Best movies of 1956

Titles indexed: 44

Giant

Rating: 7.6

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Te...

The Roof

Rating: 7.4

Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the e...

High Society

Rating: 6.8

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she...

The Searchers

Rating: 7.7

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable....

The Killing

Rating: 7.6

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, ...

Attack

Rating: 6.8

Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a s...

The Wall

Rating: 0.0

Kam Fan and Wong Ching-ping have a peaceful married life, until Ping's mother is serious ill. They desperately need a large amount of money....

Anastasia

Rating: 6.8

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir t...

Lust for Life

Rating: 7.2

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems ...

The Burmese Harp

Rating: 7.9

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprison...

The Black Sleep

Rating: 6.1

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him ...

Nightmare

Rating: 6.0

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key fro...

Over-Exposed

Rating: 5.1

This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila C...

White Peril

Rating: 4.0

This RKO Pathé Screenliner show members of the 'snow patrol' at work in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state. At designated places, the...

Teenage Wolfpack

Rating: 6.1

The drama of a youthful triangle among gang leader Freddy, his brother Jan, and bad girl Cissy, in one of the first considerations of juveni...

Big and Small

Rating: 4.6

Under a police pursuit, Pavle tries to transfer a group of illegals on a free liberated territory. Pavle hopes to find a hideaway at an old ...

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