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Movies: Popular Movies of 1951

Movies in chronological context: 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1951st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 951st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1950s decade. ()

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Alice in Wonderland(1951)

G
| 1h 15min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 2,655 votes)

On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burrow - and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland! Memorable songs and whimsical escapades highlight Alice's journey, which culminates in a madcap encounter with the Queen of Hearts - and her army of playing cards!

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
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Strangers on a Train(1951)

1h 41min | Crime, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 688 votes)

A deranged socialite accosts a tennis star with his theory that if two strangers trade murders, they can disguise their motives and avoid suspicion.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Pat Hitchcock, Marion Lorne, ...
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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.

Directed by Elia Kazan - With Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Nick Dennis, Richard Garrick, ...
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The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)

G
| 1h 32min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 562 votes)

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Frances Bavier, James Hong, ...
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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.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Gene Evans, Frank Cady, ...

The Thing from Another World(1951)

NR
| 1h 27min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 260 votes)

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating 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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An American in Paris(1951)

1h 53min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 242 votes)

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

Directed by Vincente Minnelli - With Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, Madge Blake, ...
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Quo Vadis(1951)

NR
| 2h 51min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 206 votes)

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, ...
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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.

Directed by George Stevens - With Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Fred Clark, Raymond Burr, ...
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Scrooge(1951)

PG
| 1h 26min | Fantasy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst - With Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Michael Hordern, ...
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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.

Directed by Robert Bresson - With Nicole Maurey, Adrien Borel, Antoine Balpêtré, Claude Laydu, Germaine Stainval, Jean Danet, ...

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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When Worlds Collide(1951)

1h 23min | Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 91 votes)

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.

Directed by Rudolph Maté - With Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Rachel Ames, Hayden Rorke, ...
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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, ...

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.

Directed by Orson Welles - With Orson Welles, Doris Dowling, Joseph Cotten, Joan Fontaine, Fay Compton, Robert Coote, ...

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.

Directed by Steno, Mario Monicelli - With Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Pina Piovani, Carlo Delle Piane, Alida Cappellini, Ernesto Almirante, ...

Day of the Fight(1951)

13min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 78 votes)

'Day of the Fight' shows Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier during the height of his career, on the day of a fight with black middleweight Bobby James, which took place on April 17, 1950.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Walter Cartier, Alexander Singer, Nat Fleischer, Stanley Kubrick, Judy Singer

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, Ernest Thesiger, Duncan Lamont, ...
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Early Summer(1951)

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

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

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima, Ichirō Sugai, Chieko Higashiyama, Sugimura Haruko, ...
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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.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Gunnar Olsson, Stig Olin, Renée Björling, ...

Detective Story(1951)

1h 43min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 59 votes)

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

Directed by William Wyler - With Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready, Gladys George, ...
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Rabbit Fire(1951)

NR
| 7min | Animation, Action, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 55 votes)

Daffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. The object of their arguments is hunter Elmer Fudd.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman(1951)

2h 2min | Romance / Love, Drama, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 55 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, ...

On Dangerous Ground(1951)

NR
| 1h 22min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 54 votes)

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

Directed by Nicholas Ray - With Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Ed Begley, Ian Wolfe, Charles Kemper, ...
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Flying Padre(1951)

G
| 9min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 48 votes)

Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock with the aid of a mono-plane. The priestly pilot is seen dashing from one province to the next at the helm of his trusty Piper Club administering guidance (his plane, the Flying Padre) to unruly children, sermonizing at funerals and flying a sickly child and its mother to a hospital.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Bob Hite

The Browning Version(1951)

1h 30min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 46 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.

Directed by Anthony Asquith - With Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bill Travers, Ronald Howard, ...
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Captain Horatio Hornblower(1951)

NR
| 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 46 votes)

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baker, ...
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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.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Setsuko Hara, Yoshiko Kuga, Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Noriko Sengoku, ...

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel(1951)

NR
| 1h 28min | Action, Drama, History, War
3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Luther Adler, Leo G. Carroll, Everett Sloane, ...

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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