1957 Movies

The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.

The second "The Surprising Legend of Jirocho" feature.

Set in the midst of the Satsuma Rebellion, this story depicts the sadness of a woman’s heart. Though she hates the Imperial Army captain who violated...

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

An uncle in America wants to endow his nieces with a dowry, provided they succeed in making a name for themselves one night at the Moulin Rouge, where...

Daffy tries to snare the escaped Tasmanian Devil for the $5000 reward offered by the city zoo.

Industrialist's son returns from the USA, where he'd been supposedly studying Nuclear Physics, when in fact he'd devoted himself to pop music, without...

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath l...

Paul Czinner recorded, using a multiple cameras technique, the performance of prima ballerina Galina Ulanova of the Russian Bolshoi, doing "Giselle, "...

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract art. At the core of this film is a dramatic recre...

Japanese comedy film.

Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner.

Markus Paltram returns to his home village after ten years. There, he is shunned because his father is believed to be a murderer. Markus falls in love...

Tommy Price is the leader of a gang of young thugs interested in thrills, hot rods and girls. His friends bet him he can't make it with 17-year-old Ro...

A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.

After defeat in the Battle of Skigahara, Yukimura Sanada and his Ten Braves scatter across the country to spy in order to be prepared for the final ba...

This feature-length drama, originally broadcast in two parts as part of the NFB television series "Perspective," tells two sides of the same story to...