1956 Movies

An original musical, featuring songs from various composers, about an acting troupe seeking artistic acclaim in Paris.

To eliminate internal opposition, a cruel CEO sabotages and humiliates a good-natured executive in an effort to force his resignation — and make the r...

A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

A high school student really likes his shop class...perhaps a bit too much!

1956 Japanese movie

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

A film director sends his director and two screenwriters out into the city to find out what a film should contain in order for the person in question...

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accou...

Almost 70 years ago, the then director of Frankfurt Zoo, Prof. Bernhard Grzimek (1909-1987),shot this famous animal documentary about the African con...

Italian short movie now lost.

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of He...

Koji Tsuruta plays dual roles: Kyotaro, the young master of a pharmaceutical wholesaler in Osaka, and Ken, a street thug in Tokyo.

An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.

Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years...

Sequel to the movie Denko karate uchi.

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.

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...

This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4...