The best movies 1959

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

In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander —...

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she...

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne,...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful...

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...

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the...

Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the...

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly...

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in...

Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of...

Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He...

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....

Bob recruits Jacques, a desperate blacksmith, to "recover" smuggled diamonds from de Belar. The heist goes badly wrong. The crooks kill each other...

César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type...

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.

An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of...

Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.

An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.

Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns...

Gambler faces comical mishaps trying to pay off a poker debt.

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to...

The dwarfs of the Carnaval Catamarqueño party (La Chaya) and their actions over the muleteers.

Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina.

A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco.

"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred...

Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath...

A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and...

A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.

Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the...

In a town that relies heavily on horses, two men try to get rich by patenting and selling bags that hold the animals' body waste.