Romance Movies
Athena (1954)
A stuffy young lawyer’s outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
White Christmas (1954)
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful…
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)
In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father’s shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her…
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.
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…
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…
Brigadoon (1954)
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village – Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace…
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one…
The Black Dakotas (1954)
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold. This attracts the…
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.
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…
Human Desire (1954)
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker’s wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film…
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.
Beautiful Stranger (1954)
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn’t know is a crook.
Princess of the Nile (1954)
Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagdad. She practices her intrigues both…
The Seekers (1954)
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
On the Waterfront (1954)
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in love, he tries to leave…
For Better for Worse (1954)
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a…
Johnny Guitar (1954)
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin’ Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna’s establishment is…
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome’s magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a secretary at a government agency, sets out…
Elephant Walk (1954)
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home…
Hobson’s Choice (1954)
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he…
Lucky Me (1954)
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to…
Prince Valiant (1954)
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur’s Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
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…
The Naked Jungle (1954)
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
The Long Long Trailer (1954)
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.
Jivaro (1954)
At Rio Galdez’s remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters’ treasure, quit his job, and took…
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…
It Should Happen to You (1954)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it’s love at first sight, but Gladys has…
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.
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…