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  • Ida Lupino in On Dangerous Ground (1951)

    1. On Dangerous Ground

    19511h 22mApproved78Metascore
    7.2 (8.8K)
    Rough, violent city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain who sends him upstate to a snowy mountain town to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
    DirectorsNicholas RayIda LupinoStarsIda LupinoRobert RyanWard Bond
  • The Browning Version (1951)

    2. The Browning Version

    19511h 30mApproved
    8.0 (5.7K)
    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.
    DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMichael RedgraveJean KentNigel Patrick
  • The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)

    3. The Model and the Marriage Broker

    19511h 43mApproved
    7.0 (1.1K)
    A female marriage broker attempts to do a little freelance matchmaking for her friend who is a beautiful unattached model.
    DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJeanne CrainThelma RitterScott Brady
  • Take Care of My Little Girl (1951)

    4. Take Care of My Little Girl

    19511h 33m
    6.4 (390)
    A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
    DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJeanne CrainDale RobertsonMitzi Gaynor
  • Summer Interlude (1951)

    5. Summer Interlude

    19511h 36mNot Rated
    7.5 (7K)
    A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMaj-Britt NilssonBirger MalmstenAlf Kjellin
  • Doris Day and Gordon MacRae in On Moonlight Bay (1951)

    6. On Moonlight Bay

    19511h 35mApproved65Metascore
    6.9 (3.3K)
    During World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.
    DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDoris DayGordon MacRaeJack Smith
  • Gene Tierney, John Lund, and Thelma Ritter in The Mating Season (1951)

    7. The Mating Season

    19511h 41mNot Rated
    7.4 (2.1K)
    Ellen McNulty loses her hamburger joint and goes to see her son, who marries a socialite at the same time. Due to her modest background and a case of mistaken identity, Ellen poses as the newlyweds' cook.
    DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsGene TierneyJohn LundMiriam Hopkins
  • Dieter Borsche, Inge Egger, and Grethe Weiser in Fanfaren der Liebe (1951)

    8. Fanfaren der Liebe

    19511h 31m
    5.5 (163)
    Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.
    DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsDieter BorscheInge EggerGrethe Weiser
  • Ray Milland and Patricia Roc in Circle of Danger (1951)

    9. Circle of Danger

    19511h 26mApproved
    6.5 (1.2K)
    In the 1950s, an American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid in Nazi-occupied France.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsRay MillandPatricia RocMarius Goring
  • Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman (1951)

    10. His Kind of Woman

    19512hApproved
    7.0 (5.4K)
    A deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle.
    DirectorsJohn FarrowRichard FleischerStarsRobert MitchumJane RussellVincent Price
  • Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train (1951)

    11. Strangers on a Train

    19511h 41mPG88Metascore
    7.9 (146K)
    A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsFarley GrangerRobert WalkerRuth Roman
  • John Drew Barrymore and Joan Lorring in The Big Night (1951)

    12. The Big Night

    19511h 15mApproved
    6.3 (1.3K)
    A teenager comes of age while seeking revenge on the man who beat up his father.
    DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJohn Drew BarrymorePreston FosterJoan Lorring
  • Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart in No Highway in the Sky (1951)

    13. No Highway in the Sky

    19511h 38mApproved
    7.1 (4.8K)
    An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of airplane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number of flying hours due to metal fatigue.
    DirectorHenry KosterStarsJames StewartMarlene DietrichGlynis Johns
  • Jane Powell, Wendell Corey, Danielle Darrieux, and Fernando Lamas in Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)

    14. Rich, Young and Pretty

    19511h 35mApproved
    5.8 (599)
    Jim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, takes his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. He is concerned that his daughter might come in contact with her mother, Marie Devarone, a Parisian singer he met and loved more than twenty-five years ago.
    DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJane PowellDanielle DarrieuxWendell Corey
  • Richard Burton and Honor Blackman in Green Grow the Rushes (1951)

    15. Green Grow the Rushes

    19511h 17m
    5.9 (273)
    After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
    DirectorDerek N. TwistStarsRoger LiveseyHonor BlackmanRichard Burton
  • Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Shelley Winters in A Place in the Sun (1951)

    16. A Place in the Sun

    19512h 2mApproved76Metascore
    7.7 (26K)
    A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
    DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorShelley Winters
  • Five (1951)

    17. Five

    19511h 33mApproved
    6.3 (1.8K)
    The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.
    DirectorArch ObolerStarsWilliam PhippsSusan Douglas RubesJames Anderson
  • Pool of London (1951)

    18. Pool of London

    19511h 25mApproved
    7.1 (1.4K)
    When their ship docks the crew disembark as usual to pick up their lives in postwar London. For one of them his petty smuggling turns more serious when he finds himself caught up with a robbery in the City.
    DirectorBasil DeardenStarsBonar ColleanoSusan ShawRenée Asherson
  • Alec Guinness, Alfie Bass, Stanley Holloway, and Sidney James in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

    19. The Lavender Hill Mob

    19511h 18mApproved90Metascore
    7.5 (16K)
    A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
    DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsAlec GuinnessStanley HollowaySidney James
  • Doris Day, Frank Lovejoy, Danny Thomas, and Patrice Wymore in I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)

    20. I'll See You in My Dreams

    19511h 50mApproved
    6.8 (1.3K)
    The success and decline of songwriter Gus Kahn is portrayed, with his wife, Grace Kahn, sticking by him the whole time.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDoris DayDanny ThomasFrank Lovejoy
  • Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Gish, and Lenore Lonergan in The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)

    21. The Whistle at Eaton Falls

    19511h 36mApproved
    6.8 (425)
    Brad Adams is the new manager of a manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town. He is brought in by owner Mrs. Doubleday to calm labor relations plus layoff employees. Brad manages to also find romance.
    DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsLloyd BridgesDorothy GishCarleton Carpenter
  • Variety Lights (1950)

    22. Variety Lights

    19501h 37mNot Rated81Metascore
    7.1 (4.2K)
    A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
    DirectorsFederico FelliniAlberto LattuadaStarsPeppino De FilippoCarla Del PoggioGiulietta Masina
  • Night Into Morning (1951)

    23. Night Into Morning

    19511h 26mApproved
    6.8 (603)
    Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
    DirectorFletcher MarkleStarsRay MillandJohn HodiakNancy Reagan
  • Radha in The River (1951)

    24. The River

    19511h 39mApproved
    7.4 (7.2K)
    The growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.
    DirectorJean RenoirStarsPatricia WaltersNora SwinburneEsmond Knight
  • Ivory Hunter (1951)

    25. Ivory Hunter

    19511h 47m
    6.1 (222)
    An English game warden in Kenya creates a national park to protect wildlife but faces opposition from poachers and local tribesmen.
    DirectorHarry WattStarsAnthony SteelDinah SheridanHarold Warrender

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