Search results for "1959"
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
IMDb: 8.5
206

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…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Never So Few

Never So Few

Never So Few
IMDb: 5.8
125

A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
The Head

The Head

The Head
IMDb: 5.3
91

A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog’s head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head…

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared
IMDb: 6.9
83

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid….

Genre: Comedy
The Mummy

The Mummy

The Mummy
IMDb: 6.6
88

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: Horror
The Moralist

The Moralist

The Moralist
IMDb: 6.5
93

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything “immoral” – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

Genre: Comedy
Middle of the Night

Middle of the Night

Middle of the Night
IMDb: 7.1
118

Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net
IMDb: 6.1
98

An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law…

Marie-Octobre

Marie-Octobre

Marie-Octobre
IMDb: 7.5
95

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Mating Game

The Mating Game

The Mating Game
IMDb: 6.9
96

Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins’ farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn’t paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
IMDb: 6.2
88

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to…

Genre: Comedy
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
IMDb: 7
98

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

The Man Who Could Cheat Death
IMDb: 6.3
83

Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he’s really 104 years old. But people are starting to get…

The Treasure of San Teresa

The Treasure of San Teresa

The Treasure of San Teresa
IMDb: 5.6
84

After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.

Genre: Adventure, Crime
The Swindlers

The Swindlers

The Swindlers
IMDb: 6.7
111

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police…

Genre: Drama
Libel

Libel

Libel
IMDb: 7.2
100

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and…

The Legend of Tom Dooley

The Legend of Tom Dooley

The Legend of Tom Dooley
IMDb: 6
79

Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for making…

Genre: Drama, Western
Li’l Abner

Li’l Abner

Li’l Abner
IMDb: 6.7
113

A comedy musical based on the comic strip charcters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch, USA are notified by the government that they must evacuate because of atomic…

Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Last Train from Gun Hill

Last Train from Gun Hill

Last Train from Gun Hill
IMDb: 7.3
98

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.

Genre: Western
The Last Angry Man

The Last Angry Man

The Last Angry Man
IMDb: 6.8
100

Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be journalist Myron, writes an article about him, it…

Genre: Drama
The Last Mile

The Last Mile

The Last Mile
IMDb: 6.6
81

Jail house tensions mount as a killer’s execution approaches.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Thus Another Day

Thus Another Day

Thus Another Day
IMDb: 6.7
73

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their…

Genre: Drama
The Lady is a Square

The Lady is a Square

The Lady is a Square
IMDb: 5.9
99

Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband’s symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
King of the Wild Stallions

King of the Wild Stallions

King of the Wild Stallions
IMDb: 5.9
76

A wild stallion provides unexpected help to a widow and her young son in their efforts to keep their ranch.

The Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews
IMDb: 4.2
69

Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who…

The Journey

The Journey

The Journey
IMDb: 6.8
126

A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth
IMDb: 7
132

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

Jet Storm

Jet Storm

Jet Storm
IMDb: 6.5
99

Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

Genre: Thriller
John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones
IMDb: 6.3
126

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

The Jayhawkers!

The Jayhawkers!

The Jayhawkers!
IMDb: 6.3
100

Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.

Genre: Action, Western
Jazz on a Summer’s Day

Jazz on a Summer’s Day

Jazz on a Summer’s Day
IMDb: 7.9
82

Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational…

It Started with a Kiss

It Started with a Kiss

It Started with a Kiss
IMDb: 6
104

While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Invisible Invaders

Invisible Invaders

Invisible Invaders
IMDb: 5
67

Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity…

It Happened to Jane

It Happened to Jane

It Happened to Jane
IMDb: 6.5
97

Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Inside the Mafia

Inside the Mafia

Inside the Mafia
IMDb: 5.5
72

A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life
IMDb: 7.8
125

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.

Genre: Drama, Romance
India: Matri Bhumi

India: Matri Bhumi

India: Matri Bhumi
IMDb: 7.2
90

Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.

The Indian Tomb

The Indian Tomb

The Indian Tomb
IMDb: 6.6
97

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…

I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack
IMDb: 7.1
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
Idol on Parade

Idol on Parade

Idol on Parade
IMDb: 5.6
88

A rock’n’roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

Genre: Comedy