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Godzilla(1954)

1h 36min | Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 274 votes)

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by paleontologist Kyohei Yemani soon discover something more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Haruo Nakajima, Kuninori Kōdō, ...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!(1956)

NR
| 1h 21min | Science Fiction, Horror
3.5/5 (with 77 votes)

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.

Directed by Terry O. Morse, Ishirō Honda - With Raymond Burr, Momoko Kōchi, Akira Takarada, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara, ...
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Night of the Demon(1957)

NR
| 1h 36min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 73 votes)

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur - With Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Liam Redmond, ...
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Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)

1h 19min | Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 227 votes)

A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discover a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free. The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée of one of the expedition, with whom it has fallen in love.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With Julie Adams, Antonio Moreno, Richard Denning, Richard Carlson, Whit Bissell, Nestor Paiva, ...
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Dracula(1958)

1h 22min | Horror
3.6/5 (with 172 votes)

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Miles Malleson, Geoffrey Bayldon, ...
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956)

NR
| 1h 20min | Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 323 votes)

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Directed by Don Siegel - With Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Larry Gates, Bobby Clark, ...
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House of Wax(1953)

1h 30min | Horror, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 96 votes)

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

Directed by André de Toth - With Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Charles Bronson, Carolyn Jones, Phyllis Kirk, Paul Picerni, ...
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The Blob(1958)

NR
| 1h 26min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 178 votes)

A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

Directed by Irvin Yeaworth - With Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Olin Howland, Earl Rowe, Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, John Benson, ...
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It Came from Outer Space(1953)

NR
| 1h 21min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 59 votes)

Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

Directed by Jack Arnold - With Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes, ...
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The Revenge of Frankenstein(1958)

1h 29min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 39 votes)

Baron Frankenstein, working under the protective pseudonym Dr. Victor Stein, together with his assistant Dr. Kleve, transplants a dwarf's brain into another body and unleashes a deranged being.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn, Lionel Jeffries, John Welsh, ...
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Invaders from Mars(1953)

1h 18min | Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror
3.1/5 (with 56 votes)

In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.

Directed by William Cameron Menzies - With Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Morris Ankrum, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke, ...
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The Thing from Another World(1951)

NR
| 1h 27min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 182 votes)

Scientists and U.S. Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

Directed by Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks - With Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Douglas Spencer, Robert Cornthwaite, James Arness, James Young, ...
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Diabolique(1955)

NR
| 1h 57min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 295 votes)

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot - With Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault, Jacques Hilling, Véra Clouzot, ...
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The Night of the Hunter(1955)

NR
| 1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 509 votes)

In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Directed by Charles Laughton - With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, ...
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House on Haunted Hill(1959)

NR
| 1h 15min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 147 votes)

Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!

Directed by William Castle - With Vincent Price, Alan Marshal, Elisha Cook Jr., Carolyn Craig, Carol Ohmart, Julie Mitchum, ...
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The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957)

1h 21min | Drama, Science Fiction, Horror
3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

While on a boating trip, Scott Carey is exposed to a radioactive cloud. Nothing seems amiss at first, but several months later Scott realizes that he's shrunk in height by several inches. He sees a doctor, who admits that he's baffled. As Scott continues to shrink, decreasing to three feet tall, he becomes bitter, and lashes out at his wife, Louise. He begins to fear a cure will never be found -- since even as he becomes a national sensation, he's still shrinking.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, Billy Curtis, Raymond Bailey, William Schallert, Paul Langton, ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles(1959)

NR
| 1h 27min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.5/5 (with 87 votes)

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, André Morell, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, ...
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The Curse of Frankenstein(1957)

NR
| 1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 73 votes)

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt, Melvyn Hayes, ...
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Them!(1954)

1h 34min | Science Fiction, Horror
3.4/5 (with 124 votes)

As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent, and the world.

Directed by Gordon Douglas - With James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Fess Parker, Onslow Stevens, ...
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The Mummy(1959)

NR
| 1h 26min | Horror
3.5/5 (with 67 votes)

One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Giorgos Pastell, Harold Goodwin, ...
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Plan 9 from Outer Space(1959)

NR
| 1h 19min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.1/5 (with 173 votes)

In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay that was murdered by the couple. Their intention is not to conquest Earth but to stop mankind from developing the powerful bomb “Solobonite” that would threaten the universe. When the population of Hollywood and Washington DC sees flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

Directed by Ed Wood - With Tom Keene, Tor Johnson, Bunny Breckinridge, Maila Nurmi, Bela Lugosi, Tom Mason, ...
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Tarantula(1955)

1h 20min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 78 votes)

A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is devouring local cattle - and humans - in increasingly large quantities.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Clint Eastwood, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott, ...
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The Bad Seed(1956)

NR
| 2h 9min | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 82 votes)

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda -- as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, William Hopper, Jesse White, ...
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The Fly(1958)

NR
| 1h 34min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 164 votes)

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who tells him that she has just killed her husband, André. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that André invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber during the matter transference.

Directed by Kurt Neumann - With David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson, ...
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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman(1958)

1h 5min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.4/5 (with 41 votes)

When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.

Directed by Nathan H. Juran - With Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Otto Waldis, Cristi Conaway, Daniel Baldwin, ...
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Return of the Fly(1959)

NR
| 1h 20min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 53 votes)

Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.

Directed by Edward Bernds - With Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, Dan Seymour, Danielle De Metz, David Frankham, John Sutton, ...
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Revenge of the Creature(1955)

1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 39 votes)

Men from an oceanarium capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With John Agar, Lori Nelson, Clint Eastwood, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva, Ricou Browning, ...
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Godzilla Raids Again(1955)

NR
| 1h 22min | Action, Science Fiction, Horror
3.0/5 (with 72 votes)

Two fishing scout pilots make a startling discovery when they find two giant monsters on a remote island. One is a new monster dubbed Anguirus, and the other is a second Godzilla. The two monsters make their way to Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.

Directed by Motoyoshi Oda - With Haruo Nakajima, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Koizumi

The Quatermass Xperiment(1955)

1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 58 votes)

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

Directed by Val Guest - With Brian Donlevy, Lionel Jeffries, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, Margia Dean, Thora Hird, ...

The Trollenberg Terror(1958)

1h 24min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.3/5 (with 32 votes)

An American investigator for the U.N., a German scientist and a British reporter join forces to investigate a series of disappearances and mutilation-deaths confined to a Swiss Alp and involving a thick, mobile cloud, a telepathic girl, an animate dead man, and tentacled, cyclopean beings from another planet.

Directed by Quentin Lawrence - With Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro
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