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1. A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes come true.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson
Votes: 1,151
2. A Time to Kill (1955)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama
In the grounds of a dark, deserted mansion, a blackmailer collects money from his victim. Meanwhile, Peter (John Horsley, THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN), chemist and philanderer, ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Jack Watling, Rona Anderson, John Horsley, Russell Napier
Votes: 102
3. A Yank in Ermine (1955)
85 min | Comedy
An American airman (Peter Thompson) inherits an English title, but will he cope with English nobility?
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Peter M. Thompson, Noelle Middleton, Harold Lloyd Jr., Diana Decker
Votes: 106
4. Abdullah's Harem (1955)
103 min | Comedy
Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Gregory Ratoff, Kay Kendall, Marina Berti, Sydney Chaplin
Votes: 25
5. Above Us the Waves (1955)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, War
The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 1,631
6. Alias John Preston (1955)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
John Preston meets Sally who agrees to marry him. Then, Preston begins to have dreams about Sylvia, a woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles. He seeks help from Doctor Walton.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Betta St. John, Alexander Knox, Christopher Lee, Sandra Dorne
Votes: 277
7. All for Mary (1955)
79 min | Comedy, Romance
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. After the two come down with chicken pox,... See full summary »
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, David Tomlinson, Jill Day
Votes: 142
8. All in Good Fun (1955)
50 min | Comedy
Bob Monkhouse introduces comedy clips from the early days of cinema.
Director: James M. Anderson | Stars: Bob Monkhouse, John Bunny, Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler
Votes: 43
9. An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An Englishman is left with an abandoned, very tame, and domesticated pet alligator, who helps him develop a bond with a young Irishwoman. Plans to get rid of the animal cause mayhem and produce a surprising outcome for all.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 416
10. As Long as They're Happy (1955)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husbands also visit, and the ... See full summary »
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott, Jeannie Carson, Brenda de Banzie
Votes: 173
11. Murder on Approval (1955)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
J. D. Everleigh, a wealthy American, purchases a rare stamp in London from Geoffrey Blake, who says he represents Robert Coburn, a stamp agent. Everleigh begins to suspect the stamp is a ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Tom Conway, Delphi Lawrence, Brian Worth, Michael Balfour
Votes: 196
12. Billete para Tánger (1955)
82 min | Crime
An undercover agent tracks a smuggling ring to Morocco, and finds himself involved with a nightclub singer, a seemingly cavalier police inspector and a murder.
Directors: César Fernández Ardavín, Ted Leversuch | Stars: Fernando Rey, Bob Simmons, June Powell, Ángel Picazo
13. Shadow of Fear (1955)
76 min | Mystery
A college student returns home to attend her father's funeral and begins to suspect her stepmother of foul play.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Mona Freeman, Jean Kent, Maxwell Reed, Hugh Miller
Votes: 202
14. Born for Trouble (1955)
77 min | Comedy
Joan Shawlee, the redhead star, plays Aggie Anderson, an American fashion scout who has a genius for getting into trouble. She finds herself involved in several exciting adventures in Paris, Berlin and London.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Joan Shawlee, Peter Reynolds, Greta Gynt, Elizabeth Allan
15. Break in the Circle (1955)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Guy Middleton
Votes: 89
16. Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes elsewhere.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison
Votes: 3,123
17. Children Galore (1955)
60 min | Comedy
The Joneses compete for a cottage offered by a British lord to the couple with the most grandchildren.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Eddie Byrne, June Thorburn, Betty Ann Davies, Richard Leech
Votes: 95
18. The Deadliest Sin (1955)
74 min | Crime, Drama
A falling-out between thieves over the proceeds of a stickup results in several killings and a priest being marked for murder because of a confession he heard from one of the gang members.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Sydney Chaplin, Audrey Dalton, Jefferson Clifford, John Bentley
Votes: 203
19. Contraband Spain (1955)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama
A government agent is sent to the French-Spanish border to round up smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered. He is helped by singer Anouk Aimee, who he falls in love with.
Directors: Lawrence Huntington, Julio Salvador | Stars: Richard Greene, Anouk Aimée, Michael Denison, José Nieto
Votes: 158
20. Count of Twelve (1955)
51 min
Two stories - one about a ruthless financier who inadvertently wills his own death, the other about a surgeon who seduces a friend's wife and lives just long enough to regret it.
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Ron Randell, John Longden, Genine Graham, Jill Adams
21. Cross Channel (1955)
Approved | 61 min | Drama
Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and France, with a mid-channel rendezvous. ... See full summary »
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Wayne Morris, Yvonne Furneaux, Arnold Marlé, Charles Laurence
Votes: 57
22. The Way Out (1955)
86 min | Crime, Drama
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother... See full summary »
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Gene Nelson, Mona Freeman, John Bentley, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 141
23. Doctor at Sea (1955)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy
Bachelor Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Hélène Colbert (Brigitte Bardot) is around.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Brenda de Banzie, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 1,104
24. Escapade (1955)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
This movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his causes he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Alastair Sim, Jeremy Spenser
Votes: 177
25. Final Column (1955)
51 min | Crime
Two crime drama tales of plans for a murder gone wrong. In the first story, a man plots to murder his daughter's blackmailer and then himself. In the second story, a doctor hypnotizes a man... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Ron Randell, John Longden, Jeanette Sterke, Christopher Lee
Votes: 13
26. Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In early-1900s England, a maid tries to blackmail her master into romancing her when she discovers that he murdered his wife.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers, Belinda Lee
Votes: 2,204
27. Fun at St Fanny's (1955)
80 min | Comedy
25 year old Cardew is still at school, run by a large headmaster Who lives and bets off the income that comes from Cardew s uncle will. Of course, the headmaster and the matron don't let Cardew leave school.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Fred Emney, Cardew Robinson, Miriam Karlin, Gabrielle Brune
Votes: 83
28. Wee Geordie (1955)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Geordie is a very small boy who feels that the girl he loves is ignoring him because of his size. He decides to take a correspondence course in body-building. At 21, Geordie becomes one of the tallest and strongest men in Scotland.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Bill Travers, Alastair Sim, Paul Young, Norah Gorsen
Votes: 929
29. Handcuffs, London (1955)
76 min | Crime, Drama
A man finds a rare stamp and takes it to an expert to find out what it's worth. He discovers it is a forgery and starts to find out who is behind it.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Bruce Seton, Derek Aylward, Kathleen Byron, Michael Craig
Votes: 7
30. I Am a Camera (1955)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
In Weimar-era Berlin, an aspiring writer strikes up a friendship with a vivacious, penniless singer.
Director: Henry Cornelius | Stars: Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell
Votes: 655
31. It's a Great Day! (1955)
71 min | Comedy
Bob Grove needs building materials to finish a housing estate job. His son illegally obtains them. The council discovers this and calls the police. The Groves try to resolve the situation before the housing estate grand opening.
Director: John Warrington | Stars: Ruth Dunning, Edward Evans, Sheila Sweet, Peter Bryant
Votes: 114
32. John and Julie (1955)
82 min | Family, Comedy
A charming, heartwarming story about two children who run away to London because they are determined to visit the Queen.
Director: William Fairchild | Stars: Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudley, Noelle Middleton, Moira Lister
Votes: 287
33. Josephine and Men (1955)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Donald Sinden, Peter Finch
Votes: 159
34. King's Rhapsody (1955)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Richard, son of the King of Laurentia, who has been living in Monte Carlo with Martha Karrillos for several years because his parents refused to accept this unroyal affair, is called to ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Martita Hunt
Votes: 148
35. The Case of the Red Monkey (1955)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A US agent protects a defecting Russian scientist in London as scientists are murdered. The agent finds the killers' hideout, is captured with a policeman's niece, escapes, and stops the killings.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier, John Horsley
Votes: 190
36. Make Me an Offer! (1955)
88 min | Comedy
Charlie as a boy on a trip to the local museum, falls in love with a green Portland vase (Wedgwood), and decides that this is his quest in life to find it. So as a grown up and an antique ... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri, Rosalie Crutchley, Finlay Currie
Votes: 154
37. Man in Demand (1955)
51 min
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Dorothy Gordon, Eric Lander, Christopher Lee, Muriel Young
Votes: 12
38. Man of the Moment (1955)
85 min | Comedy
Civil Servant Norman becomes the favourite of the rulers of a South Seas island that the British have an interest in.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Lana Morris, Belinda Lee, Jerry Desmonde
Votes: 580
39. Dead by Morning (1955)
68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A crime writer and his wife go for a break to a country cottage. They receive an unexpected visitor, the bossy Miss Tulip, who needs shelter for the night. In the morning there is a dead body in the house.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Diana Dors, Patrick Holt, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge
Votes: 173
40. Mozart's Don Giovanni (1955 TV Movie)
170 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Wilhelm Furtwaengler conducts the Vienna State Opera Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra performing Mozart's famous opera.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Cesare Siepi
Votes: 103
41. No Love for Judy (1955)
Comedy
Director: Jacques de Lane Lea | Stars: Ellet Mauret, Zoe Newton, Peter Wright, Jose Rionda
42. No Smoking (1955)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy
Reg is a scientist who invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Reg Dixon, Peter Martyn, Belinda Lee, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 71
43. Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955)
101 min | Musical
Pseudonym Dr. Falke pursues his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna, an operetta adaptation involving occupying powers' protagonists, not a staged production but a cinematic reimagining.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Anthony Quayle, Anton Walbrook, Dennis Price, Ludmilla Tchérina
Votes: 468
44. One Good Turn (1955)
90 min | Comedy
Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property ... See full summary »
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, Thora Hird
Votes: 669
45. One Jump Ahead (1955)
66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A hard-boiled reporter tries to solve a mysterious crime despite an increasingly complicated love life.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Paul Carpenter, Diane Hart, Jill Adams, Freddie Mills
Votes: 162
46. One Way Out (1955)
Not Rated | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As he is about to retire, a police officer discovers that his daughter is mixed up with a criminal gang and is about to go to prison for a crime she didn't commit. Against his better ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Jill Adams, Eddie Byrne, Lyndon Brook, John Chandos
Votes: 114
47. Out of the Clouds (1955)
88 min | Drama
A busy day at London Airport. Follow the lives and loves of the crew and passengers.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty, David Knight, Margo Lorenz
Votes: 187
48. Passage Home (1955)
102 min | Drama
A cargo ship takes on a female passenger. Can the Captain contain the crew and himself as they hit stormy conditions and emotions explode?
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Anthony Steel, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 213
49. Police Dog (1955)
70 min | Crime, Drama
When his colleague is killed during a chase in Kentish Town, London bobby Frank volunteers to become a dog-handler. Rex, his new companion, starts to take over his home life more than ... See full summary »
Director: Derek N. Twist | Stars: Joan Rice, Tim Turner, Sandra Dorne, Charles Victor
Votes: 159
50. Postmark for Danger (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William Sylvester, Geoffrey Keen
Votes: 656
51. Quentin Durward (1955)
Approved | 103 min | Action, Adventure, History
A Scottish knight in France to facilitate a marriage between a rich and beautiful countess and his aging uncle becomes involved in court intrigue.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, George Cole
Votes: 1,147
52. Raising a Riot (1955)
90 min | Comedy
Tony Kent returns home after 3 years in the Navy to find his children are strangers. After his wife is suddenly called away, Tony takes his brood to his father's windmill home where he tries to bond with Peter, Anne and Fusty.
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, Mandy Miller, Gary Billings
Votes: 59
53. Reluctant Heroes (1952)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Ronald Shiner, Derek Farr, Christine Norden, Brian Rix
Votes: 13
54. Richard III (1955)
Not Rated | 161 min | Biography, Drama, History
Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
Director: Laurence Olivier | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 5,226
55. Room in the House (1955)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Patrick Barr, Hubert Gregg, Marjorie Rhodes, Leslie Dwyer
56. Secret Venture (1955)
Approved | 70 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Kent Taylor, Jane Hylton, Kathleen Byron, Karel Stepanek
Votes: 28
57. See How They Run (1955)
84 min | Comedy
Cockney corporal Wally Winton (Ronald Shiner) desires promotion so that he can finally receive an inheritance. He dresses up as a priest and goes out one night with Penelope Toop (Greta ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Ronald Shiner, Greta Gynt, James Hayter, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 13
58. Shadow of a Man (1955)
69 min | Crime, Drama
After a fight, a drunk is found dead, but is the cause of death heart failure or murder?
Director: Michael McCarthy | Stars: Paul Carpenter, Rona Anderson, Jane Griffiths, Tony Quinn
Votes: 126
59. Simba (1955)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Donald Sinden
Votes: 469
60. Simon and Laura (1955)
87 min | Comedy
In the 1950s days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily-married actor couple. Unfortunately, he chooses ... See full summary »
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Muriel Pavlow, Hubert Gregg
Votes: 318
61. Stock Car (1955)
68 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Katie attempts to save her fathers failing garage after he is killed during a stock car race, but one of the creditors is determined to take the garage.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Paul Carpenter, Rona Anderson, Susan Shaw, Harry Fowler
Votes: 112
62. Stolen Assignment (1955)
62 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A young female reporter, tired of the lightweight women's stories her editor keeps assigning her, pesters him to give her an assignment with more substance. When an artist's rich wife is ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: John Bentley, Hy Hazell, Eddie Byrne, Patrick Holt
Votes: 126
63. Blonde Blackmailer (1955)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama
After serving seven years for a murder he did not commit, Tony Pelassier, is determined to clear his name, but he finds that going back seven years in an attempt to piece together threads ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Deane | Stars: Richard Arlen, Susan Shaw, Constance Leigh, Vincent Ball
Votes: 8
64. Storm Over the Nile (1955)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A CinemaScope remake of The Four Feathers (1939).
Directors: Zoltan Korda, Terence Young | Stars: Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure
Votes: 619
65. Summertime (1955)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin
Votes: 9,989
66. That Lady (1955)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Gilbert Roland, Paul Scofield, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 193
67. Navy Heroes (1955)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, History, Romance
The title is derived from the flag of England's Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, Wales: Mike Merriworth, a Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of... See full summary »
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Kieron Moore, Sarah Lawson, Greta Gynt, Mervyn Johns
Votes: 57
68. The Brain Machine (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A doctor is taken hostage by a drug smuggler whom she has diagnosed as psychotic. Her estranged husband has to find her before the smuggling gang find him and kill them both.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Patrick Barr, Elizabeth Allan, Maxwell Reed, Vanda Godsell
Votes: 165
69. The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Director: José Ferrer | Stars: José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Dora Bryan, Christopher Lee
Votes: 1,996
70. The Colditz Story (1955)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History, War
Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 3,076
71. Marriage a la Mode (1955)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy
An Englishman wakes in a hotel bedroom suffering from amnesia and sets out to find his identity. He tracks down his wife but soon learns that the job she saw him leave for every morning did not exist.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Sally Lahee
Votes: 595
72. The Dam Busters (1955)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Drama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney
Votes: 11,370
73. The Dark Avenger (1955)
Unrated | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the fourteenth century when the Hundred Years War between France and England is beginning the English occupation of French Aquitainia, rebel French Knights vow to oust Edward, Prince of Wales, ruler of Aquitaine.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Errol Flynn, Joanne Dru, Peter Finch, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 778
74. The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 387
75. The Delavine Affair (1955)
64 min | Crime, Drama
A man's death leads a local newspaperman and the man's girlfriend to seek the killer.
Director: Douglas Peirce | Stars: Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman, Gordon Jackson, Valerie Vernon
Votes: 185
76. The End of the Affair (1955)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
In WW2 London, a writer falls in love with the wife of a British civil servant but both men suspect her of infidelity with yet another man.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills, Peter Cushing
Votes: 1,465
77. The Flaw (1955)
61 min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
A professional race car driver marries a wealthy woman for her money, and then plans to murder her.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: John Bentley, Donald Houston, Rona Anderson, Tonia Bern
Votes: 176
78. The Flying Eye (1955)
53 min | Comedy, Family
Colonel Audacious is an inventor and with the help of his young assistant, Barnstuffer, he invents a model aeroplane with a TV camera attached that can then fly around revealing all sorts ... See full summary »
Director: William C. Hammond | Stars: David Hannaford, Julia Lockwood, Harcourt Williams, Ivan Craig
Votes: 27
79. The Gilded Cage (1955)
77 min | Crime, Drama
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Alex Nicol, Veronica Hurst, Clifford Evans, Ursula Howells
Votes: 90
80. The Glass Tomb (1955)
Not Rated | 59 min | Mystery
Crowds flock to a carnival sideshow to see "The Starving Man", a heavyset man who claims he can go 70 days without eating. However, a couple of murders occur at the carnival, resulting in the police becoming involved.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: John Ireland, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 334
81. The Gold Express (1955)
58 min | Comedy, Crime
The robbery of gold is planned from a train which also carries several eccentric passengers, including two elderly ladies who write lurid thrillers under a pseudonym.
Director: Guy Fergusson | Stars: Ivy St. Helier, Ann Walford, Vernon Gray, Patrick Boxill
Votes: 93
82. The Hornet's Nest (1955)
Not Rated | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In this comedy adventure, a jewel thief hides his latest goods in a deserted barge, but ends up in jail. Two young models then buy the barge, and with the help of two little old ladies, find the jewels and claim the reward.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Paul Carpenter, June Thorburn, Marla Landi, Alexander Gauge
Votes: 180
83. The Ladykillers (1955)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Votes: 31,402
84. The Love Match (1955)
85 min | Comedy
Two football-loving railway workers get into trouble after racing their engine home to get to a match on time.
Director: David Paltenghi | Stars: Arthur Askey, Glenn Melvyn, Thora Hird, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 131
85. The Lyons Abroad (1955)
81 min | Comedy
Has Ben Lyon forgotten his wedding anniversary? His wife Bebe thinks he has, and can hardly contain her fury. When his son Richard sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels, Barbara Lyon, Richard Lyon
Votes: 44
86. The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
100 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The honourable Mark St. Neots is playing with some 'chums' when he meets and is bowled over by Sylvia. As he grows older he retains his image of this beautiful young girl with the red hair.... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Moira Shearer, John Justin, Roland Culver, Gladys Cooper
Votes: 236
87. The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft's fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 1,581
88. The Prisoner (1955)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
A Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a Prince of his church, he's a popular hero of this people for his resistance against the Nazis during the war, and his resistance ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 1,125
89. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean
Votes: 7,183
90. Two Grooms for a Bride (1955)
75 min | Comedy, Romance
A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves together in Winchester, England charged with taking care of a brood of wild kids.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: John Carroll, Virginia Bruce, Brian Oulton, Kay Callard
Votes: 65
91. The Secret (1955)
80 min | Crime, Drama
Diamond smuggling, and the disappearance of the mother of several children, in the seaside resort of Brighton after World War II.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Sam Wanamaker, Mandy Miller, André Morell, Marian Spencer
Votes: 68
92. PT Raiders (1955)
88 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A trio of ex-servicemen begin smuggling innocuous black market items into post-war Britain, but through greed they graduate to more sinister cargo.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna
Votes: 668
93. The Stolen Airliner (1955)
59 min | Family
Three air cadets foil criminals who are plotting to steal an airliner.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Diana Day, Fella Edmonds, Michael Maguire, Nicola Braithwaite
Votes: 14
94. The Time of His Life (1955)
74 min | Comedy
The ex-convict father of a prominent society woman is released from prison, and goes to live with his daughter. She pretends he is an old friend, but tries to keep him out of sight, but all he wants to do is go back to prison.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Richard Hearne, Ellen Pollock, Richard Wattis, Robert Moreton
Votes: 93
95. The Woman for Joe (1955)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A sideshow owner and his main attraction, a midget, fall for the same woman.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi, David Kossoff
Votes: 131
97. They Can't Hang Me (1955)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A senior civil servant is condemned to hang for murder but he claims to have top secret security information...
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan, André Morell, Ursula Howells
Votes: 194
98. Three Cases of Murder (1954)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A trilogy of fantastic stories involving murder and the supernatural.
Directors: David Eady, George More O'Ferrall, Wendy Toye, Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Emrys Jones
Votes: 1,132
99. Three Cornered Fate (1955)
75 min | Drama
A compilation film of 3 episodes of the television series "The Vise":- (i) "Cruel Test" (ii) "Death on the Boards" and (iii) "The Fair and The Fallen"
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Joyce Heron, Mark Dignam, Ian Whittaker, Maureen Swanson
100. Tim Driscoll's Donkey (1955)
59 min | Drama, Family
One Irish boys adventures with his beloved donkey.
Director: Terry Bishop | Stars: David Coote, John Kelly, Hugh Latimer, Peggy Marshall
Votes: 37
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