21. Lust for Life
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn , James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, Henry Daniell
Plot: Based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh - a brilliant artist and tortured genius who never found a connection with the people or women in his life, but still earns some respect while his brother, Theo, never gives up on him.
22. High Society
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Walters
Actors: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern
23. Somebody Up There Likes Me
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo, Harold J. Stone
24. French Cancan
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Anna Amendola, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Dora Doll
25. Anastasia
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Sacha Pitoëff
26. Seven Men from Now
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Budd Boetticher
Actors: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed, John Larch, Don 'Red' Barry
Plot: Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife's murderers.
27. While the City Sleeps
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Vincent Price, John Drew Barrymore, Howard Duff
28. 1984
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Anderson
Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff, Donald Pleasence, Mervyn Johns
Plot: In a futuristic, state-run society controlled by "Big Brother" in which
love is outlawed, employee of the state Winston Smith falls for Julia, and
is tortured and brainwashed for his crime.
29. Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Morse
Actors: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Frank Iwanaga
Plot: Remake of the Japanese original in which a giant beast wrecks havoc on Japan after being awakened by nuclear bomb testing.
30. Satellite in the Sky
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Paul Dickson
Actors: Kieron Moore, Lois Maxwell, Donald Wolfit, Bryan Forbes, Jimmy Hanley, Barry Keegan
