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1950s Romantic Drama Movies

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Sayonara(1957)

2h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 54 votes)

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

Directed by Joshua Logan - With Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, Red Buttons, Ricardo Montalbán, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, ...

Rebel Without a Cause(1955)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 680 votes)

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

Directed by Nicholas Ray - With James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Ann Doran, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, ...
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Sabrina(1954)

1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 527 votes)

Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, Martha Hyer, John Williams, ...
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Titanic(1953)

NR
| 1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 48 votes)

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

Directed by Jean Negulesco - With Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Harper Carter, Thelma Ritter, ...
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The King and I(1956)

G
| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love, Adventure, Music
3.6/5 (with 156 votes)

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

Directed by Walter Lang - With Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Carlos Rivas, Martin Benson, Alan Mowbray, ...
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Rio Grande(1950)

NR
| 1h 45min | Western
3.5/5 (with 128 votes)

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman, Jr., Harry Carey, Victor McLaglen, ...
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From Here to Eternity(1953)

NR
| 1h 58min | War, Romance / Love, Drama
3.7/5 (with 266 votes)

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann - With Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Donna Reed, ...
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War and Peace(1956)

PG
| 3h 28min | Drama, War, Romance / Love, History
3.4/5 (with 99 votes)

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

Directed by King Vidor - With Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Oskar Homolka, ...
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Sissi(1955)

1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 208 votes)

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

Directed by Ernst Marischka - With Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth, Josef Meinrad, ...
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...And God Created Woman(1956)

PG
| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 93 votes)

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.

Directed by Roger Vadim - With Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Corey, Christian Marquand, Jane Marken, ...

There's No Business Like Show Business(1954)

NR
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 41 votes)

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

Directed by Walter Lang - With Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Eastham, ...
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman(1951)

2h 2min | Romance / Love, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 44 votes)

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

Directed by Albert Lewin - With Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Marius Goring, ...
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Marty(1955)

NR
| 1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 155 votes)

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.

Directed by Delbert Mann, Paul Helmick - With Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Jerry Paris, Esther Minciotti, John Milford, ...
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The Blazing Sun(1954)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

A rich landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

Directed by Youssef Chahine - With Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom, Farid Shawqi
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Scaramouche(1952)

NR
| 1h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 37 votes)

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Directed by George Sidney - With Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon, Nina Foch, ...
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The Barefoot Contessa(1954)

NR
| 2h 8min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 88 votes)

Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when independently wealthy Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - With Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien, Valentina Cortese, Rossano Brazzi, Franco Interlenghi, ...
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Summer with Monika(1953)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 138 votes)

Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Åke Fridell, Renée Björling, Dagmar Ebbesen, Naemi Briese, ...
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Bus Stop(1956)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 90 votes)

Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.

Directed by Joshua Logan - With Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange, ...
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A Star Is Born(1954)

PG
| 2h 56min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 125 votes)

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Directed by George Cukor - With Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Amanda Blake, Stuart Holmes, ...
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The Last Time I Saw Paris(1954)

NR
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.

Directed by Richard Brooks - With Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, George Dolenz, ...
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Summertime(1955)

NR
| 1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 57 votes)

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.

Directed by David Lean - With Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin, Isa Miranda, Mari Aldon, André Morell, ...
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All That Heaven Allows(1955)

NR
| 1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

Directed by Douglas Sirk - With Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, William H. Reynolds, ...

Mogambo(1953)

NR
| 1h 55min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 62 votes)

Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.

Directed by John Ford - With Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Laurence Naismith, Denis O'Dea, ...
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro(1952)

NR
| 1h 57min | Adventure, Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 40 votes)

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Directed by Henry King - With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward, Hildegard Knef, Leo G. Carroll, Marcel Dalio, ...
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An Affair to Remember(1957)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 196 votes)

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

Directed by Leo McCarey - With Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Cathleen Nesbitt, Matt Moore, Fortunio Bonanova, ...
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Le Notti Bianche(1957)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 85 votes)

A lonely city transplant and a sheltered girl, haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Corrado Pani, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanoli, ...

In a Lonely Place(1950)

NR
| 1h 34min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 230 votes)

An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental and mentally impaired boyfriend is a murderer.

Directed by Nicholas Ray - With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Robert Warwick, ...
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Indiscretion of an American Wife(1953)

1h 3min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 21 votes)

While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa, Richard Beymer, Nando Bruno, ...
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The Naked Jungle(1954)

NR
| 1h 35min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 42 votes)

The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.

Directed by Byron Haskin - With Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad, Douglas Fowley, John Dierkes, ...
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The River(1951)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 42 votes)

Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.

Directed by Jean Renoir, Satyajit Ray - With Adrienne Corri, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Radha Burnier
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