Movies released in 1956

Safari

59/100

During the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in the 1950s, settler-hunter Ken Duffield is a hired guide for a lion hunting party but he also hopes to find the Mau Mau rebel who killed his family.

Rock Rock Rock!

52/100

A young teenage girl (Tuesday Weld) desperately tries to earn enough money to buy a dress for a school rock and roll dance. This early rock and roll feature, the 3rd in a series of 5 ... See full summary »

Plucking the Daisy

60/100

A Paris schoolgirl unwittingly ignites hellfire in the minds of men from Seine to Sorbonne.

Pillars of the Sky

64/100

In 1868 Oregon, when the Army violates the treaty by building a road across the reservation, several tribal chiefs decide to unite their forces against the trespassing whites.

You Can't Run Away from It

60/100

Ellen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. She escapes and starts an adventurous trip back to ... See full summary »

Comanche

55/100

Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner.

Mohawk

53/100

In 1700s New York, a Boston artist working in the remote Fort Alden is torn between his love for 2 women and thrown into the middle of a Mohawk-Iroquois-American war.

Serenade

59/100

Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. He debuts at Lardelli's Italian restaurant in San Francisco, where he is ... See full summary »

Far til fire i byen

62/100

Hell in Korea

63/100

During the Korean War retreat in 1951, a small British recon group is surrounded by Chinese troops and holds out in a lonely temple atop a hill.

Chori Chori

78/100

A spoiled rich girl on the run travels with a reporter looking for a news scoop.

Red Sundown

65/100

A gunfighter takes a deputy sheriff job in a town caught in a feud between a powerful rancher and small farmers.

Star in the Dust

61/100

A sheriff planning on legally hanging a killer, has to contend with farmers who want to lynch him, and cattlemen who want to help him escape.

Never Say Goodbye

65/100

In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, ... See full summary »

Naughty Girl

59/100

Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.

Dakota Incident

60/100

Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

66/100

Set in the early '40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though ... See full summary »

Hot Blood

60/100

Stephen Torino (Wilde), who is tricked by his brother Marco (Adler) into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash (Russell). Annie is willing to give the union a go, but Torino wants none of it.

The Maverick Queen

59/100

A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty lady saloonkeeper. Complications ensue.

Teenage Wolfpack

67/100

"Think of a law, they've broken it. Think of a crime, they've committed it." A tense, tough story of teenage gangs committing acts of robbery, violence, and murder. The leader of the gang ... See full summary »

Gun the Man Down

63/100

Two bank robbers abandon their wounded partner to the posse and run with the loot but their partner, after serving time in prison, seeks revenge.

The Proud and Profane

62/100

In the Pacific during WWII, a Roman Catholic widow falls for a tough lieutenant colonel.

Diane

62/100

In the sixteenth century, a noblewoman has a love affair with the French King.

Der Weg ins Verderben

72/100

Mid-aged married truck driver falls in love with a young waitress he meets while making a break on a long trip. They try to make it work, but she can't get a decent job or place to stay in ... See full summary »

Man in the Vault

58/100

A locksmith gets caught up in a bank robbery.