Best award winning movies with a riveting finish from 1957
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a riveting finish from 1957! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a riveting finish from 1957, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
8.542
2 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
3 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
4 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
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- 1957-08-07 | Western / Drama
Cast
- Glenn Ford, Van Heflin
Rating
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7.191
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5 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
6 Abandon Ship (1957)
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
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- 1957-03-12 | Drama / Adventure
Cast
- Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling
Rating
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7.4
7 Peyton Place (1957)
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
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- 1957-12-13 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Lana Turner, Diane Varsi
Rating
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6.599
8 A Hatful of Rain (1957)
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
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- 1957-07-17 | Drama
Cast
- Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray
Rating
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6.85
9 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
10 Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
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- 1957-10-03 | Drama
Cast
- Giulietta Masina, François Périer
Rating
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8.0
