Drama Movies
Eight O’Clock Walk (1954)
Only a British cabdriver’s (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O’Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
Duffy of San Quentin (1954)
San Quentin’s new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
An Inspector Calls (1954)
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or…
Salt of the Earth (1954)
At New Mexico’s Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is…
Night People (1954)
A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent American businessman. In exchange for…
Dangerous Mission (1954)
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
The Naked Jungle (1954)
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
Bait (1954)
A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them “in the act” and kill him…
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Hell and High Water (1954)
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World…
The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed…
River Beat (1954)
British diamond smugglers use the radiowoman (Phyllis Kirk) from a freighter docked on the Thames to unwittingly “mule” their swag, hidden in cigarettes, past customs, not knowing that she has…
World for Ransom (1954)
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the…
Alaska Seas (1954)
A crooked salmon fisherman tries to steal his best friend’s fiancée and put him out of business.
Highway Dragnet (1954)
An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the women realize…
His Majesty O’Keefe (1954)
Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil – and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas…
Sound of the Mountain (1954)
The Golden Idol (1954)
Prince Ali wants the Golden Idol of Watusi and hires a ruthless hunter to get it for him. Bomba has the idol and, with the help of Commissioner Barnes, Eli,…
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
A vibrant tribute to one of America’s legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller’s rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
K (1954)
Impulse (1954)
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride…
Girl Gang (1954)
A gangster hooks gangs of young women on drugs and has them commit robberies and prostitution.
Another Sky (1954)
After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
The Wild One (1953)
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of…
The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
Bad for Each Other (1953)
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest…
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere’s love, leaving the…
Small Town Story (1953)
Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now manager of the local football club,…
The Conquest of Everest (1953)
A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Everest in 1953.
The Bigamist (1953)
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham…
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys…
The Large Rope (1953)
After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another…
Always in My Heart Part 2 (1953)
The Kidnappers (1953)
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia….
The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)
The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.