1950s
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The She-Creature (1956) IMDb WikiData
The She-Creature
director: Edward L. Cahn actor: Chester Morris / Marla English …
other title: Geschöpf des Schreckens / La criatura …
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
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Ikiru (1952) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb Melon Log WikiData
生きる
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Takashi Shimura / Haruo Tanaka …
other title: Vivere / At leve …
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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Diabolique (1955) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData KevGa-NeoDB
Les Diaboliques
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Henri-Georges Clouzot actor: Véra Clouzot / Simone Signoret …
other title: I diabolici / Rædslernes hus …
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
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Singin' in the Rain (1952) TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Singin' in the Rain
8.0 (8 ratings) director: Gene Kelly / Stanley Donen actor: Gene Kelly / Donald O'Connor …
other title: Cantando sotto la pioggia / Syng i sol og regn …
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
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Tomboy Samurai (1958) WikiData TMDB IMDb
女ざむらい只今参上
director: Kunio Watanabe actor: Hibari Misora / Jun Tazaki …
other title: 女ざむらい只今参上
The beautiful daughter of a merchant with a penchant for danger proves to be too much to handle for her worried father. Disguising herself as a man and changing her name, she heads for the capital...
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Crossroad (1956) NeoDB IMDb Douban
死の十字路
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: 死の十字路
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.
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Mohawk (1956) IMDb WikiData
Mohawk
director: Kurt Neumann actor: Scott Brady / Rita Gam …
other title: La principessa di moak / L'attaque de Fort Douglas …
An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the army and the braves at each other's throats his troubles really begin.
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The Lonely Man (1957) WikiData IMDb
The Lonely Man
director: Henry Levin actor: Jack Palance / Anthony Perkins …
other title: L'uomo solitario / Der Einsame …
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
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Stalag 17 (1953) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Stalag 17
director: Billy Wilder actor: William Holden / Robert Strauss …
other title: Bag pigtråd i Stalag 17 / Inferno nº 17 …
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.
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The Thing from Another World (1951) IMDb TMDB
The Thing from Another World
director: Christian Nyby actor: Kenneth Tobey / Margaret Sheridan …
other title: La cosa da un altro mondo / Manden fra Mars …
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Odds Against Tomorrow
director: Robert Wise actor: Robert Ryan / Harry Belafonte …
other title: Strategia di una rapina / Wenig Chancen für morgen …
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
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The Big Heat (1953) TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
The Big Heat
director: Fritz Lang actor: Glenn Ford / Gloria Grahame …
other title: Il grande caldo / Jeg er loven …
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.