1957 Movies

Chronicling the comedic escapades of Bombay-based alcoholic Murli Manohar as he uses a forged document to secure employment; falls in love with, Chand...

The first Iraqi film influenced by the Italian neorealism film movement, characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. The plot...

'A demented fable of alchemical inquisition. Ridiculed by his neighbours, a madman works in isolation on a chemical formula for making gold. He finall...

Documentary short on a park consisting of 16 terraced lakes in the thick forested mountains of Croatia, then a part of Yugoslavia.

This episode perpetrated the great Spaghetti Harvest Hoax on April Fool's Day 1957. The filmed report appeared to show a Swiss family harvesting their...

A brief overview of the painter Edvard Munch’s journey from young art student to world-renowned artist. The film presents a range of Munch’s works, fr...

Documentary about anchovy fishermen in San Sebastian

Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service, a short film in which singer Vaughn Monroe and his family vacation in the woods. While Vaughn sings folk songs a...

Television documentary has Daniel Farson investigates UFOs including talking to the editor of Flying Saucer Review, Brinsley Le Poer Trench.

Intended as a publicity film for Chrysler, Rhythm uses rapid editing to speed up the assembly of a car, synchronizing it to African drum music. The sp...

Freedom, Nigeria's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival, was based on a play commissioned by the Moral Re-Armament Association. Based on a st...

Short documentary by Krsto Škanata.

Story of Mr. Prokouk, who having read too many detective stories sees criminals everywhere.

Aspects of the city of Congonhas do Campo. The preponderance of baroque architecture, the Basilica of Senhor Bom Jesus de Matozinho, the six chapels o...

Hard to Windward is a 1957 Australian documentary film following a boat during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.