Othello (1951)

Go for Broke! (1951)

Summary: The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.

Release Date: September 14, 1951

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Robert Pirosh

Writer: Robert Pirosh

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Reel Media International, Alpha Video Distributors

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,337,000

The Steel Helmet (1951)

Summary: A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

Release Date: February 02, 1951

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Samuel Fuller

Writer: Samuel Fuller

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Deputy

Distributor: Lippert Pictures, Weiss Global Enterprises, Kit Parker Films, American Movie Classics (AMC), The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 103,000

Olivia (1951)

Summary: Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia.

Release Date: April 27, 1951

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jacqueline Audry

Writers: Dorothy Bussy

, Colette Audry

, Pierre Laroche

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Production: Filmsonor, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Films du Jeudi, Les, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Distributor: Icarus Films

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 9,934

I Love Lucy (1951)

Summary: The wife of a band leader constantly tries to become a star - in spite of her having no talent, and gets herself (along with her best friend) into the funniest predicaments.

Release Date: October 15, 1951

Genres: Comedy, Family

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

MPAA: TV-Y

Production: Desilu Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Summary: A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Release Date: November 09, 1951

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: George Stevens

Writers: Theodore Dreiser

, Patrick Kearney

, Michael Wilson

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, RCA (II), The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,295,304

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

Summary: A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.

Release Date: February 07, 1951

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Bresson

Writers: Georges Bernanos

, Robert Bresson

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: G

Production: Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), World Wonder Ring Stardom

Distributor: Interama, Rialto Pictures, Kino Video, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 47,000

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Summary: Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Release Date: September 19, 1951

Genre: Drama

Director: Elia Kazan

Writers: Tennessee Williams

, Oscar Saul

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: M/PG

Production: Charles K. Feldman Group, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, United Artists, CBS, 20th Century Fox Video, RCA (II), CBS/Fox, Warner Home Video, 20th Century Fox Television, Home Box Office (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000

Miracle in Milan (1951)

Summary: An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

Release Date: December 17, 1951

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Writers: Cesare Zavattini

, Vittorio De Sica

, Suso Cecchi D'Amico

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Produzioni De Sica, Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche (ENIC)

Distributor: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Compass Film, Films sans Frontières, The Criterion Collection

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

M (1951)

Summary: In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls.

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir

Director: Joseph Losey

Writers: Norman Reilly Raine

, Leo Katcher

, Waldo Salt

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Superior Pictures

Distributor: Nostalgia Family Video, Sinister Cinema

Country: United States

Language: English

An American in Paris (1951)

Summary: Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

Release Date: December 21, 1951

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Writer: Alan Jay Lerner

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Loew's

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,723,903

Domestic: $ 267,824

International: $ 7,253

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Summary: A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain.

Release Date: October 15, 1951

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Director: Albert Lewin

Writers: Albert Lewin

, George Barrington

, Omar Khayyam

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Dorkay Productions, Romulus Films

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Kino Video, Cohen Media Group

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Domestic: $ 17,401

International: $ 14,404

The Girl on the Bridge (1951)

Summary: An elderly watchmaker stops a beautiful young blonde from committing suicide by throwing herself off a bridge. They eventually marry, and things go well until a man from the woman's somewhat unsavory past shows up and attempts to ...

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Hugo Haas

Writers: Hugo Haas

, Arnold Lipp

Runtime: 1 h 16 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Hugo Haas Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,708,839

International: $ 302

The Man in the White Suit (1951)

Summary: An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Writers: Roger MacDougall

, John Dighton

, Alexander Mackendrick

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Ealing Studios

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Rialto Pictures, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), New Century Telecommunications, Thorn EMI Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 8,718

International: $ 215

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

Summary: A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Release Date: June 13, 1952

Genres: Musical, Fantasy, Music

Directors: Michael Powell

, Emeric Pressburger

Writers: Dennis Arundell

, Jules Barbier

, Michael Powell

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Archers, Vega Film Productions

Distributor: Lopert Pictures Corporation, Home Vision Cinema, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, Pioneer Artists

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 91,930

International: $ 48,784

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Summary: A psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.

Release Date: June 30, 1951

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Raymond Chandler

, Czenzi Ormonde

, Whitfield Cook

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Home Video, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Domestic: $ 26,597

International: $ 3,065

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Summary: A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

Release Date: July 04, 1951

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder

, Lesser Samuels

, Walter Newman

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000