1956

Moby Dick 1956

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Category: Adventure, Drama

Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn

7.3 IMDB Rating 70 Views
Bob the Gambler 1956

After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy

7.6 IMDB Rating 57 Views
War and Peace 1956

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

Category: Drama, romance, Romantic, War

Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer

6.7 IMDB Rating 98 Views
The Killing 1956

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

Category: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards

7.9 IMDB Rating 149 Views
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Category: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Stars: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates

7.7 IMDB Rating 568 Views
The Creature Walks Among Us 1956

A scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.

Category: Horror, Sci-Fi

Stars: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden

5.6 IMDB Rating 176 Views
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

Category: Drama, Thriller

Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie

7.4 IMDB Rating 340 Views
Aparajito 1956

After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small Bengali village. Apu enters a local school, where he does well. By the time he graduates, he has a scholarship to study at a college in Calcutta. So off he goes. His mother is torn by his leaving, and by his growing independence. She loves her son very much and wants him to succeed, but she does not want to be left alone.

Category: Drama

Stars: Kamala Adhikari,Lalchand Banerjee,Kali Bannerjee,Kanu Bannerjee

8.2 IMDB Rating 2,242 Views
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956

Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.

Category: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Stars: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis

6.3 IMDB Rating 2,363 Views
Giant 1956

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

Category: Drama, Western

Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,270 Views
Forbidden Planet 1956

A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.

Category: Action, Sci-Fi

Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,069 Views
The Silent World 1956

This pioneering nature documentary investigates aquatic habitats in various locations around the world. It doesn't shy away from the brutality present in the natural world, but it also paints a fascinating picture of underwater exploration.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Frédéric Dumas,Albert Falco,Jacques-Yves Cousteau,François Saout

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,181 Views
Sjunde Himlen 1956

Willy Lorens makes success as the host of the radio series "Seventh Heaven ', which is specifically addressed to female listeners. Fan e-mail is delivered in bags. Willy is known as the Ether sheik. But the attention is finally too much for Willy. Ether sheik collapses, " says headings. He was taken to the hospital where he was treated by Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, who think that the "Seventh Heaven " is too overwhelming.

Category: Comedy

Stars: Sickan Carlsson,Hasse Ekman,Gunnar Björnstrand,Stig Järrel

6.0 IMDB Rating 2,579 Views
Mannen som visste för mycket 1956

While attending a medical conference in Paris, American physician Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife, retired musical theater actress and singer Jo McKenna née Conway, and their adolescent son Hank McKenna decide to take a side trip to among other places Marrekesh, French Morocco. With a knife plunged into his back, Frenchman Louis Bernard, who the family met earlier in their bus ride into Marrakesh and who is now masquerading as an Arab, approaches Ben, cryptically whispering into Ben's ears that there will be an attempted assassination in London of a statesman, this news whispered just before Bernard dies. Ben is reluctant to provide any information of this news to the authorities because concurrently Hank is kidnapped by British couple, Edward and Lucy Drayton, who also befriended the McKennas in Marrakesh and who probably have taken Hank out of the country back to England. Whoever the unknown people the Draytons are working for have threatened to kill Hank if Ben divulges any information told to him by Bernard. With what little information they have on hand, Ben and Jo head to London to try and thwart the assassination attempt and more importantly find an alive and safe Hank. Scotland Yard is aware of some pieces to the puzzle, including the fact that Bernard was a French secret service agent and that there will be an assassination attempt on someone. They and the McKennas will have to work together as they hit a diplomatic roadblock, one that may be overcome with a special Jo Conway song.

Category: Mystery, Thriller

Stars: James Stewart,Doris Day,Brenda de Banzie,Bernard Miles

7.5 IMDB Rating 2,458 Views
The Ten Commandments 1956

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

Category: Adventure, Drama

Stars: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter

7.9 IMDB Rating 4,594 Views
Duell i Texas 1956

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 comes back from the war, he finds that his old girlfriend Cathy has married Clint. The family has to struggle to reach stability with this issue. Vance is involved in a train robbery, while a Confederate soldier, of Federal Government money. There is a conflict of interest, when Vance tries to return the money, against the wishes of some of his fellow Confederates.

Category: Drama, Romantic, Western

Stars: Richard Egan,Debra Paget,Elvis Presley,Robert Middleton

6.1 IMDB Rating 2,845 Views
Kulla-Gulla 1956

Orphan girl Gunilla(nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife ...

Category: Family, Kids

Stars: Malou Fredén,Erik Strandmark,Hugo Björne,Margaretha Bergström,Märta Dorff,Marianne Lindberg,Hedvig Lindby,Ingemar Pallin,Bengt Blomgren,Georg Skarstedt,Helge Hagerman,Ivar Wahlgren,Brita Öberg,Ulf Bergström,Berit Lindén

6.2 IMDB Rating 3,468 Views
The Searchers 1956

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

Category: Adventure, Drama, Western

Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

7.8 IMDB Rating 3,651 Views