1958 Watchlist
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1. Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.
Directors: Nicholas Ray, Budd Schulberg | Stars: Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, Chana Eden, Gypsy Rose Lee
Votes: 1,248
2. The Last Hurrah (1958)
Approved | 121 min | Drama
Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien
Votes: 4,160
3. Conflagration (1958)
99 min | Drama
Goichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temple that was owned by his father, through a series of flashbacks, framed as a police interrogation, Mizoguchi ... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôichi Funaki
Votes: 948
4. Édes Anna (1958)
84 min | Drama
Young maid Anna starts to work for the noble Vizy family. Mrs Vizy is proud of the hardworking servant but doesn't treat her well. Her nephew seduces Anna with sweet words, but leaves her ... See full summary »
Director: Zoltán Fábri | Stars: Mari Törőcsik, Mária Mezei, Károly Kovács, Zsigmond Fülöp
Votes: 798
5. Summer Clouds (1958)
128 min | Drama
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his ... See full synopsis »
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Chikage Awashima, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno, Yôko Tsukasa
Votes: 382
6. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its "Debutante Season."
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee
Votes: 1,837
7. Les tricheurs (1958)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bob is invited to a party and becomes Clo's lover, a rich heiress.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Pascale Petit, Andréa Parisy, Jacques Charrier, Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 679
8. Some Came Running (1958)
Approved | 137 min | Drama, Romance
A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer
Votes: 7,381
9. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,513
10. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Approved | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore
Votes: 3,717
11. The Lovers (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre
Votes: 5,925
12. The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa
Votes: 3,787
13. Stolen Desire (1958)
92 min | Comedy
A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Osamu Takizawa, Shin'ichi Yanagisawa, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kô Nishimura
Votes: 683
14. Kyojin to gangu (1958)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies' plans.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Hideo Takamatsu, Michiko Ono
Votes: 1,242
15. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò
Votes: 11,524
16. The Big Country (1958)
Passed | 166 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston
Votes: 21,141
17. The Rickshaw Man (1958)
103 min | Drama
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Chishû Ryû
Votes: 1,173
18. Jalsaghar (1958)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Music
Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Chhabi Biswas, Gangapada Basu, Padmadevi, Kali Sarkar
Votes: 6,769 | Gross: $0.09M
19. Le Beau Serge (1958)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz, Bernadette Lafont
Votes: 3,768
20. Endless Desire (1958)
101 min | Comedy, Crime
Endless Desire is a black comedy on the spoils of war much extended and enhanced by the greed, treachery, laziness, and lust of the postwar decade.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Misako Watanabe, Kô Nishimura, Sanae Nakahara
Votes: 491
21. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Romance, War
As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Votes: 13,476
22. Cairo Station (1958)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi
Votes: 5,357
23. Estranho Encontro (1958)
87 min | Crime
Two pairs of mismatched lovers wind up in a dangerous situation when the younger partners of each relationship meet by accident.
Director: Walter Hugo Khouri | Stars: Mário Sérgio, Andrea Bayard, Lola Brah, Luigi Picchi
Votes: 111
24. Party Girl (1958)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Lawyer Tommy Farrell is a defender of crooks. Vicki Gaye encourages him to go straight, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland
Votes: 3,747
25. The Philosopher's Stone (1958)
111 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a 'parash pathar', a stone that changes iron to gold on touch.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Tulsi Chakraborty, Kali Bannerjee, Rani Bala, Gangapada Basu
Votes: 1,317
26. The Naked and the Dead (1958)
Approved | 131 min | Drama, War
Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey, Lili St. Cyr
Votes: 1,787
27. Montparnasse 19 (1958)
Not Rated | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
About the last years of the life of the great artist Modigliani. A poor Italian artist suffering from alcoholism and opium addiction falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents are categorically against it.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Anouk Aimée, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 1,679
28. The Key (1958)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, War
During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 1,643
29. The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
After inadvertently stopping an Indian attack on his stagecoach while traveling in the American West, an English gentleman finds himself appointed sheriff of a nearby town.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Henry Hull, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 1,340
30. Voice Without a Shadow (1958)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ishikawa, a newspaper journalist, unexpectedly meets Asako, a woman who used to work for his company some time ago as a phone operator. Three years ago, she accidentally heard the voice of ... See full summary »
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Yôko Minamida, Hideaki Nitani, Nobuo Kaneko, Toshio Takahara
Votes: 301
31. The Boy Who Came Back (1958)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Sachiko Hidari, Akira Kobayashi, Ruriko Asaoka, Tôru Abe
Votes: 160
32. Underworld Beauty (1958)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released from prison, a gangster (Michitaro Mizushima) retrieves diamonds sought by fellow yakuza.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Michitarô Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Shinsuke Ashida, Tôru Abe
Votes: 565
33. The Fearmakers (1958)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dana Andrews, Dick Foran, Marilee Earle, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 849
34. China Doll (1958)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, War
American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely couple falls in love and marries, but not without tragedy brought on by the war.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Victor Mature, Li Hua Li, Ward Bond, Bob Mathias
Votes: 569
35. Indiscreet (1958)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him--although he's already married.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert
Votes: 10,234
36. Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee, Anna Massey, Andrew Ray
Votes: 1,543
37. Eroica (1958)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II. In the first novel, "Scherzo alla polacca", a shrewd son, trying to preserve his skin, ultimately becomes a hero and finds a reason for... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Munk | Stars: Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski, Leon Niemczyk
Votes: 1,311
38. This Happy Feeling (1958)
92 min | Comedy
On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to ... See full summary »
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith
Votes: 407
39. Man of the West (1958)
Not Rated | 100 min | Western
A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 9,170
40. God's Little Acre (1958)
GP | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their great-grandfather, but problems related to poverty, infidelity, unemployment, and booze threaten to destroy their family.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett
Votes: 2,093
41. The Lovers (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre
Votes: 5,925
42. Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Spoiled Cecile, 17, spends her summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy dad and Elsa. Anne, her late mom's friend, visits and brings changes to all.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Mylène Demongeot
Votes: 5,588
43. The Night Heaven Fell (1958)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ursula leaves the convent where she was educated, to start living with her uncle, the count Ribera, and her aunt Florentine. When she arrives, she is confronted with a local drama: a ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Alida Valli, Stephen Boyd, José Nieto
Votes: 779
44. The Lineup (1958)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Richard Jaeckel, Mary LaRoche
Votes: 4,430
45. The Blob (1958)
Approved | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr. | Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland
Votes: 29,398
46. The Vikings (1958)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Adventure, History
A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh
Votes: 15,705 | Gross: $7.00M
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