The Best Movies Of 1956

A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.

A newspaper publisher is trying to expose the incompetence of the city's district attorney by talking his son-in-law into a hoax. Tom is suspected of killing a female nightclub dancer. Tom is going to...

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, and their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove, dote on their daughter, Rhoda. But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and...

Robert Ryan plays a sheriff who is responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia plays his love interest. The crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town, as if handling...

As a Civil War veteran, his motivation becomes questionable as he searches for a young niece captured by Indians.

A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearance of young women in Edo.

Documentary on occultist Marjorie Cameron.

The all-time favourite on-screen couple of the Bengali cinema not just created many memorable romantic moments but also shattered many taboos around romance, just like in the 1956 classic ‘Sagarika’. ...

A man whose daily work is changing history tries to rebel by falling in love in a future society.

Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys need money to pay their fiancée's taxes, or the girls will be sold as slaves. Some crooks come into their restaurant and convince the ...

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the yo...

Manny Balestrero was wrongly arrested for an armed robbery in 1953.

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying ...

The story of a boxer's rise from being a juvenile delinquent to a world champ.

C.K and Tracy Lord were childhood friends. Dexter Haven was married and divorced in less than a year. Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social climber. The person is C.K. Even thoug...

The first film by Elvis Prestley is a Civil War drama.

Unhappy young married couple argue and almost break up their marriage.

Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their...

It's every ghost for himself in a haunted house.

A fire-breathing dinosaur awakened by hydrogen-bomb testing off the Japanese coast attacks Tokyo.

In the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Polish gentry rule. The leader of the National Liberation War in Ukraine was Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who with a firm hand ...

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, The...

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.

Takezo abandons his life as a knight. He's been sought by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He has been challenged to fight by Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time, b...

During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, Sarashina Danjo. Ten years later, Lord Ogata's only living heir, now a skilled ninja, uses sorcery t...

A shaggy dog is the guard at a farm's chicken coop when a lip-smacking weasel comes along, intending to gain access to the chickens.

A tale of wealthy youth in post-WWII Copenhagen.

As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.

Ben Stride, an old lawman, burns a trail of revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife's murderers.

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab ...

A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.

An idealistic, sophisticated young woman meets a rough-around-the-edges, blue collar man and rejects him, only to find out later that they are destined for true love together, despite the fact that he...

The ghost- writer Francis X was called in to give Larry's comic strip a fresh look. Dignan was going to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis reignites his love for his ex-wife,...

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 ...

The tourists have left behind lots of trash. Ranger Woodlore enlists his bears to clean up by turning the task into a game (and a dance), but when he takes to his hammock, they see through his ruse. P...

A documentary covering the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne and Stockholm.

A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious canni...

A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.

A young man from the country arrives in Cairo to finish his education. His landlady, a widow and successful businesswoman in the quarter of the Citadel, seduces him. Although she teaches him much abou...

A locksmith is pressured into crime when the mob makes him perform an elaborate bank robbery.

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.

Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the pr...

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.