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The Crooked Web
The Crooked Web (1955) on 30 november 1955
, 1h17
Directed by Nathan Juran
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning, John Mylong, Harry Lauter, Vince Barnett
Rating60% 3.0003353.0003353.0003353.0003353.000335
Stan Fabian runs a drive-in restaurant with girlfriend Joanie Daniel, whose brother Frank turns up for a visit. Joanie has declined to marry Stan because he's strapped for cash, but Frank tempts him with a proposition, mentioning that he and a partner hid a stash of gold in Germany during the war.
Day the World Ended
Day the World Ended (1955) on 1 december 1955
, 1h19
Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors, Raymond Hatton, Paul Birch
Rating53% 2.698552.698552.698552.698552.69855
An atomic war has seemingly destroyed most (if not all) human civilization, leaving Earth contaminated with radioactive fallout. The apparent single exception is a box canyon, surrounded by lead-bearing cliffs, in which former Navy Commander Jim Maddison lives with daughter Louise (Lori Nelson) in a home stocked with supplies anticipating just such a holocaust. Louise is engaged to be married, but her fiance is missing.
Top Gun
Top Gun (1955) on 1 december 1955

Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Sterling Hayden, Karin Booth, James Millican, Regis Toomey, Hugh Sanders, John Dehner
Rating61% 3.098223.098223.098223.098223.09822
Rick Martin arrives in a small town warning of an impending attack by his old gang.
Love in the City
Love in the City (1953) on 2 december 1955
, 1h45
Directed by Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Roberto Rossellini, Cesare Zavattini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Anthology film, Romance
Actors Ugo Tognazzi, Luisella Boni, Mara Berni, Antonio Cifariello, Marco Ferreri, Raimondo Vianello
Rating64% 3.2473653.2473653.2473653.2473653.247365
Sous l’égide de Cesare Zavattini, précurseur et théoricien du néoréalisme, les différents auteurs de ce film à sketches tentent de reconstituer d’après les témoignages des protagonistes eux-mêmes différents aspects, drôles ou tragiques, de l’amour en ville.
Shack Out on 101
Shack Out on 101 (1955) on 4 december 1955
, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn, Lee Marvin, Whit Bissell, Jess Barker
Rating63% 3.193373.193373.193373.193373.19337
Slob (Marvin), the leacherous short-order cook at the seaside greasy-spoon diner of sarcastic war veteran George (Wynn), lusts after sexy waitress Kotty (Moore). Also interested in Kotty is a scientist (Lovejoy), who spends the better part of his free time at the diner's counter. He works down the highway at a top-secret military base. As it turns out, Slob isn’t just a short-order cook. He’s also a spy using the diner as a home base for smuggling nuclear secrets out of the country through a connection with one of the diner’s regulars.
Love in the City
Love in the City (1953) on 2 december 1955

Directed by Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Antonio Cifariello, Livia Venturini, Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Marco Ferreri, Mara Berni
Rating64% 3.2450253.2450253.2450253.2450253.245025
Un jeune journaliste décide d’enquêter sur le phénomène des agences matrimoniales. Il se rend dans l’une d’elles, perdue dans les étages d’un immeuble romain aux couloirs labyrinthiques.
The Good Die Young
The Good Die Young (1954) on 29 november 1955
, 1h34
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Stanley Baker, Richard Basehart, Laurence Harvey, John Ireland, Susan Shaw, Rene Ray
Rating66% 3.3431553.3431553.3431553.3431553.343155
The film opens with four men in a car, apparently about to commit a serious crime. How each of the previously law-abiding men came to be in this position is then explored.
Running Wild
Running Wild (1955) on 1 december 1955
, 1h21
Directed by Abner Biberman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors William Campbell, Mamie Van Doren, Keenan Wynn, John Saxon, Kathleen Case, Jan Merlin
Rating60% 3.0464253.0464253.0464253.0464253.046425
Ralph Barten is a young rookie cop who goes undercover to infiltrate an auto theft ring run by juvenile delinquents.
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955) on 1 december 1955
, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Joseph Kenneth Shovlin, Philip Pine, Vivi Janiss
Rating36% 1.8142751.8142751.8142751.8142751.814275
A mysterious, man-sized monster kills a fisherman at sea. Two government agents later find the body on the beach. One agent, Ted Baxter (Kent Taylor), tries to get a sample of a radioactive rock in the sea, but the same monster attacks him. Ted escapes and returns to the beach. On a later trip with the other agent, William Grant (Rodney Bell), the monster nearly kills Ted, but Grant shoots it with a spear gun. Ted discovers that Dr. King (Michael Whalen), a marine biologist, created the monster and the radioactive rock. Ted tells Dr. King the monster is killing people and must be stopped. Dr. King destroys his lab and goes to kill his creation using dynamite. Shortly before a timed detonation, the monster grabs him. Ted arrives just in time to witness the explosion, which destroys the rock, the monster, and Dr.
Él
Él (1953) on 3 december 1955
, 1h32
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Luis Beristáin, Rafael Banquells, Fernando Casanova
Rating78% 3.944733.944733.944733.944733.94473
The film opens in a church where a man named Francisco sees an attractive young woman from across the room. They have seen each other many times before, and she seems reluctant to engage him. She leaves the church and escapes Francisco, despite his attempt to chase after her. Another day, Francisco finds her again in the church. He works up the courage to speak with her, but she seems uninterested, and insists that they can never speak to each other again. Francisco follows her to a restaurant and sees her meeting with Raul, a close friend of his.