Best award winning movies with splendid performance from 1957
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with splendid performance from 1957! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with splendid performance from 1957, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
7.8
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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8.545
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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8.205
4 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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6.6
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5 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
6 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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6.8
7 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave and forage for food together. Their forced companionship and the struggle for survival forge a powerful emotional bond between them.
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- 1957-03-13 | Adventure / War
Cast
- Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Rating
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6.9
8 The Teahouse of the August Moon (1957)
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
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- 1957-07-01 | Comedy
Cast
- Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford
Rating
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5.974
9 The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
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- 1957-12-19 | Drama
Cast
- Joanne Woodward, David Wayne
Rating
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7.2
10 Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
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- 1957-08-15 | Drama
Cast
- James Cagney, Dorothy Malone
Rating
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6.7
