Drama Movies of 1958
Separate Tables
Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Marjorie Morningstar
Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Defiant Ones
Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Kings Go Forth
Adapted by Merle Miller from the novel by Joe David Brown, Kings Go Forth stars Frank ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Long, Hot Summer
While often regarded as one of America's greatest ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Proud Rebel
A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while the star's son David (who grew up to become a powerful Hollywood ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Some Came Running
After the success of From Here to Eternity, pairing Frank Sinatra with another James Jones novel made perfect sense. Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film stars Sinatra as a ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Run Silent, Run Deep
The contrasting acting styles of Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster serve to increase the already high ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Last Hurrah
Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Desire under the Elms
Director Delbert Mann and screenwriter Irwin Shaw ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Hunters
Directed with crisp efficiency by Dick Powell, The Hunters is a romantic melodrama with an aviation angle. Robert Mitchum plays veteran Air Force pilot Maj. Cleve Saville, in charge of a ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Look Back in Anger
Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Another Time, Another Place
Lana Turner stars as Sara Scott, an American war correspondent whose whirlwind romance with a young British journalist (Sean Connery) ends in tragedy when his plane crashes while covering an assignment. After recovering from a nervous ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
King Creole
Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is forced to drop ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
South Pacific
Producer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Night Heaven Fell
This Brigitte Bardot vehicle is better known by its American title, The Night Heaven ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
God's Little Acre
Erskine Caldwell's steamy novel God's Little Acre was given a film adaptation in 1958. A ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Alan Burgess' novel The Small Woman was the source for the British/American co-production Inn of the ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Never Love a Stranger
Never Love a Stranger--especially if it's young hoodlum Frank Kane (John Drew Barrymore). When it is discovered that his natural parents were Jewish, Kane is removed from ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
I Want to Live!
Grim, almost unbearably intense, I Want To Live is the story of the life ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Quiet American
The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still referred to as Indochina in 1958). ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Wet Asphalt
When a made-up story crafted to meet a rapidly approaching deadline spirals out of control, a young reporter takes ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Les Amants
The Lovers (Les Amants) furthered the reputations of both director Louis Malle and star Jeanne Moreau -- and also ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
I, Mobster
By 1958, director Roger Corman had switched from making low-budgeters like Apache Woman to movies like the ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea was probably unfilmable to begin with, but this didn't stop John Sturges from trying to cinematize Hemingway's tight little ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
China Doll
Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) is a US pilot serving in China in 1943, flying supplies to Allied soldiers in Burma. He's the best at what he does in the air, but he's also emotionally cut off from everyone around him, disillusioned by ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Anna Lucasta
Playwright Philip Yordan stirred up controversy with his 1944 Broadway production Anna Lucasta, ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
A Night to Remember
This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Miercoles de Ceniza
Though Miercoles de Ceniza was released in English-speaking countries as Ash Wednesday, it bears no relation to the much-later Elizabeth Taylor vehicle of ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Ashes and Diamonds
This is the last film in the trilogy that began Andrzej Wajda's career as a director. Preceding this wartime drama are Pokolenie (1955) and Kanal (1957). Once again, Wajda presents a strong ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Sun Seekers
A compelling film about finding one's place in a turbulent world, Sun Searchers tells the story of a young girl, Lutz, wandering, literally and figuratively, through the ruins of post-WWII ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
The Invisible Avenger
Invisible Avenger is an ultra-cheap melodrama set in New Orleans. The hero, Lamont Cranston (Richard Derr), is a student of mysticism and mind control. At crucial points, Cranston ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Lost, Lonely and Vicious
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The Music Room
After completing his widely acclaimed Pather ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Quinceañera
Quinceañera concerns a trio of young women who are going to be presented at a debutante ball. Each must contend with family issues, as well as relationship troubles. Many of the ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Las Manzanas de Dorotea
A Mexican millionaire tests the loyalty of his new bride in this romantic drama starring Jaime Fernandez and Maria Elena Marques. Shortly after taking the beautiful Dorotea as his bride, wealthy Alberto begins ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
Las Tres Pelonas
The Spanish language drama Las Tres Pelonas concerns ... [ Drama movie - 1958 ]
