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1951 Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 257 movies or TV shows/series

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The African Queen(1952)

3.7/5 (with 392 votes)

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

A Streetcar Named Desire(1951)

PG
| 2h 5min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 584 votes)

A fading southern belle tries to build a new life with her sister in New Orleans.

Early Summer(1951)

NR
| 2h 15min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 65 votes)

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Ace in the Hole(1951)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 286 votes)

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

The Living Christ(1951)

NR
| 5h 44min per episode | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The first ever made for TV miniseries documents the story of Jesus Christ from birth to resurrection.

Directed by John T. Coyle - With Martin Balsam, Jeanne Bates

The House on Telegraph Hill(1951)

NR
| 1h 33min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 25 votes)

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

A Place in the Sun(1951)

NR
| 2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 154 votes)

An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.

Show Boat(1951)

3.1/5 (with 29 votes)

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Awaara(1951)

3.7/5 (with 25 votes)

A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief's defense lawyer are illustrated.

The Idiot(1951)

2h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 45 votes)

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.

David and Bathsheba(1951)

PG
| 2h 3min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

Othello(1951)

1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 80 votes)

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.

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Summer Interlude(1951)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 62 votes)

A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.

Vengeance Valley(1951)

NR
| 1h 23min | Western
2.6/5 (with 20 votes)

A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.

Diary of a Country Priest(1951)

1h 55min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 103 votes)

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

Cops and Robbers(1951)

1h 45min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 78 votes)

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.

Olivia(1951)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Cara, in its final months.

Repast(1951)

1h 37min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

The Browning Version(1951)

1h 30min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 36 votes)

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

Fourteen Hours(1951)

NR
| 1h 32min | Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.

Miss Oyu(1951)

1h 34min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Las Islas Marias(1951)

1h 24min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 15 votes)

Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.

Best of the Badmen(1951)

NR
| 1h 24min | Western
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.

The Painted Hills(1951)

1.9/5 (with 8 votes)

After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan's new partner, Lin, isn't interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what's happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin's gun jams.

Dancing Girl(1951)

1h 25min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.

Miss Julie(1951)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.

The Tale of Genji(1951)

2h 4min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.

No Highway(1951)

1h 38min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.

A Tale of Five Cities(1951)

1h 26min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory.

Lightning Strikes Twice(1951)

NR
| 1h 31min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.

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