1959 Movies

About life and work in the salt pans

Considered the first Portuguese abstract film. In the already difficult category of fantasy, in fact this production marks an extraordinarily prominen...

A boy lives obsessed with having a crab as a pet, but frees him to take care of his survival

Another educational short from Young America Films designed to answer a burning question.

The mayor sends Jaafar Effendi (with Ismail Yassin in turn) and with him 500 pounds to take him to Cairo to buy a net for his son. But he is robbed by...

In his quest for fame and success, Ismail, a driver for a newspaper company, tries to take some unauthorized photographs of the inside of a German roc...

In Yokohama, novices wake up early in the Soto zen sect Sojiji temple for their zazen and other practices. A film by Michael Rogge, Dutch photographer...

Ethnographic documentary on the folk tradition of the Busójárás Carnival in Mohács, Hungary.

Short film by I. Bolotowsky.

This creepy film starts with newsagent posters telling of an escape from Broadmoor. We see a girl deliver newspapers to a house from which a small chi...

Nature short in which a badger is sprayed by a skunk.

A short which uses the letters of the alphabet to teach young children how to walk across the street.

A nature short presenting one year in the life of a chipmunk family.

A lonely woman gets a dog.

Short by Herbert Viktor.

Animated film made with glass-splinters

A film-ballet based on the Bashkir legend about the love of the shepherd Yumagul and the girl Zaitangul.

One of the rare documentaries that allows the viewer to get into the intimacy of a monastery. We are indeed - through the experience of a novice - mad...