Cinematic Era: 1959 Vintage

Ludwik Sempoliński as a professor at the State Higher School of Theater Arts in Warsaw.

Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.

Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia's unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.

A crew of happy ne'er do wells comes to town to gamble and party during the town fair... but then their leader gets serious about a local girl and about finding the rustlers who are stealing all of her daddy's horses.

A 1959 movie of a phantom that terrorizes a local community.

A lonely boy finds companionship with a horse.

Based on the novel Qijian Xia Tianshan.

Research results of enormous value are stolen from the experimental laboratory of a chemical company in the fictitious town of Bärenfurt in the GDR and seized at the Berlin sector border. The trail leads to the agent "Haas" at the Bärenfurt municipal theater. Captain Jentsch is at the theater to uncover his identity and arrest him. A murder takes place during the "Fiesco" premiere. Many people are suspects, including the head of the theater, Born, who is engaged to the actress Vera and has a conspicuously apolitical attitude. It is no easy task for the security officers to distinguish between reality and appearance in this milieu. Through precise work, they succeed in unmasking the perpetrator and arresting him after a chase through the theater.

A puppet fairy tale about a disobedient train that did not just want to carry coal and drove to return to his work after a sad experience.

The action takes place during the great Patriotic war. Nurse Maret considered the Director of the clinic a decent person, although he tries to remain politically neutral in relation to the occupiers. One day, a severely wounded Communist underground worker, Thomas, was admitted to the clinic. After performing a complex operation, the doctor restored his life. Nurse Maret was nursing a patient. But then the doctor hands Thomas over to the Gestapo. Outraged patients angrily condemn the doctor's action.

A truant twin is compelled to take over the life of her married deceased sister.

Mahishasura Mardini is a 1959 Indian Kannada-language film, directed and produced by B. S. Ranga. The film stars Rajkumar, V. Nagayya, Udaykumar and Narasimharaju. It was dubbed in seven other languages and is retrospectively identified as amongst the first major Pan-India films.

Father Barrera, a newly ordained priest, returns from Rome to join the national forces as a military chaplain. The horrors of war produce in him a commotion so great that panic dominates him and he is not able to overcome it. After spending some time on the front line, they send him to the rear. There, his superior, Captain Estrada, meets Cristina, a young nurse.

Everyone considered Sashko a mischief maker, but he dreamed of heroism. One day the boy was invited to act in a movie. Together with the entire film crew, Sashko went on his first expedition. But the war began. The wounded Sashko was rescued and rescued by a peasant woman, and when he recovered, she equipped him for a long journey - home to Kyiv. He reached his hometown, where the Nazis were already in control, and soon, having contacted the partisans, Sashko began to help them.

The train goes to Moscow. In the same carriage with the railway workers who are going to the meeting, there is a Chinese writer collecting material for his future novel about the people of Soviet Kazakhstan. He discovers an old newspaper in his archive. The newspaper contains photos of the best drummers — builders of Turksib: Ospan, Hakim, Boris, Hadisha and others. They turn out to be the writer's neighbors on the car — yesterday's ordinary workers, builders, now the most prominent statesmen, heads of railways. At the request of the writer, Ospan tells a touching story of their life and love.

Ajit is a poor farmer who has mortgaged his land with Zamindar Haridas. Ajit gets in the bad books of Haridas, and as a result he loses his house and property, on the very day of his sister's marriage. Ajit loses his temper and assaults Haridas, and as a result is arrested and imprisoned. His sister, Parvati, on her own now, gets molested, but is rescued in the nick of time by Haridas' son, Dr. Manohar, who eventually marries her, much to the anger of his dad. When Ajit is released from prison, he comes to Haridas' house with a sharp knife, bent on vengeance at any cost, not knowing that his sister is married in this family.

Tired of living a dog's life, Julius the dog leaves home and decides to be human for a while. The canine steals a new suit of clothes and buys a cigar so that he'll look like a human. Masquerading as a gentleman around town, he runs into the horrors of gambling, gangsters and French restaurants.

Steelworker Ding Da-gan suffered severe burns in an accident. The victim's condition was almost hopeless, but people from all over the country rallied to save Ding Da-gan's life, and death receded.

Sasha and Katya love each other. The wedding has already been scheduled, Sasha is just about to go on a business trip...

An array of brave 1950s water skiing girls and guys bring a bit of Hollywood glamour to the chilly waters of Loch Earn.

HK crime drama thriller film.

Düse, a clever tinkerer, has built himself a toy rocket. Due to the clumsiness of his friend Moppel, an uncontrolled launch is triggered and the rocket flies away. As it is nowhere to be found, the children and the tractor driver Hans suspect it is on its way to the moon.

In the late 1950s, during China’s Great Leap Forward, Shanghai housewives participated, supported by Dai Mama from the neighbourhood committee. Liu Mama opposed her daughter-in-law Wang Caifeng’s involvement, wanting her to stay home, but her son Liu Genfa supported Caifeng. Zheng Baoqing also opposed his wife Cai Guizhen joining the production group, but Cai ignored him, organised her household, and led the sewing group. Dai Mama helped persuade Zheng Baoqing to change his mind. Lu Afeng joined the sewing group out of fear they would borrow her machine but felt ashamed when they made coats for the children’s welfare home.

A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.

The film centers on the story of newlyweds Inga and Heinz. Heinz works in the western sector of Berlin. A gang of crooks involved in various shady dealings tries to draw Heinz into their dark affairs. However, after accidentally learning about the "activities" of his "friends," Heinz informs the police about the impending crime. The gang is arrested.

The dwarfs of the Carnaval Catamarqueño party (La Chaya) and their actions over the muleteers.

A spoiled bride mistreats her husband, but a chance encounter with a kind village girl in the hills ignites desire, jealousy, and a story of love, class, and destiny.

A sleep-walking baby owl finds its way in Herman's house, and the friendly mouse makes friends with it. But the owl arouses Katnip, who takes out after it, but Herman always manages to rescue the little owl. The owl finally makes a nest for its self out of Katnip's fur which Herman has stripped off.

At East High, students resent the admission of Bruce—an unseen classmate their parents have warned them to avoid. But when an unexpected incident unfolds, they are forced to confront and reconsider their own prejudice.

A one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire.

The first televised broadcast covering the wonders of Amateur Radio presented on Johns Hopkins File 7 on the fledgling ABC network in 1959

After a gruesome meeting with the tax authorities Alex Alexander takes a drive in the countryside to calm down. While driving, he accidentally runs into an elephant from a circus. When he is stopped by the police and tells them about the elephant they think he is crazy. He is committed to an asylum by the very authorities his taxes are funding. The doctor tries to convince him that the elephants were not really there, but he gets more help from manic fellow patient Knudsen who makes him realize that everybody in the world is crazy in some way.

Hamid Nokhodchi who claims having received a PhD in cinema comes back to Iran, but he fails to launch a successful film career. He meet a girl called Manijeh and they pledge to get married. While Hamid is on a trip to shoot a film, Manikeh notices some changes in her feeling. Visiting a doctor, she is advised to undergo a sex change surgery...

Jim Backus (the voice of Mister Magoo) narrates a look behind the scenes at UPA Pictures during the development of the feature-length animated film "1001 Arabian Nights".

A man falls in love with a woman who leads him to commit a robbery, when he is released from prison he takes refuge in a convent.

Éva and Árpi are married, but have no home on their own. On Thursdays, they meet in Árpi's long vehicle. Renting a room from a head tenant would be too expensive. The ad of an old lady found in a newspaper, in which she offers a room free of charge to the person who finds her lost parrot, comes in handy.

Hassan and Marika An Egyptian film starring Ismail Yassin, Maha Sabri and Abdel Salam Nabulsi, written by Abu Al-Saud Al-Abiari. Hassan (Ismail Yassin) is in love with a Greek girl Marika (Maha Sabri), who eventually discovers that her father is an Egyptian, and Riyad al-Qasabji plays the role.

A mad scientist invents an anti-gravity machine, and is using it to create havoc on earth. Casper, the Friendly Ghost, gets involved with the mad-man and eventually forces him to destroy the machine and bring earth back to earth.

In 1959 the United Nations commissioned Lye to make this one-minute film, “Fountain of Hope,” to publicize United Nations Day (24th October). The film was screened worldwide in cinemas and on television. Lye superimposed the word for “peace” in many different languages over some of his kinetic sculptures, while a United Nations choir sang related music by Henry Brant that combined many national styles. Lye’s work was selected because the United Nations wanted to overcome language barriers, using visual images with a strong emotional impact and “universal appeal”. Lye was delighted to be associated with a message of world peace.

We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home. It's night, she sees his reflection in the window, she closes the drapes. After sex, again in a black and white negative, they sit, smoke, have coffee. They kiss, she smiles. They light candles. The images are often quick, the camera angles occasionally are off kilter; the room is sometimes dark and sometimes lit, as if lit by the rotating of a searchlight. The images again appear in negative when they return to bed.

The struggle between the LO and SAF and history of the labor movement

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos.

Three wives launch a sex strike to put their domineering husbands in their place!

In the 1950s, an army reconnaissance group finds an enemy spy organization lurking in a coastal town in southeast China intending to collect military intelligence.

Life of three friends - Aram, Ruben, and Gohar - who went from Armenia to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) to study just as World War II started. Severe life lessons change the frivolous Ruben.

Magoo ends up at the zoo instead of his college homecoming.