Best award winning movies with a non-linear narrative from 1957
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a non-linear narrative from 1957! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a non-linear narrative from 1957, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Les Girls (1957)
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
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- 1957-10-03 | Comedy / Music
Cast
- Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor
Rating
6.36
2 12 Angry Men (1957)
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
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- 1957-04-10 | Drama
Cast
- Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Rating
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8.542
3 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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- 1957-10-11 | Drama / History
Cast
- William Holden, Alec Guinness
Rating
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7.828
4 Sayonara (1957)
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
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- 1957-12-25 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens
Rating
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6.567
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5 The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
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- 1957-04-01 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- James Stewart, Murray Hamilton
Rating
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6.582
6 The Seventh Seal (1957)
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
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- 1957-02-16 | Fantasy / Drama
Cast
- Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
Rating
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8.197
7 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.
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- 1957-12-17 | Drama / Mystery
Cast
- Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power
Rating
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8.2
8 Throne of Blood (1957)
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
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- 1957-01-15 | Drama / History
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada
Rating
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7.943
9 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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- 1957-05-30 | Western
Cast
- Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Rating
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7.016
10 Paths of Glory (1957)
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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- 1957-10-25 | War / Drama
Cast
- Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker
Rating
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8.271
