The best movies 1952

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio...

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won...

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady...

Short documentary

A precious necklace is stolen during a convention at Quitandinha Palace, a hotel in which a wives conference is deciding whether or not unfaithful...

New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily...

Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on...

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him...

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of...

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of...

Christl, the forester’s daughter, apprehends a young hunter in the forest and only lets him go after he pays a small fine. But when Christl...

Peter is a talented young composer who has so far not been able to get his revue “Traumschöne Nacht” in a music theatre. Behind the...

Short documentary

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him...

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

Loosely based on the tale “La Espera” by Jorge Luis Borges.

Short documentary. Plot unknown

A widower turned Catholic priest can't overcome his memories of his deceased wife Gloria Mairena, who seems to have found a duplicate in looks and...

A postman must interrupt his honeymoon to take care of four spoiled nephews.

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work...

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

The film evokes the career of boxer Luis Ángel Firpo.

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis...

An orphan woman joins an otter hunter who mistreats her and an Italian emigrant will protect her.

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses...

Aspects of the life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo who for many years ruled the province of La Rioja in Argentina and was assassinated in 1835.

Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night...

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It...