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1. A King in New York (1957)
G | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Oliver Johnston
Votes: 8,884
2. A Stranger in Town (1957)
74 min | Crime, Drama
In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Alex Nicol, Anne Paige, Mary Laura Wood, Mona Washbourne
Votes: 157
3. Account Rendered (1957)
59 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police find that everyone had a motive for the murder of a wealthy woman.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Griffith Jones, Ursula Howells, Honor Blackman, Ewen Solon
Votes: 328
4. Across the Bridge (1957)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A wealthy businessman attempts to run to Mexico to escape capture for embezzlement. On the way, he switches identities for a visa but that only complicates matters.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Bernard Lee, Noel Willman
Votes: 995
5. Action of the Tiger (1957)
Approved | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Carson is an American contraband runner approached by Tracy, a French woman who wants him to help rescue her brother from Albania where he is being held as a political prisoner.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Gustavo Rojo
Votes: 422
6. After the Ball (1957)
89 min | Biography, Musical
The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Pat Kirkwood, Laurence Harvey, Jerry Stovin, Jerry Verno
Votes: 100
7. Alive on Saturday (1957)
58 min
Director: Alfred Travers | Stars: Guy Middleton, Patricia Owens, Geoffrey Goodheart, John Witty
8. At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
71 min | Crime, Drama
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Patricia Dainton, Stephen Murray, Patrick Barr, Dermot Walsh
Votes: 16
9. All at Sea (1957)
Unrated | 87 min | Comedy
A seasick sea Captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper, Fred Griffiths
Votes: 1,203
10. Black Ice (1957)
51 min | Adventure
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Paul Carpenter, Gordon Jackson, Ewen Solon, David Oxley
Votes: 12
11. Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
The girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond-thief disguised as a woman to elude the police.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim
Votes: 1,420
12. Booby Trap (1957)
71 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Sydney Tafler, Patti Morgan, Harry Fowler, Tony Quinn
Votes: 141
13. Brothers in Law (1957)
94 min | Comedy
Roger Thursby is just starting out as a barrister, full of ideals, but he is a bit too keen in the opinion of his fellow lawyers.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Henry B. Longhurst, Edith Sharpe, Ian Carmichael, Henry Hewitt
Votes: 468
14. Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
102 min | Adventure, Drama
Englishman Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) takes possession of his grandfather's Canadian land, but he faces various challenges such as disgruntled locals, a ruthless contractor, a new power dam, and his own bad health.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray
Votes: 932
15. The Ship Was Loaded (1957)
83 min | Comedy
Two friends have a drunken reunion, where they dress in each other's clothes. They become mistaken for each other, and wind up having to assume these different identities. With resultant calamitous consequences, to both their careers.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins, Brian Reece, Eunice Gayson
Votes: 335
16. Cat Girl (1957)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
Leonora Johnson is a woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told she will inherit money, but also that there is a family curse: being possessed by the spirit of a leopard in spite of her disbelieving psychiatrist Dr. Brian Marlowe.
Director: Alfred Shaughnessy | Stars: Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard, Ernest Milton
Votes: 663
17. Confess, Killer (1957)
60 min
Director: Wilfred Eades | Stars: Alfred Burke, Naomi Chance, James Dyrenforth, Frank Ellement
18. Count Five and Die (1957)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, History
American and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France.
Director: Victor Vicas | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Annemarie Düringer, Nigel Patrick, David Kossoff
Votes: 224
19. Dangerous Exile (1957)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the French Revolution, a French nobleman saves the 10-year-old son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from the guillotine with the help of an English woman.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Keith Michell, Richard O'Sullivan
Votes: 272
20. Date with Disaster (1957)
61 min | Crime, Drama
The honest owner of a second hand car business has crooks for employees.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Robert Robinson, Maurice Kaufmann, Tom Drake, Richard Shaw
Votes: 164
21. Doctor at Large (1957)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships follow - with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 891
22. El aventurero (1957)
Crime, Drama
Directors: Ricardo Gascón, Kenneth Hume | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Kathleen Ryan, James Hayter, Ana Luisa Peluffo
23. Menace in the Night (1957)
78 min | Crime, Drama
A woman witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Griffith Jones, Lisa Gastoni, Vincent Ball, Eddie Byrne
Votes: 13
24. Fighting Mad (1957)
53 min | Drama
Muscles Tanner, a boxer, gives up the ring after two fatalities and emigrates to Canada and gets involved with two crooked lumbermen trying to evict a landowner from his plot.
Director: Denis Kavanagh | Stars: Joe Robinson, Adrienne Scott, Beckett Bould, Jack Taylor
Votes: 48
25. Fire Down Below (1957)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The friendship between two tramp boat owners is threatened by the arrival of a beautiful and seductive passenger.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom
Votes: 1,977
26. Five Clues to Fortune (1957)
129 min | Crime, Drama
A treasure has been hidden at Woburn Abbey at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. When the sale of the present-day estate is threatened three children find this treasure by means of five clues hidden in a deer's antler.
Director: Joe Mendoza | Stars: John Rogers, Roberta Paterson, Peter Godsell, David Hemmings
Votes: 31
27. Five on a Treasure Island (1957)
122 min | Adventure, Family
An Enid Blyton adventure about four young cousins on an island off the Dorset coast in England where a shipwreck attracts the attention of greedy men who might put our heroes in danger.
Director: Gerald Landau | Stars: Rel Grainer, Richard Palmer, Gillian Harrison, John Bailey
Votes: 92
28. She Played with Fire (1957)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail, and murder.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Violet Farebrother
Votes: 863
29. Hell Drivers (1957)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A rookie trucker tries to expose his boss' rackets.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan
Votes: 4,056
30. High Flight (1957)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, War
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh, Anthony Newley
Votes: 289
31. High Tide at Noon (1957)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Set on an island off Nova Scotia, Canada, the jealousies and loves of the islanders unfold at a casual pace until economic necessity drives them to the mainland.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Betta St. John, William Sylvester, Michael Craig, Flora Robson
Votes: 166
32. Hour of Decision (1957)
81 min | Mystery
An American journalist solves the mystery of an unpleasant columnist's murder and clears his own wife, one of the many suspects.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Hazel Court, Anthony Dawson, Mary Laura Wood
Votes: 159
33. How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)
79 min | Comedy, Crime
The impoverished Clitterburn family live on a grand English estate but times are hard and the head of the household, Sir Henry, seizes upon news of the impending arrival of their rich ... See full summary »
Director: Nigel Patrick | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn, Wendy Hiller, Katie Johnson
Votes: 273
34. Night Ambush (1957)
Unrated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Dimitri Andreas
Votes: 1,977
35. Pickup Alley (1957)
Approved | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
International narcotics smuggler Frank McNally is trailed through various European countries by U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano
Votes: 642
36. Island in the Sun (1957)
Approved | 119 min | Drama, Romance
This drama set during the 1950s on a British-ruled Caribbean island deals with local politics, interracial relationships, social inequality, racism, adultery, and murder.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins
Votes: 1,411 | Gross: $8.00M
37. It Could Be You (1957)
46 min | Drama
Two London models on their journey through Germany as their prize for winning a newspaper competition.
Director: Edwin J. Fancey | Stars: Adrienne Scott, Phillip Baird, Jackie Collins, Diana Chesney
Votes: 30
38. Just My Luck (1957)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
Norman works in a high-class jewellers and dreams of buying an expensive necklace for a shop girl who works across the street. His chance comes when he places a £1 accumulator on the horse races at Goodwood.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Jill Dixon, Leslie Phillips
Votes: 702
39. Kill Her Gently (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Thriller
Two convicts who have just escaped from prison are picked up by a motorist. He recognizes the men from descriptions given of them on the radio, but instead of turning them over to the police, he proposes to hire them to murder his wife.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Marc Lawrence, George Mikell, Griffith Jones, John Gayford
Votes: 248
40. Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A boozy old reporter finds his life is falling apart around him. He loses his wife and then his job. He is dragged back to reality when his son needs help. He goes to ask for his old job back but finds his old boss dead in the office ...
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Lois Maxwell, George Coulouris, Wensley Pithey
Votes: 187
41. East of Kilimanjaro (1957)
75 min | Adventure, Drama
Directors: Arnold Belgard, Edoardo Capolino | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Gaby André, Kris Aschan, Rolf Aschan
Votes: 35
42. Lady of Vengeance (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Drama
A man hires a killer to avenge an innocent girl's death.
Director: Burt Balaban | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Sears, Anton Diffring, Patrick Barr
Votes: 162
43. Let's Be Happy (1957)
107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An American salesman pursues an heiress from Vermont, who is in turn being wooed by a Scottish lord in financial need.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Vera-Ellen, Tony Martin, Robert Flemyng, Zena Marshall
Votes: 254
44. Light Fingers (1957)
86 min | Comedy
Humphrey assigns a "watchdog" to keep an eye on his wife Rose, whom he thinks is a thief. She isn't - but the watchdog is.
Director: Terry Bishop | Stars: Roland Culver, Eunice Gayson, Guy Rolfe, Ronald Howard
45. Lucky Jim (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get ... See full summary »
Director: John Boulting | Stars: John Welsh, Ronald Cardew, Hugh Griffith, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 776
46. Thunder Over Tangier (1957)
66 min | Crime, Drama
International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates. International crook Voss sends pretty Michele after him. Arriving in London, Armstrong accidentally swaps... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni, Martin Benson, Derek Sydney
Votes: 132
47. Violent Stranger (II) (1957)
83 min | Crime, Drama
A woman's husband has been convicted of murder. Knowing he is innocent, she sets out to find the real killer.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Zachary Scott, Faith Domergue, Peter Illing, Faith Brook
Votes: 22
48. Man-Eater (1957)
61 min | Adventure, Romance
Feature length film derived from editing together episodes of the television series "White Hunter"(1958).
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Rhodes Reason, Magda Miller, Lee Patterson, Patrick Holt
Votes: 9
49. Stowaway Girl (1957)
87 min | Drama
A middle-aged steamboat Captain who believes in a rigorous self-control when it comes to needs, desires and emotions, slowly falls for a pretty female stowaway.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Trevor Howard, Pedro Armendáriz, Elsa Martinelli, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 183
51. Miracle in Soho (1957)
93 min | Drama, Romance
In London's colourful but seedy Soho of the 1950's, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a ... See full summary »
Director: Julian Amyes | Stars: John Gregson, Belinda Lee, Cyril Cusack, Peter Illing
Votes: 194
52. The Strange Case of Dr. Manning (1957)
75 min | Crime, Thriller
Dr. Manning, husband of a wealthy socialite, is kidnapped while making a late night housecall. Insurance investigator Logan is called and the hunt is on for kidnapped and kidnapper.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Greta Gynt, Ron Randell, Garard Green, Bruce Seton
Votes: 68
53. Murder Reported (1957)
58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ace reporter Jeff Holly is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found stashed in a trunk. Holly's enthusiasm soon wanes when his editor insists that he take his... See full summary »
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Paul Carpenter, Melissa Stribling, John Laurie, Peter Swanwick
Votes: 14
54. Curse of the Demon (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham
Votes: 15,518
55. No Road Back (1957)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, Norman Wooland
Votes: 145
56. No Time for Tears (1957)
86 min | Drama
Doctors and nurses of a children's hospital confront the challenges of their profession.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, George Baker
Votes: 134
57. Noddy in Toyland (1957)
87 min | Family, Fantasy
Toyland is endangered by a series of disasters. The police blame Noddy but he is innocent.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Colin Spaull, Gloria Johnson, Leslie Sarony, Peter Elliott
Votes: 21
58. Not Wanted on Voyage (1957)
82 min | Comedy
Adventures of two stewards aboard a pleasure cruiser.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix, Griffith Jones, Katie Boyle
Votes: 91
59. Operation Murder (1957)
66 min | Drama
Dr. Wayne is a brilliant surgeon. He is jealous of his friend Bowen, who may be paying too much attention to Pat, the surgeon's seductive spouse. When Wayne must perform an emergency ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: Tom Conway, Sandra Dorne, Patrick Holt, Rosamund John
Votes: 19
60. Quatermass 2 (1957)
Approved | 85 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes
Votes: 4,658
61. Robbery Under Arms (1957)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Two brothers join their father in Captain Starlight's bush ranger gang in 19th Century Australia.
Director: Jack Lee | Stars: Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, David McCallum, Maureen Swanson
Votes: 302
62. Saint Joan (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the seventeen-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc, entrusted her with the command of the French Army, and ultimately burned her at the stake as a heretic.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook
Votes: 1,292
63. Rogue's Yarn (1957)
80 min | Crime, Drama
An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Hugh Latimer
Votes: 190
64. Sea Wife (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator and a black... See full summary »
Director: Bob McNaught | Stars: Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant
Votes: 715
65. Second Fiddle (1957)
78 min | Comedy, Romance
Career demands, and a seductive secretary, threaten marital bliss for newlywed ad-agency employees.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Lisa Gastoni, Richard Wattis
Votes: 64
66. The Beasts of Marseilles (1957)
70 min | Drama, Romance, War
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German-occupied France.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice, Kathleen Harrison, Tony Wright
Votes: 370
67. Seven Days from Now (1957)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A ship's officer finds himself in command of a lifeboat full of survivors of a sunken luxury liner.
Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, Stephen Boyd
Votes: 1,931
68. Small Hotel (1957)
59 min | Comedy
The crafty and experienced waiter Albert keeps things running smoothly at the Jolly Fiddler Hotel, and he is the only one who can placate the crabby justice of the peace who is a permanent ... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr, John Loder, Irene Handl
Votes: 214
69. Son of a Stranger (1957)
Not Rated | 68 min | Crime
A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: James Kenney, Ann Stephens, Victor Maddern, Basil Dignam
Votes: 10
70. Strangers' Meeting (1957)
64 min | Crime, Drama
An acrobat, convicted of murder, escapes from Dartmoor to prove his innocence. Despite being shot in the leg he reaches a London pub where he convinces a friend to shelter him.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Peter Arne, Delphi Lawrence, Conrad Phillips, Barbara Archer
Votes: 26
71. Suspended Alibi (1957)
65 min | Crime, Drama
A married editor who is having an affair pretends that he is visiting an army friend, to keep his wife from suspecting him of infidelity. But while he is with the girlfriend, his friend is ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Shaughnessy | Stars: Patrick Holt, Honor Blackman, Valentine Dyall, Naomi Chance
Votes: 119
72. Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route, white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief. Captured by the Oparians and nearly sacrificed to their lion god, the party is saved by Tarzan.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan, Betta St. John
Votes: 660 | Gross: $1.99M
73. City After Midnight (1957)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A series of daring robberies has taken place on Rue des Anges, a quiet street in the town of La Bandelette. Standing by an open window in his study, Sir Maurice Lawes sees a gendarme beaten... See full summary »
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Petula Clark
Votes: 121
74. The Abominable Snowman (1957)
85 min | Adventure, Horror
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis
Votes: 4,965
75. Paradise Lagoon (1957)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
In 1905, Lord Henry Loam and his family and servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes
Votes: 1,990
76. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
Approved | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna
Votes: 567
77. The Betrayal (1957)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, War
An Allied pilot is captured by the Germans during the war. During his imprisonment, he is blinded by his captors. Realizing that one of his fellow officers betrayed him to the enemy, after ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: Philip Friend, Diana Decker, Philip Saville, Peter Bathurst
Votes: 72
78. The Big Chance (1957)
59 min | Crime, Drama
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Adrienne Corri, William Russell, Ian Colin, Penelope Bartley
Votes: 155
79. The Birthday Present (1957)
100 min | Drama
A top salesman with a U.K. toy firm foolishly brings an expensive watch back from a German trip for his wife's birthday. This is illegal in 1950's Britain and when Customs discover the ... See full summary »
Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Tony Britton, Sylvia Syms, Jack Watling, Geoffrey Keen
Votes: 168
80. The Bolshoi Ballet (1957)
100 min | Musical
Paul Czinner filmed, using multiple camera techniques, the performance of prima ballerina Galina Ulanova of the Russian Bolshoi, performing "Giselle" while the troupe was on tour in England in 1956.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Galina Ulanova, Raisa Struchkova, Nikolai Fedeychev
Votes: 56
81. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 233,429 | Gross: $44.91M
82. The Counterfeit Plan (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A reformed forger runs into an acquaintance from his past, now an escaped murderer, who blackmails him into resuming his criminal career.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Zachary Scott, Peggie Castle, Mervyn Johns, Sydney Tafler
Votes: 151
83. The Crooked Sky (1957)
77 min | Crime, Drama
An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Wayne Morris, Karin Booth, Anton Diffring, Bruce Seton
Votes: 130
84. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
While awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee
Votes: 12,649 | Gross: $17.44M
85. The Depraved (1957)
Not Rated | 71 min | Crime
U.S. Army captain stationed in England has an affair with a local married woman. Together they hatch a plan to kill her husband.
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Anne Heywood, Robert Arden, Carroll Levis, Basil Dignam
Votes: 109
86. The Devil's Pass (1957)
56 min | Drama, Family
Bill Buckle has had a dream--he wants to buy back the family fishing boat, the Cascade, which the family had to sell years ago to pay for his father's funeral. However, the boat is now ... See full summary »
Director: Darcy Conyers | Stars: John Slater, Christopher Warbey, Joan Newell, Charles Leno
Votes: 28
87. The End of the Line (1957)
62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Alan Baxter, Barbara Shelley, Ferdy Mayne, Jennifer Jayne
Votes: 183
88. The Flesh Is Weak (1957)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Pimps prey on young women coming to London for work.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: John Derek, Milly Vitale, William Franklyn, Martin Benson
Votes: 151
89. The Mailbag Robbery (1957)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Ronnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on 'The Flying Scotsman' passenger train. The train is carrying withdrawn bank notes from Scotland to London to be destroyed.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Lee Patterson, Kay Callard, Alan Gifford, Margaret Withers
Votes: 389
90. The Girl in the Picture (1957)
63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
1957. Drama. Directed by Don Chaffey. Starring Donald Houston, Patrick Holt and Junia Crawford. George Keefe's policeman brother was murdered four years ago and the killer is still on the loose.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Donald Houston, Patrick Holt, Junia Crawford, Maurice Kaufmann
Votes: 185
91. The Good Companions (1957)
104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a ... See full summary »
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Eric Portman, Celia Johnson, Hugh Griffith, Janette Scott
Votes: 147
92. The Heart Within (1957)
61 min | Drama
Murder suspect on the run must depend on strangers to help clear his name.
Director: David Eady | Stars: James Hayter, Clifford Evans, David Hemmings, Earl Cameron
Votes: 48
93. The House in the Woods (1957)
62 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A highly strung author suffering from writer's block convinces his wife to move somewhere more peaceful. They find a delightfully remote woodland cottage, but they soon realize that something is not quite right with their landlord.
Director: Maxwell Munden | Stars: Ronald Howard, Patricia Roc, Michael Gough, Andrea Troubridge
Votes: 96
94. Scotland Yard Dragnet (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Thriller
After a test pilot is injured in a plane crash, his fiancée takes him to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist is unhappily married and has a crush on the fiancée, and attempts to hypnotize the pilot into murdering his wife.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Roland Culver, Patricia Roc, Paul Carpenter, William Hartnell
Votes: 147
95. Life at Stake (1957)
63 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Attempting to reconstruct a criminal case, a radio presenter seeks the whereabouts of a robber who has recently finished a prison sentence, leading him into danger.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Lee Patterson, Paula Byrne, Colin Gordon, Hy Hazell
Votes: 120
96. The Kid from Canada (1957)
57 min | Family
When a Canadian boy visits his cousins in Scotland, his attitude first causes antagonism with Scottish youngsters, then disappears when he helps an injured shepherd.
Director: Kay Mander | Stars: Christopher Braden, Bernard Braden, Bobby Stevenson, Elinor Laing
Votes: 37
97. The Little Hut (1957)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Romance
While shipwrecked on a deserted island, best friends Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett compete against each other for the affections of the only woman available, Philip Ashlow's neglected wife, Susan.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven, Walter Chiari
Votes: 1,015
98. The Long Haul (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson
Votes: 992
99. The Man Without a Body (1957)
Unrated | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A wealthy business man discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The business man finds a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. ... See full summary »
Directors: Charles Saunders, W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Robert Hutton, George Coulouris, Julia Arnall, Nadja Regin
Votes: 408
100. Decision Against Time (1957)
87 min | Drama, Thriller
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Jeremy Bodkin, Gerard Lohan
Votes: 527
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