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The Space Children
1958 • Science Fiction
A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kid…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction
Fear Strikes Out
1957 • Drama
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Why matched: genres Drama
Vice Squad
1953 • Drama • Crime
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Glory Guys
1965 • Drama • Romance • Western
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
North by Northwest
1959 • Thriller • Adventure
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure
The Badlanders
1958 • Drama • Romance • Crime
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who h…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Last Sunset
1961 • Drama • Western
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley,…
Why matched: genres Drama, Western
Crashout
1955 • Crime
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot,…
Why matched: genres Crime
The Garment Jungle
1957 • Drama • Crime
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ra…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Flying Leathernecks
1951 • Drama • War • Action
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and pro…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Big Heat
1953 • Thriller • Crime
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
The Rack
1956 • Drama • War
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prison…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Follow Me, Boys!
1966 • Drama • Family
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying…
Why matched: genres Drama, Family
Helter Skelter
1976 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Loggerheads
2005 • Drama
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in acr…
Why matched: genres Drama