1955 Movies

Portrait of Jesse Collins: a daydream nightmare in the surrealist tradition.

A Marathi family/religious drama.

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, travels south of the border down Mexico way. He comes upon a baby bull, who is attempting to imitate his father, a hero of the bull-ring. Casper trains the calf in the art of bull-fighting. When papa bull becomes incapacitated in th...

Algot and Bengt have built a house together. But they can not agree on how ownership should be distributed between them. In addition they don't get any mail since the Post office refuse to hand it out.

Directed in the same year as The Life of the Adivasis, Places of Historic Interest in Bihar was more of a tourism documentary for the Bihar government.

They are currently developing a new type of mine at Fredrik's workplace. The head of the company is a young woman, Eva Seman.

An impecunious young woman is lured into prostitution, trying to survive and provide for her ailing, bedridden mother.

The first feature-length animated film in Canada. The story of a new village somewhere in Abitibi, it's people, it's church and a werewolf causing trouble.

A short piece of film recording general views of Edinburgh's Royal Mile in the 1950s.

A German Film Award winning black & white documentary.

Story of the First Indochina War (1946-1954) in which Soviet Union has actively supported Vietnamese side.

Audrey is reading a science fiction comic book called 'Ace' when her mother asks her to wash the dishes. Audrey carries the dishes to a workshop where she has invented a dish washing machine. Audrey continues reading her book while the dishes wash themselves....

The achievements of socialism must be protected by all means - and it can even be fun. The Svazarmov paratroopers convince the casual cooperative members that the military education of the population must not be underestimated; they simply carry out an ambush.

In the late afternoon in Kyoto’s Ponto-chō, as Tsuruko, a maiko who had just left Tsurunoya, was crossing a small bridge over the Takase River, a Packard came racing toward her. The car’s wheel hit a puddle, and before Tsuruko had a chance to dodge, a splash l...

Uttam Kumar is in a mental asylum where he has forgotten slices of his life and behaves in a way that makes people feel he is mad. The doctor, however, disagrees and treats him with gentle kindness.

Sequences of photographic abstractions have been balanced against more realistic sections. A surrealistically charged encounter between two lovers, a young woman and a man.

A Japanese House is a film MoMA produced in 1955 to document the installation of an actual, full-scale 17th-century Japanese house, designed by Junzō Yoshimura and named Shofuso (or “Pine Breeze Villa”),in the museum's Sculpture Garden.