Drama Movies of 1955
Picnic
One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Pete Kelly's Blues
Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a brilliantly evocative pre-credits prologue, wherein we see how WWI vet Pete Kelly (Webb) came into possession of ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
My Sister Eileen
My Sister Eileen is a Technicolor, musicalized remake ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Rebel Without a Cause
This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Big Knife
Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation of Clifford Odets' stage play ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell
In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Love Me or Leave Me
One of the gutsiest movie musicals of the 1950s, Love Me or Leave Me is the true story of 1930s torch-singer Ruth Etting, here played by Doris Day. While working in a dime-a-dance joint, Ruth ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
All That Heaven Allows
One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Desperate Hours
Based on the novel and play by Joseph Hayes, which in turn was ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
East of Eden
This truncated screen version of John Steinbeck's best-seller was the first starring vehicle for explosive 1950s screen personality James Dean, who plays Cal Trask, the "bad" son of taciturn ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Blackboard Jungle
In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an assignment at a boys high school in ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Long Gray Line
The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in flashback, the film recalls the first ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Jennifer Jones plays Ms. Suyin, a Eurasian ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Man With the Golden Arm
When Otto Preminger was willing to release his drug-addiction drama Man With the Golden Arm without the sanction ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry Tomorrow. In as harshly ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Rose Tattoo
Scripted by famed playwright Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo stars Anna Magnani as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian woman who now lives in the American South. As the film opens, she is still mourning the death of her beloved husband, ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Battle Cry
Adapted by Leon Uris from his own novel, the film follows a group of World War II marines, from Basic Training to Battlefield. Major Van Heflin knows that his men are spoiling for a real fight, but must make do with the ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The End of the Affair
Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was The End of ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
A Bullet for Joey
A communist spy plots the abduction of an important American atomic scientist in this espionage drama. To do his evil deed, he coerces a notorious gangster to do the kidnapping. Meanwhile a ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Summertime
Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Prisoner
British theatrical director Peter Glenville made his film directorial debut with 1955's The Prisoner (Glenville had previous helmed the London stage production of this Bridget Boland play). The film is based on the real-life travails of ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the real-life personality so brilliantly (albeit briefly) portrayed by Elizabeth McGovern in ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Queen Bee
Queen Bee offers a stinging portrait of a mad, manipulative woman and chronicles her downfall and that of those around her in this dark drama. On first meeting, Eva Phillips (portrayed with delicious viciousness ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Benny Goodman Story
Steve Allen makes his dramatic film debut in The Benny Goodman Story. Outside of Goodman's conflicts with his parents over his career choice, and his early frustration over not being ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Way of Life [TV Series]
[ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Lola Montès
Max Ophuls' final film (and his only movie in color) is a cinematic ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Prodigal
One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
A Man Called Peter
A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played by ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Marty
Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama is a heartwarming story about Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine), a lonely Bronx butcher. Marty is ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
La Sorcière
An Alexander Kouprine novel was the springboard for the contemporary melodrama Le Sorciere (The ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Stella
Earlier reports that Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis' Stella was based on Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Le Amiche
Roman couturier Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) leaves the big city to work at a boutique in Turin. She moves into a hotel and makes several new friends, but is soon drawn into their extremely unpleasant ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto
Musashi Miyamoto was the first entry in Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Ingaki's Samurai trilogy. Toshiro Mifune is Takezo, a good-for-nothing from the farming village of Miyamoto, who dreams of becoming a ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
La Escondida
Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La Escandida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Felix vehicles. The star ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Quay South
This hour-long episode of the ITV network's anthology series Television Playhouse (which ran from 1955 through 1964 in the UK) originally aired December 10, 1955. It constitutes an adaptation of ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Yellowneck
A "Yellowneck" was a deserter from the Confederate Army. This adventure centers on five such soldiers as they struggle through the dense and dangerous Florida Everglades en route to ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Flesh Merchant
The exploitational The Flesh Merchant purports to be the case study of two ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Brain Machine
A vicious murderer suffers amnesia and his psychiatrist finds his brain waves indicative of violent ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Kid Tabaco
Armando Silvestre, Lucio Moreno and Ana Bertha Lepe co-headline the vintage south-of-the-border drama Kid Tabaco ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Muerte de un Ciclista
An adulterous couple is forced to take responsibility for their actions in this tense drama from Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bardem. Maria Jose (Lucia Bose) is a beautiful ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Tiger and the Flame
Tiger and the Flame was one of the few India-produced films to enjoy distribution in the US (courtesy of United ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
The Alfred Nobel Story - No Greater Love
Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Escuela de Música
Popular South-of-the-Border singing stars Pedro Infante and Libertad Lamarque head the cast of Escuela de Musica (Music School). Ms. Lamarque plays a ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
La Faraona
[ Drama movie - 1955 ]
La Gaviota
Raul de Anda's romantic drama La Gaviota stars Maria Antonienta Pons as Barbara, a woman who has fallen madly in love with a sailor. They pledge their love to each other before he sets off for a voyage, ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
La Sospechosa
La Sospechosa concerns a woman named Regina who returns from a vacation to find that her mother has disappeared. As she ... [ Drama movie - 1955 ]
Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal [TV Series]
[ Drama movie - 1955 ]
