Drama Movies of 1950
Young Man With a Horn
The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
The Men
Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He plays Lt. Bud ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Quicksand
Mickey Rooney, with his kid roles and musicals behind him, went for a major change of image in this harrowing ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Kim
Errol Flynn is top-billed in Kim, but the title character is played by Dean Stockwell. The son of an Irish sergeant, young Kim wanders through ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Trail of Robin Hood
Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, Republic's Trail of Robin Hood is one of the most entertaining and likable of Roy Rogers' starring films. Roy comes to ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Morning Departure
Morning Departure isn't about a commuter train but instead the story of an imperiled submarine. On a routine postwar mission, the sub strikes a forgotten mine and sinks to the bottom. The twelve-man crew comes face to face with the probability ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
No Way Out
A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises African-Americans. Sidney Poitier (in his screen debut) is the black doctor, Luther Brooks, assigned to take care ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
The House by the River
Fritz Lang was the guiding hand of this laudable Republic Studios melodrama. Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy wastrel ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
The Capture
Virtually ignored at the time of its release, Capture has built up a small but enthusiastic following since its lapse into public domain. American oil man Lew Ayres kills a coworker whom he suspects of robbery. Thinking it ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
The Big Lift
Filmed on location, The Big Lift is a reenactment of the Berlin airlift of 1948. Flexing their postwar muscles, the Russians blockade the Western sector, refusing to allow the Allies to ship supplies to the starving Berliners. From their ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Caged
Caged, considered the best woman's prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and the more stylized world of film noir. Marie, (Eleanor Parker), is sentenced to prison for helping her husband in a small ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
The Jackie Robinson Story
Despite its lack of production values and box-office "names," The Jackie Robinson ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
The Torch
The Torch was originally released in Mexico as La Malquerida. It also bore several other titles, including Duelo en las Montanas, Del Odio Nacio el Amor and ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
In a Lonely Place
A haunting work of stark confessionalism disguised as a taut noir thriller, In a Lonely Place -- Nicholas Ray's bleak, desperate tale of fear and self-loathing in Hollywood -- remains one of the filmmaker's greatest and most deeply ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Three Came Home
Based on the autobiographical book by Agnes Newton Keith, ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Cyrano De Bergerac
Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Guilty of Treason
Made in the same atmosphere and paranoia that spawned the infamous Joseph McCarthy, this is an anti-communist propaganda movie looking more at the dark side of communism than at its subject matter--the life and times of Joszef Cardinal ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Johnny One-Eye
Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Pat O'Brien and Wayne Morris star as Martin Martin and Dane Cory respectively, former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
The Kid
Adapted from the popular comic strip by Yuen Po-wan, director Fung Fung's socially conscious slice of Cantonese realism ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Madeleine
David Lean's Madeleine was inspired by a true story that rocked the English legal system to its ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Fröken Julie
Froken Julie (Miss Julie) is adapted from August Strindberg's trenchant one-act play of the same name. ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
The Diary of a Country Priest
An austere look at the experiences of a young priest in a small French parish, Robert Bresson's masterly Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) presents a powerful, complex ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
The Flowers of St. Francis
Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio) is an early example of the "commercial" side of Roberto Rossellini. The film traces the life of St. Francis, ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Les Enfants Terribles
Adapted by Jean Cocteau from his own novel and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Pirates of the High Seas [Serial]
The no longer youthful Buster Crabbe -- once the screen's second most popular Tarzan and, more importantly, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers -- attempted to ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Julius Caesar
This drama tells of the powerful rise of emperor Julius Caesar along with his swift fall in this adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Cronaca di un Amore
Michelangelo Antonioni's first narrative feature is a stark, minimal interpersonal drama that would establish many of the ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
En Carne Viva
A beautiful cabaret dancer struggles to support both herself and her newborn child after being abandoned by the handsome sailor who promised her the world in this romantic drama starring Rose Carmina and Crox ... [ Drama movie - 1950 ]
Treasury Men in Action [TV Series]
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Yo Quiero Ser Tonta
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La Posesion
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Primero Soy Mexicano
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Una Mujer Sin Destino
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