1959 Movies
The Year in Review
1959 was clearly a great year for film with several which could be contenders for the top spot.
My Top Picks
Ben Hur:
The Mouse that Roared: This is a very funny film to watch and it stars the first doctor, William Hartnell (and of course, Peter Sellers is amazing in it).
The Diary of Anne Frank
North by Northwest
Some Like it Hot: This was a great comedy and in another year, it might have been the best.
Notable Mentions ("Surprise" Films)
Mouse that Roared, The
The Biggest Disappointments
House on Haunted Hill
Plan 9 from Outer Space
All the films I've seen from 1959
39 Steps, The
Ben-Hur
Carry On Teacher
Diary of Anne Frank, The
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hound of the Baskervilles, The
House on Haunted Hill
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Mouse that Roared, The
Mummy, The
North by Northwest
On the Beach
Our Man in Havana
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Return of the Fly
Sleeping Beauty
Some Like it Hot
What's Left to See from 1959?
30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, The
400 Blows, The (Les Quatre Cents Coups) – (France) *
4D Man
Adventures of Buratino, The (Priklyucheniya Buratino) – (USSR)
Al Capone
Alias Jesse James
Alligator People, The
Anari – (India)
Anatomy of a Murder
Angry Hills, The
Angry Red Planet, The
Argument About Basia (Awantura o Basię) – (Poland)
Bad Girls Don't Cry (La notte brava) – (Italy)
Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate) – (U.S.S.R.)
Bat, The
Battle Beyond the Sun (Nebo zovet) – (U.S.S.R.)
Battle in Outer Space – (Japan)
Battle of the Sexes, The – (Britain)
Beat Generation, The
Best of Everything, The
Big Circus, The
Big Fisherman, The
Big Operator, The
Birth of Japan, The (Nippon Tanjō) – (Japan)
Black Orpheus – (Brazil/France/Italy) *
Blessings of the Land (Biyaya ng lupa) – (Philippines)
Breakout
Bridge, The (Die Brücke) – (West Germany) *
Bucket of Blood, A
But Not for Me
Captain's Table, The starring John Gregson and Peggy Cummins – (Britain)
Career
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. – (Britain)
Chasers, The (Jakten) – (Norway)
City of Fear *
Come Dance with Me – (France/Italy)
Compulsion
Court Martial (Kriegsgericht) – (West Germany)
Crimson Kimono, The
Danger Within – (Britain)
Darby O'Gill and the Little People *
Date With Death
Day of the Outlaw
Death Ship, The (Das Totenschiff) – (West Germany)
Destiny of a Man (Sudba cheloveka) – (U.S.S.R.) *
Devil's Disciple, The – (U.S./Britain)
Dil Deke Dekho – (India)
Don't Give Up The Ship
Donald in Mathmagic Land (short subject)
Dust on the Brain (Støv på hjernen) – (Norway)
El Lazarillo de Tormes – (Spain)
El Pisito (The Little Apartment) – (Spain)
Expresso Bongo – (Britain)
Eyes without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) *
FBI Story, The
Face of a Fugitive
Facts of Murder, The (Un maledetto imbroglio) – (Italy)
Fires on the Plain (Nobi) – (Japan)
Five Pennies, The
Floating Weeds (Ukikusa) – (Japan)
Follow a Star – (Britain)
Fugitive Kind, The
Gazebo, The
Giant Behemoth, The
Gidget
Girls Town
Good Morning (Ohayō) – (Japan)
Gunfight at Dodge City, The
Hanging Tree, The
Hangman, The
Hannibal
Happy Anniversary
Heart of a Man, The
Hole in the Head, A
Holiday for Lovers
Home for Tanya, A (Otchiy dom) – (USSR)
Honeymoon (Luna de miel) – (Britain/Spain)
Horse Soldiers, The
I'm All Right Jack – (Britain)
Il Generale della Rovere – (Italy)
Il vedovo (The Widower) – (Italy)
Imitation of Life
Immoral Mr. Teas, The
It Happened to Jane
It Started with a Kiss
Jazz Singer, The
Jet Over the Atlantic
Jet Storm – (Britain)
John Paul Jones
Journey, The
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers) – (India)
Kapò – (Italy/France/Yugoslavia)
Killers of Kilimanjaro
La Cucaracha (aka The Soldiers of Pancho Villa) – (Mexico)
La fièvre monte à El Pao (Fever Mounts at El Pao) – (France/Mexico)
La grande guerra (The Great War) – (Italy)
La vida alrededor (Life Around Us) – (Spain)
Last Angry Man, The
Last Train from Gun Hill
Law, The (La Legge) – (Italy)
Le Signe du Lion – (France)
Legend of Tom Dooley, The
Les Cousins – (France)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses – (France)
Letter Never Sent (Neotpravlennoye pismo) – (USSR)
Li'l Abner
Libel – (Britain)
Look Back in Anger – (Britain)
Magic Boy (Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke)
Make Mine a Million – (Britain)
Man Who Could Cheat Death, The
Man in the Net, The
Master and His Servants, The (Herren og hans tjenere) – (Norway)
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Sen noci svatojánské) – (Czechoslovakia)
Miracle, The
Mise Éire – (Ireland)
Model for Murder
My Second Brother – (Japan)
Nazarín – (Mexico)
Never So Few
Night Train (Pociąg) – (Poland) *
Nightingale's Prayer, The (Doaa al-Karawan) – (Egypt)
No Name on the Bullet
North West Frontier, aka Flame Over India – (Britain)
Nun's Story, The
Odd Obsession (Kagi) – (Japan)
Odds Against Tomorrow
Operation Petticoat
Overcoat, The (Shinel) – (USSR)
Paigham – (India)
Pickpocket – (France)
Pillow Talk
Please Turn Over *
Porgy and Bess
Pork Chop Hill
Raft
Rest Is Silence, The (Der Rest ist Schweigen) – (West Germany)
Ride Lonesome
Rio Bravo
Rookie, The
Room at the Top – (Britain)
Roots of Heaven, The
SOS Pacific – (Britain)
Sampo (The Day the Earth Froze) – (U.S.S.R./Finland)
Sapphire – (Britain)
Say One for Me
Scapegoat, The – (Britain)
Serious Charge – (Britain)
Shadows
Shaggy Dog, The
Shake Hands with the Devil – (United States/Ireland)
Shakedown, The
Solomon and Sheba
Sound and the Fury, The
Stars (Sterne) – (East Germany/Bulgaria)
Stranger in My Arms, A
Suddenly, Last Summer
Summer Place, A
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Telegrame – (Romania)
Ten Seconds to Hell
Terror Is a Man – (U.S./Philippines)
That Kind of Woman
There Will Be No Leave Today (Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet) – (USSR)
These Thousand Hills
They Came to Cordura
Third Man on the Mountain
Tiger Bay – (Britain) *
Tiger of Eschnapur, The – (West Germany)
Tingler, The
Tommy the Toreador – (Britain)
Too Many Crooks – (Britain)
Train Without a Timetable (Vlak bez voznog reda) – (Yugoslavia)
Trap, The
Up Periscope
Verboten *
Violent Summer (Estate violenta) – (Italy/France)
Warlock
Wasp Woman, The
We Are Altogether Crazy (Vi er allesammen tossede) – (Denmark)
Westbound
When Angels Fall (Gdy spadaja anioly) *
When the Woman Butts In (Kam čert nemůže) – (Czechoslovakia)
Wild and the Innocent, The
Woman Obsessed
Wonderful Country, The
World of Apu, The (Apur Sansar) – (India)
World, the Flesh and the Devil, The
Wreck of the Mary Deare, The – (Britain/U.S.)
Yellowstone Kelly
Yesterday's Enemy – (Britain)
Young Philadelphians, The