1956 Movies

A minor official, Jonas Shatas, saved an apothecary who had fallen into the river. The whole city found out about it. Jonas felt like a hero. It seeme...

A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him.

Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.

François Jauréguy is a young Basque who would love to devote his life to God. But meeting Maïté and the example of the worker priests makes him doubt...

A rural singsong film.

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.

A realistic depiction of the bloody land reform campaign in North Vietnam under Communist-dominated Vietminh.

hong kong film

Two Difficult People at War

A horrific and, on the face of it, incomprehensible murder has just been committed on the unsympathetic person of a loan shark. The victim's body is f...

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow, i...

This short subject shows Lissa Bengston teaching a group of three- and four-year-olds how to swim in a pool. Miss Bengston, a member of the Royal Acad...

The Go-Getter (1956)

An overworked housewife struggles to survive in an old house with an inadequate electrical supply and out-of-date appliances.

The misadventures of two Parisian bohemians who imagine they've discovered oil in the South of France.

A high school student who loves detective stories finds himself transporting a woman’s body in the middle of the night. A hilarious thriller about a g...

Set in Sweden the 1700s. Local rebels are raging in the south. Two riders are commissioned to capture the Dane rebel who is their leader.