Cinematic Era: 1955 Vintage

1955 bollywood film

A woman seduces a father of a family, altering his structures and the family relationship.

Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has super strengths and becomes an unbeatable athlete.

An experienced archer meets a rich man who helps her settle in the city.

A tour of Trans-Canada Airlines’ maintenance shops in Winnipeg before taking off for a trial flight on the British-built Vickers Viscount airplane, the first propeller-turbine airliner.

Gunner-gunner Corporal Vasily Kochetkov meets Valya Gradskaya, a saleswoman at the military trade center, and becomes a frequent guest in her family. He soon realizes that the girl and her grandmother are spies. Kochetkov informs the command of his suspicions and is given the task of continuing to play the role of the groom.

The concert film, which includes performances by amateur performers, as well as famous artists from North Korea, includes folk songs and dances.

With the grand opening of Disneyland just a matter of days away, Walt Disney brings us an update on the construction of the new magic kingdom. Winston Hibler narrates scenes depicting the construction on the attarctions and settings in the park as work speeds up to meet the deadline before opening day.

This documentary shows the construction of a high-altitude dam by the Sabbioni Glacier, and the daily struggles of the workers, now anxious for the outbreak of a mine, now silent for the nostalgia of the distant family.

Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.

Hurvinek cannot go to a circus because he injured himself when sliding down the stair rail. He daydreams that he is an acrobat riding a scooter and an animal-trainer taming beasts. (MUBI)

A family goes on holiday, abandoning the little girl’s dog.

Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop.

As a prank and out of curiosity, a childless landowner fakes his death. The greedy relatives who rush to the castle find themselves faced with an original will clause. It provides for an election act from which the testator's illegitimate daughter emerges as the winner.

Irresponsible playboy pop-singer gets a girl pregnant and rejects his responsibility for the baby. Ten years later, his career has tanked and he makes amends.

A proper Edwardian lady patiently endures the ever-increasing disruption to her quiet household when her Truelove gives her all the items from the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

A historical film based on the struggle of the Montenegrins for their independence.

Local gal in a fishing/seaport resort has to decide between a local fisherman and a doctor who comes for vacations.

At the end of 1954, Eduardo Ducay, Juan Julio Baena and Carlos Saura travelled to the region of Sanabria (province of Zamora) to make a commissioned documentary on the construction of a system of reservoirs. Much of the filmed material was unusable due to a technical problem, but Ducay rescued part of it and combined it with voice-over to construct a work on absences.

A story about a father's love for his family, making a supreme sacrifice to give them a new lease on life.

A 1955 Italian independent film, released in the USA in 1956, which is basically a travelogue telling four stories, each about a different island in the South Pacific. Native customs, tribal rites,ceremonial procedure, courtships, and feats of strength and courage are depicted. The test of courage, for males, on one island , is a leap from a high wooden tower to the ground with a thin vine wrapped around their ankle breaking the fall at the last minute. The first bungee-jumpers?

Documentary short about an anual football game being helf in Florence, Tuscany in Italy dating back to medieval times.

The story of the piper Švanda, who went abroad for money and fame, but whose love for his homeland ultimately wins.

1955 Kannada film

The legend of the romance between Mughal prince Salim and Anarkali.

A man wakes on a clifftop with no memory of who he is or how he got there and has to piece toigether what happened to him.

During the April Fair in Seville neighborhood of Santa Cruz, Antonio, in love with Coral, will meet Esteban, her boyfriend. The end result is that Antonio is hurt and Esteban goes to prison. To avoid gossip, Coral asks his brother of moving. Cotufo agrees and the two move to a mansion in which, according to legend, lived a Christian and the daughter of a Moorish king, who died of grief of love.

What kind of a woman was this? Her first name was 'ROSANA', her middle name spelled 'HATRED', and her last name ended in 'VENGEANCE.'

The son of an ailing nobleman returns to France to clear his name and prove where the true guilt lies.

A boy lies and dreams in his bed in the kitchen, wakes up and takes a kitchen knife with him to bed and falls asleep. He dreams that he kills everyone at a game table, except for his father, whom he takes out on a tram ride. The boy wakes up again and waits for the father to come home and when he does, the mother and the father quarrel about something. The morning comes and the boy goes out, finally ends up at the beer café where the father and his beer friends are sitting.

Wintry snowfall in a factory yard contrasts with the furnaces burning within. This film follows the eye of the firm's accountant as he traces waste and excess about the works. The concerns for fuel efficiency and reducing pollution are all about economy, even when the narration talks of coal heating up the atmosphere. Among the wastrels are the workers, who are shooed away from a warming stove.

A story about the optical halo effect, which appears as a secondary glow around a light source. The scientific approach to the halo is opposed to superstition and outdated ideas.

A film adaptation of André Gide's book The Pastoral Symphony.

The tale of "Andher Nagari Chaupat Raja" revolves around a poor father and his daughter. There is a villager who has an ugly daughter.

Musical rhythms inspired by work activities. Between 1974 and 1976, Leon Hirszman held three documentaries produced by the MEC about the songs of the rural workers in northeastern Brazil. In the trilogy, there is the documentation of the work songs of sugar cane, in Feira de Santana, the growers of cocoa, in Itabuna, and team workers in Chã Preta.

After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord persecutes the former, takes away his family's rented vineyard and wine barrels, de facto dismantling this family. The young man returns on his father's funeral, and meets his old love again.

Sent to a hostel as a punishment, a rebellious lad leads a revolt and creates havoc in the institution.

In Upper Bavaria, 6 different characters meet in a 1st class train compartment.

It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, find themselves in this predicament. They need to find a subtenant quickly to avoid the possibility of the housing commission sending a woman, God forbid it, to live with them. Abel's acquaintance, an assessor, recommends his nephew Kaino as the perfect choice.

Magoo has been enlisted as the male lead in Mrs. Sticknee's vanity production opera. On his way to the stage, he winds up in the rafters and causes havoc, cutting the various lines, standing in front of a spotlight, falling down stairs and trying to enter through a trap door the diva is standing on, and eventually crashing into a control board, triggering a snowstorm.

Promotional film for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).

Andy's nephew is about to get engaged, but his rival uses trickery to try to get it called off.

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.

After the war, young yachtsmen from the coastal town deal with daily work, training and competitions without knowing about the downside. Suddenly, mysterious events start to happen, testing the vigilance, ideological and moral beliefs of the local people.

A humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her sister's lover.