After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.

Curse of the Faceless Man

1958

English

4.8

♡ 5

20%

Edward L. Cahn Director

Luis Van Rooten as Dr. Carlo Fiorillo

Richard Anderson as Dr. Paul Mallon

Rudy Germane as Police Officer

George Sawaya as Tony

A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...

Brink of Life

1958

Swedish

7.3

♡ 15

50%

85%

Action

Drama

Ingmar Bergman Director

Lars Lind as Dr. Thylenius

Inga Landgré as Greta Ellius

Bibi Andersson as Hjördis Petterson

Eva Dahlbeck as Stina Andersson

Three women in a maternity ward share their lives and intimate thoughts, and face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.

Stolen Desire

1958

Japanese

6.8

♡ 6

69%

Shôhei Imamura Director

Chigusa Takayama as

Noboru Nakaya as

Kô Nishimura as Kanji Takada

Hiroyuki Nagato as Shinichi Kunida

A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

I Married a Monster from Outer Space

1958

English

6.3

♡ 10

92%

thunder and lightning

Gene Fowler Jr. Director

Tom Tryon as Bill Farrell

Mary Treen as Mother Bradley

Ron Nyman as Townsman

James Anderson as Weldon

Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.

The Last Day of Summer

1958

Polish

6.9

♡ 6

Tadeusz Konwicki Director

Jan Machulski as He

Irena Laskowska as She

A subtle tale of a confrontation between two lonely people, one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result.

The Matchmaker

1958

English

6.8

♡ 3

59%

Action

based on play or musical

Joseph Anthony Director

Anthony Perkins as Cornelius Hackl

Shirley Booth as Dolly 'Gallagher' Levi

Jon Lormer as Mr. Duckworth, Jeweler

Bess Flowers as Patron at Harmonica Club

Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.

God's Little Acre

1958

English

6.5

♡ 6

41%

Anthony Mann Director

Fay Spain as Darlin' Jill

Tina Louise as Griselda Walden, Ty Ty's daughter-in-law

Robert Ryan as Ty Ty Walden

Aldo Ray as Will Thompson

In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.

The Defiant Ones

1958

English

7.6

♡ 23

90%

Stanley Kramer Director

Ned Glass as Doctor

Lawrence Dobkin as Editor

Herman Hack as Search Party Member

Theodore Bikel as Sheriff Max Muller

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

The Boy Who Came Back

1958

Japanese

6.5

♡ 5

Action

Drama

Seijun Suzuki Director

Jô Shishido as Kajita

Hiroshi Katô as Katô

Ruriko Asaoka as Kazue Sugita

Shizue Natsukawa as Masue, Keiko's mother

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

The Snorkel

1958

English

6.7

♡ 5

76%

Guy Green Director

Mandy Miller as Candy Brown

Betta St. John as Jean Edwards

Grégoire Aslan as The Inspector

William Franklyn as Wilson

On the Italian coast, writer Paul Decker has grown unhappy in his marriage and executes what appears to be a perfect murder of his wife. While Paul is believed to be writing a book in France, his stepdaughter, Candy, suspects him of murdering her mother, as well as her father years before. With the police unwilling to investigate any further, Candy sets out to confirm her suspicions and take Paul down herself.

The Naked and the Dead

1958

English

6.4

♡ 11

83%

Raoul Walsh Director

William Hudson as Major

John Dennis as Master Sgt. - Dispatch Messenger

Robert Gist as Red

Joey Bishop as Roth

Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.

The Song of Styrene

1958

French

7.0

♡ 10

95%

Alain Resnais Director

Sacha Vierny as L'ouvrier

Pierre Dux as Récitant / Narrator

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.

Six-Five Special

1958

English

5.8

♡ 4

Action

Musical

Alfred Shaughnessy Director

Petula Clark as Herself

Jim Dale as Himself

Claire Gordon as Studio Audience Member

Angela Douglas as Studio Audience Member

A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight '6.5 Special' the two find the train full of 1950's British pop stars only too ready to burst into song. As the presenters of the show are also on board, our heroine is assured of a spot on the following Saturday's 'Six Five Special'.

Thunder Road

1958

English

6.5

♡ 7

75%

Arthur Ripley Director

Jerry Hardin as Niles Penland

James Mitchum as Robin Doolin

Peter Breck as Stacey Gouge

Trevor Bardette as Vernon Doolin

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.

The Screaming Skull

1958

English

4.0

♡ 4

17%

mother daughter relationship

newlywed

Thriller

Alex Nicol Director

John Hudson as Eric Whitlock

Peggy Webber as Jenni Whitlock

Alex Nicol as Mickey

Russ Conway as Rev. Edward Snow

Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange things including a mysterious skull, which may or may not be a product of her imagination.

High School Confidential!

1958

English

6.1

♡ 9

70%

Jack Arnold Director

Jan Sterling as Arlene Williams

Pierre Watkin as David Wingate - Lawyer

John Drew Barrymore as J. I. Coleridge

William Wellman Jr. as Wheeler-Dealer

A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.

Room at the Top

1958

English

7.5

♡ 16

100%

82%

Action

assault

based on novel or book

Jack Clayton Director

Anthony Newlands as Bernard

Prunella Scales as Council Office Worker

Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton

Richard Pasco as Teddy

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

Gideon of Scotland Yard

1958

English

6.6

♡ 4

54%

John Ford Director

John Le Mesurier as Prosecuting Barrister

Jack Watling as Rev Julian Small

Howard Marion-Crawford as The Chief

Jimmy Charters as Workman

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.

Hell, Heaven or Hoboken

1958

English

6.9

♡ 4

61%

John Guillermin Director

John Le Mesurier as Adjutant R.A.P.C.

Michael Bell as American M.O.

John G. Heller as German Sergeant

Duncan Lamont as Wing Cdr. Bates

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

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The Boy Who Came Back

The Snorkel

The Naked and the Dead

The Song of Styrene

Six-Five Special

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The Screaming Skull

High School Confidential!

Room at the Top

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