1958 Movies

Commandos

Directed by: Armando Crispino

Starring: Marilù Tolo, Lee Van Cleef, Giampiero Albertini, Giacomo Piperno, Ivano Staccioli, Romano Puppo, Joachim Fuchsberger, Jack Kelly

Country: Italy

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Directed by: Richard Brooks

Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson

Country: United States of America

Outline: Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Auntie Mame

Directed by: Morton DaCosta

Starring: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark

Country: United States of America

Outline: An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.

No Time for Sergeants

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton

Country: United States of America

Outline: Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.

Some Came Running

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer

Country: United States of America

Outline: Dave Hirsch, a writer and an army veteran winds up in his small Indiana hometown, to the dismay of his respectable older brother. He meets and befriends various different characters and tries to figure out what to do with his life.

The Young Lions

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Starring: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange

Country: United States of America

Outline: WW2 drama that follows the lives of three young men, one German and two Americans, during wartime.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Directed by: Mark Robson

Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens, Michael David

Country: United States of America

Outline: All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to ...

The Vikings

Directed by: Richard Fleischer

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh

Country: United States of America

Outline: A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.

South Pacific

Directed by: Joshua Logan

Starring: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston

Country: United States of America

Outline: On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.

Gigi

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold

Country: United States of America

Outline: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

Indiscreet

Directed by: Stanley Donen

Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert

Country: United States of America

Outline: An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him...even though he's already married.

Vertigo

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore

Country: United States of America

Outline: A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Kaagaz Ke Phool

Directed by: Guru Dutt

Starring: Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Kumari Naaz, Johnny Walker

Outline: Suresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his career.

Touch of Evil

Directed by: Orson Welles

Starring: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia

Country: United States of America

Outline: A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.

Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi

Directed by: Satyen Bose

Starring: Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Anoop Kumar, Kishore Kumar

Outline: Three woman-hating brothers face changes in their respective lifestyles when two of them fall in love.

Madhumati

Directed by: Bimal Roy

Starring: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Johnny Walker, Pran

Outline: While driving his car on a rainy night, Anand's car breaks down, and he goes to seek shelter in a nearby house. He is let into the house by the servant, and he is permitted to stay until ...

Elevator to the Gallows

Directed by: Louis Malle

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin

Country: United States of America

Outline: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Directed by: Mario Monicelli

Starring: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò

Country: United States of America

Outline: A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves bungle the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.

A Night to Remember

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Starring: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman

Country: United States of America

Outline: On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Big Country

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston

Country: United States of America

Outline: A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.

Ice Cold in Alex

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

Starring: John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Harry Andrews

Country: United States of America

Outline: During WW2 in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.

Petla

Directed by: Wojciech Has

Starring: Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Slaska, Teresa Szmigielówna, Tadeusz Fijewski

Outline: One day in the life of an alcohol addict. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when she's at work, Kuba is home alone, and it becomes hard not to resist the temptation.

The Defiant Ones

Directed by: Stanley Kramer

Starring: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

The Magician

Directed by: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Naima Wifstrand

Country: United States of America

Outline: When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the ...

The Horse's Mouth

Directed by: Ronald Neame

Starring: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan

Outline: A somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others.