Cinematic Era: 1959 Vintage

"The Werewolf (1959)" is about a werewolf.

Serving a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems, his wife is about to go into labor with their first baby.

A Terrytoons cartoon of 1959 with Gaston le Crayon

Erich Kubak is an excavator operator at the lignite plant. A technical weakness in the excavator, which repeatedly leads to production downtime, is causing problems for everyone. Erich works on an improvement, but this is not accepted by the chief engineer. On his own initiative, Erich carries out an experiment and causes a great deal of damage. He is dismissed as excavator operator and then resigns. Meanwhile, his son Ewald, who also works at the plant, manages to interest the chief engineer in his father's improvement proposal. Together they work on perfecting it. When Erich finds out about this, he returns to the factory.

Story of an old university professor, who accidentally becomes involved in the activities of the resistance movement.

Portrait of Spike Milligan, then part of The Goon Show examining his views on comedy,

Sheepdog Glen, accused of sheep killing on the Romney Marshes, is cleared by the efforts of his two youthful owners in time for the Sheepdog Trials.

October, 1956. Colonel lieutenant Szabó sends a platoon with the mission of calming the people demonstrating in the town. The platoon is lined up under the command of Lieutenant Csendes and the soldiers aim at the demonstrators. Szusza Kis changes sides, and Csendes is unable to shoot at his childhood mate. They withdraw.

An industrial film sponsored by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company promoting the "Cleveland Corridor," an 85-mile corner of northeast Ohio between the port cities of Conneaut and Cleveland, as "the best location in the nation" for industrial business. This 16mm film is from the Cinecraft Productions collection at the Hagley Museum and Library.

Magoo thinks he’s entering a talent show but ends up at a dentist.

Husein is brought to trial after trying to commit suicide. He refuses to give an explanation until he is forced to. Then he begins his story. Husein enters university with help from his unmarried brother, Hasan, who dedicates his life for Husein and his sister Munah who has a heart ailment. But when Hasan meets Rahimah, Husein’s friend, Wahab, gets jealous as he considers her as his girlfriend. Wahab is very bitter about this and swears revenge. At Munah’s urging, Hasan marries Rahimah. Their happiness is short-lived since Wahab starts to woo Rahimah. After Husein punches Wahab, the latter starts spreading slander. He tells Hasan that Husein is sleeping with Rahimah. Jealousy and rage start to build up and Husein and the pregnant Rahimah are thrown out of the house.

Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina.

The bizarre story of a play's development at Munich's Kammerspiele theatre.

Your favorite teenage stars in a story about today's youth rollicking their way thru life.

Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Near the city of Verny, surrounded by Cossack patrols, the paths of three friends diverge. Instead of his native aul, Nartai finds only ruins. The death of his mother, the disappearance of his fiancée, and the oppression from the stanitsa ataman — all this forces Nartai to join the revolutionary struggle. Hunger and poverty, and pleas for bread greet the blacksmith Azim in his native Zhetysu. A Cossack horse kills Azim’s little son with a kick of its hoof when the boy reaches for scattered grains of bread. Grief turns the blacksmith into the leader of a starving, rebellious crowd. The fate of the third soldier is not easy either. Pavel Zernov, pausing only briefly at the bedside of his dying little son, hastens to rejoin his comrades who have gone underground.

A squad of PLA traces bandits in the desert.

Visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings, while an off-screen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of Akbar (1542-1605), who united what is now India and Pakistan, and his son Jahangir (1569-1627). Two schools of the miniature paintings, done by anonymous artists, flourished after Akbar established unity and peace across what had been many smaller states: the Moghul (Islamic) school and the Rajput (Hindu) school. The Moghul paintings record the events of the court, while the Rajput school connects physical beauty and, in particular, the longing of women to the transcendent values of the spirit.

Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.

Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.

On May 2, 1808 the Spanish took up arms against Napoleon. The war are surprised by a traveling company of actors formed by Damian and their four daughters. Rosita, the eldest, is in love with a revolutionary, but Duvalliers, a French officer, also sought. Circumstances beyond all that Rosita can support: conflict views that cause her two suitors, the love of family, his duty as a patriot ... Having become human torch accidentally Rosita launches into a tinderbox and thereby causes the beginning of a decisive battle against the French.

Amshir works as a bodyguard in the cabaret owned by his Medhat al-Shamshiri, and a court sentences Medhat to a month in prison after he burned the mustache of a wealthy Upper Egyptian named al-Najawi. Amshir goes to prison instead of Medhat for money. in meanwhile Medhat relation with Azhar (al-Najawi girl) is revealed to Sohair (Medhat Fiance).

The Great Patriotic War. Death in the whistle of every bullet, every shell. Burning buildings, hungry people in the basement. How many people passed through the land of fire - patient, courageous, silent. Cameraman Vladimir Sushkov walked next to them, creating a harsh tale of those who were and were not in the war ...

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

Kaius Kannisto a bachelor who has experienced hard on the love front, goes through his relationships with his four former female friends, the four queens of the deck of cards.

A short film by Joseph Losey.

Harpo and Chico play Harry and Nick, two inept would-be robbers who try to pull a jewelry heist.

A made-for-television play about an exiled Polish Army lieutenant faced with his darkest secret.

Taiwanese horror movie from 1959.

Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.

Biographical movie about a 9th century Persian poet, Rudaqi.

Ignazio Buttitta, in front of a billboard with drawn representations, narrates the problems of Sicily in the manner of Sicilian storytellers. This is followed by images of the poor life of the people in the barracks of the Sicilian countryside and the uncomfortable conditions of a school. Poverty does not spare even the middle classes, who live in such conditions as to be forced to emigrate anyway. Ignazio Buttitta explains how the natural riches of Sicily do not end up for the benefit of the population. The composition of the Sicilian parliament, the conquests of the PCI, the administrative embezzlements of the DC are also illustrated. Buttitta ends with the memory of Salvatore Carnevale, dedicating a song to him.

The wedding anthology consists of four stories 'Pamanhikan' (starring Susan Roces and Jose Mari), 'Pikot' (Amalia Fuentes and Romeo Vasquez), 'Tanan' (Barbara Perez and Greg Martin), and 'Honeymoon' (Gloria Romero and Juancho Gutierrez).

A shy young man, Tony, lives with his two aunts. The aunts are rather old-fashioned and, because they are very attached to their nephew, they prevent him from getting married. But that's without counting on two other cousins who are determined to find a wife for Tony and get him married.

The second installment in the crime reporter series, this is a full-fledged crime reporter film depicting a scoop battle among crime reporters surrounding a mysterious murder and an unlicensed blood sampling service operating in the shadows of Greater Tokyo.

A Shaw Brothers production.

Lin Tian-liang (George Wang), head of the Lanshan Forestry Station, returns to his hometown and reunites with childhood friend Chun-mei (Wu Ching-hung). Their bond deepens while fighting a forest fire. But fellow villager Chou Chin-fa (Ching Miao), scheming for Chun-mei, causes trouble and even sets the forest ablaze before fleeing. Five years later, thanks to Tian-liang and Chun-mei’s efforts, reforestation thrives. The two finally unite as a couple, and Chin-fa is captured—bringing the story to a happy ending.

At the very moment of her birth, ill-fated Chhaya's mother passes away, her dad loses his job, and their house burns down. She is shunned since then by children her age as well as their parents. Her dad brings her up with a lot of love, and even arranges her marriage with a young man, whose mother, uncle and nephew approve of Chhaya. But when the uncle finds out about Chhaya's past, they reject her. This news kills her dad, and Chhaya re-locates to live with her friend, Leela Lal, who lives a middle-class lifestyle with her husband, Murari, and her mother-in-law, who is very superstitious and never lets Leela out of her sight. Murari and Leela introduce her to Prakash, an airline pilot, and both eventually fall in love with each other. When Prakash takes her with him to meet his mom, Chhaya finds out that she is the same woman who rejected her and abruptly leaves without meeting anyone.

A juvenile delinquent escapes the hall and responses to ad of the parents who lost their son in WWII. After being accepted with much love and care, he reconsiders his initial plan to rob the family.

In the mid-1950s Henan countryside, communist youth league member Xian Yue responds to the call of the county committee, signing up to participate in the youth commando team, as do the little sisters. Laoxin Yue and other elders firmly oppose the women going up the mountain, think it it is nonsense, unlucky and so on. In response to the feudal remnants of the discussion, Xian Yue does not compromise, carrying out a face-to-face struggle and eventually leading the commando members up the mountain.

Nothing frightens Madeline-- not tigers, not even mice-- but how about troublesome young ambassadors? Can she and Pepito ever get along? With its endearing, courageous heroine, cheerful humor, and wonderful, whimsical drawings of Paris, the Madeline stories are true classics that continue to charm readers even after 75 years. In this next adventure, Madeline has a new neighbor who she does not like so much.

A mother finds a unique method of fulfilling her son's desire to own a pet elephant.

Comedic musical film in which Iskelmä OY's manager has to deal with rising stars and old seniors.

A film adaptation of a short story by O. Henry. In a small neighborhood in Greenwich Village, two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, live in a three-story building. Johnsy has contracted pneumonia and is on the verge of death. Outside her window, leaves are falling from the ivy. Johnsy is convinced that as soon as the last leaf falls, she will die. In the same building, on the ground floor, lives the unsuccessful artist Behrman, who year after year dreams of painting a masterpiece but never even attempts to realize his dream. Academic student film work of the Department of Cinematography at Vserossiyskiy gosudarstvyennyy institut kinematografii imyeni S. A. Gerasimova (VGIK).

Short experimental film.

A naive man Mahrous from Upper Egypt arrives in Cairo meets a fraudster. The fraudster feels that Mahrous has reassured him that he can sell him the famous green threshold square

Egorov, a young hunter, dreams of catching a tiger. Traveling through the remote corners of the Soviet Union, Egorov comprehends the difficult profession of a trapper.