Search results for "1959"
Cerasella

Cerasella

Cerasella
IMDb: 7.4
104

Cerasella escapes just before his marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist. Subject by Ugo Pirro, inspired by a successful song.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
But Not for Me

But Not for Me

But Not for Me
IMDb: 6.4
111

Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary,…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Never Steal Anything Small

Never Steal Anything Small

Never Steal Anything Small
IMDb: 6
94

Director Charles Lederer’s 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who’ll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his union’s presidency.

Genre: Drama
The Wonderful Country

The Wonderful Country

The Wonderful Country
IMDb: 6.1
98

Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father’s murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman…

Genre: Western
The Big Night

The Big Night

The Big Night
IMDb: 7.1
95

The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a…

Genre: Drama
The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat
IMDb: 6.8
92

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

Have Rocket, Will Travel

Have Rocket, Will Travel

Have Rocket, Will Travel
IMDb: 5.6
76

The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula, and an alien computer who…

The Ghost of Yotsuya

The Ghost of Yotsuya

The Ghost of Yotsuya
IMDb: 7
76

The ghost of a samurai’s wife takes revenge on her husband.

Genre: Horror
Black Orpheus

Black Orpheus

Black Orpheus
IMDb: 7.4
100

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu’s vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between…

Watusi

Watusi

Watusi
IMDb: 5.6
85

A sequel to the MGM 1950 King Solomon’s Mines.

Genre: Adventure
The Rambling Guitarist

The Rambling Guitarist

The Rambling Guitarist
IMDb: 6.4
78

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman,…

Genre: Crime, Western
The Visit

The Visit

The Visit
IMDb: 5.8
35

A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.

Thus Another Day

Thus Another Day

Thus Another Day
IMDb: 6.8
73

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Warlock

Warlock

Warlock
IMDb: 7.1
122

A band of murderous cowboys have imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. When the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town the residents hire the services of…

Genre: Western
The Man Who Could Cheat Death

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

The Man Who Could Cheat Death
IMDb: 6.2
83

Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he’s really 104 years old. But people are starting to get…

First Man into Space

First Man into Space

First Man into Space
IMDb: 5.4
77

The first pilot to leave Earth’s atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside…

I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack
IMDb: 7.1
105

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the…

Genre: Comedy
The Stranglers of Bombay

The Stranglers of Bombay

The Stranglers of Bombay
IMDb: 6.2
80

In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments…

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury
IMDb: 6.2
110

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.

Genre: Drama
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
IMDb: 8.5
206

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
IMDb: 8.5
178

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Invisible Invaders

Invisible Invaders

Invisible Invaders
IMDb: 4.9
67

Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity…

Guns Girls and Gangsters

Guns Girls and Gangsters

Guns Girls and Gangsters
IMDb: 6.2
70

Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Poet of the Castle

The Poet of the Castle

The Poet of the Castle
IMDb: 6.9
11

A 10-minute portrait of modernist poet and de Andrade’s godfather, Manuel Bandeira, is clear in its affection for it subject, though like many New-Waveish films of the time, depicts the…

Genre: Documentary
Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome
IMDb: 7.1
73

A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post,…

Genre: Action, Western
Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat
IMDb: 7.2
124

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Compulsion

Compulsion

Compulsion
IMDb: 7.4
103

Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman
IMDb: 4.7
61

The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula’s side effects have deadly consequences.

Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo
IMDb: 8
141

The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is…

Genre: Western
Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk
IMDb: 7.4
102

A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow
IMDb: 7.4
96

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure

Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure

Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure
IMDb: 6.4
88

The greatest adventure of jungle king Tarzan. Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so they nearly destroy the settlement,…

Genre: Adventure
Gidget

Gidget

Gidget
IMDb: 6.6
95

Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggy. She’s fascinated of his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Solomon and Sheba

Solomon and Sheba

Solomon and Sheba
IMDb: 6.1
139

Under the rule of King David, Israel is united and prosperous although surrounded by enemies including Egypt and its allies. The aging King David favors his younger son, Solomon, as…

Genre: History, Romance
The World, the Flesh and the Devil

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

The World, the Flesh and the Devil
IMDb: 6.8
95

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…

Never So Few

Never So Few

Never So Few
IMDb: 5.9
125

A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

Genre: War
Pickpocket

Pickpocket

Pickpocket
IMDb: 7.6
75

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds
IMDb: 8
115

A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi…

Genre: Drama
Picnic on the Grass

Picnic on the Grass

Picnic on the Grass
IMDb: 6.6
91

Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
IMDb: 8.2
122

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an…