1951 Movies

A compilation of archival material, Vedrès’s dreamlike short explores the multiple meanings of the word “Amazon,” particularly its etymological and cultural ties to femininity. –MoMA

An overview of the sports played in Ireland, including Gaelic football, hurling, rugby and more.

HK horror film.

A short feature that showcases 20th Century Fox's new anamorphic widescreen film process.

Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.

Singalong with spot gags about birds.

This film presents agricultural cooperative in Heřmánkovice an example of a collective in which women seize the initiative in terms of renewal after the men find themselves all at sea when it comes to making progress. Women introduce the system of the division...

A girl makes a young man move away from his girlfriend and she goes with her friend.

A mythological story about the gods of Mt. Olympus.

Dramatized information film about drunk driving. Accident caused by drunk driving, forensic medical research, the effect of alcohol on human functioning.

Renato, a young and honest man, falls for Lidia, a gangster's moll, and is forced to join his band.

A singer and dancer par excellence, Lata lives a wealthy lifestyle with her dad, Choudhry Goverdhanlal Patwardhanlal and mom. Her parents would like her to get married to wealthy Shekhar, who she initially approves of. Shortly thereafter she meets with Vasant...

An isolated man living in a cottage in the mountains one day discovers a mysterious unconscious woman and takes her in.

A singalong with spot gags about vegetables.

Fong Yim-fun puts on a tour de force as an ill-fated woman, separated from her lover through an arranged marriage to the terminally ill and impotent son of a warlord. The power struggle within the family led to an inevitable murderous consequence. Seven years...

Celing and her younger brother Piding are recently orphaned and they come to Manila to find work in the home of their late parents' mansion landlord. But they are treated miserably by the landlord's ill-tempered wife, Doña Esperanza. They decided to leave home...

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, music and paintings”. Four films were made in this series for the BFI’s Telekinema at the Festival of Britain, co...