1959 Romantic Drama Movies

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Solomon and Sheba(1959)

3.2/5 (with 35 votes)

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 his successor, but David's elder son Prince Adonijah, a warrior, declares himself King. When David learns of this, he publicly announces Solomon to be his successor. Adonijah and Joab, his general, withdraw in rage. Israel prospers under King Solomon's wise and benevolent rule and is seen as a threat to more tyrannical monarchs in the region. The Pharaoh of Egypt agrees to cede a Red Sea port to the Queen of Sheba in a plot to undermine Solomon's rule. Sheba is to seduce Solomon and introduce Sheban pagan worship into Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Prince Adonijah, now banished, also conspires with Pharaoh and is given an army to defeat Solomon. The film is a highly fictionalized dramatization of events depicted in The Bible -- First Kings chapter 10 and Second Chronicles chapter 9.

Directed by King Vidor - With Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, David Farrar, Finlay Currie, ...

Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959)

1h 32min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 325 votes)

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

Directed by Alain Resnais - With Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Pierre Barbaud

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Imitation of Life(1959)

2h 5min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 110 votes)

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 pursues her stage career. Both women deal with the difficulties of motherhood: Lora's thirst for fame threatens her relationship with Susie, while Annie's light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, struggles with her African-American identity.

Directed by Douglas Sirk - With Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Dan O'Herlihy, ...

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The Indian Tomb(1959)

1h 37min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 43 votes)

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept to get married with Chandra to provoke the wrath of the priests and get the alliance of Prince Padhu and his army. In the meantime, Harold succeeds in escaping from the dungeon and seeks out Seetha to save her.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Debra Paget, Guido Celano, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer, Claus Holm, Valéry Inkijinoff, ...

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

A Summer Place(1959)

2h 10min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

Directed by Delmer Daves - With Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Beulah Bondi, ...

The Tiger of Eschnapur(1959)

1h 41min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 54 votes)

In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Debra Paget, Luciana Paluzzi, Paul Hubschmid, Claus Holm, Sabine Bethmann, Walther Reyer, ...

Dangerous Liaisons(1959)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.

Directed by Roger Vadim - With Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Vadim, Boris Vian, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Simone Renant, ...

The Best of Everything(1959)

2h 1min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

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

Directed by Jean Negulesco - With Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Joan Crawford, Robert Evans, Stephen Boyd, ...

First Love(1959)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.

Directed by Mario Camerini - With Carla Gravina, Lorella De Luca, Raf Mattioli, Geronimo Meynier, Christine Kaufmann, Mario Pisu, ...

Come Dance with Me!(1959)

1h 31min | Drama, Crime, Mystery

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Herve argues with his wife, after which he meets an appealing woman at a nightclub. A subsequent one-night stand with her turns into a tragedy when the woman is killed.

Directed by Michel Boisrond - With Brigitte Bardot, Henri Vidal, Dawn Addams, Darío Moreno, François Chaumette, Gabriel Gobin, ...

Green Mansions(1959)

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

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.

Directed by Mel Ferrer - With Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa, Henry Silva, Nehemiah Persoff, ...

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Middle of the Night(1959)

1h 58min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 60s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.

Directed by Delbert Mann - With Fredric March, Kim Novak, Glenda Farrell, Albert Dekker, Martin Balsam, Lee Grant, ...

La Cucaracha(1959)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.

Directed by Ismael Rodríguez - With María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, Dolores del Rio, Emilio Fernández, Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Pedro Armendáriz, ...

Woman Obsessed(1959)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols, Dennis Holmes, Theodore Bikel, Ken Scott, ...

Night of the Quarter Moon(1959)

1h 36min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.

Directed by Hugo Haas - With Julie London, John Drew Barrymore, Anna Kashfi, Dean Jones, Agnes Moorehead, Nat King Cole, ...

Kalyana Parisu(1959)

3h 14min | Drama

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Baskar and Vasanthi are college-mates. A naughty girl creates misunderstanding between them, and an enraged Vasanthi complains to the college dean, who immediately dismisses Baskar. Now left homeless, Baskar however manages to get employed at a tea company, and gets to stay with his close friend Sampath. Vasanthi approaches Baskar and apologises for her cruel act. Baskar forgives her, and they both fall in love. Vasanthi lives with her mother and her elder sister Geetha who is unmarried. Baskar rents the vacant portion of their house. Over time, Vasanthi passes her exams and gets employed.

Directed by C. V. Sridhar - With Gemini Ganesan, B. Saroja Devi, K. A. Thangavelu, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, M. N. Nambiar

Verboten!(1959)

1h 33min | Thriller, War, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.

Directed by Samuel Fuller - With James Best, Susan Cummings, Steven Geray, Paul Busch

That Kind of Woman(1959)

1h 32min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Jack Warden, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn, George Sanders, ...

White Nights(1960)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Based on the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Petersburg 40s of the XIX century. Summer, white nights. On the banks of the Neva, the Dreamer meets Nastenka. Five nights, walking around the city, young people talk about themselves. Having lost faith in the feelings of the person whom she loves, Nastenka promises the Dreamer in love with her to marry him, but... the other appears, Nastenka is happy again, and the Dreamer is alone again.

Directed by Ivan Pyryev - With Lyudmila Marchenko, Oleg Strizhenov

The Broken Disk(1959)

1h 42min | Music, Drama, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In this film, the famous singer/composer Zeki Müren plays himself. His flamboyant and luxurious life takes a tragic turn when he is poisoned, loses his voice and then gets framed for the killing that he doesn't actually carry out.

Directed by Osman Fahir Seden - With Zeki Müren, Belgin Doruk

Il mondo dei miracoli(1959)

1h 35min | Comedy

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Directed by Luigi Capuano - With Virna Lisi, Jacques Sernas, Marisa Merlini, Aldo Silvani, Elli Parvo, Yvonne Sanson, ...

Fellows(1959)

1h 24min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A coming-of-age story about the three girl friends who had just graduated school.

Directed by Vasili Ordynsky - With Ludmila Ivanovna Krylova, Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Margarita Kosheleva

Il padrone delle ferriere(1959)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.

Directed by Anton Giulio Majano - With Warner Bentivegna, Cathia Caro, Guido Celano, Mario Colli, Riccardo Fellini, Ivo Garrani, ...

Old Heidelberg(1959)

1h 48min

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Ernst Marischka - With Christian Wolff, Gert Fröbe, Sabine Sinjen, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Heinrich Gretler, Rudolf Vogel, ...

Hicran Yarası(1959)

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Directed by Metin Erksan - With Sadri Alışık

Vazha Vaitha Daivam(1958)

2h 20min | Drama

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Directed by M. A. Thirumugam - With Gemini Ganesan

1959 Romantic Drama Movies

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Solomon and Sheba(1959)

Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959)

Imitation of Life(1959)

The Indian Tomb(1959)

Ballad of a Soldier(1959)

A Summer Place(1959)

The Tiger of Eschnapur(1959)

Dangerous Liaisons(1959)

The Best of Everything(1959)

First Love(1959)

Come Dance with Me!(1959)

Green Mansions(1959)

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Middle of the Night(1959)

La Cucaracha(1959)

Woman Obsessed(1959)

Night of the Quarter Moon(1959)

Kalyana Parisu(1959)

Verboten!(1959)

That Kind of Woman(1959)

White Nights(1960)

The Broken Disk(1959)

Il mondo dei miracoli(1959)

Fellows(1959)

Il padrone delle ferriere(1959)

Old Heidelberg(1959)

Hicran Yarası(1959)

Vazha Vaitha Daivam(1958)

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