Best award winning movies with a non-linear narrative from 1951

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a non-linear narrative from 1951! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a non-linear narrative from 1951, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Detective Story (1951)

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

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1951-11-01 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #12 for
    hard-nosed
  2. Ranked #82 for
    hardboiled style
  3. Ranked #154 for
    outside the laws

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2 Early Summer (1951)

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Info

1951-10-03 | Drama

Cast

Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū

Rating

rating icon 7.818
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #45 for
    symmetry plots
  2. Ranked #85 for
    eschatological
  3. Ranked #88 for
    spoiled brat

Trailer

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3 A Place in the Sun (1951)

A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

Info

1951-06-12 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor

Rating

rating icon 7.28
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #103 for
    harsh sound
  3. Ranked #111 for
    blue-collar

Trailer

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4 Othello (1951)

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.

Info

1951-11-28 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Orson Welles, Micheál Mac Liammóir

Rating

rating icon 7.345
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #82 for
    desperately hoping
  2. Ranked #130 for
    symmetry plots
  3. Ranked #193 for
    natural light

Trailer

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5 Show Boat (1951)

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Info

1951-07-19 | Music / Romance

Cast

Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #54 for
    resonant vocal
  2. Ranked #59 for
    gorgeous technicolor
  3. Ranked #64 for
    glitzy

Trailer

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6 Repast (1951)

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Info

1951-11-23 | Drama

Cast

Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #35 for
    reverse shot
  2. Ranked #126 for
    gastronomic
  3. Ranked #205 for
    vertiginous

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7 An American in Paris (1951)

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

Info

1951-09-26 | Music / Romance

Cast

Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron

Rating

rating icon 7.036
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #43 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #69 for
    impressionistic
  3. Ranked #73 for
    symphonic music

Trailer

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8 Miracle in Milan (1951)

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.

Info

1951-02-08 | Comedy / Fantasy

Cast

Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano

Rating

rating icon 7.291
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    neo-realism
  2. Ranked #80 for
    non-professional cast
  3. Ranked #93 for
    mawkish

Trailer

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9 Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

Info

1951-02-07 | Drama

Cast

Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #602 for
    broad perspective
  2. Ranked #652 for
    low-key approach
  3. Ranked #864 for
    with daddy issue

Trailer

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10 Father's Little Dividend (1951)

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

Info

1951-04-05 | Romance / Comedy

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #72 for
    flirtatious
  2. Ranked #141 for
    stopgap
  3. Ranked #213 for
    shrewish character

Trailer

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