1951 Movies

A King gets sad for the loss of his songbird.

Short documentary on the depiction of women in art found in the Louvre museum.

Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives orders which are not to be discussed. But, some day, he is driven to accept on board several German Jews fleeing th...

Barbara Florian is in love with Renalto Baldini. After the latter goes off to a distant job to make enough money to marry her, the girl discovers she is going to have a baby. Marco (Otello Toso),posing as a friend, exploits the situation to his own gain, and...

Betty Page dances teasingly.

A wedding musician fails to wed his own love: Little Trumpet is raring to marry his childhood sweetheart, but a series of setbacks has prevented them from getting their way. Criticism against social formalities becomes all the more forceful with the clever use...

Herbert, a hound who has never seen a fox, joins the Foxhound Academy to get his foxhound credentials. The instructors describes a fox, and tells Herbert to remain at the back of the pack during the hunt and blow a bugle if he sees a fox. The lead dogs pass by...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at methods of pig breeding in Denmark.

Daily routine in a kindergarten. Advantages of kindergartens for working women.

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.

Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Yeung Kung-Leung.

Vignettes covering S.S. Lurcher, a celebration in Windsor, Ontario and the Sullivan Mine in British Columbia.

Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabulous fortune from an eccentric uncle. But on the one condition to spend a certain amount of time as a tramp. Olivier accepts out of sheer greed but soon finds t...

Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are im...

Ensemble for Somnambulists is an unfinished experimental silent film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society.

A magician is hired to prevent a jewel heist but the diamonds still disappear despite him being near them.

A Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the Camargue. On arrival, we find nails instead of gold!

A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks intertwine. Many loving couples are formed between jacks and village girls. At the same time, the farm of Pietol...

A Paul Terry Terrytoon cartoon (production number 5109) in which Gandy Goose gets spring fever (the only mention of the word "spring" in this seven-minute cartoon) and runs away from home, and promptly runs into a fox, proprietor of a roadside diner, who wishe...

This 1950s' film looks at the measures to preserve water flow from the Rocky Mountains. With the steady falling of the water table, the exploitation of timber stands and the recession of glaciers, water conservation was an urgent concern of the Alberta and fed...