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A Kid for Two Farthings

A Kid For Two Farthings is a 1955 film, directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was adapted by Wolf Mankowitz from his own novel of the same name. In the busy wholesale-retail world of London's East End everyone, it seems, has unattainable dreams....

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Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) is a thriller film directed by John Sturges that combines elements of Westerns and film noir. It tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in...

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Biraj Bahu

Biraj Bahu is a 1955 Hindi film produced by Hiten Choudhury and directed by Bimal Roy, and based on a novel by Saratchandra Chatterjee. The film stars Kamini Kaushal, Abhi Bhattacharya and Pran. The films music is by Salil Choudhury

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Black Dossier

Black Dossier (French: Le Dossier noir) is a 1955 French drama film directed by André Cayatte. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • May 18, 1955

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Bolshaya Semya

Info from IMDB:Director:Iosif KheifitsWriters:Sokrat KaraVsevolod Kochetov (also novel Semya Zhurbinykh)Release Date: 4 June 1955 (USA)Genre: DramaPlot Outline:An epic of the Zhurbin family of shipbuilders, spanning several generations.Plot Keywords...

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Boot Polish

Boot Polish is a 1954 Hindi film directed by Prakash Arora and produced by Raj Kapoor. It won Best Film at the Filmfare Awards and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Belu (Baby Naaz) and Bhola (Ratan Kumar) are left to the...

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Carmen Jones

Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the libretto for the 1943 stage production of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was inspired by an...

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  • Oct 5, 1954

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Det brenner i natt!

Det brenner i natt! is a 1955 Norwegian drama film directed by Arne Skouen. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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Die Mücke

Die Mücke is a 1954 German drama film directed by Walter Reisch. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Oct 18, 1954

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Dog's Heads

Dog's Heads (Czech: Psohlavci) is a 1955 Czech film directed by Martin Frič. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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East of Eden

East of Eden is a 1955 film, directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on the second half of the 1952 novel of the same name by American author John Steinbeck about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of...

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Geroite na Shipka

Geroite na Shipka (Bulgarian: Героите на Шипка; Russian: Герои Шипки; in English: Shipka heroes; US title: Heroes of Shipka) is a 1955 Soviet Union/Bulgarian co-production drama film. It tells the story of the famous Battle of Shipka Pass during the...

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Hill 24 Doesn't Answer

Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (Hebrew: Giv'a 24 Eina Ona‎) is a 1955 Israeli war film directed by Thorold Dickinson. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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Jedda

Jedda (1955) was the last movie made by the Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel. The film is most notable for being the first to star two Aboriginal actors (Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth) in the leading roles, and also to be the first...

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L'Oro di Napoli

The Gold of Naples (Italian: L'oro di Napoli) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a...

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Life or Death

Life or Death (Arabic: Hayat ou maut‎) is a 1955 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • 1955

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Liliomfi

Liliomfi is a 1954 Hungarian comedy film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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Lost Continent

Lost Continent (Italian: Continente perduto) (1954) is an Italian documentary film about the Malay Archipelago and Borneo.

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Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs

Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs is a 1955 German drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring O. W. Fischer. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Jan 14, 1955

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Marcelino Pan y Vino

The Miracle of Marcelino (Spanish: ''Marcelino pan y vino'') is a 1955 Spanish film. It was a success, and other countries have produced versions of it. The 1955 film was written by José María Sánchez Silva, who based it on his novel, and directed...

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Marty

Marty is a teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky which was telecast live May 24, 1953, on The Goodyear Television Playhouse with Rod Steiger in the title role. The 1955 film adaptation was directed by Delbert Mann, and starred Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair....

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  • 1955

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Onna no koyomi

Onna no koyomi is a 1954 Japanese film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Jun 8, 1954

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet (Russian: Romeo i Dzhulyetta) is a 1955 Soviet ballet film directed by Lev Arnshtam. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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Roots

Roots (Spanish: Raíces) is a 1955 Mexican drama film directed by Benito Alazraki. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Jun 10, 1955

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Samba Fantástico

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  • 1955

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Stella

Stella, a 1955 Greek film featuring Melina Mercouri, is a retelling of Carmen, and is considered by many to be the most important title in Greek cinema. The film was directed by the Cypriot Michael Cacoyannis and written by Cacoyannis and Iakovos...

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  • 1955

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The Country Girl

The Country Girl is a 1954 drama film adapted by George Seaton from a Clifford Odets play of the same name, which tells the story of an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he's been given to resurrect his career. It stars...

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The Crucified Lovers

The Crucified Lovers (近松物語, Chikamatsu Monogatari, literally, "A Story From Chikamatsu") is a 1954 black and white Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was adapted from Monzaemon Chikamatsu's 17th century play Daikyoji sekireki, hence the...

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The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair is a 1955 film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, Peter Cushing and John Mills. It is based on the novel The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. It was filmed largely on location in London,...

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The Princess Sen

The Princess Sen (千姫 Sen Hime) is a color 1954 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

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The Sign of Venus

The Sign of Venus (Italian: Il segno di Venere) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi and starring Sophia Loren. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Mar 2, 1955

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Un extraño en la escalera

Un extraño en la escalera is a 1955 Mexican drama film directed by Tulio Demicheli. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Mar 4, 1955

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