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Theme: Films of 1956

1984 (1956)

13 January 201413 May 2024

Rating: ★★½

Dystopia

Director: Michael Anderson
Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Bad Seed (1956)

14 June 199914 October 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Psychopathic Young Girl

Director: Mervyn Le Roy
Actors: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Evelyn Varden, Henry Jones, …
Category: Horror

The Black Sleep (1956)

13 September 20128 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist

Director: Reginald LeBorg
Actors: Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr, Akim Tamiroff, …
Category: Horror

Carousel (1956)

7 September 200123 March 2020

Rating: ★

Musical/Man’s Redemption in the Afterlife

Director: Henry King
Actors: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Rounseville, …
Category: Fantasy

The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

3 February 200112 August 2022

Rating: ★★★½

The Creature from the Black Lagoon Sequel

Director: John Sherwood
Actors: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer
Category: Science Fiction

Cry of the Bewitched (1956)

1 June 20022 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Voodoo

Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna
Actors: Raymond Guy, Ninon Sevilla, Rosalind Dunhill
Category: Horror

Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956)

9 September 200023 June 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Alien Invasion

Director: Fred F. Sears
Actors: Hugh Marlowe, Morris Ankrum, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis
Category: Science Fiction

Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)

3 February 201420 March 2023

Rating: ½

Astronauts Discover All-Female Planet

Director: Cy Roth
Actors: Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw, Harry Fowler, Sydney Tafler
Category: Science Fiction

Forbidden Planet (1956)

20 June 20025 March 2025

Rating: ★★★★½

Alien Artefacts/Monster from the Subconscious

Director: Fred McLeod Wilcox
Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Gamma People (1956)

31 July 201928 April 2021

Rating: ★★

Soviet Experiments to Create Super-Children

Director: John Gilling
Actors: Paul Douglas, Leslie Phillips, Walter Rilla, Eva Bartok, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1956)

19 March 201520 September 2021

Rating: ★★★

Deformity/Historical Romance

Director: Jean Delannoy
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Gina Lollobrigida, Alain Cuny
Category: Horror

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

19 June 20014 November 2019

Rating: ★★★★★

Alien Duplication and Takeover

Director: Donald Siegel
Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, …
Category: Science Fiction

It Conquered the World (1956)

11 September 200318 November 2021

Rating: ★★★

Alien Invasion

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland, Sally Fraser, …
Category: Science Fiction

Nightmare (1956)

9 August 20058 May 2024

Rating: ★★★

Film Noir/Precognitive Dream

Director: Maxwell Shane
Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Edward G. Robinson, Virginia Christine, Gage Clark, …
Category: Fantasy

The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)

2 January 201412 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Hypnotic Regression to Past Lives/”True Story”

Director: Noel Langley
Actors: Louis Hayward, Teresa Wright, Kenneth Tobey, Richard Anderson
Category: Fantasy

The She-Creature (1956)

30 July 201013 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Hypnotic Regression/Monster Movie

Director: Edward L. Cahn
Actors: Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Lance Fuller, …
Category: Horror

Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956)

12 January 200215 May 2025

Rating: ★★★

UFO Documentary

Director: Winston Jones
Category: Science Fiction

Warning from Space (1956)

12 October 202012 October 2020

Rating: ★

Japanese Alien Visitors Film

Director: Koji Shima
Category: Science Fiction

The Werewolf (1956)

17 August 20008 June 2025

Rating: ★★½

Atomic Werewolf

Director: Fred F. Sears
Actors: Don Megowan, Joyce Holden, S. John Launer, Harry Lauter
Category: Horror

X the Unknown (1956)

25 November 201517 October 2024

Rating: ★★★

Radioactive Blob Amok

Director: Leslie Norman
Actors: Dean Jagger, Leo McKern, William Lucas, Edward Chapman, …
Category: Science Fiction

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Theme Essays

  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns
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