1957 Movies

François Reichenbach follows a group of young men from the day they enlist in the US Marine Corps, all the way through basic training.

CALYPSO (1958) was entirely shot on location in the Antilles archipelago with mostly non-professional actors and was released in colour and Cinemascop...

Moving from contemporary images of Paris in the 1950s to old photographs and documents, this short film evokes the heroic radical Commune of 1871 whic...

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed...

1935. Two families — Davydov's with three children and the newlyweds Lida and Dmitri Kashirin's — enter the new house on the outskirts of Moscow into...

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

Five random people accidentally get dosed with an experimental psych-drug that suppresses fear and risk-avoidance.

The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin h...

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

To spice up a life that's too quiet, a couple of friends play at being gangsters, but end up meeting some real hoodlums.

After deceitful Indian agent Grat Bandas has his men shoot Brother Van, gunfighter Linc Prescott saves the peaceful circuit rider and agrees to help h...

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era),the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.

An Iraqi film follows the story of the teacher, Said, as he moves from one house to another, eventually settling in the home of Azzat, a neighboring c...

After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -...

A short movie based on the children's story by Momoko Ishii.

A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo" of a Japanese countess. He is first horrified, but fina...

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