Best movies of 1952

Titles indexed: 28

Limelight

Rating: 7.9

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life....

High Noon

Rating: 7.7

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the n...

Moulin Rouge

Rating: 6.7

In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets tw...

Curtain Up

Rating: 7.2

In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly th...

Pat and Mike

Rating: 6.3

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she g...

Road to Bali

Rating: 6.2

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them...

The Steel Trap

Rating: 6.4

Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the...

Viva Zapata!

Rating: 6.9

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio D...

Dreamboat

Rating: 5.9

Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy ha...

Lone Star

Rating: 5.6

Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dis...

The Thief

Rating: 6.2

A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the ru...

April 1, 2000

Rating: 6.5

It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as ...

Gold Fever

Rating: 5.0

Magician-turned-actor John Calvert, previously the suave leading man of Film Classics' "Falcon" series, is a curious choice to star in the r...

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