1951 Movies

A Streetcar Named Desire

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden

Country: United States of America

Outline: Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

The African Queen

Directed by: John Huston

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull

Country: United States of America

Outline: In Africa during World War I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.

A Place in the Sun

Directed by: George Stevens

Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere

Country: United States of America

Outline: A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

An American in Paris

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary

Country: United States of America

Outline: Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

Quo Vadis

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann

Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov

Country: United States of America

Outline: A fierce Roman commander becomes infatuated with a beautiful Christian hostage and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero.

Show Boat

Directed by: George Sidney

Starring: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown

Country: United States of America

Outline: The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour.

The Great Caruso

Directed by: Richard Thorpe

Starring: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna

Outline: This highly fictionalized film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan ...

That's My Boy

Directed by: Hal Walker

Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Ruth Hussey, Eddie Mayehoff

Country: United States of America

Outline: The greatest player in Ridgefield College history uses his influence and reputation to get his only son, a sickly, uncoordinated nerd, on the college football team with comic results.

David and Bathsheba

Directed by: Henry King

Starring: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore

Country: United States of America

Outline: After King David sees the beautiful Bathsheba bathing from the palace roof, he enters into an adulterous affair which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

Ace in the Hole

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall

Country: United States of America

Outline: A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

Scrooge

Directed by: Brian Desmond Hurst

Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns

Country: United States of America

Outline: An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve...

Strangers on a Train

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll

Country: United States of America

Outline: A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder - a theory that he plans to implement.

Bellissima

Directed by: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli

Country: United States of America

Outline: A woman from the low class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Directed by: Robert Wise

Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe

Country: United States of America

Outline: An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

The Lavender Hill Mob

Directed by: Charles Crichton

Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass

Country: United States of America

Outline: A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Othello

Directed by: Orson Welles

Starring: Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Robert Coote, Suzanne Cloutier

Country: United States of America

Outline: The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.

The River

Directed by: Jean Renoir

Starring: Patricia Walters, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields

Country: United States of America

Outline: Three adolescent girls growing up in Bengal, India, learn their lessons in life after falling for an older American soldier.

Detective Story

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell

Country: United States of America

Outline: On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.

Westward the Women

Directed by: William A. Wellman

Starring: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire

Country: United States of America

Outline: A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently began settling there.

En la palma de tu mano

Directed by: Roberto Gavaldón

Starring: Arturo de Córdova, Leticia Palma, Ramón Gay, Consuelo Guerrero de Luna

Outline: A fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died.

La Poison

Directed by: Sacha Guitry

Starring: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes, Jeanne Fusier-Gir

Outline: Through a series of circumstances and plot twists an enterprising man manages to get away with murdering his wife, even though he cheerfully admits his guilt in court.

Deedar

Directed by: Nitin Bose

Starring: Nargis, Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Nimmi

Outline: A traumatized and blind young man makes a living singing, and searching for his childhood sweetheart.

People Will Talk

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn

Country: United States of America

Outline: Dr. Noah Praetorius falls in love with Debra, a student who finds out that she is pregnant by her old boyfriend.

The Steel Helmet

Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Starring: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards

Outline: A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

The Mating Season

Directed by: Mitchell Leisen

Starring: Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter

Outline: Ellen McNulty loses her hamburger joint and goes to see her son, who marries a socialite at the same time. Due to her modest background and a case of mistaken identity, Ellen poses as the newlyweds' cook.