The best movies 1957

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of...

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American...

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when...

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an...

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find...

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's...

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was...

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't...

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K....

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Young convict Vince Everett, serving time for manslaughter, discovers his musical talent in prison and becomes a rock and roll star after his...

Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the...

When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kai, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to...

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother...

Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering...

A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue...

A waitress helps a ruined composer. When he triumphs and after a surgery he decides to marry her.

A Spanish immigrant goes from delivery guy to successful singer.

Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.

The news program "Sucesos Peruanos" began production after the failure of state-sponsored news services. Urteaga explains: "We produce these news...

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life...

The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his...

The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a...

An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology professor and the love of an extravagant official who...

An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

A documentary about the history of Argentine cinema, made with the intention of incorporating it into the Argentine Film Museum. The film includes...

Sonia, a school teacher, is excited about her new post in the Cuban beach town of Caibarien since her childhood friend Guillermo lives there. However...

Led by an incompetent Lieutenant, a troop of soldiers is on the Tomahawk Trail in Apache territory. When he lets the Indians steal their horses and...

The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.

Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The...

Two sailors traveling to Antarctica, delude themselves with meeting to the same woman on their return. Totally natural scenes filmed in Antarctica.

Simon Feldman's first movie, made while being a teacher at "Seminario de cine de Buenos Aires", shot on 16mm and screened at independent cinema...

A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.

The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get...