The Best Movies Of 1959

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend...

The film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play The Devil's Disciple was released in 1959. The film was directed by Guy Hamilton who replaced Alexander Mackendrick and starred Kirk Douglas, Burt Lan...

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

This is an Italian movie starring Terence Hill

The working day of enginemen at Newton Heath locomotive sheds, Manchester. They discuss the impact of dieselisation on their jobs.

Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes t...

Mexican feature film

The basis of this celebrated French film is a deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress. After the end of World War II, a couple recount their previous romances and life expe...

During the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916, an army major was asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor, even though he was guilty of cowardice.

Ray Lawler's hit play inspired this poignant drama about the need to accept middle age despite the longing for youthful passion. The ensemble cast includes Ernest Borgnine and John Mills as Roo and Ba...

When the swindler La Spada and his accomplice José come out of jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a really great swindle: nothing less than to discover and sell a third picture of the famous Goya's M...

Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear ...

Kaji was sent to the Japanese army and was mistreated by the vets. Kaji witnessed cruelties in the army and revolted against the abusive treatment of a recruit. He saw his friend Shinj Itthei defect t...

The story of a boy who has a goldfish as a pet, and the family cat has other plans for the goldfish, and a canary protects it by distracting the cat.

Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. A...

The story of courage and endurance of the soldiers is told in this film. When the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted, the film examines ...

The construction of the Brasilia dream is blurred in precious scenes that preceded the opening of the city, filmed as sombre. What will be the future of these buildings and monuments? What will become...

After serving a conviction for fraud Mario tries to continue with his life and promises Marisa to marry her...

Billy John was captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who was going to take him to Santa Cruz to be executed. brigade stops at a staging post where he saves the manager's wife from an indian attack...

The rail supply center is being destroyed by a Union Cavalry outfit. The doctor who was sent with them causes instant dislike between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overhear...

The scientist who is a candidate for president of the new Europe is promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. He hosted an aseptic picnic to celebrate h...

Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi was forced to sell his ancestral castle and stay as a bellboy in the hotel. However, when his uncle comes to stay, he becomes a vampire.

Stanley Windrush returned from the war with a plan for a successful career in business. He finds that the management and the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power, and that he has to ...

Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his first marriage – are isolated in a little house under an ...

Old MacDonald's farm has an egg hatch in a hen and out of the shell comes a baby rooster. Foghorn Leghorn is worried that he will be replaced by the kid rooster and sent to be slaughtered.

Two Scotland Yard detectives are investigating the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a bunch of suspects, including the girl's white boyfriend and...

A man and woman share a phone line, but then he has fun romancing her, even though he despises her.

The Biblical story of Noah's ark full of animals gets the Disney treatment in this animated short.

Four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a deserted island in the Mediterranean during World War II. Four German soldiers are holed up in a monastery while the Brits sur...

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sisterluke struggles with her dedication to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor'...

Testifying before a Senate committee, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness and ambition carried him up through the ranks to his present posit...

Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.

Lora Meredith, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson, a black single mother. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora's daughter, Susie, while Lora pursue...

Neagle stars a Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen...

A short educational film about all the different techniques of carving meat.

Windy Bear notices his son heading off for school but, after he has left, notices he forgot his school books. He chases after him with them but is distracted by a nearby river stocked with trout. He d...

Dr. A suburb of Paris is where Cordelier lives to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong friend, Matre Joly, becomes concerned when Cordelier draws up a will that leaves...

Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Robert Le Beal. A brilliant "little" spy film. Hossein and Vlady play mysterious characters who meet up one night in a lonely cabin in the wilds of Normandy. They are bot...

A commercial pilot in California watches a broadcast in London of an interview with Sir Mark lodden. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a lie, and that he is actually a look-alike actor nam...

Captain Richard and a small band of soldiers return home to France to discover the country ruled by horrible nobility.