1959

Black Orpheus 1959

A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

Category: Drama, Musical, romance, Romantic

Stars: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira

7.4 IMDB Rating 61 Views
No Trees in the Street 1959

London detective recalls 1930s poverty. Hetty battles brother's criminality, manipulative mother favoring racketeer Wilkie for gain. Slums contrasted with new high-rises.

Category: Crime, Drama

Stars: Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Ronald Howard

6.0 IMDB Rating 68 Views
A Bucket of Blood 1959

A dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.

Category: Comedy, Crime, Horror

Stars: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone

6.7 IMDB Rating 53 Views
Sköna Susanna och gubbarna 1959

In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th century and as in the legend desired.

Category: Drama

Stars: Adolf Jahr, John Elfström, Erik Strandmark

4.0 IMDB Rating 113 Views
1959

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

Category: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Stars: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long

6.8 IMDB Rating 147 Views
Fröken Chic 1959

An agent on the brink of bankruptcy finds a reluctant singing talent on a TV quiz show.

Category: Comedy

Stars: Sickan Carlsson, Hasse Ekman, Meg Westergren

5.6 IMDB Rating 125 Views
Carry on Teacher 1959

Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him.

Category: Comedy

Stars: Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Connor

6.2 IMDB Rating 114 Views
Soldaterkammerater rykker ud 1959

The fellow soldiers are no longer recruits, but still subject to Sergeant Vældegaard's biting gaze. However, that doesn't stop them from doing mischief - both with the new recruits and when there are women in the spotlight.

Category: Comedy

Stars: Paul Hagen, Louis Miehe-Renard, Ebbe Langberg

6.1 IMDB Rating 129 Views
The Horse Soldiers 1959

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.

Category: Adventure, Drama, romance, Romantic

Stars: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers

7.1 IMDB Rating 249 Views
Raggare! 1959

Young Greasers gather in at a café outside Stockholm. Roffe is the toughest greaser and kidnaps his girlfriend Bibban, when he discovers that she is out riding with other guys. Bibban falls in love with the sensitive Lasse.

Category: Adventure, Drama

Stars: Christina Schollin, Bill Magnusson, Hans Wahlgren

5.5 IMDB Rating 300 Views
The 400 Blows 1959

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

Category: Crime, Drama

Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier

8.1 IMDB Rating 193 Views
The Mummy 1959

In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.

Category: Adventure, Horror

Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux

6.7 IMDB Rating 295 Views
Rymdinvasion i Lappland 1959

Aliens release a furry critter in the wilds of Lapland where it takes a woman captive and threatens a group of scientists.

Category: Horror, Sci-Fi

Stars: Barbara Wilson, Sten Gester, Robert Burton

3.7 IMDB Rating 381 Views
Darby O’Gill and the Little People 1959

A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.

Category: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Stars: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery

7.1 IMDB Rating 463 Views
Sleeping Beauty 1959

After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Family

Stars: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley

7.2 IMDB Rating 1,120 Views
Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas

7.8 IMDB Rating 3,127 Views
North by Northwest 1959

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.

Category: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

8.3 IMDB Rating 4,680 Views
The World of Apu 1959

Apu is a jobless former student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. This changes his life, for when the bridegroom turns out to be mad, Apu's friend asks him to become the husband. After initial revulsion at the idea, Apu agrees. Apu takes his exquisite bride, Aparna, back to Calcutta. But Aparna dies while giving birth, Apu leaves Calcutta, crazy with grief, and his son Kajal is left abandoned with his wife's parents. Only after a long period of total indifference to worldly responsibilities, does Apu become capable of returning to the world.

Category: Drama

Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee,Sharmila Tagore,Alok Chakravarty,Swapan Mukherjee

8.2 IMDB Rating 2,423 Views
Imitation of Life 1959

Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson, a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though, Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.

Category: Drama

Stars: Lana Turner,John Gavin,Sandra Dee,Susan Kohner

7.9 IMDB Rating 2,392 Views
Sängkammartjuven 1959

Rich socialite are falsely rumored to have an affair with an author. Meanwhile, the police is searching for a cat burglar.

Category: Comedy

Stars: Jarl Kulle,Gaby Stenberg,Lena Söderblom,Holger Löwenadler

6.4 IMDB Rating 2,567 Views