1959 Drama Movies

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Ben-Hur(1959)

3.9/5 (with 1,144 votes)

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 put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners. Three years later and freed by a grateful Roman galley commander whom he has rescued from drowning, he becomes an expert charioteer for Rome, all the while plotting to return to Judea, find and rescue his family, and avenge himself on his former friend. All the while, the form and work of Jesus move in the background of his life...

Directed by William Wyler - With Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, ...

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Good Morning(1959)

1h 34min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama

3.9/5 (with 102 votes)

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 their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Chishū Ryū, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Sugimura Haruko, Taiji Tonoyama, Kuniko Miyake, ...

The Diary of Anne Frank(1959)

3h | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 151 votes)

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.

Directed by George Stevens - With Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, ...

The 400 Blows(1959)

1h 39min | Drama

4.1/5 (with 978 votes)

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, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.

Directed by François Truffaut - With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Georges Flamant, Jeanne Moreau, ...

L'Avventura(1960)

2h 24min | Drama, Mystery

3.8/5 (with 297 votes)

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - With Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Lelio Luttazzi, Renzo Ricci, Esmeralda Ruspoli, ...

Floating Weeds(1959)

1h 55min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 66 votes)

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 and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Chishū Ryū, Nakamura Ganjirō II, Sugimura Haruko, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, ...

On the Beach(1959)

2h 14min | Science Fiction, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 83 votes)

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 of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, John Tate, John Meillon, ...

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Ballad of a Soldier(1959)

1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

4.1/5 (with 77 votes)

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

Directed by Grigori Chukhrai - With Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Yevgeni Urbansky, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Antonina Maksimova

Fires on the Plain(1959)

1h 48min | Drama, War

3.8/5 (with 41 votes)

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

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Eiji Funakoshi

Apur Sansar(1959)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.1/5 (with 93 votes)

Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding...

Directed by Satyajit Ray - With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore

Suddenly, Last Summer(1959)

1h 54min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery

3.7/5 (with 118 votes)

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - With Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond, ...

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The Nun's Story(1959)

2h 29min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 76 votes)

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

Directed by Fred Zinnemann - With Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Mildred Dunnock, Dean Jagger, ...

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General Della Rovere(1959)

2h 12min | War, Drama

3.8/5 (with 54 votes)

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Giovanna Ralli, Sandra Milo, Anne Vernon, ...

The Bridge(1959)

1h 43min | Drama, History, War

3.7/5 (with 66 votes)

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Directed by Bernhard Wicki - With Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Folker Bohnet, Cordula Trantow, Frank Glaubrecht, Volker Lechtenbrink, ...

The Black Orchid(1958)

1h 34min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.

Directed by Martin Ritt - With Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Ina Balin, Frank Puglia, Whit Bissell, Naomi Stevens, ...

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The Cousins(1959)

1h 52min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.

Directed by Claude Chabrol, Philippe de Broca - With Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Geneviève Cluny, Stéphane Audran, Clara Gansard, ...

Nazarin(1959)

1h 34min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 56 votes)

Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Francisco Rabal, Ignacio López Tarso, Marga López, Rita Macedo, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Ofelia Guilmáin, ...

The Young Philadelphians(1959)

2h 16min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 19 votes)

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.

Directed by Vincent Sherman - With Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Robert Vaughn, Brian Keith, Paul Picerni, ...

The Miracle(1959)

2h 1min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

Directed by Irving Rapper - With Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak, Vittorio Gassman, Katina Paxinou, Dennis King, ...

Look Back in Anger(1959)

1h 38min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 29 votes)

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

Directed by Tony Richardson - With Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans, Gary Raymond, Donald Pleasence, ...

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Odd Obsession(1959)

1h 47min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Machiko Kyō, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nakamura Ganjirō II, Jun Hamamura, Tanie Kitabayashi, Kyū Sazanka, ...

The Journey(1959)

2h 6min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.

Directed by Anatole Litvak - With Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards, Robert Morley, E. G. Marshall, Ron Howard, ...

The Magnificent Tramp(1959)

1h 19min | Comedy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.

Directed by Gilles Grangier - With Jean Gabin, Darry Cowl, Bernard Blier, Albert Dinan, Bernard Lajarrige, Bernard Musson, ...

Temptation(1959)

1h 34min | Drama

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

When a ship bringing a contingent of international wounded from Korea is torpedoed, three women (two nurses and a secretary) and a male journalist survive and reach a lonely island in a boat. Soon desire erupts among them, but jealousy, lust and madness lead the events to tragedy.

Directed by Edmond T. Gréville - With Christian Marquand, Dawn Addams, Magali Noël, Rossana Podestà

Kaagaz Ke Phool(1959)

2h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

The film tells, in flashback, the story of Suresh Sinha, a famous film director and his relationship with an aspiring actress.

Directed by Guru Dutt - With Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Johnny Walker, Mehmood Ali

Violent Summer(1959)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?

Directed by Valerio Zurlini - With Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Lilla Brignone, Raf Mattioli, Federica Ranchi, ...

The Giant of Marathon(1959)

1h 30min | History, Adventure, Drama, War

2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur, Mario Bava - With Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni, Daniela Rocca, Alberto Lupo, Daniele Vargas, ...

Ship of the Dead(1959)

1h 38min | Adventure, Drama

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

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Directed by Georg Tressler - With Horst Buchholz, Elke Sommer, Mario Adorf, Albert Bessler, Günter Meisner, Panos Papadopulos, ...

Shake Hands with the Devil(1959)

1h 51min | Action, Drama

3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

Directed by Michael Anderson - With James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns

Danger Within(1959)

1h 41min | War

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

Directed by Don Chaffey - With Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough

1959 Drama Movies

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Ben-Hur(1959)

Good Morning(1959)

The Diary of Anne Frank(1959)

The 400 Blows(1959)

L'Avventura(1960)

Floating Weeds(1959)

On the Beach(1959)

Ballad of a Soldier(1959)

Fires on the Plain(1959)

Apur Sansar(1959)

Suddenly, Last Summer(1959)

The Nun's Story(1959)

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General Della Rovere(1959)

The Bridge(1959)

The Black Orchid(1958)

The Cousins(1959)

Nazarin(1959)

The Young Philadelphians(1959)

The Miracle(1959)

Look Back in Anger(1959)

Odd Obsession(1959)

The Journey(1959)

The Magnificent Tramp(1959)

Temptation(1959)

Kaagaz Ke Phool(1959)

Violent Summer(1959)

The Giant of Marathon(1959)

Ship of the Dead(1959)

Shake Hands with the Devil(1959)

Danger Within(1959)

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