Every Horror Movie from 1956
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- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsEdmond O'BrienMichael RedgraveJan SterlingIn a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsHugh MarloweJoan TaylorDonald CurtisExtraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.
- DirectorMiguel M. DelgadoStarsAlma Rosa AguirreRaúl MartínezAntonio EspinoA millionaire's ghost watches while his heirs murder each other over his fortune.
- DirectorCy RothStarsAnthony DexterSusan ShawPaul CarpenterA team of astronauts lands on a moon of Jupiter to find it populated with beautiful young women looking for mates. An old man explains to the explorers the group's story, as well as the moon's dangers.
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsWalter PidgeonAnne FrancisLeslie NielsenA starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsMickey RooneyVirginia WellesJames FlavinFrancis the Talking Mule witnesses a murder. He takes a bumbling reporter named David Prescott under his wing and the two of them set out to solve the crime.
- DirectorW. Lee WilderStarsEric FlemingNancy MaloneFrank MarthA woman believes herself to be the reincarnated spirit of an ancient prince's lover. Meanwhile, a murderer turns out to be the reincarnated spirit of the prince himself.
- DirectorBin KatôStarsKôichi AiharaToshio ChibaJun Fujikawa
- DirectorIshirô HondaTerry O. MorseStarsRaymond BurrTakashi ShimuraMomoko KôchiAn American reporter visiting Tokyo becomes a witness to the city's destruction by a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing.
- DirectorJack PollexfenStarsLon Chaney Jr.Max ShowalterMarian CarrCharles "The Butcher" Benton, a brutal death row inmate gets double-crossed by his crooked lawyer. He gets his chance for revenge when, after he's been executed, a bizarre experiment brings him back to life and more deadly than ever.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsKevin McCarthyDana WynterLarry GatesA small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsPeter GravesBeverly GarlandLee Van CleefA well meaning scientist guides an alien monster to Earth from Venus, so that he can rid mankind of feelings and emotions - but only death and sorrow results.
- DirectorMasamitsu Igayama
- DirectorMasaki MôriStarsKen UtsuiMariko MiyagiHiroshi Ayukawa
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsRyô IkebeAsami KujiIchirô ArishimaThe story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
- DirectorJerry WarrenStarsRock MadisonAsa MaynorGeorge SkaffConnie Hayward mounts an expedition into the Himalayan Mountains looking for her brother, who has not returned from a previous trek trying to locate the Yeti, or "Abominable Snowman". Arriving at her brother's last-known camp Connie and her companions find only a strange old guide, Varga. They are soon attacked by gigantic Snowmen but are not half as surprised as when Vargas reveals his secret origin and the plans he has for Connie.
- DirectorRobert D. WebbStarsGuy MadisonVirginia LeithJohn HodiakScientist is sent to investigate a faulty ejector seat, then sent into space to test it, showing an assortment of human weaknesses and strengths. Basically this is about the human predicament and drama, not space.
- DirectorKunio WatanabeStarsKanjûrô ArashiShôji NakayamaJôji Oka
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsKenji SaharaYumi ShirakawaAkihiko HirataA mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wrecking havoc - at supersonic speeds.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsNancy KellyPatty McCormackGage ClarkeRhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.
- DirectorEdward NassourIsmael RodríguezStarsGuy MadisonPatricia MedinaCarlos RivasAn American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsBasil RathboneAkim TamiroffLon Chaney Jr.Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor.
- DirectorJohn SherwoodStarsJeff MorrowRex ReasonLeigh SnowdenA scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPaul DouglasEva BartokLeslie PhillipsAn American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsGina LollobrigidaAnthony QuinnJean DanetThe timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo.
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsJoseph CottenRhonda FlemingWendell CoreyAn unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsJohn AgarCynthia PatrickHugh BeaumontA party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsChester MorrisTom ConwayCathy DownsA mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsMarie WindsorCarole MathewsBeverly GarlandAn undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsSteven RitchDon MegowanJoyce HoldenTwo scientists are involved in a car accident and find an unconscious man in the remains. They take him to their lab and inject him with a serum they have been working with. Sadly, the serum turns the man into a murderous werewolf.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsWilliam HoldenLloyd NolanVirginia LeithAt the dawn of supersonic flight in the 1950s, a group of Edwards Air Force Base experimental aircraft test pilots push themselves to the limit.
- DirectorWui Ng
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsKeizô KawasakiToyomi KaritaBin YagisawaUFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor will crash on Earth. While the approaching meteor causes hotter and hotter weather, mankind runs and builds a last-chance anti-meteor weapon.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsHugh MarloweNancy GatesNelson LeighAstronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp and are propelled into a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants.
- DirectorWeibang Ma-XuStarsTze Ling
- DirectorLeslie NormanJoseph LoseyStarsDean JaggerEdward ChapmanLeo McKernA radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.
- DirectorMasaki MôriStarsTomisaburô WakayamaAkemi TsukushiChieko SômaOiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.
- DirectorDennis VanceStarsAlastair SimGeorge ColeAdrienne CorriA doctor employs two men to dig up graves in order for him to have bodies on which to perform experiments, but the men begin to get their own ideas of where to get bodies.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsHiroshi OgasawaraAkemi TsukushiTetsurô TanbaRyutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger brother Tadanaga.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsRyô IkebeShirley YamaguchiKaoru YachigusaLavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
- DirectorChang-hwa JeongStarsKyeong-hie LeeYeong-ran SeoSok-Yang ChooJang-hwa and Heung-ryeon are abused and mistreated so badly that they die at the hands of their evil stepmother. The ghost of Jang-hwa begins appearing nightly to a local magistrate to plead for justice. But lacking solid evidence, the judge must rely on the stepmother admitting her guilt.
- DirectorCurt SiodmakStarsJohn BromfieldBeverly GarlandTom PayneA doctor and an adventurer journey to the Amazon, where they encounter a man in a bizarre bird costume terrorizing the local indigenous population.
- DirectorSamuel KhachikianMushegh SarvariStarsReza Arham SadrRufiaEzzatollah VosooghHajji Jabbar is a miser, greedy and disliked businessman. He tries to make more money by any means even by forcing her daughter to marry a rich old man rather than let her marry her cousin Hamid that she loves. Jabbar suddenly becomes sick and sees grim reaper who takes him to see hell in a long sequence. When Hajji Jabbar awakes he changes and tries to redeem himself.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsJorge MistralSilvia PinalEugenio RetesAntonio, a whale ship captain, has an affair with a woman who runs away convinced that her ill fate will fall upon him. He is sent to Cabo de Hornos, picking the ship owner and his wife, the woman he met, on the way. They head for their destination, a place with a black legend.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Sir Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, and is about to skewer them with a sword when it's revealed that the stooges were only telling a bedtime story to their "sons" (also played by the stooges.)
- DirectorIsa KaramahStarsIsmail YassinAbdel Fatah Al KasriBirlanti AbdulhamidThree people, each with a story: a police officer, a gangster and an undertaker. First, the police officer discovered the gang but could not arrest them because they knew about the discovery and killed him. The gang was one that steels artifacts and statues from museums. The undertaker works to bury the statues.
- DirectorSum LeongStarsSang CheungHao HoJen Kwan
- A story of Earth, before there were people.
- DirectorSun-Fung LeeStarsWood-Yau CheungWah LamDun Lo