Search results for "1959"
Pickpocket

Pickpocket

Pickpocket
IMDb: 8.3
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
The Untouchables

The Untouchables

The Untouchables
TMDb: 7.8
60 min

The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it…

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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
IMDb: 5.9
75

In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a delivery boy who invents a machine which turns his girlfriend into a giantess.

The Giant Behemoth

The Giant Behemoth

The Giant Behemoth
IMDb: 6.1
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.

The Gunfight at Dodge City

The Gunfight at Dodge City

The Gunfight at Dodge City
IMDb: 6.2
81

Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired…

Genre: Action, Western
Don’t Give Up the Ship

Don’t Give Up the Ship

Don’t Give Up the Ship
IMDb: 6.5
89

The Navy expects a veteran (Jerry Lewis) to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.

Genre: Comedy
The Bridge

The Bridge

The Bridge
IMDb: 7.8
103

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Rebel

The Rebel

The Rebel
TMDb: 8.1
30 min

The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman…

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Genre: Western
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
TMDb: 8.4
30 min

The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show is an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, on the ABC and NBC television networks. Produced…

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Rawhide

Rawhide

Rawhide
TMDb: 8
60 min

Rawhide is an American Western series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September…

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Genre: Western
The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone
TMDb: 8.2
30 min

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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Compulsion

Compulsion

Compulsion
IMDb: 7.5
103

Two close friends, arrogantly and without remorse, kidnap and murder a young boy. They are caught and put to trial where their larger-than-life defense lawyer blames the Establishment for their…

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty
IMDb: 7.3
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…

Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo
IMDb: 8.0
141

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…

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
North by Northwest

North by Northwest

North by Northwest
IMDb: 8.3
136

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

Good Morning

Good Morning

Good Morning
IMDb: 7.9
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 Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury
IMDb: 6.4
110

Passions divide a declining Southern family.

Genre: Drama
The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything
IMDb: 6.4
121

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
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.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDb: 7.0
87

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

Darby O’Gill And The Little People

Darby O’Gill And The Little People

Darby O’Gill And The Little People
IMDb: 7.2
93

Take a wee bit of ancient folklore, mix in some spectacular special effects and a magical cast (including Sean Connery) — and you’ve got one of the most enchanting fantasies…

The Chaplin Revue

The Chaplin Revue

The Chaplin Revue
IMDb: 7.8
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
Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour
IMDb: 8.0
92

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….

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder
IMDb: 8.1
160

The film pits a humble small-town lawyer against a hard-headed big city prosecutor. Emotions flare as a jealous army lieutenant pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his seductive, beautiful…

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
IMDb: 8.3
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…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life
IMDb: 7.9
125

Lora Meredith, a white single mother who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson, a black widow. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora’s daughter, Suzie,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat
IMDb: 7.3
124

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

The World of Apu

The World of Apu

The World of Apu
IMDb: 8.3
117

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….

Genre: Drama
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: Crime, Drama
Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk
IMDb: 7.5
102

A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill
IMDb: 6.9
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: Horror, Mystery
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth
IMDb: 7.1
132

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

On the Beach

On the Beach

On the Beach
IMDb: 7.3
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…

Beloved Infidel

Beloved Infidel

Beloved Infidel
IMDb: 6.1
123

Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur
IMDb: 8.1
212

Judah Ben-Hur, a Palestinian Jew, is battling the Roman empire at the time of Christ. His actions send him and his family into slavery, but an inspirational encounter with Jesus…

I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack
IMDb: 7.3
105

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the…

Genre: Comedy
Solomon and Sheba

Solomon and Sheba

Solomon and Sheba
IMDb: 6.2
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…

The Mummy

The Mummy

The Mummy
IMDb: 6.8
86

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…

Genre: Adventure, Horror
The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers
IMDb: 7.2
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…

Pork Chop Hill

Pork Chop Hill

Pork Chop Hill
IMDb: 7.1
97

American GI’s must retake a barren hill in Korea that has been overrun by Red Chinese troops. The ensuing battle becomes a meat grinder for American and Chinese alike.

Genre: Action, Drama, War