Best award winning movies with a riveting finish from 1951
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a riveting finish from 1951! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a riveting finish 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.
Info
- 1951-11-01 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker
Rating
7.0
2 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
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7.28
3 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.
Info
- 1951-09-19 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando
Rating
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7.63
4 Ace in the Hole (1951)
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
Info
- 1951-06-29 | Drama
Cast
- Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling
Rating
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7.843
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5 The Browning Version (1951)
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.
Info
- 1951-04-06 | Drama
Cast
- Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent
Rating
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7.587
6 Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
Info
- 1951-11-16 | Drama
Cast
- Canada Lee, Charles Carson
Rating
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5.9
7 Strangers on a Train (1951)
Two strangers meet on a train. They’ve never met before. Both of whom have someone they’d like to murder. So, they swap murders. A psychopath shares this concept with tennis star Guy Haines, whose wife refuses to get a divorce. He agrees, thinking it is a joke. But now his wife is dead, Haines finds himself a prime suspect and the man wants Guy to kill his father.
Info
- 1951-06-27 | Crime / Thriller
Cast
- Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Rating
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7.7
8 When Worlds Collide (1951)
When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
Info
- 1951-09-14 | Science Fiction
Cast
- Richard Derr, Barbara Rush
Rating
-
6.263
9 David and Bathsheba (1951)
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
Info
- 1951-08-10 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward
Rating
-
5.9
10 The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
Info
- 1951-09-27 | War
Cast
- Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin
Rating
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6.351
