Must-sees of 1956

A conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Un miembro de la resistencia francesa capturado durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial prepara su fuga de una prisión nazi en Francia.

Un veterano de la guerra civil estadounidense se embarca en un viaje de años para rescatar a su sobrina de los comanches después de que el resto de la familia de su hermano sea masacrada en un asalto a su granja de Texas.

Un joven y su esposa luchan dentro de los límites de su relación sin pasión mientras él tiene un romance extramatrimonial.

This wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Las desventuras de varias prostitutas en un burdel japonés.

Un exsheriff se culpa a sí mismo por la muerte de su esposa durante un robo en Wells Fargo y se compromete a rastrear y matar a los siete hombres responsables.

Un médico de un pequeño pueblo descubre que la población de su comunidad está siendo sustituida por duplicados alienígenas sin emociones.

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami's disabled daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.

The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud of his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former railroad man Ugo. Andrea is married to Sara, and his young son Sandro is very close to him; however, Andrea has issues with his unemployed son Marcello and with his pregnant daughter Giulia, whose boyfriend Renato Borghi was forced to marry her. After a suicide crosses the tracks of his train in a curve, Andrea feels deeply affected by the accident and almost collides with another train. The railroad company investigates the accident and steps Andrea down from his position. The domestic life of Andrea is also affected by his aggressive behavior and Marcello and Giulia leave home. Later Andrea also leaves home and starts to drink until the day Sandro visits him in a bar.

Un relato biográfico del boxeador Rocky Graziano, basada en su autobiografía, desde la infancia hasta su título mundial de peso medio a los 28 años en 1947.

El delincuente Johnny Clay reúne a un equipo de cinco hombres para planificar y ejecutar un audaz robo en un hipódromo.

Un asesino ha estado matando a mujeres hermosas en Nueva York, el propietario de una empresa de medios ofrece un trabajo de alto rango al primero de sus ejecutivos que pueda obtener las primeras primicias sobre el caso.

El playboy alcohólico Kyle Hadley se casa con la mujer que ama en secreto su pobre pero trabajador mejor amigo, que a su vez es perseguido por la hermana de Kyle.

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

En 1953, un hombre inocente llamado Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero es detenido tras ser confundido con un ladrón armado.

A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence and passion for their future as they get on the bus for Tsukishima and get off at Suzaki. Across the bridge they see the sign for Suzaki Paradise, a red-light district where Tsutae once worked as a prostitute. Tsutae spots an ad for a waitress at a bar near the bridge and she rushes in to get the job. The kind hearted madam, Tokuko, helps them out by hiring Tsutae and finding work for Yoshiji delivering noodles. But the wanton Tsutae is soon attracted to Ochiai, a rich, generous man who owns an electrical shop specializing in radios.

La sensual historia de dos rivales cuarentones sureños y de Baby Doll, la esposa de 19 años de uno de ellos.

A new senior at a boy's prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach's wife.

A New Orleans musician has a nightmare about killing a man in a strange house but he suspects that it really happened.

In the western frontier town of Cross Creek, storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past. When 3 bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses, George's past comes back to haunt him.

A young man ignores his mother's pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime.

La vida del brillante pero torturado artista Vincent van Gogh.

Three decent but clumsy men facing economic difficulties reluctantly start to fabricate counterfeit bills; the son of one of them is the cop who follows the case, ignoring his father's involvement.

The film is about some youths' love stories: Franco and his hairdresser girlfriend Adriana, Otello another hairdresser who is hopelessly in love with Adriana. The youths usually meet in a restaurant whose owner, Ines, seduces Franco making Adriana very jealous. In turn the girl decides to accept Otello's courting.