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1984
1956 • Drama • Science Fiction
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
Ace in the Hole
1951 • Drama
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
Why matched: genres Drama
High School Confidential!
1958 • Drama • Crime
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Man with the Gun
1955 • Western
A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner…
Why matched: genres Western
The Harder They Fall
1956 • Drama
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno i…
Why matched: genres Drama
Split Second
1953 • Thriller • Crime
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Female on the Beach
1955 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate age…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
First Monday in October
1981 • Drama • Comedy
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Appointment with Danger
1950 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The High and the Mighty
1954 • Drama • Thriller • Adventure
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - on…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Union Station
1950 • Thriller • Crime
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
The Mating Season
1951 • Romance • Comedy
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Mystery Street
1950 • Thriller • Crime
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard prof…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Caged
1950 • Drama • Crime
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Incident
1967 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller