Sapphire
Rating: 7.0
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...
Best movies of 1959
Titles indexed: 46
Sleeping Beauty
Rating: 6.9
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...
Warlock
Rating: 6.7
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the reside...
North by Northwest
Rating: 8.0
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase....
The Miracle
Rating: 6.7
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves....
Some Like It Hot
Rating: 8.1
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 D...
On the Beach
Rating: 6.6
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where lif...
Rio Bravo
Rating: 7.8
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...
Ride Lonesome
Rating: 6.7
On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey wi...
Li'l Abner
Rating: 6.0
A comedy musical based on the comic strip charcters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch, USA are notified by the government that ...
Solomon and Sheba
Rating: 6.4
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah depar...
Anatomy of a Murder
Rating: 7.8
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he r...
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Rating: 8.1
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...
Operation Petticoat
Rating: 7.2
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses....
Imitation of Life
Rating: 7.5
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....
Compulsion
Rating: 7.1
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene....
The Tingler
Rating: 6.4
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The ...
Pork Chop Hill
Rating: 6.6
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill...
Day of the Outlaw
Rating: 6.8
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their noto...
Good Morning
Rating: 7.7
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the...
The Atomic Submarine
Rating: 5.3
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate....
Return of the Fly
Rating: 6.1
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a mat...
Yesterday's Enemy
Rating: 7.2
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters agains...
Face of a Fugitive
Rating: 5.6
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he c...
Carry On Nurse
Rating: 6.4
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyo...
Nazarín
Rating: 7.6
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favo...
Fires on the Plain
Rating: 7.6
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine is...
Ten Seconds to Hell
Rating: 6.2
Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin....
Carry On Teacher
Rating: 6.3
When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes...
A Hole in the Head
Rating: 6.1
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son....
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Rating: 5.7
Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's reall...
First Man into Space
Rating: 5.0
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside......
The Incredible Petrified World
Rating: 3.5
When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwater world....
The Beat Generation
Rating: 5.2
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked....
City of Fear
Rating: 6.3
An escaped convict gets a hold of some radioactive material after his escape. Authorities desperately try to find the man that unknowingly i...
Maiden's Cheek
Rating: 6.9
Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very...
The Giant Gila Monster
Rating: 4.2
A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the ...
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Rating: 5.8
Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob....
Teenagers from Outer Space
Rating: 4.1
A young alien falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Ear...
Fellowship of the Frog
Rating: 6.5
Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed ...
Teenage Zombies
Rating: 3.5
A crazed scientist creates a nerve gas that turns the local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves....
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Rating: 7.1
The first puppet film shot in CinemaScope. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: ...
Journey to the Moon
Rating: 4.8
In his quest for fame and success, Ismail, a driver for a newspaper company, tries to take some unauthorized photographs of the inside of a ...
High Voltage
Rating: 5.0
High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts....
The Trouble with Women
Rating: 2.5
This short film illustrates some of the perceived problems a supervisor might face working with women, but ultimately demonstrates where the...
Hidden Homicide
Rating: 4.8
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he commi...