1956 Movies

A programmer with a Latin American beat.

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.

"Kid" Manolin takes on El Chente (The "Red Star") in the boxing ring.

Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She fin...

It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars Ichik...

Little Black Sambo was screened at the first Vancouver International Film Festival in 1958, and won the Best Film award in the Films for Children sect...

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.

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.

Short film by Hilary Harris.

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

Experimental film, in which against a black field, constantly changing coloured strips of paper cross the screen, meet each other and deflect at angle...

In the middle of the 1950s, the harmful effects of the old social customs, rigidity, and bureaucracy in the forward development of social life were sh...

In order to take revenge, a village chieftain, Munasabu, murders the poor Tirupati and blames his friend Kondaiah, a labourer, for the crime.

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.