Movie List for "1956"

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Drama Horror Sci-Fi Movie

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. Year 1956.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Don Siegel
Writer: Daniel Mainwaring, Jack Finney, Richard Collins
Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates

The Ten Commandments (1956) Adventure Drama Family Movie

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh’s household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery. Year 1956.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, Family
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Writer: Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham, A.E. Southon
Actors: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter

Shabab emraa (1956) Drama Movie

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 about life she also makes him forget Year 1956.

Generes: Drama
Director: Salah Abouseif, Ahmad El-Sabawi, Amin Yousseff Ghurab
Writer: Salah Abouseif, Sayid Bidir, Amin Yousseff Ghurab
Actors: Tahiyyah Karyuka, Shukri Sarhan, Shadia

Shokei no heya (1956) Action Crime Thriller Movie

Nothing less than a phenomenal, astonishing and pioneering film. This spectacle of an angry, ego-driven youth tormented by his own emotional impotence, low self-esteem and resentment towards his parents. Year 1956.

Generes: Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Writer: Keiji Hasebe, Shintarô Ishihara, Natto Wada
Actors: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizô Kawasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi

Calle Mayor (1956) Drama Movie

A couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Therefore one of them has to pretend to fall in love with her. Year 1956.

Generes: Drama
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem
Writer: Carlos Arniches, Juan Antonio Bardem
Actors: Betsy Blair, José Suárez, Yves Massard

Il ferroviere (1956) Drama Movie

The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud with his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former railro Year 1956.

Generes: Drama
Director: Pietro Germi
Writer: Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi, Luciano Vincenzoni
Actors: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Sylva Koscina

Biruma no tategoto (1956) Drama Music War Movie

In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk. Year 1956.

Generes: Drama, Music, War
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Writer: Michio Takeyama, Natto Wada
Actors: Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi

Il tetto (1956) Drama Movie

A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof. Year 1956.

Generes: Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Writer: Cesare Zavattini
Actors: Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi, Gastone Renzelli

Kurutta kajitsu (1956) Drama Romance Movie

Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for. Year 1956.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Kô Nakahira
Writer: Shintarô Ishihara
Actors: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara

Le ballon rouge (1956) Short Comedy Drama Movie

A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris. Year 1956.

Generes: Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: Albert Lamorisse
Writer: Albert Lamorisse
Actors: Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, Georges Sellier

Bob le flambeur (1956) Crime Drama Thriller Movie

After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino. Year 1956.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer: Jean-Pierre Melville, Auguste Le Breton
Actors: Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy

Tiga Dara (1956) Comedy Drama Musical Movie

A family’s attempt at matchmaking their oldest daughter and the conflicts that follow. Year 1956.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director: Usmar Ismail
Writer: M. Alwi Dahlan, Usmar Ismail
Actors: Chitra Dewi, Indiati Iskak, Mieke Wijaya

Akasen chitai (1956) Drama Movie

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel. Year 1956.

Generes: Drama
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer: Masashige Narusawa, Yoshiko Shibaki
Actors: Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao

Calabuch (1956) Comedy Movie

Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the Mediterranean shores. Oblivious to their guest’s Year 1956.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Luis García Berlanga
Writer: Leonardo Martín, Florentino Soria, Ennio Flaiano
Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Juan Calvo