1958 Movies

TV adaptation after I.L. Caragiale play.

Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother’s luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted…

Passengers struggle to survive after their plane crashes on a remote island. Director Richard Wilson’s 1958 drama stars Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler and Rosanna Podesta.

The Battersea Bats are a gang of four kids who have their den in an abandoned building near the Thames, and they have a plan of action in mind because…

Four children try to raise money to replace a broken saw, taking them on an unexpected journey through the capital.

Thornton Wilder’s tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she’s supposed to be pairing with another woman.

During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Finally only one man, Private…

An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband’s death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king’s escape depends on…

A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.

German Paratroopers are ordered to hold the line at Monte Cassino in Italy, and halt the allied advance on Rome.

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her…

Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée,…

When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

The story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.

During the 1200’s, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of…

Adaptation of Martin Armstrong’s poem about an elderly lady who becomes perturbed by something we can’t see. It becomes apparent that she is looking for her past, lost in a…

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child’s…

Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. He rescues trick rider Jackie Adams…

A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he’s hid his loot.

Six truckers in three trucks haul explosive rocket-fuel chemicals over a mountain to a missile base. US remake of Wages of Fear.

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched “white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches” on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to…

When Laura and Dan get married, she’s more interested in Dan’s gorilla. It’s revealed through hypnosis that she was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation.

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.

An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster’s widow.

Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can’t live with himself after he accidently kills…

An international drug-smuggling racket plants heroin on unsuspecting American tourists traveling in Asia, so that the dope traffic can pass through customs undetected. Two psychopathic killers (Eli Wallach and Robert…

The baron’s grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he’s the ‘caretaker’ of her beach house. Vanessa’s sexy, alcoholic adult…

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the…

American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.

A wealthy but emotionally damaged woman is released from a sanitarium a year after suffering a mental breakdown. She returns to her home, shared with her husband, stepsister, stepmother, and…

Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya pines for an aloof duchess.

Escaped convicts Gary and Lon are caught hiding in a rocket by scientist Dirk Green, who forces them to pilot the ship to the moon. Dirk, who’s secretly a moon…

Sach is hired as the companion for a poodle on an ocean voyage from New York to London. What he doesn’t know is that the people who hired him are…