1957 Movies

An Eastern European escapes to America, where Communist agents try to track him down.

A fat, ugly hippo with no friends is finally befriended by a nearsighted mole. Weasels go after the mole to eat him. The hippo saves the day.

Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ride through the Soviet Union in the late 1950s.

The events revolve around the dancer Salwa, who is considered the first star of the performance troupe she works with. A rumor spreads about Salwa’s r...

Herman rescues Princess Genevieve, who has been captured by baron-robber Katnip. Good music score on this cartoon.

Intended as a documentation of Polish artist and theatre-maker Tadeusz Kantor’s “informal painting”, Mieczysław Waśkowski’s film develops a hectic exp...

Hendra steals money to pay for the medical treatment of his sick child, Onnie. His wife, Lastri rejects his well-intentioned but wrongful act. Hendra...

The screening of the short film 'Faces' at the 1961 Edinburgh and London Film Festivals kick started the film career of young McConnell, then studying...

A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looki...

A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in lov...

A lawyer comes up with a devious plan to kill his half sister and frame another man for the crime.

A fairy tale based on the stories about the troll Gilitrutt

Professor Visaoksa's spoiled city kids are sent to the countryside to live with their strict general uncle and learn some manners. The general's buddy...

As legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow arranges for her large country house, Thark, to be sold to the nouveau riche Mrs Frush. Frush r...

1957 film

Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War. He receives help in his new role from Mari...