The best movies 1959

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

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

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

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...

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...

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went...

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him...

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 marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where...

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

Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent...

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

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World...

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...

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...

Antonio is the leader of an underground armed group fighting in the village of Ronda against Napoleon's troops which have imposed French rule in 1808...

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

When a newborn baby is abandoned in a convent Andalusian Mother Superior decides to be the gardener who takes over from him. As the boy grows,...

Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.

The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and...

Garcia, a shy young musician who can not release any of his works, is in love with Lupe, a singer who makes a living working in a modest amusement...

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

An alligator hunter falls in love with a teacher who has arrived from the west. Rurrenabaque, the town where the story takes place, is at a...

Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire...

The sailor Quico Carola, alleged war hero of the Francoist side, emigrated to America and amassed a great fortune. Fifteen years later he returns to...

A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco.

Comedy about the surreal holiday of two teenage Spanish girls, where they meet a bizarre assortment of villains and new friends.

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.

The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor...

María de la O leaves her family and her former boyfriend Miguel to go with a rich landowner who's supposedly in love with her...

El cantar de los cantares is one of the most fascinating and unknown artistic experiences of the post-war Spanish exile. The prestigious poet and...

At the end of the eighteenth century, the young Diego Corrientes quarrels with the tyrannical count of Albanes, who, after arresting Diego, orders...

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

An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his...