Movies 1956 Page 23

In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives humble but promising young farmer girl Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing...

A rural singsong film.

The 17th century rebellion in Kakheti masterminded by Bidzina Cholokashvili gets about the whole Georgia. An Imeretian youth nicknamed as Bashi-Achuk...

The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los...

The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she...

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.

Seventeen days till execution.

Maxime Bellac owns an art gallery. He has an affair with Michelle. One night when they have dinner together, Maxime tells Michelle he is forced to...

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

Bear suffers from toothache. Other animals give him advice on how to cure a bad tooth, but their advice is ignorant.

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the...

Documentary by Jan Kadar

Four noble ladies, four widows, live in isolation in a Berry ch teau. There's the Mme de Bussange, her two sisters Sylvie and Hélène, her...

A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken...

Third Sister Tai marries Dunce Lau and her life has since been between laughter and tears. At the birthday party of Tai's father one year later,...

An arrogant woman who owns a successful coffee company is abducted by the owner of some islands.

A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiancé, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not...

Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous...

This short shows the important role played by members of the U.S. Air Force Reserve in the USA's defense against enemy attack.

This SECOND live broadcast aired a year after the success of the first. Utilizing much of the same cast, it nevertheless is its own unique...

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll

One of Disney's "People and Places" series looking at the Polynesian kingdom of Samoa.

A middle-aged ex-serviceman who plans to re-enlist is shocked to learn that not only did he fail his medical exam, his wife has enlisted - and is...

A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.

After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim. Passport to Treason was put...

A passing truck spills a variety of hats, causing Elmer and Bugs to change personalities in rapid succession to fit the headgear they wind up wearing.

Khajuraho, the city of Gods is shown in this film. During the period of Hindu renaissance, temple architecture received a striking impetus and its...

The Bob Hope Chevy Show (21 October 1956) is an episode of The Bob Hope Show. It first aired 21 October 1956 on NBC. Includes a spoof of "I Love...

Traveling through his kingdom’s forest one day King Arthur is confronted by The Red Knight who plans to slay him but decides to challenge him with...

Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell...

Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN.

When Joe Miller breaks his ankle on the shop floor, he is sent with some trepidation to the British Railways rehab centre, a cross between a modern...

Supposedly filmed in 'Schizophrenoscope', it concerns Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard's attempts to retrieve a 'Mukkinese Battlehorn' stolen from a...

Tennessee, 1838. Polly Crockett, the daughter of the legendary hero Davy Crockett of Alamo, and makes a living from hunting in the forests. These...

A report on this extraordinary boom town that owes its fortune to oil.

A young girl, normal in every way, is affected with severe epilepsy.

Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's...

A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends.