Cinematic Era: 1950 Vintage

A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.

In an African jungle, hungry Beaky Buzzard can't wait until Leo the Lion is decently deceased before trying to devour him. Leo takes a rocket to the Moon to try to escape Beaky, but finds Beaky already there waiting for him.

The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter decides to seduce her future husband by introducing herself to him with the name Veronique...

Arnal, nicknamed 'Counselor' is the head of a family held in high esteem by the people of a Cevennes village. Now, the dignified man, who is the respected arbitrator of local disputes, has adopted Clémence, a deaf-mute girl. The day when Maurice, Arnal's son, starts a love affair with his stepsister, trouble begins...

Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.

Chand lives in a small rural town in India. He is unable to pay the rent, and his landlord evicts him. He re-locates to another town and meets with a young woman named Tara. Both are attracted to each other. Chand is unable to secure employment in this town, and moves elsewhere. Tara waits for several months, but does not hear anything from him. So she decides to go and look for him, hoping to re-kindle her love. She is shocked and surprised to find him with an attractive woman named Rajni, who claims that Chand is her betrothed and both are to get married soon.

The Durango Kid and his sidekick look for stolen gold with a history.

During a chase of drug deal, officer magdy lost his way in the desert , got saved by Saba. He finds out that saba's family is drug lord and they also identify him so they decided to kill him but by the help of saba, they escaped.

Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in an abandoned area with some girls, Carla, an eighteen year old girl who works as a prostitute, Giulia, younger and sick of tuberculosis, and a girl, Maria.

Two young boys are taught the value of teamwork and the effectiveness of putting the group's welfare ahead of their own.

Herman the mouse installs a bell on a cat to help his mice friends.

Shanghai Sam needs a new crew for his ship. Bugs signs on but rebels at the captain's cruelty.

In 1948, a small county near Shanghai. Celebrity Su Yaoqian appears to be doing things that are fair and righteous, but secretly exploits and persecutes the poor. Su Agen, a sugar vendor, has been under the loan sharking of Su Yaoqian for several years. He has a beautiful fiancée, Erbao, and does not want to be attracted by Su Yaoqian.

Comedy film short

An improvised jazz session with some of the greats from the 1950s era including Ella Fitzgerald.

Farmer Kang You's daughter-in-law gave birth to a child. Because she was delivered using the old method, she contracted postpartum wind and the child became ill. Kang You went to ask the witch god, but the witch god's child was also sick. The witch god himself did not deceive himself. He gave the child to He went to the medical clinic for treatment and was cured without spending any money. But he himself went to Kang You's house to perform the magic dance. As a result, the adult's illness became more and more serious and the child was tortured to death.

A hidden heir who is the author of tangos.

Two desert vultures, flying around over the desert, see a menu tossed out of a passing train. They acquire it and get an appetite for Rabbit Stew, the featured item of the day on the AT&SF diner-car. They track a bunny rabbit but are foiled by a Dingbat (no, not Edith Bunker) in their efforts to make stew out of the little bunny rabbit. Just as they think they have completed their quest they learn, that the Dingbat has substituted a hornet's-nest for the rabbit.

While a drought and debts overwhelm a farmer, the arrival of a Polish visitor will make him see the world in another way.

About the new maid Snuttan

Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.

A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.

Development prospects for bus transport in the early 1950s. The film, directed by Harry Lewing, presents express and local bus services as well as the services of the bus stations in Helsinki, Tampere and Lahti. The film features a staged filler story: the Suomela family goes on holiday in a bus and arrives at the gate of their summer estate...

Maryada was a Bengali drama film directed by Digambar Chattopadhyay. This movie was released on 15 December 1950 under the banner of Bhabani Kalamandir Limited. This is the third and first movie in which legendary Bengali actors Uttam Kumar and Bibhu Bhattacharya appeared respectively. In this movie, Uttam Kumar leaps on a song for the first time in his career.

A lost film by Eric Rohmer. 16mm

In this short 20 minute black and white Belgian documentary, the director, Paul Haesaerts, visualised Pablo Picasso’s flow of imagination when the Spanish painter drew on large glass plates in front of the camera – like a live show of a greatest artist in performing a few masterstrokes that outlines a dove, bull, flower, man or woman and whatnot. (This technique of filming his painting from the other side of the glass plates precedes The Mystery of Picasso (1956), another famous documentary film on Picasso). (via http://www.kubrickians.com/2012/07/08/visite-picasso-1949-paul-haesaert/)

Yasmine is the daughter of a wealthy man who was not interested in females, so he left her at the door of an orphanage. She grows up in the orphanage, then runs away from it to join a gang of children. She meets a musician who tries to protect her, so he convinces her to work with him and sing, but she gets tired of the life of poverty and runs away from him. After her escape, he discovers that she is the granddaughter of a Pasha, so he tries to help her return to her family.

A mediocre conductor unscrupulously steals his friend's—a piano teacher's—wife. At first, the piano teacher wants to shoot his rival, but then, surprisingly, he abandons his thoughts of revenge—a piano concerto he composed in prison ultimately brings the three main characters together in peace.

When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.

Madman or Scientist? See this amazing comedy-mystery teeming with giant animals, and tiny human beings. A thousand and one thrills and laughs.

Although they have loved each other since childhood without admitting it, a surgeon and a young woman see their love thwarted by life.

Considered to be the earliest surviving example of a British play-to-screen drama, this served as a pilot for an anthology series called ‘The Man Who Walks by Night’ where a Silver Shroud type figure tells a different tale of mystery and suspense each week. It was approved of generally, but a freeze on funding brought it to a premature end. In this entry, a wealthy man who’s made many enemies, including his soon to be ex-wife, his ex-partner in crime and the son of a business partner he drove to suicide. He invites them to dinner to tempt fate, the sheer thrill enthralling him. But will he survive?

Mexican romantic musical.

Brother and sister bumpkins move to the big city, where they fall into the orbit of a gigolo-pimp type.

A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.

A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948 on "Here Come the Huggetts".

After a crazy night spent at Maxim's, Doctor Montgicourt returns home with the Môme Shrimp. General Petypon invites her to his castle for the engagement of his niece and Lieutenant Corrignon, the kid's lover. The reception is likely to be very busy...

In exchange for the life of a Norwegian fisherman, a bankrupt industrialist gives his soul to the devil.

Two police officers lie dead. The swede Ekstrøm and the youngster Gustav flees the scene of the crime. Based on a real double murder in 1926, this movie remained almost unseen for 57 years. When the film was set to premiere in 1950 one of the murderers, having served a full sentence, went to court to have the film stopped.

Two brothers with different personalities, one bold and impulsive the other serious and introverted, separate their lives after their father's death, to converge again time after to share a common interest for the same woman, yet for very different reasons.

A gang of thieves plan a hit on a warehouse filled with precious stuff.

Documentary about the emergence of the strike movement in the iron ore mines of Rudňa in Slovakia. The miner Michal Ogurčák introduced a new way of mining iron ore here, overcame initial misunderstandings, and eventually inspired 160 followers to perform striking feats by his example.

A powerful storm is brewing at Villa Sonnenschein. Mr. and Mrs. Jaconis have declared total marital war on each other. Jealous Hedy insists on the dismissal of her longtime servant Max, who is too adept at covering up her husband's amorous past, the successful author Dr. Jaconis. Max leaves, and the newly hired servant Ferdinand arrives. When the two meet one night, a fateful mix-up of suitcases occurs. Max suspects that his successor must be a criminal and feels obligated to protect his former employer from harm. He secretly returns to the villa. When Hedy's friend Lilly and the publisher Dr. Ravestyn also arrive, the house becomes a battle arena. Everyone suspects everyone else, and adultery and breach of trust, murder, and manslaughter are just some of the accusations that are leveled...

Josette, the daughter of a hotel-casino owner on the French Riviera is wooed by Pradier, a young gambler she (and everyone else) mistakes for the Prince of Austravia. On the other hand another young man starts courting her and she does not feel insensitive to his advances. What she does not know is that Monsieur Lefèvre, whom she feels so much to her liking, is actually the real prince of Austravia. When the Austravian revolution dethrones the prince, the young man has only one citadel left to conquer: Josette's heart.

In the heart of Savo, police officer Kontkanen is searching for Heikki, a man suspected of selling alcohol. At the same time, he tries to catch the ram that has escaped from Piiroinen's farm and win the heart of Annastiina, the farmer's daughter, who is also sought after by other suitors.

1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.