Oscar Nominated Movies from 1958

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.

An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.

Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Two chained-together escaped convicts, one White and one Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."

An old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea.

A prostitute sentenced to death for murder pleads her innocence.

A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.

A New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.

Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.

A hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night-school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him.

Eager for a job, journalist Adam White accepts the lowly position of columnist for the advice-giving section of the Chronicle but he often clashes with his cynical editor, Shrike.

A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.

A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.

A widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.

A brash stranger and his sheep arrive in a small town, but not soon after, the townspeople decide they've seen enough of him.

An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.

On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.

Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead.

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

Dominique, a law student at the Sorbonne, is engaged to a fellow classmate. Unfortunately, she's more attracted to his philandering Uncle Luc, who's married to the charming Françoise. Dominique and Luc begin a tawdry affair.

During the War of 1812, Louisiana buccaneer Jean Lafitte assists the Americans in defending New Orleans against the attacking British war fleet.

On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.