Movies 1955 Page 46

Estranged siblings, Ramu and Lakshmi meet years later as she is married to a doctor and he is a driver in the same place. Ramu is blamed for stealing...

Ainu chieftain Otena Kamui dies leaving a secret to his son. Years later, the grown son and his child are drawn into the hunt for the “Tower of...

Joe thinks he's back in the gladiator days, and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum lions after breaking a string while playing the...

hong kong film

Rasmus escapes from the orphanage to find parents for himself. He teams up with a hobo and together they experience a series of adventures while...

A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.

Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her and her husband's son from earlier marriage falls in...

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters...

As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland",...

A kind-hearted medical student, an ill-fated young woman, an innocent young lady in a school uniform, and a medical student whose rational beauty...

This musical version of the tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up aired live on television on March 7, 1955. It was so popular that it was restaged...

A man falls in love with his young French language teacher. It becomes a complicated love story when his class mate Karin also begins to fancy her.

Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.

Did the Peruvians cross the sea? The filming of a Norwegian archaeological expedition to the Galapagos islands in 1952, lead by Thor Heyerdahl. A...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her is… A coming-of-age...

Toinet, Girelle and Pénible fish for sardines in Marseille. To dazzle their conquests, they present themselves as rich can manufacturers, while the...

An Englishman tries to adapt to life in France

Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.

Donne e soldati was an example of a ‘decentralised’ production, far from Rome, something that for the most part Italian cinema didn’t fully...

A short piece of film recording general views of Edinburgh's Royal Mile in the 1950s.

A look at London's Soho in the mid-1950s.

Pint-sized punk (PETER VOTRIAN) uses the old five-finger discount to swipe an alarm clock from storekeeper WALTER COY (the mad scientist of I Eat...

A short piece of film recording general views of Edinburgh's Princes Street in the 1950s.

Divides domestic and wild animals into three groups--those that eat meat, those that eat plants and those that eat both meat and plants. Explains...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Film of the 1955 British expedition to Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, led by Charles Evans. The first ascent of Kangchenjunga was...

A dramatic portrayal of a struggle that is waged annually in wheat-growing areas - man against the wheat rust fungus. Views of the destruction caused...

This film provides footage of University of California medical tests with LSD.

A film awarded the main prize in the documentary category at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The picture depicts the everyday life of...

Armand and Michaela Denis visit the Barrier Reef and explore the mysteries of life there - animals, birds, fish and plants, the underwater life....

A ghost of Brighton's Regency past returns to explore his old haunts in a colourful yarn set in 1950s Sussex-by-the-Sea.

This film probes the perennial miracle of the growth of a seedling, the seasonal upsurge of life in a forest giant, and the mysterious alchemy of a...

Life in the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland.

Describes the qualifications and procedures of registration and voting. Distinguishes between split ticket and straight ticket voting methods....

Instructional footage of how to thread film in a 16mm Cine-Kodak Special movie camera

Adventures of a skunk family.

This institutional film was designed to promote Chevrolet's corporate citizenship rather than any specific model of automobile.

Summary: Integrates visual action and music to show how clouds are formed and how they move. No narration is used. Uses accelerated action camera...