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Movie Summaries & Endings Explained from the 1950s
1,920 movies from the 1950s, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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Long John Silver
1954 · Action
The Delinquents
1957 · Drama
Arms and the Man
1958 · Romance
Manfish
1956 · Adventure
Trent’s Last Case
1952 · Mystery
New York Confidential
1955 · Crime
Cat Girl
1957 · Horror
Dangerous When Wet
1953 · Romance
Nowhere to Go
1958 · Crime
All Ashore
1953 · Comedy
The Captain’s Paradise
1953 · Drama
Orpheus
1950 · Fantasy
Malaga
1954 · Drama
Our Man in Havana
1959 · Comedy
The Devil Makes Three
1952 · Crime
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1959 · Drama
The Embezzler
1954
Jan Žižka
1956 · War
Pather Panchali
1955 · Drama
The Last Blitzkrieg
1959 · War
The Girl Rush
1955 · Comedy
The Law Is the Law
1958 · Comedy
The Perfect Furlough
1958 · Romance
Island of Lost Women
1959 · Adventure
Smiley
1956 · Comedy
Siamo tutti inquilini
1953 · Comedy
The Cranes Are Flying
1957 · Romance
On the Bowery
1956 · Documentary
The Beat Generation
1959 · Crime
Return of the Frontiersman
1950 · Western
The Phantom Stagecoach
1957 · Western
They Were So Young
1954 · Crime
Please Turn Over
1959 · Comedy
The San Francisco Story
1952 · Western
How to Make a Monster
1958 · Horror
Rififi
1955 · Crime
Westward the Women
1951 · Western
The 400 Blows
1959 · Drama
Sadhna
1958 · Drama
Value for Money
1955 · Comedy
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