Best movies of 1956

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.

Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.

Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.

A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. Tuszka, the station master, believes Orzechowski was a saboteur; at least one on the inquiry panel agrees. Zapora, the young engineer on the train that hit Orzechowski, gives more complicated testimony about the dead man - stiff-necked, proud, imperious, critical of Zapora and other younger workers. The signalman at the crossing where Orzechowski died also testifies. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?

Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.

After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

An immature, naive teenage bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer.

A new senior at a boy's prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach's wife.

A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher's wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.

A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's sister.

A lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.