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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. Originally aired as part of Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens.
A Christmas Carol
The young daughter of the Count of Aubanel, beautiful and kind-hearted, is loved by all her father's vassals; but she is cruelly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister.
Once Upon a Time…
A documentary about French marathon runner Alain Mimoun at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.
Alain Mimoun
The Sadikin family had three girls with different personalities. Suryani aka Ani who was social, Suryana or Ana who was interested in art, especially drama, and Suryati or Yati who was arrogant. They got to know three young men, their next door neighbors. The three young men also had different personalities, but they suited the three girls.
Surjani Mulia
Island of Heroes
Chief Mamishov is the head of the housing and utilities department. At first glance, he seems to be a businesslike and attentive person. He always responds to any complaints from residents, but he has one bad habit—smoking. As a result, he stashes packs of Kazbek cigarettes in his desk until an inspection from a higher authority comes along and several violations are discovered, one of which is his indifference to a complaint. Overall, the film is dedicated to the bureaucrats and officials of some housing and utilities companies, who are criticized by everyone for their heartless attitude towards the needs of workers.
The Packet of "Kazbek"
Old Ahmed with his grandson and dog goes to the market, having only four coins. But the tax collector and the rich take his money. Wanting to take revenge on them, Ahmed pretends to be a wizard and threatens to turn them into donkeys...
Four Coins
Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a beautiful woman with a sad face.
Escape Zone
Na shledanou na Strahově
Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never heard of. The lawyers haven't located Shunsaku yet, allowing Otone to think about whether she accepts the conditions of the will. One month later after, Takato Shunsaku is found. Murdered. At the birthday party of Otone's uncle. With Shunsaku dead and thus making it impossible for Otone to marry him, the inheritence is to split amongst all (living) family members. And yes, as always, that means that the potential successors get killed off one by one. But Kosuke Kindaichi is on the trail...
Three-Headed Tower
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa.
The Gay Masquerade
Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from some of her friends.
A Baronesa Transviada
In the last film of the original 91 film series two letters - one written in spite and another in love - end up in the wrong hands, while 91 and 87 as usual try to avoid ending up in military arrest.
91:an Karlsson muckar (tror han)
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot Hanada. Uji takes a sharpshooter called Takagi and tracks him. At first Uji cannot forgive Hanada but as Uji is isolated from the main force he too starts to think of desertion.
The End of a Day
The scam artist Jens Nielsen is in prison. In exchange for a cigarette, he is told by fellow prisoner, Sture Kaxe, that he has a precious jewel worth SEK 100,000 hidden away.
Sju svarta "Be-Hå"
The pioneering trail to Oregon was littered with constant danger. Yet, the hope of the "promised land" keeps American families westward bound despite overwhelming odds. A calm, clear-thinking pioneer attempts to lead a wagon train through territory occupied by Pawnees and Sioux. Along the way, the hardy settlers face horse thieves, kidnappers, and unpredictable Indian attacks in their push to establish a new life in the rugged West.
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
Guerrilla member Ting Siu-yuen works as a playwright and Lee, the leader of an opera troupe. They conceal their identities in the troupe in order to gather military intelligence. Yuen gradually falls in love with the lead actress Mui Law-heung. Ting is unsettled to learn that County Chief Fong covets Mui. He sneaks into Fong's residence and is astounded by the sight of his old lover Pak Kuen, now Fong's wife. Fong colludes with the military chief in conducting vicious schemes. With Kuen's help, Yuen is able to get the intelligence. But as Heung is not an insider, she reports to the Governor about the illicit relationship between Yuen and Kuen. Kuen backs Yuen to eliminate the conspirators and bring about the union of Yuen and Heung.
The Tormented Beauty
Liebe auf Eis
Beautiful young Helga gets publicly shamed because a rich land owner seduced and impregnated her but refuses to take responsibility in a story of love and death in Sweden.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man who was executed in his place.
Doctor Crippen Lives
G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.
FBI Girl
Pygmalion
A puppet film about a cafeteria director whose establishment was filled with dirt, disorder, and rudeness, where visitors were completely neglected and not cared for.
In Some Cafeteria...
A New York City businessman meets a window washer hoping to commit suicide and decides to market his grief to the highest bidder in this acidic satire on American capitalism, one made even more memorable by the fact that the entire “American” cast are Chinese actors in whiteface. The greedy Mr. Butler (Shi Hui) convinces the suicidal “Charley” that he might as well endorse some cigarettes as he jumps out of his office window, and maybe wear a particular suit too. A true cinematic oddity, this Korean War–era propaganda piece is a satire that Frank Tashlin could envy.
Window to America
Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star.
Here Come the Girls
Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.
Wakefield Express
Jafar loves Malia, and ignores Zulaekha who has feelings for Jafar. And Kahar who also loves Malia, does not get a response from Malia. Approaching the Proclamation of 1945, Jafar married Malia. As befits a young man, Jafar plunged into the revolution. One day Kahar brought news that Jafar had died on the battlefield. So Malia married Kahar. It turned out that Jafar was still alive. Although initially angry when he heard that Malia married Kahar, Jafar was calmed down by Zulaekha. They got married.
Marunda
Love is Everywhere
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame.
Sea Wife
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
A Jerry Lewis directed home movie remake of the Burt Lancaster drama Come Back Little Sheba. Dean Martin stars as an alcoholic surgeon who fights the temptation to become sober.
Come Back Little Shiksa
Reclining on her chaise lounge in a see-through robe, Lili St. Cyr decides she needs a bubble bath. In a gilded tub fit for Marie Antoinette, she bares all that the law will allow. Then she squeezes into an evening gown and mink coat to paint the town red.
Love Moods
Hibari's Triple Role: The Dazzling Transformation of Yukinojo
'Mata Hari', the daughter of a kampong headman is captured by the Japanese. She witnesses the atrocities committed by the invaders, who tortured her father to death and round up innocent women to become prostitutes and mistresses for their commanders. Not wanting to cower to the enemy, Mata Hari decides to form and lead a guerilla force to fight the Japanese.
Mata Hari
Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a desperation she shared with many in the post-war period. Fortunately, Privy Councillor Sauerbruch is at the scene of the incident, ordering her to be admitted to his clinic after a brief examination. Sauerbruch works both as a university lecturer and as a surgeon, a famous doctor who not only helps his patients physically but also gives them spiritual comfort. After he has taken Olga Ahrendt to his hospital, he discovers during an examination that her suicide attempt is due to a serious physical illness. He intensively takes care of her without forgetting about his other patients, to whom he can give a new will to live, even if only through a small story. And he will also treat Olga Ahrendt successfully...
The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch
Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.
Cuatro copas
Tom is in a pool hall after hours; as he soon discovers, Jerry is sleeping in the corner pocket. Tom chases Jerry around the table and the rest of the pool hall. Tom's energetic game of pool is more than Jerry can cope with. Soon, the table becomes a battlefield.
Cue Ball Cat
天罗地网
A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love.
Occhi senza luce
A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.
Native Drums
Der Fünfminutenvater
天女散花
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of those around her.
With Songs in My Heart
Story of life on board HMS Victorious, Britain's most modern aircraft carrier. Shows various departments of the ship; jets landing on and take-offs from the flight-deck. Scenes in Gibraltar and Malta. Includes the first film credit for Michael Winner, as Associate Producer.
Floating Fortress
About the way of life in the East, in China, during the months before spring. An early spring.
Letters from China
Japanese drama film.
The Motherless
Walt Disney explains some of the techniques of animation, and includes for the first time the pencil test footage of the "Soup Eating Sequence" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Walt references a book called "The Art of Animation" which shows a technique that is used in animated cartoons that dates back to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks.
The Plausible Impossible
The story of Sadık and Osman, who heroically resisted the Balkan gangs that carried out bloody raids on Turkish villages in the Rumeli Province of the Ottoman Empire in 1910.
Bulgar Sadık
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
The Living Bible
Kutná Hora
Non cantare... baciami!
Wales prides herself in her wealth of natural resources, foundries, mills, and factories. Beyond this modern facade lies another treasure—a rich historical background and ancient lore. The great granite fortresses still remain as reminders that from the struggle and strife was born a pure and distinctive national culture.
Wales
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.
Tokyo no Kodoku
El jugador
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
I'll Get You for This
Dramatizations of four cases "drawn from Buenos Aires police files".
Recommended capture
The young Bulgarian Muslim woman Zyulker wants to study and become a teacher. Her father decides to arrange a marriage to her. After the wedding, she runs away and goes to the town. There she starts work in a hostel. Her husband takes her back. He beats and humiliates her. She gives birth to her child prematurely, takes the baby and goes to the school for Muslim in the town. She has to surmount many difficulties. The young woman meets her first teacher Stefanov. The two fall in love. With his help, Zyulker finishes her study successfully and makes up her mind to return to her native village as a teacher. Stefanov follows her and proposes to her. The two embrace.
Adam's Rib
Saloon singer creates conflict between several potential boyfriends.