Drama Movies
Track of the Cat (1954)
A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the first big snowstorm of winter and…
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and…
Beau Brummell (1954)
Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince’s uniform…
Désirée (1954)
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins…
The Divided Heart (1954)
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he’s adopted by a childless…
The Fast and the Furious (1954)
A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman’s Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feelings for each other,…
Black Widow (1954)
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
Lease of Life (1954)
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Third Party Risk (1954)
Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the…
Operation Manhunt (1954)
Ten years after his defection from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko is hunted by Soviet agents. Based on a true story.
The Crowded Day (1954)
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Naked Alibi (1954)
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is…
A Star Is Born (1954)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Woman’s World (1954)
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive’s wife is crucial to her husband’s success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples…
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid…
The Stranger Came Home (1954)
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty…
Air of Paris (1954)
La Strada (1954)
Silent Raiders (1954)
Allied commandos try to knock out Nazi communications on the French coast.
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
The Purple Plain (1954)
An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became…
Sabrina (1954)
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a…
A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a struggle, only to be…
Dragnet (1954)
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster’s brutal murder.
Private Hell 36 (1954)
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives…
Time Is My Enemy (1954)
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
The Shanghai Story (1954)
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
Shield for Murder (1954)
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
The Egyptian (1954)
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe’s personal triumphs and tragedies…
Her Twelve Men (1954)
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
Based on Sir Walter Scott’s The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of…
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries…