Top Movies of 1956


The top movies of 1956 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

41. Patterns

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fielder Cook
Actors: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson, Joanna Roos

42. That is the Dawn ( Cela s'appelle l'aurore )

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosé, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Jacques Delbo, Simone Paris, Robert Le Fort

43. Written on the Wind

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Douglas Sirk
Actors: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Edward Platt, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith
Plot: A film that involves Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson), a geologist, Lucy Moore (Lauren Bacall) and alcoholic Kyle (Robert Stack). A death occurs that would change their lives.

44. Silent World ( monde du silence, Le )

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle
Actors: Frédéric Dumas, Albert Falco, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, François Saout, André Bourne-Chastel, Marcel Colomb

45. Richard III

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laurence Olivier
Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Mary Kerridge, Ralph Richardson
Plot: Shakespeare's epic comes to life - while Richard III has helped his brother Edward ascend to the throne of England, his resentment leads him to seek the throne for himself. His plan is a twisted, lengthy plot of deception, manipulation and murder - but his prowess on the battlefield, and the fairer sex, could lead to success but at what cost to England?

46. The Creature Walks Among Us

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sherwood
Actors: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer, David McMahon, Maurice Manson

47. The She Creature

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward L. Cahn
Actors: Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller, Ron Randell

48. The Rainmaker

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph Anthony
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman, Cameron Prud'Homme

49. The Man Who Never Was

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Stephen Boyd, Josephine Griffin, Laurence Naismith

50. The Girl Can't Help It

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Tashlin
Actors: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Ray Anthony, Barry Gordon
Plot: A talent agent finds himself forced to make a star of a gangster's moll -- despite the fact that she has no talent to speak of.

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