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Man on a Tightrope
1953 • Drama • Thriller
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Hombre
1967 • Western
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
Why matched: genres Western
Alexander the Great
1956 • Drama • Adventure • History
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Inherit the Wind
1960 • Drama
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hor…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Desperate Hours
1955 • Thriller • Crime
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
The Iceman Cometh
1973 • Drama
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drin…
Why matched: genres Drama
Seven Days in May
1964 • Drama • Thriller
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954 • Drama • War • Action
A U.S. Navy pilot and his squad are assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges deep behind enemy lines during the Korean War.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
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1970 • Drama • Action
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
Why matched: genres Drama, Action
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956 • Drama
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate…
Why matched: genres Drama
Executive Suite
1954 • Drama
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
Why matched: genres Drama
Middle of the Night
1959 • Drama • Romance
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-o…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance