Cinematic Era: 1956 Vintage

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Heer is the story of two lovers, after the mythical Punjabi legend of Heer and Ranjhna. It tells their thwarted love, and how beautiful Heer and intrepid Ranjhna must fight to reunite in spite of obstacles and enemies. The two lovers belong to opposing tribes/families and villains are out and out to separate them. During a fair where her champion has been tricked, Heer is promised to somebody of her clan. The defeated hero wonders in the wilderness and meets with witches who direct him to his beloved. In spite of having fallen from princehood to beggarhood, he thus gets back to her, and they hope to marry, but Ranjhna's enemies are still looking for him, and they stalk him. A trap is laid to capture Ranjhna and to stop any further common plan, Heer is married to her rightful suitor. She plans suicide, but Ranjhna arrives, he tries to drag her away, but he's seen in her apartments and therefore she's declared impure and is condemned to the dungeons.

Cameraman Claude Gabriëls, well known for his work with Henri Storck and Paul Meyer, has made this beautiful evocation of a snowy day in Brussels.

Alexander Scourby narrates this fascinating look at Western culture between 1914 and 1918, when the nations of Europe, and later America, plunged into a level of warfare unlike any known before. Note: Originally part of Project XX, this film was also distributed separately on 16mm for schools and libraries, qualifying it as a standalone documentary.

The pensioners living in the Iltarusko Foundation building are joined by a new resident, Director Korpioja. He brings with him his new secretary, Mirjami, whose presence brings variety to the daily routine maintained by the strict housekeeper.

Black Tulip

Abdel Aal forces his daughter Samira to marry a wealthy man. After his death, they discover his will to deprive his entire family of his wealth, except for his widow Samira, on the condition that she remain a widow and not marry after him. Asem, her husband's brother, tries to exploit the situation and force her to marry. She flees to Egypt, meets Magdy, falls in love with him, and is forced to impersonate a maid so that her secret is not revealed.

Skorpan acts in a pick pocket show at the local amusement park.

Suduria, the head of his village and part of the influential landlord class, falls in love with Nidhi, a low-caste untouchable.

A young bohemian who dreams of succeeding as a painter will eventually succeed as a singer.

A young orphan boy who has always wanted to be a rodeo rider meets and befriends his idol, world champion rodeo rider Casey Tibbs.

The story of David and Miriam, a Jewish refugee couple settling in an immigrant camp in the Israeli desert. Disheartened by the conditions in the immigrant camp, Miriam attempts to reach Haifa in the hope of reuniting with her family in Marocco. David goes after her, trying to bring her back safely. Miriam learns from the people she meets about reasons to stay and develop young Israel.

A trio of seedy gangsters, Gigi, Totor and Jo, manage to snatch a suitcase of diamonds, which they promptly lose. The precious luggage is recovered by Ernest Mamourette, a distracted salesman. The police suspect him of being behind the hold-up and the safe. Gigi reappears under the identity of a certain Countess Olga and expresses her desire to marry Mamourette, who is released from prison, and is drawn into a burglary at the home of the real Countess, who, on the point of committing suicide, is reunited with Ernest, her beloved husband, whom she thought had disappeared.

Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.

Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.

After the end of WWII engineer Lobanov is trying to introduce the invention he made together with his friend during the war.

Philippe Marcillac grew up in Sète, where he specialized in pranks of dubious taste. One day, as a teenager, he organizes a party in an abandoned villa. Philipe finds himself alone with Marie-Titite, who advises him to restart his life on a more serious footing.

Amar and Malti live an idyllic, loving life with their son Raja. However, Amar makes enemies in his job and is killed, forcing Malti to remarry.

A Hindi-language costume drama film directed by Mohammed Husain, starring Shammi Kapoor, Nadira, and Kumkum.

Auto racing at Daytona presented in exciting wide screen glory.

Publicist on a movie set invents a romance between two stars, and then they start getting all mushy for real. But one of them's married, uh-oh.

Peter and his friends find unexpected and exciting adventures when all their wishes are granted by a magic marble.

Hong Kong movie

The "Foyer de la Jeune Fille" takes in teenage girls who have no family of their own, their birth not having been well received. As a result of a peccadillo, Jenny is deprived of her planned trip to Yugoslavia. With the help of a forged postcard, she creates a false uncle in Yugoslavia. The headmistress authorized her trip, but Jenny had to deal with the help offered by Dragan, a sympathetic student, and the curiosity of the local authorities. But love comes, difficulties melt away and Dragan makes a good husband.

Federal police agent goes undercover to bust rural crime ring. Series western.

Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through her father's self-imposed gloom and helps him to regenerate. An adaptation of the novel 'A Grand Man', by Catherine Cookson.

Report on the activities of the Spanish journalists. Series of separate episodes of various kinds, including almost all the areas normally covered by the national journalism, from sports to chronicle events.

Fabergé animals in a Russian influenced Easter tale.

A small town boy heads for the lights of the big city and discovers the delights of hard liquor and fast women. Ere long, he becomes an addict, a dope peddler and a shop-lifter to obtain money for drugs.

HK horror crime.

On his way home, Don Simone meets his friend Ciccillo, who asks him for a favor: to entertain the husband of a woman, his lover, until they find the keys to her house. Simone accepts the task and his friend points out a man sitting in a pizzeria as the lover's husband. After a series of mishaps, however, poor Simone discovers that the man had nothing to do with it and that the person Ciccillo wanted to entertain was actually him.

Baby Huey sees some little ducks playing pirate and wants to join in, but when he jumps on their raft, he sends them flying into the hungry fox's frying pan. Huey accidentally frees them when he jumps onto the fox in his enthusiasm to join them. The fox decides he'd rather pursue the gigantic Huey than the tiny ducklings, and when he overhears Huey wishing he could play pirate, the fox dresses as a pirate aboard a convenient nearby replica pirate ship.

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number of bachelors, ranging from simple farmhand Väinö to sophisticated young student Armas whom she meets when working for a charming old professor. However, Silja's health starts to deteriorate, and when the Finnish Civil War breaks up in 1918, she is inadvertently involved in a small incident after which her loyalties are questioned by both the Reds and the Whites.

Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he teases it to the surface, he solves the case.

Follows the life of the Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya.

A side show snake man who dreams of becoming a drummer tries to save a blind flower girl.

The weaknesses and shortcomings in the work of some leaders in the years of the building of socialism are ridiculed.

The story takes place in a boarding house, on the verge of bankruptcy, where the most different characters parade: a solitary woman, a womanizer singer, a musical group, an unemployed doctor, a football player and a radio singer, and where everyone gets involved to pay the mortgage that threatened the pension.

First film for two legends Ahmad Rushdi and Lehri.

About a love triangle between the soldiers 32 Svensson and 58 Jönsson and the girl Blenda. Both men ends up in jail, for different reasons. Further adventures and incidents occur.

The soccer team of the company sports association "BSG Hartenfels" is going downhill. New training methods - based on scientific findings - are needed, says Paul Schmidt. But he runs up against the star striker Wieland, whose friends naturally stick by him. So water sportswoman Ruth, deputy chairwoman of the BSG, decides to use female cunning to change the situation for the better. She and her friends Lilo and Uschi want to "work" the unruly ones. In the end, there is indeed a victory - on the sports field - and two happy couples.

Two local toughs run a ramshackle gambling and dating den under the cover of a "hunting club." The place is frequented by all sorts of characters, from the upper crust of Naples to petty criminals who use it as a base of operations, and the noise is such that it won't take much to blow their cover.

This is a typical story from the 'cold war' era. A group of kids play on a quiet street in Sofia. From a nearby window falls a key. The helpful youngsters quickly return it to the owner, but in the haste switch the keys. The unintentional error disentangles a whole spy story. The young detectives doubt the good intentions of the man they tried to help. It turns out that the key is from a secret apartment where saboteurs are hiding. The secret network is exposed to the authorities and the kids feel like heroes.

A story set in post-war Helsinki, where the last released prisoners of war arrive. They are accompanied by Captain Erkki Lahtinen, who returns to his home and back to his wife Jenni. However, during his four-year imprisonment, Erkki has been pronounced dead and Jenni has remarried to office manager Nevamaa.

Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll and all their friends chasing Sotisarna, who has stolen Plåt-Niklas propeller.

Sylvester Cat chases Tweety Bird while Tweety narrates. The chase takes them out of the city to the country, straight into a mine field, down a ski slope, and to the middle of a wooden bridge, where Sylvster stupidly saws a hole, with himself in its center.

A 1956 LOST Indian Bengali film starring Mahanayak Uttam Kumar.

Visualizes traffic problems and cites statistics concerning these problems. Suggests three major considerations in the reduction of traffic problems: engineering, education, and enforcement. Emphasizes the traffic court judge's responsibility in enforcement and discusses how a judge can most effectively deal with each case so that people will leave the courtroom with respect for law courts and an awareness of their responsibilities toward observing the rules of the road.

A man wanders aimlessly through Havana, having several surreal encounters.