1956 Movies

A lost 1956 television pilot created by Orson Welles for a proposed documentary series. The filmed episode, “Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeer...

A man realises he is dead, and has to communicate with the living via any means.

Shortly after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933, preparations were underway to silence the members of the socialist and co...

A screen adaptation of Han Sorya's novel 'Jackals', which tells the story of a Korean boy killed by American missionaries.

Leonato, governor of sunny Messina in Sicily, warmly welcomes Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, to his home. Don Pedro has arrived in the city accompanied...

The border must be guarded against insidious intruders, of that the brave border guard has no doubt. He takes in a shot dog, gains its trust, and even...

Study for Film No. 11: Mirror Animations (1957). Harry Smith described the film as, “An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of a colla...

Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to m...

Nadya Shumin is engaged to be married to Andrey Andreitch, the son of a local priest. Nadya lives on her grandmother's estate with her mother, "a fair...

Doctor Mahmoud suffers from epilepsy, so he refuses to marry any girl so as not to be a reason for her suffering. He meets Mervat, who is attracted to...

A group of partisans is under siege, surrounded by strong German forces. Some of them remember the events that preceded the siege. This is an omnibus...

Japanese crime film.

Painter Wang Zijian is saved from drowning by Aying, the daughter of a fishing folk. Their relationship becomes an intimate one. When Wang's father pr...

Jiang Lizhen's husband, Wang Gensheng, went to Nanyang to make a living. After ten years of separation, there was no news. Jane took her daughter to f...

Inspector is a 1956 Bollywood thriller film directed by Shakti Samanta. It starred Ashok Kumar, Geeta Bali and Pran.