Search results for "1959"
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…

The Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree
IMDb: 7.1
107

Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man,…

Genre: Western
The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows
IMDb: 8.1
99

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, Rene,…

Genre: Drama
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDb: 6.9
87

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger
IMDb: 7
98

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

Genre: Drama
Good Morning

Good Morning

Good Morning
IMDb: 7.8
94

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers
IMDb: 7.1
115

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him…

It Started with a Kiss

It Started with a Kiss

It Started with a Kiss
IMDb: 6
104

While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Fires on the Plain

Fires on the Plain

Fires on the Plain
IMDb: 8
108

In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.

Genre: Drama, War
The Giant Behemoth

The Giant Behemoth

The Giant Behemoth
IMDb: 5.7
80

Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean’s ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.

It Happened to Jane

It Happened to Jane

It Happened to Jane
IMDb: 6.5
97

Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life
IMDb: 7.8
125

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,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
4D Man

4D Man

4D Man
IMDb: 5.8
85

Two brothers, scientists Scott and Tony Nelson, develop an amplifier which enables a person to enter a 4th dimensional state, allowing him to pass through any object. Scott experiments on…

House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill
IMDb: 6.8
75

Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the…

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth
IMDb: 7
132

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer’s trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth’s center.

Day of the Outlaw

Day of the Outlaw

Day of the Outlaw
IMDb: 7.3
92

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is…

Genre: Thriller, Western
The Angry Red Planet

The Angry Red Planet

The Angry Red Planet
IMDb: 5.2
83

The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?

Two Men in Manhattan

Two Men in Manhattan

Two Men in Manhattan
IMDb: 6.6
84

Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Bucket of Blood

A Bucket of Blood

A Bucket of Blood
IMDb: 6.7
66

Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn’t fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla (Barboura…

Genre: Comedy, Horror
Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder
IMDb: 8
161

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an…

On the Beach

On the Beach

On the Beach
IMDb: 7.1
134

In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss…

The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything
IMDb: 6.6
121

An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail
IMDb: 5.2
86

In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is sending in…

Genre: Western
The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank
IMDb: 7.4
180

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

Genre: Drama, History
No Name on the Bullet

No Name on the Bullet

No Name on the Bullet
IMDb: 7.2
77

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town’s folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal…

Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle of the Coral Sea
IMDb: 5.5
86

A US submarine and its crew are captured by the Japanese on the eve of a major WWII battle.

Genre: War
The Chaplin Revue

The Chaplin Revue

The Chaplin Revue
IMDb: 7.7
119

Three Chaplin silent comedies “A Dog’s Life”, “Shoulder Arms”, and “The Pilgrim” are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small…

Genre: Comedy
Cars Without a Home

Cars Without a Home

Cars Without a Home
IMDb: 5.4
6

Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia’s unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.

Genre: Documentary
The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps
IMDb: 6.6
93

In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who’s after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.

Al Capone

Al Capone

Al Capone
IMDb: 6.7
104

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone’s rise in Chicago gangdom…

The Alligator People

The Alligator People

The Alligator People
IMDb: 5.5
74

Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their…

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur
IMDb: 8.1
222

In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty
IMDb: 7.2
75

A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep…

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess
IMDb: 7
138

Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance