1956 Movies

1956 film from Hong Kong, produced by Shaw Brothers.

Lai-ying (Cheng Bik-ying) is a wealthy socialite who travels globally. Tired of her lifestyle, she sends her secretary Kiu (Tam Lan-hing) to stand in...

On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.

On a rubber plantation in Sumatra, a woman of mixed Dutch and Indonesian parentage must choose between her people and the doctor she loves.

An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."

In Judge Wimpy's courtroom, Bluto accuses Popeye of assault and battery; he claims to have been attacked by him on several occasions, without provocat...

Amira is helping her family during its financial stringency but it starts getting troublesome for her so she goes to her father who has married anothe...

A documentary devoted to the paintings of Nikifor Krynicki, who was a representative of primitivism.

Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family chaos — her father’s affair and her mother’s push fo...

Teenagers with neglectful parents run amok; some get killed, some get arrested, some get rehabilitated.

Together with Luis Figueroa, Chambi filmed the constructions of the pre-Inca, Inca and colonial periods coexisting in the architecture of the city of...

A widow who must collect her husband's life insurance is courted by the director of the insurance company, until the dead man appears.

To locate the heir of $500,000, an affluent Greek-American places an announcement in the newspaper, and hundreds of potential plutocrats start flockin...

A university lectop finds himself embroiled in a nasty blackmail case. Powerful businessman Busoni is preparing a stab at the grain market. This Prota...

The wealthy farm heir Toni loves the maid Maria, but is supposed to marry the wealthy neighbor's daughter Annerl. She only has eyes for a penniless wo...

When Kali Dev challenges Dharma Dev that every human can be corrupted by wealth in the age of Kaliyug, an innocent mortal becomes the ultimate battlef...

Beautiful documentary record of the royal visit to Teesside in 1956, shot in gorgeous Kodachrome.