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Now and Forever (1956)

Now and Forever (1956)

Now and Forever (1956)
IMDb: N/A
90

A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Loser Takes All (1956)

Loser Takes All (1956)

Loser Takes All (1956)
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88

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed…

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Genre: Comedy
The Weapon (1956)

The Weapon (1956)

The Weapon (1956)
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78

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder…

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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Reach for the Sky (1956)

Reach for the Sky (1956)

Reach for the Sky (1956)
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135

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World…

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Genre: Drama, War
Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)

Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)

Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)
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80

An astronaut and crew land on Jupiter’s 13th moon and find a monster and women from Atlantis.

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Smiley (1956)

Smiley (1956)

Smiley (1956)
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97

Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is…

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Genre: Comedy
Safari (1956)

Safari (1956)

Safari (1956)
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90

Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he…

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Genre: Adventure
The Gelignite Gang (1956)

The Gelignite Gang (1956)

The Gelignite Gang (1956)
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74

A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho’s underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
My Teenage Daughter (1956)

My Teenage Daughter (1956)

My Teenage Daughter (1956)
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100

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing…

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Genre: Drama
The Feminine Touch (1956)

The Feminine Touch (1956)

The Feminine Touch (1956)
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91

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy’s Hospital), where…

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Genre: Drama
Yield to the Night (1956)

Yield to the Night (1956)

Yield to the Night (1956)
IMDb: N/A
99

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
The Baby and the Battleship (1956)

The Baby and the Battleship (1956)

The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
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96

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails…

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Genre: Comedy
The Long Arm (1956)

The Long Arm (1956)

The Long Arm (1956)
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96

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a…

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It’s Never Too Late (1956)

It’s Never Too Late (1956)

It’s Never Too Late (1956)
IMDb: N/A
96

To Laura Hammond’s large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is a very successful novelist…

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Genre: Comedy
Bhowani Junction (1956)

Bhowani Junction (1956)

Bhowani Junction (1956)
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110

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

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The Black Tent (1956)

The Black Tent (1956)

The Black Tent (1956)
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93

During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief’s daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed…

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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
The Man Who Never Was (1956)

The Man Who Never Was (1956)

The Man Who Never Was (1956)
IMDb: N/A
103

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted…

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Who Done It? (1956)

Who Done It? (1956)

Who Done It? (1956)
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85

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a…

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Genre: Comedy, Crime
1984 (1956)

1984 (1956)

1984 (1956)
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90

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

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Spin a Dark Web (1956)

Spin a Dark Web (1956)

Spin a Dark Web (1956)
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76

A boxer and war-time Telephone Engineer (Lee Patterson) is lured into a murder cover-up plot by a scheming woman ( Faith Domergue).

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Genre: Crime, Drama
A Town Like Alice (1956)

A Town Like Alice (1956)

A Town Like Alice (1956)
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117

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what…

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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Private’s Progress (1956)

Private’s Progress (1956)

Private’s Progress (1956)
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97

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends…

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Genre: Comedy, War
Thunderstorm (1956)

Thunderstorm (1956)

Thunderstorm (1956)
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85

A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to…

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Genre: Drama
Together (1956)

Together (1956)

Together (1956)
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52

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London’s East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.

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Genre: Drama
Johnny You’re Wanted (1956)

Johnny You’re Wanted (1956)

Johnny You’re Wanted (1956)
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69

Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, but on returning…

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You Can’t Escape (1956)

You Can’t Escape (1956)

You Can’t Escape (1956)
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77

Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the…

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Genre: Crime
The March Hare (1956)

The March Hare (1956)

The March Hare (1956)
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85

Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is ‘pulled’, and Sir Charles is forced to sell his…

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Genre: Comedy
Rose Street (1956)

Rose Street (1956)

Rose Street (1956)
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15

The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh’s Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.

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Genre: Documentary
Storm Over the Nile (1955)

Storm Over the Nile (1955)

Storm Over the Nile (1955)
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107

In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer’s commission in order to remain with his…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
All for Mary (1955)

All for Mary (1955)

All for Mary (1955)
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79

In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord’s daughter. When the two come down…

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Genre: Comedy
Fun at St. Fanny’s (1955)

Fun at St. Fanny’s (1955)

Fun at St. Fanny’s (1955)
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80

Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny’s School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is…

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Genre: Comedy
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)

An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)

An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
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85

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is…

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Richard III (1955)

Richard III (1955)

Richard III (1955)
IMDb: N/A
155

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Ladykillers (1955)

The Ladykillers (1955)

The Ladykillers (1955)
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91

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Dial 999 (1955)

Dial 999 (1955)

Dial 999 (1955)
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86

A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for…

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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Portrait of Alison (1955)

Portrait of Alison (1955)

Portrait of Alison (1955)
IMDb: N/A
84

An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Oh… Rosalinda!! (1955)

Oh… Rosalinda!! (1955)

Oh… Rosalinda!! (1955)
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104

In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.

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Genre: Music
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
IMDb: N/A
97

During WW2, German ships are “safely” docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

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Genre: War
Simon and Laura (1955)

Simon and Laura (1955)

Simon and Laura (1955)
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91

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a “Mr. and Mrs.” TV show.

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Genre: Comedy
Timeslip (1955)

Timeslip (1955)

Timeslip (1955)
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93

An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead…

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