Drama Movies of 1951
Rashomon
This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
A Streetcar Named Desire
In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
A Place in the Sun
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
David and Bathsheba
David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
The Lemon Drop Kid
Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with Lee Tracy paid more than lip service to the original Runyon ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Detective Story
Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
The Enforcer
Humphrey Bogart plays Martin Ferguson, a prosecutor about to put Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane), the head of a murder-for-hire ring, on trial. But the night before the trial, his key witness, Joe Rico (Ted de Corsia), dies in a ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Fourteen Hours
Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma affects those around him. Robert Cosick (Richard ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Mr. Imperium
Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet on vacation in Italy. After more than a decade, they reunite, only ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Jim Thorpe - All American
Burt Lancaster stars as Jim Thorpe, the Native American sports whiz whom many consider the greatest athlete of the 20th ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Sirocco
In Sirocco Humphrey Bogart is cast as Harry Smith, a casino operator in 1925 Damascus. For a tidy profit, Smith runs guns to the Arab insurrectionists attempting to overthrow the French Protectorate. Chastised by French Colonel Feroud (Lee ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
The Basketball Fix
The title tells all in Realart's Basketball Fix. ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
The Browning Version
Michael Redgrave gives his greatest performance as Andrew Crocker-Harris, a boarding-school teacher who realizes that his life may be a failure, in this powerful adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play with a ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Decision Before Dawn
With the Third Reich disintegrating, several members of the German army ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
The House on Telegraph Hill
After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder, deceit, and assumed identities. Victoria Kopwelska (Valentina Cortese) is a Polish woman imprisoned in a Nazi ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Two Dollar Bettor
Dependable supporting actor John Litel is top-billed in the independently produced Two Dollar Bettor. Litel plays John Hewitt, a respectable widower who takes the first step on ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Early Summer
Writer/director Yasujiro Ozu combines two of his favorite themes--the culture clashes in modern Japan and the emergence of the independent Japanese woman--in Early Summer (Bakushu). Setsuko ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Awara
Indian film icon Raj Kapoor directs this Oedipal family drama centering on Raju (Kapoor), the disaffected son of renowned Judge Raghuath (played by the director's father ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
The River
The River must be seen in its original Technicolor; it is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine anyone fully enjoying this wonderful film while watching a black-and-white TV print. Adapted by director Jean ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
The Well
The Well is a modest but generally effective plea for racial ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
The Medium
Filmed opera can be deadly if not done right; fortunately, The Medium is in the loving and capable directorial hands of the man who wrote the piece, Gian-Carlo Menotti. Slightly ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Chained for Life
The conjoined twins Violet Hilton and Daisy Hilton, also seen in Tod ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
The Devil's Sleep
Still trading on her famous married name -- although she and Charles Chaplin had been divorced since 1927 -- Lita Grey Chaplin returned to films after an 18-year ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Susana
Having recently escaped from a reformatory for troubled, a voluptuous young delinquent is taken in by a wealthy Spanish family and methodically proceeds to undermine their conservative religious household through seduction and ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Variety Lights
Federico Fellini's directorial debut (co-directed with veteran Alberto Lattuada), Luci del Varietā is a bittersweet ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Una Mujer Sin Amor
A comparatively conventional Luis Bunuel effort, the Mexican Woman Without Love is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Rosario ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Doņa Perfecta
Director Alejandro Galindo directs the legendary Delores Del Rio in a classic drama from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema that portrays political change in Mexico through the microcosm of one family struggling with tradition in ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Racket Squad [TV Series]
All the episodes in this popular series were allegedly based upon real-life cases dealing with captured ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Afsana
B. R. Chopra directs this crime thriller about a pair of twins separated at birth. While Ratan (Ashok Kumar) is raised in an institution and eventually becomes a noted barrister, Chaman (Kumar again) gets adopted into a ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
Mujeres Sin Maņana
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Con Todo El Corazon
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Cuando tu me Quieras
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El Suavecito
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Victimas del Pecado
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El Marido de Mi Novia
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Las Islas Marias
Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man. ~ ... [ Drama movie - 1951 ]
