Movies 1957 Page 45

BAFTA nominated BBC documentary about the acclaimed British artist L.S. Lowry.

Michel Lenoir, a successful interior designer, has reached the middle of his life without ever getting married. A bit blue over it he dreams one...

Music hall singer Clara Sergy unwittingly serves as a drug courier. Two criminals hide their illicit substances in the star's luggage.

A wannabe revue dancer meets a man she thinks is the revue's impresario, and mistaken identities lead to laughs.

Tarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief.

In Nice, a wealthy widow is charmed by a young man who marries her and manages her finances. He soon starts an affair with her secretary, who proves...

England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the...

The wedding of actress Keiko Kishi and filmmaker Yves Ciampi.

The story of a doctor who loses his memory in Africa, returns to Istanbul, and falls in love again with his ex-girlfriend, whom he married.

Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she...

A reportage created by a well-known duo of documentary filmmakers - Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski. The men and their Polish Film Chronicle...

A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a...

A Paris-based doctor tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls...

When a driven business man suffers a series of heart attacks, he and his family must reassess their values.

A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.

In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.

A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer.

A sociologist tries to convince a "bop" singer to switch to calypso, much to the ire of her Hollywood nightclub manager.

This short film from the late 1950s looks at peer pressure among adolescents, using the example of a 13-year-old boy who collects butterflies. While...

In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz...

Jiminy Cricket shows how the "human machine" converts food into energy. He compares the human digestive system to a factory production line while...

Lowell Thomas travels across Europe and the Middle East on his way to attend the coronation of King Mahendra in Nepal.

Pit sinkers prepare the coal mines of tomorrow. An account of shaft sinking techniques.

Presents Handel as a key figure in the development of Baroque music. Illustrates with musical selections his contributions to 18th century music...

A shorter version of Joseph Cornell's Nymphlight, an experimental film shot in New York City's Bryant Park, featuring scenes of birds, fountains,...

Jimmy is a young man who likes to go his own way, not bothering or caring what anyone else thinks. Flashbacks show how his "permissive" parents...

This film covers the basics of atomic theory while addressing the moral issues inherent in yielding such godlike power.

Provides a biography of John James Audubon, including his youth, his struggles to resolve repeated business failures with an intense interest in...

A documentary following the daily life on the island of Rathlin, off the coast of Northern Ireland.

How to tell if an animal has rabies.

A short documentary showing the expression and imagination of post-WWII sentiments in different pieces of art.

Hercules, a small, bulbous-nosed plumber, receives a note saying he must "fix leak at Carnegie Hall".

The second short film Melvin Van Peebles made in San Francisco before decamping for Europe is a striking portrait of a group of day labourers...

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

Director I.S. Johar Writers I.S. Johar G.L. Rawal Stars Nargis Pradeep Kumar Pran Sikand

Promotional film showing the role of atomic energy in medicine, agriculture, industry, and research and the potential for nuclear-generated...

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