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The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
IMDb: N/A
83

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill’s long-lost uncle has died and left them…

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Genre: Comedy
Interpol (1957)

Interpol (1957)

Interpol (1957)
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92

Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
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113

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In…

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Genre: War
Time Without Pity (1957)

Time Without Pity (1957)

Time Without Pity (1957)
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88

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend…

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Fortune Is a Woman (1957)

Fortune Is a Woman (1957)

Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
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95

An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband’s art-forgery/arson scam.

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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Abandon Ship (1957)

Abandon Ship (1957)

Abandon Ship (1957)
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100

After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship’s officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Brothers in Law (1957)

Brothers in Law (1957)

Brothers in Law (1957)
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94

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge…

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Genre: Comedy
The Passionate Stranger (1957)

The Passionate Stranger (1957)

The Passionate Stranger (1957)
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97

Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Traitor (1957)

The Traitor (1957)

The Traitor (1957)
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88

One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally…

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Genre: Drama, Mystery
You Pay Your Money (1957)

You Pay Your Money (1957)

You Pay Your Money (1957)
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68

Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband’s employer.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
True as a Turtle (1957)

True as a Turtle (1957)

True as a Turtle (1957)
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96

Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on…

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Genre: Comedy
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
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104

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island’s German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Town on Trial (1957)

Town on Trial (1957)

Town on Trial (1957)
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95

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings,…

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Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Man in the Sky (1957)

The Man in the Sky (1957)

The Man in the Sky (1957)
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87

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the…

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Genre: Drama
Every Valley (1957)

Every Valley (1957)

Every Valley (1957)
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20

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

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Genre: Documentary
The Counterfeit Plan (1957)

The Counterfeit Plan (1957)

The Counterfeit Plan (1957)
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80

An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger’s daughter who knew nothing of his past, to…

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Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Betrayal (1957)

The Betrayal (1957)

The Betrayal (1957)
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82

Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him…

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Genre: Crime, War
It’s Great to be Young! (1956)

It’s Great to be Young! (1956)

It’s Great to be Young! (1956)
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94

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle…

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Genre: Comedy, Music
Three Men in a Boat (1956)

Three Men in a Boat (1956)

Three Men in a Boat (1956)
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84

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

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Genre: Comedy
The Green Man (1956)

The Green Man (1956)

The Green Man (1956)
IMDb: N/A
80

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a…

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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Stars in Your Eyes (1956)

Stars in Your Eyes (1956)

Stars in Your Eyes (1956)
IMDb: N/A
97

A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort…

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Genre: Comedy, Music
The Gamma People (1956)

The Gamma People (1956)

The Gamma People (1956)
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79

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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Zarak (1956)

Zarak (1956)

Zarak (1956)
IMDb: N/A
99

A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.

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The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
IMDb: N/A
119

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
Beyond Mombasa (1956)

Beyond Mombasa (1956)

Beyond Mombasa (1956)
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90

An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

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Genre: Action, Adventure
House of Secrets (1956)

House of Secrets (1956)

House of Secrets (1956)
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97

Police in Paris recruit an English ship’s officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Assignment Redhead (1956)

Assignment Redhead (1956)

Assignment Redhead (1956)
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79

An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
A Touch of the Sun (1956)

A Touch of the Sun (1956)

A Touch of the Sun (1956)
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80

A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.

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Genre: Comedy
X: The Unknown (1956)

X: The Unknown (1956)

X: The Unknown (1956)
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81

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear…

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Now and Forever (1956)

Now and Forever (1956)

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