Cannes 1951
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1. A Place in the Sun (1951)
Passed | 122 min | Drama, Romance
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere
Votes: 24,800
In Competition
2. All About Eve (1950)
Passed | 138 min | Drama
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Votes: 138,816 | Gross: $0.01M
In Competition
3. Balarrasa (1951)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Javier is used to make the best of his military life. When a companion is killed in his place, he makes up his mind and enters religious life. Reencountering his rich and spoiled family ... See full summary »
Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Rosa Salgado, Dina Sten, Luis Prendes
Votes: 174
In Competition
4. Bright Victory (1951)
Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance, War
After he gets blinded by a German sniper's bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, James Edwards
Votes: 978
In Competition
5. Caiçara (1950)
92 min | Drama
A beautiful woman with a tragic past marries the owner of a small shipyard in an island, and they set up residence in a poor village. Besides not being able to adapt to the place, the partner of her husband becomes hostile to her presence.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Adolfo Celi, Tom Payne, John Waterhouse | Stars: Eliane Lage, Abilio Pereira de Almeida, Carlos Vergueiro, Mário Sérgio
Votes: 106
In Competition
6. The Falling Star (1950)
108 min | Drama
A woman with a troubled past connects with two refugees while working at a homeless camp after World War II.
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: Werner Krauss, Dieter Borsche, Gisela Uhlen, Paul Dahlke
Votes: 28
In Competition
7. Die tödlichen Träume (1951)
81 min | Drama, Fantasy
Strange things begin to happen to a student when he rents a room once belonging to the poet ETA Hoffmann.
Director: Paul Martin | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Will Quadflieg, Cornell Borchers, Walter Franck
In Competition
8. Four in a Jeep (1951)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
Director: Leopold Lindtberg | Stars: Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker, Yossi Yadin, Michael Medwin
Votes: 359
In Competition
9. Doña Diabla (1950)
G | 95 min | Drama
Angela "Doña Diabla" is a beautiful and rude woman who after her divorce swore to hate men. He also forbids the romance of his daughter Angelica with a ruffian named Adrian.
Director: Tito Davison | Stars: María Félix, Víctor Junco, Crox Alvarado, José María Linares-Rivas
Votes: 145
In Competition
10. Edward and Caroline (1951)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Edouard is a pianist, married with Caroline. This evening, they are invited to Claude's. Claude is the snobbish uncle of Caroline, his son Alain (as snobbish as his father) is in love with ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Anne Vernon, Elina Labourdette, Jacques François
Votes: 736
In Competition
11. Miss Julie (1951)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
An heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family's servants.
Director: Alf Sjöberg | Stars: Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff, Lissi Alandh
Votes: 2,076
In Competition
12. Paris Vice Squad (1951)
76 min | Crime, Drama
There's a killer on the loose in the streets of Paris.
Director: Hervé Bromberger | Stars: Odette Barencey, Luc Barney, Robert Berri, André Carnège
Votes: 46
In Competition
13. The Path of Hope (1950)
105 min | Adventure, Drama
The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families, and their hardships as they decide to illegally cross the border to France.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Saro Urzì, Franco Navarra
Votes: 684
In Competition
14. The Forbidden Christ (1951)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Back in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager. But nobody wants to... See full summary »
Director: Curzio Malaparte | Stars: Raf Vallone, Rina Morelli, Alain Cuny, Anna Maria Ferrero
Votes: 272
In Competition
15. Juliette ou La clef des songes (1951)
106 min | Drama
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Suzanne Cloutier, Jean-Roger Caussimon, René Génin
Votes: 468
In Competition
16. Dream of a Cossack (1951)
95 min | Drama
A soldier returns from war to the picturesque Kuban farmland of the Caucasus and convinces the people in his collective to progress technically by digging a canal and building a power station.
Director: Yuli Raizman | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Anatoli Chemodurov, Kira Kanaeva, Boris Chirkov
Votes: 64
In Competition
17. La balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde (1950)
96 min | Drama
A Captain with a mistress at another port leaves his wife on a routine trip with his son. There, after making a hasty retreat from his mistress, she, with the help of a local shaman, conspire to take him away from his family forever.
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Virginia Luque, América Barrio, Juana Sujo
Votes: 132
In Competition
18. La danza del fuego (1949)
100 min | Drama
Tale of Emilia (Amelia Bence), a famous concert pianist. As a child, Emilia was sexually assaulted by a circus clown (Enrique Diosdado) while the music of Manuel de Fallas' "Ritual Dance of... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Tinayre | Stars: Amelia Bence, Francisco de Paula, Enrique Diosdado, Alberto Closas
Votes: 35
In Competition
19. La honradez de la cerradura (1950)
88 min | Crime, Drama
Ernesto and Marta are a couple of newlyweds who have serious financial problems. One day they are visited by a neighbor asking them to keep a large sum of money at home until she goes to ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Escobar | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Mayrata O'Wisiedo, Ramón Elías, Dolores Bremón
Votes: 66
In Competition
20. La virgen gitana (1951)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The story of a gypsy girl and her relation with a painter whom she poses for.
Director: Ramón Torrado | Stars: Paquita Rico, Alfredo Mayo, Lina Yegros, Lola Ramos
Votes: 36
In Competition
21. Past (1950)
94 min | Drama, War
German agents attempt to trick a Czech resistance fighter into betraying her comrades.
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Vlasta Chramostová, Majka Tomásová, Miroslav Holub, Otomar Krejca
Votes: 25
In Competition
22. Los isleros (1951)
112 min | Drama
Leandro and the Carancha are inhabitants of the islands of the Parana Delta and agree a pair. They are rough persons done to the hard fight for the life in these places. They have a son who... See full summary »
Director: Lucas Demare | Stars: Tita Merello, Arturo García Buhr, Alita Román, Roberto Fugazot
Votes: 133
In Competition
23. The Young and the Damned (1950)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán
Votes: 22,012
In Competition
24. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy
Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But losing his job ... See full summary »
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 1,732
In Competition
25. The Marihuana Story (1950)
98 min | Crime, Drama
Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells... See full summary »
Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Pedro López Lagar, Fanny Navarro, Golde Flami, Nathán Pinzón
Votes: 53
In Competition
26. Miracle in Milan (1951)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò
Votes: 8,549
In Competition
27. Mussorgsky (1950)
120 min | Biography, Drama
Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about ... See full summary »
Director: Grigoriy Roshal | Stars: Aleksandr Borisov, Nikolay Cherkasov, Vladimir Balashov, Yuri Leonidov
Votes: 79
In Competition
28. Side Street Story (1950)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo De Filippo | Stars: Eduardo De Filippo, Leda Gloria, Delia Scala, Gianni Musy
Votes: 363
In Competition
29. Osvobozhdyonnyy Kitay (1951)
105 min | Documentary
The first feature about the PRC shown in the US, showing workers in cooperatives, youth at school, mass athletic events, holiday parades, and leaders making speeches; the friendship with the USSR is stressed.
Directors: Sergey Gerasimov, Eduard Volk | Stars: Zedong Mao, Leonid Khmara, Enlai Zhou
Votes: 21
In Competition
30. Robinson warszawski (1950)
86 min | Drama, War
The story of those who stayed in the ruins and rubble of Warsaw after the failed 1944 uprising.
Director: Jerzy Zarzycki | Stars: Jan Kurnakowicz, Zofia Mrozowska, Igor Smialowski, Jerzy Rakowiecki
Votes: 47
In Competition
31. Rumbo (1950)
90 min
Rumbo is a nice and splendid young man of gypsy origin who is in Seville with Gabriel, an old friend who was saved from suicide thanks to his intervention, who got rich in Paris thanks to ... See full summary »
Director: Ramón Torrado | Stars: Fernando Granada, Paquita Rico, Fernando Fernández de Córdoba, Julia Lajos
Votes: 19
In Competition
32. Spiegel van Holland (1950)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about The Netherlands shown as a reflection in a puddle.
Director: Bert Haanstra
Votes: 399
In Competition
33. The Last Mission (1949)
80 min | Drama, War
An ex-member of the Resistance pumps six bullets into a grizzled woman and spends the night at the police station, recounting the dangerous life of her heroic father during the Nazi Occupation of Greece. Is she capable of forgiveness?
Director: Nikos Tsiforos | Stars: Smaroula Giouli, Miranta Myrat, Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Nikos Tzogias
Votes: 33
In Competition
34. The Browning Version (1951)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife (Jean Kent). His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employment.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 5,442
In Competition
35. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
Not Rated | 128 min | Fantasy, Music, Musical
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina, Ann Ayars
Votes: 3,945 | Gross: $0.09M
In Competition
36. Különös házasság (1951)
112 min | Drama
Count János is tricked into marriage with a baron's daughter by her lover, the priest. When the Church and the Viennese court refuse to annual the marriage, János must find another way out.
Director: Márton Keleti | Stars: Gyula Benkö, Miklós Gábor, Lajos Rajczy, Hédi Temessy
Votes: 26
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