1956 Movies

Once upon a time there were two stepsisters. One girl dropped a bucket into a deep wonderful well, and she had to go down into the well for the bucket...

The tenement houses at the Old Town of Lublin have two contradictory faces: beautiful facades for the eyes of the tourists and hidden derelict courtya...

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother...

Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that...

1956 / Azan / The Hand of God / L. Krishnan / Keris

A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.

At the collective farm’s animal-breeding station, the young naturalists lose a fox named Serebryanka, which has run away. The children ask an old hunt...

An East German documentary that uses archival footage to trace a direct line from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich to...

An ominous skull at a wedding venue; a series of chilling, mysterious incidents befalling a wealthy man whose heads of the family have gone missing on...

A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.

Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. Rej...

This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and the...

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

Following the unexpected death of her father, stage actress Emi Ikushima has to navigate the pitfalls of her rising fame and her increasingly complica...

Once upon a time, there had been a tailor who sent his three sons out into the world, so that they might find fortune and learn something proper. The...

A scientist builds a robot, and sets it to cleaning up his lab while he sleeps. The robot rebels, and creates two small robots; they create various fo...

The owner of their performance space dies, and a group of young singer/dancers is concerned about the future of their musical revue. The new owner see...