Best movies of 1955

Titles indexed: 40

Napoleon

Rating: 6.3

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of locati...

Lola Montès

Rating: 6.8

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important...

Sissi

Rating: 7.3

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to a...

Untamed

Rating: 5.5

When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill ...

Tarantula

Rating: 6.5

A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of ac...

Phantom Trails

Rating: 0.0

A short feature western comprised of two episodes of the TV series 'Wild Bill Hickok': "A Close Shave for the Marshal" (6/16/1952) and "Ghos...

The Tall Men

Rating: 6.4

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Ja...

Forbidden

Rating: 6.5

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war...

Blood Alley

Rating: 5.9

An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire ...

Richard III

Rating: 7.2

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power...

Rififi

Rating: 7.8

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old g...

The Dam Busters

Rating: 6.9

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the rai...

Moonfleet

Rating: 6.5

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an...

King Dinosaur

Rating: 2.0

In 1960, four American scientists travel to a planet that has just entered Earth's solar system to see if it's able to support an Earth colo...

Twelfth Night

Rating: 4.6

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by ...

Naqab

Rating: 0.0

Naqab is a 1955 Indian Hindustani-language fantasy film directed by Lekhraj Bhakhri. It stars Shammi Kapoor, Madhubala, Ajit and the film re...

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