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Movies: Popular Movies of 1959

Movies in chronological context: 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade. ()

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Sleeping Beauty(1959)

G
| 1h 15min | Fantasy, Animation, Romance / Love, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 2,332 votes)

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 sleep that can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. Determined to protect her, her parents ask three fairies to raise her in hiding. But the evil Maleficent is just as determined to seal the princess's fate.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman

North by Northwest(1959)

NR
| 2h 16min | Mystery, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 1,745 votes)

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, ...
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Some Like It Hot(1959)

NR
| 2h 2min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love, Crime
4.1/5 (with 1,476 votes)

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 all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Mike Mazurki, ...
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Ben-Hur(1959)

3h 42min | Action, Drama, History
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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The 400 Blows(1959)

NR
| 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, ...
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Rio Bravo(1959)

NR
| 2h 21min | Western
3.9/5 (with 467 votes)

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 killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.

Directed by Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick - With John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, ...
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Anatomy of a Murder(1959)

NR
| 2h 41min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 395 votes)

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 extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Eve Arden, ...
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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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Plan 9 from Outer Space(1959)

NR
| 1h 19min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.1/5 (with 223 votes)

In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay that was murdered by the couple. Their intention is not to conquest Earth but to stop mankind from developing the powerful bomb “Solobonite” that would threaten the universe. When the population of Hollywood and Washington DC sees flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

Directed by Ed Wood - With Tom Keene, Tor Johnson, Bunny Breckinridge, Maila Nurmi, Bela Lugosi, Tom Mason, ...
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Pickpocket(1959)

1h 15min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 208 votes)

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 mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Directed by Robert Bresson - With Marika Green, Martin LaSalle, Jean Pélégri, Pierre Étaix, César Gattegno, Henri Kassagi, ...
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House on Haunted Hill(1959)

NR
| 1h 15min | Horror, Crime, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 203 votes)

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 house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!

Directed by William Castle - With Vincent Price, Alan Marshal, Elisha Cook Jr., Carolyn Craig, Armelia Carol Ohmart, Julie Mitchum, ...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth(1959)

NR
| 2h 12min | Adventure, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 189 votes)

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

Directed by Henry Levin - With James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Thayer David, Peter Ronson, Diane Baker, ...
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The Great War(1959)

2h 17min | Drama, Comedy, War
4.1/5 (with 153 votes)

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

Directed by Mario Monicelli - With Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, ...

The Diary of Anne Frank(1959)

NR
| 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, ...
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Operation Petticoat(1959)

PG
| 2h 4min | Action, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 147 votes)

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

Directed by Blake Edwards - With Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Dick Sargent, Marion Ross, ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles(1959)

NR
| 1h 27min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.4/5 (with 125 votes)

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

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, André Morell, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, ...
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Suddenly, Last Summer(1959)

NR
| 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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Pillow Talk(1959)

NR
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 110 votes)

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her inthe guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.

Directed by Michael Gordon - With Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Allen Jenkins, ...
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Imitation of Life(1959)

NR
| 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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Return of the Fly(1959)

NR
| 1h 20min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 107 votes)

Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.

Directed by Edward Bernds - With Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, Dan Seymour, Danielle De Metz, David Frankham, John Sutton, ...
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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, ...
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The Horse Soldiers(1959)

PG
| 1h 55min | Western, Adventure, War
3.6/5 (with 96 votes)

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 and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Althea Gibson, Hoot Gibson, Ken Curtis, ...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love(1959)

3h 26min | War, Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 94 votes)

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 him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Keiji Sada, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, Sō Yamamura, ...

Apur Sansar(1959)

PG-13
| 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
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The Mummy(1959)

NR
| 1h 26min | Horror
3.5/5 (with 92 votes)

One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Giorgos Pastell, Harold Goodwin, ...
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Black Orpheus(1959)

PG
| 1h 40min | Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 86 votes)

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 moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Directed by Marcel Camus - With Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Léa Garcia, Adhemar da Silva, Cartola, Marcel Camus, ...
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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, ...

Last Train from Gun Hill(1959)

1h 38min | Western, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 81 votes)

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

Directed by John Sturges - With Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter, Brian G. Hutton, ...
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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

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity(1959)

2h 58min | War, Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 76 votes)

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 against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Michirō Minami, Keiji Sada, Michiyo Aratama
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