Best 24 Drama Movies Picks from 1957

The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict. Explore 12 Angry Men / IMDB / YouTube

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. Details on The Bridge on the River Kwai / IMDB / YouTube

A colonel defends three of his soldiers in a court-martial after they abandon a suicidal attack. See more about Paths of Glory / IMDB / YouTube

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak. Find out about Nights of Cabiria / IMDB / YouTube

A powerful New York gossip columnist gives a press agent some dirty work. Look into Sweet Smell of Success / IMDB / YouTube

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen? Explore An Affair to Remember / IMDB / YouTube

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel Manny Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber. Find out about The Wrong Man / IMDB / YouTube

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France. Get info on A Man Escaped / IMDB / YouTube

Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him. Check out 3:10 to Yuma / IMDB / YouTube

A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris. See more about The Red Balloon / IMDB / YouTube

Female radio reporter Marcia Jeffries turns folk-singing drifter Larry Lonesome Rhodes into a powerful media star who becomes utterly detestable during his meteoric rise. Explore A Face in the Crowd / IMDB / YouTube

A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client. Info on Love in the Afternoon / IMDB / YouTube

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. See more about Gunfight at the O.K. Corral / IMDB / YouTube

Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery. Get info on What's Opera, Doc? / IMDB / YouTube

In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code. See more about Mother India / IMDB / YouTube

After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star. Get info on Jailhouse Rock / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another while hoping for a rescue, as they try to avoid capture by the Japanese. Explore Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison / IMDB / YouTube

In sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other. Details on ...And God Created Woman / IMDB / YouTube

A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist. Get info on A King in New York / IMDB / YouTube

A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder. Info on The Three Faces of Eve / IMDB / YouTube

Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing. Get info on The Spirit of St. Louis / IMDB / YouTube

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. Details on Kanal / IMDB / YouTube

A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women after he falls for a beautiful performer. Find out about Sayonara / IMDB / YouTube

A conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk. Look into The Burmese Harp / IMDB / YouTube