

Edward Dmytryk Director

Gene Roth as Bavarian Café Manager

Maximilian Schell as Capt. Hardenberg

Michael Pataki as Pvt. Hagstrom

Robert Ellenstein as Rabbi Joseph Silverstein

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

Taxi, Trailer and Corrida

1958

French

6.0

♡ 5

André Hunebelle Director

Roger Desmare as Le barman

Maurice Gardett as Le speaker

Louis de Funès as Maurice Berger

Véra Valmont as Myriam

A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves.

Fort Massacre

1958

English

6.2

♡ 3

42%

struggle for survival

u.s. cavalry

Western

Joseph M. Newman Director

Irving Bacon as Charlie

Forrest Tucker as McGurney

Anthony Caruso as Pawnee

Susan Cabot as Piute Girl

New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to reach Fort Crain. On their way through a hostile land, the obsessive and ruthless Sergeant Vinson takes to the limit the battered will of the troopers under his command.

Montparnasse 19

1958

French

7.3

♡ 5

artist

based on novel or book

Jacques Becker Director

Jacques Marin as Le patron du café

Denise Vernac as Madame Hébuterne

Stéphane Audran as Une fille à la terrasse

Pierre Richard as Un étudiant peintre

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

The Rickshaw Man

1958

Japanese

7.5

♡ 6

Hiroshi Inagaki Director

Kichijirô Ueda as

Seiji Miyaguchi as Fencing master

Toshirô Mifune as Matsugoro

Chishû Ryû as Shigezo Yuki

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

A Night to Remember

1958

English

7.9

♡ 16

100%

91%

Action

atlantic ocean

based on a true story

Roy Ward Baker Director

Lesley Scoble as 1st Class Passenger

Honor Blackman as Mrs. Liz Lucas

Aileen Lewis as Passenger in Lifeboat

George Roderick as Steward

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

The Big Country

1958

English

7.9

♡ 18

100%

parent child relationship

ranch

Romance

Western

William Wyler Director

Shailar Coby as Buck Hannassey

Gregory Peck as James McKay

Jean Simmons as Julie Maragon

Chuck Hayward as Rafe Hannassey

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.