Most Viewed Year 1956

Maruzzella is in love with Salvatore, who in turn is infatuated with Donna Carmela, Maruzzella's stepmother. As if that were not enough, Carmela...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marisa Allasio

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlton Heston

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Edmond O'Brien

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karuna Banerjee

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nancy Kelly

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pietro Germi

An idealistic, sophisticated young woman meets a rough-around-the-edges, blue collar man and rejects him, only to find out later that they are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nina Ivanova

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Van Heflin

A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians....

Genre: Western

Cast: Chill Wills

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

A teenage girl, Dori Graham, can't convince her dad to buy her a strapless gown so she decides to get the money together herself in time for the prom.

Genre: Music

Cast: Alan Freed

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

Researchers in the African jungle find a young white woman living with a tribe, that adores her as goddess. They carry her off and proudly report to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Marion Michael

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sterling Hayden

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Bardot

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pascal Lamorisse

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

The Edge of Night was an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Frances Fisher

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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A radio, and later television, talent show originally hosted by Hughie Green, with a late-1980s revival hosted by Bob Monkhouse, and later by...

Genre: Family

Cast: Hughie Green

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Hancock

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring...

Genre: Reality

Cast: Hazel Brugger

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally...

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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...

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Cast: Dinah Shore

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Allen

The Nat King Cole Show is an American variety show hosted by Nat King Cole that aired on NBC from November 5, 1956 to December 17, 1957.

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Cast: Nat King Cole

Innovative "Claymation" adventures of Gumby and his horse Pokey.

Genre: Family

Cast: Bobby Nicholson

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

Genre: Western

Cast: Dick Powell

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Cast: Barry Sullivan

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Cast: Rosemary Clooney

As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the...

Genre: Soap

Cast: Kathryn Hays

Genre: Documentary

Cast: François Chalais

State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Rod Cameron

The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gale Storm

The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana...

Genre: Western

Cast: Scott Forbes

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

The Ford Show is an American variety program, starring singer and folk humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired on NBC on Thursday evenings from...

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Cast: Tennessee Ernie Ford