1956 Movies

Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her dutie...

Leonato, governor of sunny Messina in Sicily, warmly welcomes Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, to his home. Don Pedro has arrived in the city accompanied...

A Shaw and Sons production about a couple who loves each other but end up marrying different people because of parental pressures.

Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one...

Fantasia on Yemenite themes.

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...

Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkelsbühl, and presented in the wide-screen format of C...

The construction of a hydro electric scheme in the Scottish Highlands.

Based on Jan Neruda's column of the same name, which depicts the troubles of an old straw man. The film is introduced by poet Jaroslav Seifert with a...

A special episode of the Chronicle commemorating the death of Bolesław Bierut. He died in Moscow, March 13, 1956. The President of Poland, the Preside...

A Boy Scout outsmarts two spies.

Short animation that makes fun of art snobs.

A college professor accidentally comes across a formula that can reduce the size of anything.

The documentary promotes the outdoor attractions and folklore of the village of Szlebark, located in the Podhale Valley.

A cinematographic interpretation of a Casimiro de Abreu poem.

This documentary addresses some of the first cinematographically documented actions of Mexican indigenous politics in the mid-20th century. The narrat...

No Cigar (1956) is Francis Ford Coppola’s earliest surviving short film, made when he was a teenager. It follows a lonely man in his apartment as he p...