1963 Movies

This short animation stars the world's most-wanted good guy: Santa Claus. In this spoof of the Wild West, good triumphs over evil, but not before the evil robbers and their innocent victims have romped through some odd situations.

A Film of a Claes Oldenburg Happening, Ray Gun Theater, 1962.

Short film.

A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl t...

In 19th-century Russia, a peasant named Ivan Flyagin tells his his life story to fellow travellers aboard a steamship.

A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against our brothers and sisters in the Zone." Director Walter Heynowski digs into this ubiquitous West German expression...

Susheela is a 1963 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan and produced by N. S. Dravyam. The film stars Prem Nazir, Sheela, Adoor Bhasi and Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair. The film had musical score by V. Dakshinamoorthy

This graduation film by future DEFA documentarian Karlheinz Mund presents a piece of GDR working worlds in the best poetic and earthy Babelsberg school tradition: the everyday life of railway workers – with two women in the electric locomotive driver’s cab.

After committing a robbery, Rafael joins Silvestre and they begin a long run to escape the Police that takes them to Puigcerdà, near the French border they want to cross. Silvestre is tougher and they have some quarrels.

A teenage boy, an orphan, gets a job at a factory and begins to experience a different - adult and responsible - life...

1956 film from India

The life of a well-known nineteenth-century belly dancer.

A 15 year old kid finds part of a document during a seaside holiday and gets intriged by it. He is determined to find the complete document.

Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate between earnestly offering the obvious and mocking the artiness of the whole affair.

An archaeologist goes to Mount Lebanon to excavate antiquities. There, he spots a Bedouin girl and falls madly in love with her. She falls in love with him at first sight, but she is engaged to her cousin. The young Egyptian man tries to propose to her father,...

One fateful day Sabina was buying groceries at the marketplace when she noticed a burglar when she confronts her she was dumbfounded when the burglar looked like her.

Murat is a young man trying to cope with the death of his father. Trying to give a new direction to his life in this process, Murat moves to Istanbul and starts working in his uncle Kemal's factory. Kemal, who employs Murat as a worker so that he can learn the...

A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars in Your Life," "Corral," "Wrestling," and "Neighbors."

Based on the short story of the same name by Yuri Sotnik. The first-grader Lyosha, when he was left home alone, decided to spend this first independent day of his life calmly and sensibly. But the neighborhood kids disrupted Leshya's plans. They used his apart...