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The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Ten Commandments (1956)
IMDb: 7.9
220 min

The infant Moses (Fraser C. Heston), a Hebrew boy, is taken to Egypt by Rameses I (Ian Keith), who has decreed that all Hebrew newborn males must be killed. Bithiah,…

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Genre: Drama, History
Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
IMDb: 6.8
175 min

This 1956 movie shows that one can circumnavigate the world in less than two days. Jules Verne, who wrote the tale “Around the World in 80 Days” in 1872 predicted…

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The Searchers

The Searchers

The Searchers
IMDb: 7.9
119 min

Ethan Edwards, a battle-scarred Confederate Veteran of the American Civil War returns to the isolated and dusty Texan property of Aaron after a three-year absence. The former soldier, who is…

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Genre: Western
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
IMDb: 7.4
120 min

A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When…

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Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Moby Dick
IMDb: 7.3
116 min

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet
IMDb: 7.6
98 min

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship “Bellerophon,” a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome…

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The King and I (1956)

The King and I (1956)

The King and I (1956)
IMDb: 7.4
133 min

Louis Leonowens, Mrs. Anna Leonowens’ son arrives in Bangkok to be with her. She has been hired to teach English to children from the royal family. The children fall in…

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Canyon River

Canyon River

Canyon River
IMDb: 6.0
79 min

A rancher’s (George Montgomery) foreman (Peter Graves) schemes against him on a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming.

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Genre: Western
War and Peace (1956)

War and Peace (1956)

War and Peace (1956)
IMDb: 6.7
208 min

Napoleon’s tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

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…And God Created Woman

…And God Created Woman

…And God Created Woman
IMDb: 6.3
90 min

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn’t dream of settling down with…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate
IMDb: 6.6
119 min

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
IMDb: 6.7
81 min

Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink (“King of the River”) in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle…

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Attack

Attack

Attack
IMDb: 7.4
107 min

Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney’s…

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Genre: Drama, War
Anastasia

Anastasia

Anastasia
IMDb: 7.1
105 min

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While…

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Nightfall (1956)

Nightfall (1956)

Nightfall (1956)
IMDb: 7.2
78 min

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
IMDb: 6.9
80 min

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps
IMDb: 7.0
100 min

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed “The Lipstick Killer”

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon
IMDb: 7.0
99 min

When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived…

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Genre: Western
A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped
IMDb: 8.3
101 min

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

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The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall
IMDb: 7.6
109 min

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant,…

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Genre: Drama
D-Day the Sixth of June

D-Day the Sixth of June

D-Day the Sixth of June
IMDb: 6.0
106 min

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Red Sundown

Red Sundown

Red Sundown
IMDb: 6.5
81 min

When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Riding…

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Genre: Western
The Gamma People

The Gamma People

The Gamma People
IMDb: 5.3
76 min

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

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The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones
IMDb: 7.0
94 min

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn’t enough, a…

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Genre: Action, Western
The Killing

The Killing

The Killing
IMDb: 8.0
84 min

After just being released from a five-year stint in prison, Johnny Clay has assembled a five-man team, including two insiders, to carry out what he estimates will be a $2…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
X: The Unknown

X: The Unknown

X: The Unknown
IMDb: 6.2
81 min

British Army radiation drills at a remote Scottish base attract a subterranean, radioactive entity of unknown nature that vanishes, leaving two severely radiation-burned soldiers… and a "bottomless" crack in the…

Carousel

Carousel

Carousel
IMDb: 6.6
128 min

Billy Bigelow has been dead for fifteen years, and now outside the pearly gates, he long waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. But he has…

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Genre: Music, Romance
The Last Hunt

The Last Hunt

The Last Hunt
IMDb: 6.9
108 min

Set in the early 1880s, this is the story of one of the last buffalo hunts in the Northwest. Sandy McKinzie is tired of hunting buffalo, and tired of killing-Charley…

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Genre: Western
The Violent Years

The Violent Years

The Violent Years
IMDb: 3.4
65 min

A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lust for Life

Lust for Life

Lust for Life
IMDb: 7.4
122 min

Vincent Van Gogh is the archetypical tortured artistic genius. His obsession with painting, combined with mental illness, propels him through an unhappy life full of failures and unrewarding relationships. He…

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Genre: Drama
The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man
IMDb: 7.4
105 min

Christopher Emanuel Balestrero, "Manny" to his friends, is a string bassist, a devoted husband and father, and a practicing Catholic. His eighty-five dollar a week gig playing in the jazz…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
7 Men from Now

7 Men from Now

7 Men from Now
IMDb: 7.4
78 min

Ex-sheriff Ben Stride tracks the seven men who held up a Wells Fargo office and killed his wife. Stride is tormented by the fact that his own failure to keep…

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브레이브 원

브레이브 원

브레이브 원
IMDb: 6.6
100 min

The Brave One is a bull named Gitano (Gypsy). A Mexican boy, Michael Ray, "adopts" Gitano after saving the animal's life during a storm. The friendship between bull and boy…

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Genre: Drama
Early Spring

Early Spring

Early Spring
IMDb: 7.8
145 min

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

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Genre: Drama
The Mountain

The Mountain

The Mountain
IMDb: 6.8
105 min

When a plane crashes on a mountaintop Chris wants to plunder the wreckage. His older brother Zachary has given up mountain guide work but goes along rather than letting his…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Three Violent People

Three Violent People

Three Violent People
IMDb: 6.3
100 min

Former dance hall girl Lorna, masquerading as a lady, meets and marries Confederate ex-officer Colt Saunders, returning to his rich Texas ranch. Everyone there is enchanted with Lorna. But the…

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Genre: Drama, Western
Baby Doll (1956)

Baby Doll (1956)

Baby Doll (1956)
IMDb: 7.3
114 min

Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle-aged Archie Lee Meighan and 19-year-old "Baby Doll" Meighan née McCargo have been married for close to two years. Their marriage is not based…

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Genre: Drama
Patterns

Patterns

Patterns
IMDb: 7.9
83 min

The story of the fierce and corrosive competition that exists in the executive branch of Ramsey & Co., a New York industrial colossus headed by Walter Ramsey, its cold, designing…

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Genre: Drama
The Mystery of Picasso

The Mystery of Picasso

The Mystery of Picasso
IMDb: 7.6
78 min

Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush…

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Love Me Tender (1956)

Love Me Tender (1956)

Love Me Tender (1956)
IMDb: 6.2
89 min

Elvis plays Clint Reno, one of the Reno brothers who stayed home while his brother went to fight in the Civil War for the Confederate army. When his brother Vance…

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