Silhouette animated short about a boy who learns the value of hard work over wishing.
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Silhouette animated short about a boy who learns the value of hard work over wishing.
For 999 years, the mountain spirit Rübezahl has lived deep underground in the Giant Mountains. No one has seen him since. But when he learns that people no longer believe in him and that greed and injustice reign supreme, the lord of the mountains descends into the valley to teach humans a lesson with his magical powers. He harnesses a servant who is working his old horse to death to his carriage and gives him the whip. The mountain spirit turns the gold of his rich and miserly cousin Klaus into stones. Having become hungry on his journey, Rübezahl stops at an inn in the guise of a carter. When the greedy innkeeper, out of sheer greed, nibbles half of the scrambled eggs he has ordered from his plate, Rübezahl demands the eggs he has already paid for back...
This is a story about World War II. The adultery of her husband didn't wreck her life because she could stand all difficulties with a little help of her faithfull friends.
Mr. Magoo misreads a newspaper flyer thinking it is a letter from his power company saying they are shutting off his power. Outraged, Magoo heads for the power company intent on giving them a piece of his mind. However, instead of going to the power company, he goes to a newspaper printing officer by mistake getting tangled up in the machinery all the while thinking he is being given "the bum's rush". He returns to his house with the power back on thinking he has won. But the next day, he doesn't like the paper's editorial and heads to the newspaper office wanting to give them a piece of his mind!
A beauty contest, in which the young Jonna, who works as a sales assistant in a dress shop, participates almost by chance, results in her being suddenly swept into the world of film and show business, because a film producer in attendance finds her type interesting and wants to try to launch her as a new name.
Indira (Suraiya) is an orphan brought up the strict and uprighteous Rani (Veena). Indira grows up to be a beauty and is sought by three suitors Raj (Raj Kapoor), Kundan (Al Nasir), and Ramesh (Suresh). Rani does not like Indira to marry into her family as both Raj and Kundan are her brothers, and she wants Indira to marry Ramesh, and as such arranges a meeting with Ramesh's mom (Pratima Devi) and finalizes the marriage. Indira does not appreciate this and refuses to marry Ramesh. Raj speaks of his love with Rani, and Rani warns him that Indira is to marry Ramesh, but also has an on-going affair with his brother Kundan. Who does Indira really love? Will she ever marry her dream man?
A woman treats her brother-in-law with utmost love and care, who later becomes successful in his life. Things take a turn when he marries a city-based woman, who causes problems in his family.
A group of young boys break some windows at a warehouse. The security guard recognizes one of them as a neighborhood boy, Harry. Harry is hauled into the police station and told things will go easier on him if he tells who his accomplices were. Harry must decide which is better, shouldering the blame for the entire incident or ratting out his friends.
This is Oslo Kinematografer's Christmas greeting from 1951, where a family invites the audience to sing Christmas songs with them.
The film is a sequel to Hold fingrene fra mor (Hands Off Mom). Berthe Quistgaard and Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt play the leading roles in this delightful romantic comedy. Lulu Vänner is about to get married for the fourth time. She is the mother of four children from three different men, but perhaps the fourth time will be the charm. Although the children like Lulu's fiancé, John Carstensen, they are not keen on the idea of marriage.
Tells about a little violinist who played so wonderfully that his violin was considered magical.
Group of youngsters find a sunken sailboat used by guerrillas during WWII, raise it, repair it, and sail out to sea for adventure.
Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings.
This movie starts with a Mother and her two children nonchalantly going to the window when someone knocks on the window. Shouldn't they be on their guard? And what good is their huge German Shepherd Shep? But wait! It's only Dad! Silly man! He's brought home Halloween stuff! Junior makes a truly hideous mask from a paper bag and sets it in the lamp to make it look more ominous. (archive.org)
Xiao Hei, a little carp, jumps over the bridge pier and gets cheers from his four friends. His grandma says that he is capable only if he can jump over the Dragon Gate like his ancestors did.
Documentary about the adventures of a stray cat and his 'colleagues' in Rome in the Fifties, between old traditions and postwar reality, to the discovery of the oldest streets of the city.
A three year old girl separates from her widowed mother during a train journey.A poor man meets her and starts living of her.She then meets a rich man who also dedicates his life towards her but feels she needs mothers love and gets married for the same.The widowed mother who lost her daughter is helped by a couple with their child but she still looks for her missing daughter.Years later when the daughter grows she is in love with a man. And destiny brings the lost daughter and mother in front of each other.
Aankhen (meaning The Eyes) is a 1950 Bollywood family drama film directed by Devendra Goel
Lentil wanted to make music and since he couldn't sing he learned to play the harmonica, which replaced a whole band on an important occasion.
Story of a little Javanese boy who adopts a monkey.
When Rodney, a friend of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo, goes to the hospital, Mr. Magoo decides to visit him and to take along some of his cure-all, homemade elixir. But he makes a wrong turn and ends up on a docked-ship visiting a stranger wearing a turban, thanking he is Rodney, and gives him some of the elixir. He returns home and gets a telephone call from Rodney who is waiting for his visit. He thinks Rodney is delirious and ventures forth for another visit carrying a giant-size bottle of his elixir.
A heart-touching story about the hardship of a grandmother and her two parentless grandkids.
This strikes straight at the heart because it is a tender story of four people, each deserving a Purple Heart.
While visiting his relatives in the city, a curious village boy sits on a motorcycle which starts right off, which causes lots of trouble to him and his parents.
A visiting young man prefers the household electrical appliances over the teenage daughter!
The movie revolves around a social issue, specifically the dowry system, and aims to create awareness against it.
Once upon a time, there was a young prince who wanted to fulfill his greatest wish: to marry a princess! One night, there was a violent storm, and someone knocked on the castle gate. A princess stood before the king, who opened the door. She was soaked to the skin and did not look noble at all, but she insisted that she was a real princess. Not wanting to see her son unhappy again, the queen devised a plan. She prepared a bed for the young woman with mountains of mattresses and blankets, but placed a pea on the floor. In the morning, the princess wakes up feeling terribly bruised, having slept on something hard all night.
A small, neglected boy protests against his busy parents by rambling across the city alone.
The young Peder is a baggage loader at Bromma Airport and in love with the flight attendant Agneta.
An educational film that deals with how you should behave in the traffic with motorbikes, with appeal to the youth. In this film, some friends are picking up their girlfriends with their bikes, and drive in high speed. This doesn't end good. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.
Kabhi Andhera Kabhi Ujala is a 1958 Hindi film starring Kishore Kumar and Nutan.
A live action re-telling of the classic tale filmed in the woods as a part of the "World's Great Fairy Tales" series.
Schorsch and Franz are two rascals who are full of mischief and constantly tease both their teachers and their fellow pupils. Vera, the new classmate, decides to put her foot down and bring an end to the poor situation. With skill, patience and the help of the other pioneers she finds out about the troublemaker’s love for miniature trains and tries to direct their redundant energy onto the right track. However, Vera and her pioneers have to overcome some resistance before Schorsch and Franz finally change their behavior and become better classmates.
Abbas Abu al-Dahab calls his wife Karima after giving birth to three daughters because he dreams of the child who will inherit his work and manage it after him. He will marry another woman called Gamalat. When the father gets sick, the father finds all the help of his daughters.
Samir marries Nabila and they live with her mother. Samir’s mother arrives and a quarrel begins, and both mothers-in-law ignite war in the house, which becomes an unbearable hell due to the many quarrels. Samir is guided to marry his mother-in-law and one of his friends actually proposes to her. Nabila gives birth to a child, and this increases the intensity of the quarrels. Who is he? I am more deserving of his care.
A story about a mother who acquires a disease and how the family dealt with her.
This featurette demonstrates how trained dogs are instrumental in helping round up an outlaw Brahma bull which has been plaguing a ranchers pure-bred Hereford cattle.
In a professional school a girls and boys brigades are competing to finish the big order in time.
The mayor decides to build a school and a hospital, so he collects the necessary funds from the people, and sends his son Abdel Mawjoud, accompanied by Al-Dandarawi, to Cairo to meet Hamdi so that he can help them buy what they need. Hamdi and El-Dandarawi fall in love with their neighbor, Hamida, and Ghandour tries to convince her to work as a singer in his band, and he aspires to marry her.
Three children, two brothers and their friend, win a lottery ticket at sports forecasting. Upon deciding not to tell their parents in order to buy a ship, two criminals find out about this and try to steal their money.
Karl, Katrinchen and Spatz are visiting their grandmother every christmas. The small village is covered up by snow and so the three kids build a snowman. When they look at it the next morning, his nose - a carrot - is gone. The kids give the snowman a new nose and stay up late that day to look out for the thief.
A lamb that had wandered off plays a significant part in the Nativity.
Alexander Calder created and performed one of the most important and beloved works, his miniature circus (1926-1931). More than twenty years later Jean Painleve made Le Grande Cirque Calder 1927, begun in 1953 and completed in 1955.
Howdy Doody presents a television trip to a wonderful amusement park
Seshachalam and his wife Nancharamma secretly swap their infant son with their rich brother-in-law's new born son. Unaware of this Dewan Bahadur raises him as his own son. One son grows up to be a police and other a thief.
In this Bollywood classic tearjerker, a romance for the ages blooms between the puppeteer Shivraj and the young admirer Pushpa after Shivraj loses the use of his hands and his livelihood. But love turns to resentment when Pushpa begins paying the bills with money made through her budding stage career. Will fierce pride keep them apart, or will Pushpa's faithful agent find a way to bring them together again?
A story about training and educating of a future Red Army officers.
In post-partition Bengal, a clash of cultures between neighbors ignites a turbulent yet tender tale of rivalry, love, and unexpected alliances.
A Christmas Marionette Short Film.
Wombat attempts to hunt a crafty rabbit.