Best award winning movies with meaty role from 1957
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with meaty role from 1957! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with meaty role from 1957, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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- 1957-10-11 | Drama / History
Cast
- William Holden, Alec Guinness
Rating
- 7.832
2 Sayonara (1957)
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
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- 1957-12-25 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens
Rating
- 6.6
3 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.
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- 1957-12-17 | Drama / Mystery
Cast
- Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power
Rating
- 8.206
4 12 Angry Men (1957)
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
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- 1957-04-10 | Drama
Cast
- Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Rating
- 8.546
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5 Peyton Place (1957)
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
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- 1957-12-13 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Lana Turner, Diane Varsi
Rating
- 6.6
6 Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
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- 1957-10-03 | Drama
Cast
- Giulietta Masina, François Périer
Rating
- 7.989
7 Les Girls (1957)
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
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- 1957-10-03 | Comedy / Music
Cast
- Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor
Rating
- 6.4
8 The Teahouse of the August Moon (1957)
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
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- 1957-07-01 | Comedy
Cast
- Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford
Rating
- 5.974
9 Pal Joey (1957)
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
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- 1957-10-25 | Music / Romance
Cast
- Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra
Rating
- 6.2
10 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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- 1957-05-30 | Western
Cast
- Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Rating
- 7.027