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Blood and Lace
1971 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by a mysterious woman and…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Oklahoma!
1955 • Music • Romance • Western
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
Why matched: genres Music, Romance
In a Lonely Place
1950 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Mansion of the Doomed
1976 • Horror
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his dau…
Why matched: genres Horror
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 Man Who Never Was
1956 • Drama • Thriller • History
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted wit…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Naked Alibi
1954 • Drama • Thriller • Romance
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is mur…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Human Desire
1954 • Drama • Romance • Crime
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Glass Wall
1953 • Drama
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can…
Why matched: genres Drama
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
Sudden Fear
1952 • Thriller • Crime
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
The Cobweb
1955 • Drama
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.
Why matched: genres Drama
Not as a Stranger
1955 • Drama • Romance
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Good Die Young
1954 • Thriller • Crime
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952 • Drama • Romance
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Chilly Scenes of Winter
1979 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to he…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Macao
1952 • Drama • Romance • Adventure
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still w…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 • Drama • Romance
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, includin…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Melvin and Howard
1980 • Drama • Comedy
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes. Inspired by real events.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy