The best movies 1952

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed...

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won...

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together,...

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio...

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of...

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and...

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of...

New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily...

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...

Disney Legend Sterling Holloway narrates this classic animated short. A mix-up by Mr. Stork finds a little lion cub in the care of a gentle flock of...

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally...

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him...

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work...

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It...

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses...

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis...

Vindictive rich girl spreads rumors about her rival being a witch. Townsfolk get all agitated.

Amanda, a widow, is a beautiful woman that finds comfort seducing every man in her path, including her daughters' boyfriends.

A guy with bad feelings and worst methods, willing to do anything to satisfy his greed and vanity, is unhappy with the role of Judas in the Passion a...

Loosely based on the tale “La Espera” by Jorge Luis Borges.

Short documentary

A widower turned Catholic priest can't overcome his memories of his deceased wife Gloria Mairena, who seems to have found a duplicate in looks and...

The repentance of a jailed man and the teachings to his son.

A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with...

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.

The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.