Search results for "1959"
Ten Seconds to Hell

Ten Seconds to Hell

Ten Seconds to Hell
IMDb: 6.5
93

Two rivals (Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance) from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Suddenly, Last Summer

Suddenly, Last Summer

Suddenly, Last Summer
IMDb: 7.6
114

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 insane; now Mrs. Venable…

They Came to Cordura

They Came to Cordura

They Came to Cordura
IMDb: 6.4
123

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.

Genre: Western
Terror Is a Man

Terror Is a Man

Terror Is a Man
IMDb: 5.5
89

A mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.

Genre: Horror
The Trap

The Trap

The Trap
IMDb: 6.6
84

Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit…

Genre: Crime
Battle in Outer Space

Battle in Outer Space

Battle in Outer Space
IMDb: 5.7
90

In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is attacked by a fleet of UFOs. After the station is destroyed, the saucers make their way to Earth. They then begin a global…

Vice Raid

Vice Raid

Vice Raid
IMDb: 5.5
71

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper
IMDb: 6.2
84

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

Expresso Bongo

Expresso Bongo

Expresso Bongo
IMDb: 6.2
108

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation. Director Val Guest’s 1959 British drama stars Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Hermione…

Genre: Comedy
Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana
IMDb: 7.2
111

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer…

The Manster

The Manster

The Manster
IMDb: 5.4
72

A reporter is sent to interview a scientist working in his mountain laboratory.

Genre: Horror
All the Boys Are Called Patrick

All the Boys Are Called Patrick

All the Boys Are Called Patrick
IMDb: 7.1
21

A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
IMDb: 6.7
17

A short story narrated by an unknown British soldier who reveals his hopes, fears, and disillusionment while heading into battle against the German army.

The Astronauts

The Astronauts

The Astronauts
IMDb: 6.4
14

An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.

Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy
IMDb: 7.1
95

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines…

Genre: Drama, War
The Devil’s Disciple

The Devil’s Disciple

The Devil’s Disciple
IMDb: 7.2
82

The Devil’s Disciple is a 1959 film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title. The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton who replaced Alexander Mackendrick…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Night Train

Night Train

Night Train
IMDb: 7.8
97

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta’s spurned…

Samurai Saga

Samurai Saga

Samurai Saga
IMDb: 6.8
111

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as…

Genre: Action, Drama
Teenagers from Outer Space

Teenagers from Outer Space

Teenagers from Outer Space
IMDb: 3.8
86

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 Earth as…

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared
IMDb: 7
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
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
IMDb: 6.3
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
Breakout

Breakout

Breakout
IMDb: 6.7
62

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Genre: Drama
The Lonely Sex

The Lonely Sex

The Lonely Sex
IMDb: 5
57

Maniac kidnaps a young girl and holds her prisoner in a shack in the woods.

Go, Johnny, Go!

Go, Johnny, Go!

Go, Johnny, Go!
IMDb: 5.7
75

Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn’t know he has won.

Genre: Music
The Young Philadelphians

The Young Philadelphians

The Young Philadelphians
IMDb: 7.4
136

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries…

Genre: Drama
No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street
IMDb: 5.9
96

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn’t completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression….

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table
IMDb: 5.9
90

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship,…

Genre: Comedy
Face of Fire

Face of Fire

Face of Fire
IMDb: 6.9
79

A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

Genre: Drama
The Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews
IMDb: 4.1
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…

Idol on Parade

Idol on Parade

Idol on Parade
IMDb: 5.7
88

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

Genre: Comedy
The Giant Gila Monster

The Giant Gila Monster

The Giant Gila Monster
IMDb: 3.6
74

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 giant lizard begins chopming on motorists…

Attack of the Giant Leeches

Attack of the Giant Leeches

Attack of the Giant Leeches
IMDb: 3.7
62

A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don’t believe them.

The Wild and the Innocent

The Wild and the Innocent

The Wild and the Innocent
IMDb: 6.5
84

Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy’s first taste “big city” life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy’s…

Genre: Western
Green Mansions

Green Mansions

Green Mansions
IMDb: 5.5
100

A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters…

This Earth Is Mine

This Earth Is Mine

This Earth Is Mine
IMDb: 6.4
124

Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootleggers to survive.

Genre: Drama
Jet Storm

Jet Storm

Jet Storm
IMDb: 6.3
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
A Summer Place

A Summer Place

A Summer Place
IMDb: 6.9
130

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Too Many Crooks

Too Many Crooks

Too Many Crooks
IMDb: 7
87

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon – who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue – but he sees Fingers…

Genre: Comedy
Captured

Captured

Captured
IMDb: 6.8
65

Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean…

Genre: War
The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net
IMDb: 6.1
98

A 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…