A documentary short celebrating the life of Louis Braille, his invention of the writing system named after him, and the legacy he has left behind.
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A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
Lilacs in the Spring
El puente
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
Man, Beast and Virtue
French film favorite Edwige Feuillere plays a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's first husband and daughter pay a visit, it's an awkward time for our heroine and her current amour, gang boss Godot (Jean Servais). In addition to fielding a lot of embarrassing questions, Godot also has to deal with a pesky turf war with a rival mobster. Not that the ex-husband is a paragon of virtue: he's busy trying to get even with a crooked business associate.
When a Woman Meddles
This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand
Up in the World
Outing with ladies
La magique image
After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets Alberto, a sculptor.
Porta un bacione a Firenze
Don Felice Sciosciammocca, a poor and simple man, goes to the day, hoping that sooner or later will come the right opportunity to change his life. A nice day at Don Felice comes a parcel from a dear cousin, which contains three pairs of old trousers. Apparently only common value objects, but they will create great surprises.
Tre calzoni fortunati
Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer.
Prisionera del recuerdo
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pick up young Madeleine, who has just survived an attack by insurgents. Suddenly Robert changes his mind and joins the deserters. Madeleine realizes that she is now a prisoner of the four foreign legionnaires and must make her own escape.
Escape from Sahara
Régine was married to Léon. She is currently engaged to Daniel, but still has feelings for Maurice. Young Georgette would like to find me a sister at any price, but her friend Magali would only commit herself for the right reason. Ferdinand is Léon's diligent valet. They all meet up at a winter sports resort. During a wild night, we witness the figures of a most successful quadrille.
Une nuit à Megève
A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.
Mark of the Phoenix
A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey.
The Thief of Venice
In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of their moral and sexual education. They come to the aid of several young women: one who would like to give up her child to a couple applying for adoption, another who, after the death of her first baby in dramatic circumstances, is expecting a second, and many others.
Children of Love
Die Abiturientin
Belle... ma false
An American diplomat and his wife arrive in London, and are soon involved in a series of confusing and sometimes frightening events
Diplomatic Passport
An insight into the economic life and beauty of the city of Hamburg.
Zwischenstation Hamburg
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not better.
Captain Slipper
Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.
Croquemitoufle
While he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land of his ancestors. He then discovers a treasure that he will strive to use to revive his village.
The Treasure of Cantenac
Symphonie mécanique
A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.
The Black Archer
At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...
Tonight the Skirts Fly
Poor girl sells matches with brief flickering flame reflecting her span of life & dreams.
La jeune fille aux allumettes
The Gothic prince Ranimiro and his daughter Amaya have been taken prisoner by the Basques. He will be tried by the Council of Elders, while the Basque leader Íñigo, who arrested him, falls in love with his daughter Amaya, unaware that she is the current owner of the golden bracelet that symbolizes Basque tradition and that, according to legend, the man who marries her will be proclaimed king of Vasconia.
Amaya
Spanische Legende
Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.
La Polka des menottes
Burt Brickford, a deserted U.S. Navy captain stranded in a South American port, rents out his services to survive. Perez, a drug trafficker, calls on him to command Henry's yacht, on which a group of would-be treasure seekers are embarking.
Dishonorable Discharge
A demure teacher temporarily steps into the shoes of her late grandmother, a celebrated revue singer and socialite from the turn of the century, but ultimately chooses a quiet, domestic life.
Eine Frau, die weiß was sie will
Klavier zu verkaufen
Diego Acuña was one of the five thousand children taken to Russia during the Spanish Civil War. He was educated in the communist pedagogy and prepared for a career as an agitator that developed in France and Italy under the command of Goeritz, one of the party officials. One day he was commissioned a delicate mission: assisting in the murder of his father, because he turns out to be a major obstacle to the illegal actions of communism. To do so he moves to Spain, pretending he is bored of Soviet doctrine
Murió hace quince años
A dramatised documentary featuring Adrienne Corri, made to recruit women for training as nurses in ‘mental hospitals.’ It takes a deeply humane and stylistically vivid approach. Some of the treatments shown would be considered unsuitable today.
The Troubled Mind
Liebesmahl eines Wucherers
Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby.
Dorothea Angermann
Le donne ci tengono assai
For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
The Big Flag
The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money. Another agent, Francis Coplan, is sent to Switzerland to handle the deal, but Lindbaum only has half of the documents because he was double-crossed by Kalpannen, an international crook. With the help of Heidi, a Swiss correspondent, Coplan sets out to identify the members of Kalpannen’s gang, only to find that they have all been murdered…
To Catch a Spy
Life in Emergency Ward 10 is a 1959 film directed by Robert Day. It stars Michael Craig and Wilfrid Hyde-White. It was based on the television series Emergency – Ward 10
Life In Emergency Ward 10
The war will separate the members of the Valon family, two sons Alexandre and Antoine being prisoners, while the youngest Gilbert enters the secret army. Only their sister, Denise, will stay on the farm with her grandfather and grandmother. The Germans invade the free zone.
Éternel espoir
A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.
The Elephant Will Never Forget
A young widow flees from her small town and moves to the seaside, where she falls for a fisherman.
Menzogna
Two young men try to make it big as musicians.
Sunset in Naples
Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.
Half a Century of Song
Der verschwundene Graf
Count Ubaldo desires to make an unfavorable alliance with the Spanish armies. When Riccardo refuses to go along with the plans, he is ambushed in the forest and left for dead. However, he returns with a vengeance, organizes a band of marauders, and begins to pick away at Ubaldo’s forces. But Ubaldo kidnaps Laura, and Riccardo must storm the castle to free her.
The Mysterious Swordsman
A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
School for Coquettes
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
The Frightened Man
Adaptation of the operetta of the same title. Mari Pepa, who works as a laundress, has gone to live in the neighborhood courtyard house, which is also tenant Felipe, who courted.
The Unruly Girl
A young country girl breaks up the engagement with her fiancé and moves to the city to live with her lover. The new man will give her some unpleasant surprises.
Heimatlos
Love, Dance, and 1000 Songs
After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young couples ends sooner than planned. Back at their starting point, the ensuing conflict leads to one of the couples separating. Salvatore, who moves away, is hit in the street by a car and loses his memory: he has lost his memories of his friends and family - until he meets his wife Marisa, in which he falls in love again ...
Poor Millionaires
The announcement of the future marriage of Franck Reno, the star singer, causes considerable excitement around the world.
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
A young French girl, Yvonne, having won a competition, goes to Capri for a short break. There she meets Baron Vanvutelli, an old-fashioned old man, Mario, a Roman student, who came to spend the Sunday at Capri, along with two friends, Renato and Julius.
Adventure in Capri
A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s.
Metro
Tells the story of the Chief of the Orientals from a few elements: paintings, monuments and proclamations, managing in many passages to create a strong sense of movement and reality.