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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday(1953)

NR
| 1h 27min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 182 votes)

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

Directed by Jacques Tati - With Jacques Tati, André Dubois, Lucien Frégis, Michèle Brabo, Raymond Carl, René Lacourt, ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days(1956)

G
| 2h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 202 votes)

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Directed by Michael Anderson, John Farrow - With David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer, Noël Coward, ...
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The Court Jester(1955)

1h 41min | Music, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 78 votes)

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

Directed by Melvin Frank, Norman Panama - With Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, ...
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Le Plaisir(1952)

1h 37min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 44 votes)

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.

Directed by Max Ophüls - With Peter Ustinov, Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Brasseur, ...
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The Lavender Hill Mob(1951)

NR
| 1h 18min | Comedy, Crime
3.6/5 (with 99 votes)

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Directed by Charles Crichton - With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Audrey Hepburn, Sid James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding, ...
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The Crimson Pirate(1952)

1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.

Directed by Robert Siodmak - With Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Leslie Bradley, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, ...
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We're No Angels(1955)

NR
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Crime, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 73 votes)

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, ...
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The Man in the White Suit(1951)

1h 25min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...

Directed by Alexander Mackendrick - With Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, George Benson, Ernest Thesiger, ...
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Smiles of a Summer Night(1955)

NR
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 102 votes)

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson, Jarl Kulle, Ulla Jacobsson, Åke Fridell, ...
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Mon Oncle(1958)

NR
| 1h 58min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 220 votes)

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

Directed by Jacques Tati - With Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Betty Schneider, Denise Péronne, Édouard Francomme, Jean-Claude Rémoleux, ...
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The Red Balloon(1956)

NR
| 34min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 160 votes)

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere.

Directed by Albert Lamorisse - With Georges Sellier, Pascal Lamorisse, Vladimir Uralsky
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El Siete Machos(1951)

1h 48min | Comedy, Western
4.1/5 (with 36 votes)

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Alma Rosa Aguirre, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Miguel Inclán, José Elías Moreno, Ernesto Finance, ...
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A King in New York(1957)

G
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 80 votes)

A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Dawn Addams, Shani Wallis, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Ollie Johnston, ...

Fan-Fan the Tulip(1952)

1h 42min | Romance / Love, Adventure, Comedy, War
3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.

Directed by Christian-Jaque - With Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Nerio Bernardi, Marcel Herrand, Geneviève Page, Olivier Hussenot, ...

Don Camillo's Last Round(1955)

1h 37min | Comedy, History
3.6/5 (with 74 votes)

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.

Directed by Carmine Gallone - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Umberto Spadaro, Memmo Carotenuto, Guido Celano, ...

The Return of Don Camillo(1953)

1h 55min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 82 votes)

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa, Arturo Bragaglia, Leda Gloria, Pina Gallini, ...

Beat the Devil(1953)

NR
| 1h 29min | Adventure, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 53 votes)

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

Directed by John Huston - With Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley, Marco Tulli, ...
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Big Deal on Madonna Street(1958)

1h 46min | Comedy, Crime
4.1/5 (with 299 votes)

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Directed by Mario Monicelli - With Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Memmo Carotenuto, ...

Show Boat(1951)

1h 47min | Romance / Love, Drama, Kids & Family, Music
3.1/5 (with 29 votes)

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

Directed by George Sidney - With Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Agnes Moorehead, Leif Erickson, ...
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Miracle in Milan(1951)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 90 votes)

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena, ...

El señor fotógrafo(1953)

1h 40min | Comedy, Thriller
4.2/5 (with 30 votes)

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Rosita Arenas, Ángel Garasa, Wolf Ruvinskis, Eduardo Alcaraz, Ada Carrasco, ...

Monkey Business(1952)

1h 37min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 101 votes)

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Directed by Howard Hawks - With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe, Kathleen Freeman, ...
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves(1954)

G
| 1h 32min | Adventure, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 53 votes)

A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure filled with gold, mischief, love, and forty famous thieves instead.

Directed by Jacques Becker - With Bob Ingarao, Dieter Borsche, Edmond Ardisson, Édouard Delmont, Fernandel, Gaston Orbal, ...

Angels in the Outfield(1951)

1h 39min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.

Directed by Clarence Brown, Dorothy Kingsley, George Wells - With Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Lewis Stone, Spring Byington, Ellen Corby, ...
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El bolero de Raquel(1957)

1h 41min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 37 votes)

The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Manola Saavedra, Flor Silvestre

Born Yesterday(1950)

PG
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 66 votes)

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.

Directed by George Cukor - With Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Grandon Rhodes, Claire Carleton
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Neither Seen Nor Recognized(1958)

1h 35min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

Directed by Yves Robert - With Louis de Funès, Moustache, Pierre Mondy, Bernard Charlan, Charles Bayard, Claude Rich, ...

The King and Four Queens(1956)

1h 26min | Adventure, Western, Mystery, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Barbara Nichols, Jo Van Fleet, Jay C. Flippen, Arthur Shields, ...

The Band of Honest Men(1956)

1h 46min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 99 votes)

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque - With Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Giacomo Furia, Gabriele Tinti, Giulia Rubini, Nando Bruno, ...

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy(1956)

1h 46min | Comedy, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 149 votes)

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).

Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque - With Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Dorian Gray, Teddy Reno, Vittoria Crispo, Mario Castellani, ...
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