Search results for "1956"
Together

Together

Together
IMDb: 6.8
52

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London’s East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.

Genre: Drama
The Sword and the Dragon

The Sword and the Dragon

The Sword and the Dragon
IMDb: 5.7
91

Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic elixir that restores him to full…

Johnny, You’re Wanted

Johnny, You’re Wanted

Johnny, You’re Wanted
IMDb: 5.8
69

Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, but on returning…

Rock Around the Clock

Rock Around the Clock

Rock Around the Clock
IMDb: 6.1
77

A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes…

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
IMDb: 3.9
76

Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who…

Genre: Adventure, Horror
Sissi: The Young Empress

Sissi: The Young Empress

Sissi: The Young Empress
IMDb: 6.6
107

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Forty-First

The Forty-First

The Forty-First
IMDb: 7.5
88

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Hardy Boys (1956)

The Hardy Boys (1956)

The Hardy Boys (1956)
TMDb: 8.8
30 min

The sons of the great detective Fenton Hardy, Frank and Joe are eager to impress their father with their mystery solving skills.

Status: Ended
Genre: Kids, Mystery
Rose Street

Rose Street

Rose Street
IMDb: 6.5
15

The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh’s Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.

Genre: Documentary
The Wormwood Star

The Wormwood Star

The Wormwood Star
IMDb: 5.8
10

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings and recitations of her poems.

Genre: Documentary
Three Maidens

Three Maidens

Three Maidens
IMDb: 7.9
100

Three sisters—Nunung, Nana and Nenny—are being raised by their grandmother in Jakarta after their mother’s death. Though the sisters’ father Sukandar lives with them, he is too involved in his…

Genre: Drama, Music
Hungry Soul, Part II

Hungry Soul, Part II

Hungry Soul, Part II
IMDb: 6.9
97

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow….

Genre: Drama, Romance
Season of the Sun

Season of the Sun

Season of the Sun
IMDb: 6.5
89

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend…

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
IMDb: 7.4
81

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male…

Genre: Drama
The Kreutzer Sonata

The Kreutzer Sonata

The Kreutzer Sonata
IMDb: 6.1
44

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the…

Genre: Drama
Not So Dusty

Not So Dusty

Not So Dusty
IMDb: 5.3
78

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 of the dustmen pursues…

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
IMDb: 6.3
81

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call ‘Godzilla’. The only hope…

Crazed Fruit

Crazed Fruit

Crazed Fruit
IMDb: 7.3
86

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Woodpecker from Mars

Woodpecker from Mars

Woodpecker from Mars
IMDb: 6.4
6

Woody Woodpecker is a guest at a television show and walks off with a space helmet and a space gun as souvenirs. He pretends to be a man from Mars,…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Bitter Stems

The Bitter Stems

The Bitter Stems
IMDb: 7.6
92

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Guilty?

Guilty?

Guilty?
IMDb: 6.1
93

Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.

Genre: Drama
The Thick-Walled Room

The Thick-Walled Room

The Thick-Walled Room
IMDb: 7.1
110

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

Genre: Drama, War
I Will Buy You

I Will Buy You

I Will Buy You
IMDb: 7
111

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Genre: Drama
Zarak

Zarak

Zarak
IMDb: 5.5
99

A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man
IMDb: 7.4
105

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel “Manny” Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Weapon

The Weapon

The Weapon
IMDb: 6.2
78

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder…

Genre: Thriller
Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male
IMDb: 7.5
113

In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the restaurateur André Chatelin, leads an uneventful life until the arrival from Marseille of Catherine, the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle. She…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Three Brave Men

Three Brave Men

Three Brave Men
IMDb: 6.8
88

A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he’s fired for suspected Communist beliefs.

Genre: Drama
The She-Creature

The She-Creature

The She-Creature
IMDb: 3.8
77

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

On the Bowery

On the Bowery

On the Bowery
IMDb: 7.3
65

A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing,…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
IMDb: 6.6
115

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy,…

Genre: Drama, History
The Green Man

The Green Man

The Green Man
IMDb: 7.1
80

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch
IMDb: 5.8
91

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy’s Hospital), where…

Genre: Drama
Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion
IMDb: 6.4
83

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Five Steps to Danger

Five Steps to Danger

Five Steps to Danger
IMDb: 6.3
81

Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?

Genre: Action, Thriller
Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind
IMDb: 7.4
99

Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an…

Genre: Drama, Romance
X the Unknown

X the Unknown

X the Unknown
IMDb: 6.1
81

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear…

World in My Corner

World in My Corner

World in My Corner
IMDb: 6.4
82

A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea — “born in a dump, educated in an alley” — catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him…

Genre: Drama
A Woman’s Devotion

A Woman’s Devotion

A Woman’s Devotion
IMDb: 5.8
88

An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the…

World Without End

World Without End

World Without End
IMDb: 5.8
N/A

A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his…

Genre: Drama