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Best 45-59 Minute Movies

by NYHeraldTribune • Created 7 years ago • Modified 1 year ago
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  • Shoulder Arms (1918)

    1. Shoulder Arms

    191836mPassedShort
    7.3 (7.7K)
    Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceSyd Chaplin
  • Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and The Beatles in Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

    2. Magical Mystery Tour

    196755mNot RatedTV Movie50Metascore
    6.1 (8.2K)
    The Beatles charter a special bus for a surreal mystery tour.
    DirectorsGeorge HarrisonJohn LennonPaul McCartneyStarsJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge Harrison
  • Seven Chances (1925)

    3. Seven Chances

    192556mPassed
    7.8 (12K)
    A man learns that he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7PM that evening.
    DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonRuth DwyerT. Roy Barnes
  • Buster Keaton in The Navigator (1924)

    4. The Navigator

    192459mUnrated
    7.5 (12K)
    Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
    DirectorsDonald CrispBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireFrederick Vroom
  • Who Am I This Time? (1982)

    5. American Playhouse

    Episode: 

    Who Am I This Time?

    (1982)
    1980–199453mTV-PGTV Episode
    7.6 (884)
    From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Walken's Stanley when the theater group does A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.
    DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsCaitlin HartLes PodewellAaron Freeman
  • Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. (1924)

    6. Sherlock Jr.

    192445mPassed
    8.1 (62K)
    A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
    DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireJoe Keaton
  • Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love in The Good Bad-Man (1916)

    7. The Good Bad-Man

    191650m
    6.6 (308)
    An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
    DirectorAllan DwanStarsDouglas FairbanksSam De GrassePomeroy Cannon
  • War Is Hell (1914)

    8. War Is Hell

    191450m
    6.6 (202)
    An army pilot is on a visit at the home of another army pilot in the neighboured country. He falls in love with his sister. After the outbreak of a war between the two countries, her brother is killed by her friend in a battle, he is killed by some friends of her brother. She engages her with her brother's friend who was there, but then she finds out about that battle.
    DirectorAlfred MachinStarsBaertSuzanne BerniFernand Crommelynck
  • Ossi Oswalda and Hermann Thimig in The Doll (1919)

    9. The Doll

    19191h 6mNot Rated
    7.4 (2.5K)
    Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
    DirectorErnst LubitschStarsOssi OswaldaHermann ThimigVictor Janson
  • Harry Carey in Straight Shooting (1917)

    10. Straight Shooting

    19171h 2mPassed
    6.3 (806)
    Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsHarry CareyDuke R. LeeGeorge Berrell
  • Ossi Oswalda in The Oyster Princess (1919)

    11. The Oyster Princess

    19191hNot Rated
    7.1 (2.3K)
    An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.
    DirectorErnst LubitschStarsVictor JansonOssi OswaldaHarry Liedtke
  • The Blood of a Poet (1932)

    12. The Blood of a Poet

    193255mNot Rated67Metascore
    7.2 (7.7K)
    Told in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.
    DirectorJean CocteauStarsEnrique RiveroLee MillerPauline Carton
  • I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918)

    13. I Don't Want to Be a Man

    191845mNot Rated
    6.8 (1.7K)
    A teenaged tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun, but discovers that being the opposite sex isn't as easy as she had hoped.
    DirectorErnst LubitschStarsOssi OswaldaCurt GoetzFerry Sikla
  • Umirayushchiy lebed (1917)

    14. Umirayushchiy lebed

    191749m
    7.0 (1.1K)
    A grief-stricken ballerina becomes the obsession of an increasingly unhinged artist.
    DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsVera KaralliAleksandr KheruvimovVitold Polonsky
  • Vivian Martin in The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)

    15. The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England

    191454m
    6.4 (371)
    After being expelled from college, Giles runs away from home and meets and falls for a young lady.
    DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsVivian MartinAlec B. FrancisChester Barnett
  • Orson Welles, Norman Eshley, and Jeanne Moreau in The Immortal Story (1968)

    16. The Immortal Story

    196858mNot RatedTV Movie
    7.0 (3.7K)
    In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife.
    DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJeanne MoreauRoger Coggio
  • Priscilla Dean in The Wicked Darling (1919)

    17. The Wicked Darling

    191959m
    6.4 (502)
    A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
    DirectorTod BrowningStarsPriscilla DeanWellington A. PlayterLon Chaney
  • Charles Chaplin in The Pilgrim (1923)

    18. The Pilgrim

    192347mTV-G
    7.2 (5.9K)
    Disguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceSyd Chaplin
  • Bill Murray in A Very Murray Christmas (2015)

    19. A Very Murray Christmas

    201556mTV-MATV Special
    5.5 (17K)
    Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a terrible snowstorm in New York City.
    DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsBill MurrayPaul ShafferMichael Cera
  • Suzanne's Career (1963)

    20. Suzanne's Career

    196354mNot Rated
    6.8 (4.5K)
    The friendship of Bertrand and Guillaume is complicated when the womanizing Guillaume begins to pursue a charming girl named Suzanne.
    DirectorÉric RohmerStarsCatherine SéePhilippe BeuzenChristian Charrière
  • Courtenay Foote in Hypocrites (1915)

    21. Hypocrites

    191554mPassed
    6.5 (770)
    The parallel stories of a modern preacher and a medieval monk, Gabriel the Ascetic, who is killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Truth, which is also represented by a ghostly naked girl who flits throughout the film.
    DirectorLois WeberStarsCourtenay FooteMyrtle StedmanHerbert Standing
  • The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)

    22. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

    194559mNot Rated
    6.7 (4.6K)
    A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsDenjirô ÔkôchiSusumu FujitaKen'ichi Enomoto
  • John Carpenter and Christopher Redman in John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns (2005)

    23. Masters of Horror

    Episode: 

    John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns

    (2005)
    2005–200759mTV-MATV Episode
    7.5 (10K)
    With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.
    DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsNorman ReedusColin FooUdo Kier
  • After Death (1915)

    24. After Death

    191546m
    6.8 (1.1K)
    Andrei lives a secluded life with his aunt, studying and thinking about his now-deceased mother. His friend Tsenin is concerned, and tries to get Andrei to accompany him to social events. After watching the actress Zoya Kadmina perform, Andrei is fascinated with her, and is then astounded to receive a note from her. He has only one brief meeting with her, and then three months later he is shocked to learn of her death. He now becomes obsessed with her memory, and he decides that he must find out all that he can about her.
    DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsVitold PolonskyOlga RakhmanovaVera Karalli
  • A Man There Was (1917)

    25. A Man There Was

    19171h 5mNot Rated
    7.3 (2.5K)
    Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
    DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmEdith ErastoffAugust Falck

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