Drama Movies
The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
The FBI Story (1959)
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Thus Another Day (1959)
The Swindlers (1959)
Carmen from Ronda (1959)
A Hole in the Head (1959)
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
Look Back in Anger (1959)
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Yesterday’s Enemy (1959)
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…
Underwater Reefs (1959)
Tõnis Hoopkaup is the head of a fishing collective in Tagaranna, a village on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. On the day of his wedding to fishing engineer Riina, he…
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
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.
Come Back Africa (1959)
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
Inside the Mafia (1959)
A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.
Terror in the Midnight Sun (1959)
After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to…
The Depot of the Dead (1959)
Face of Fire (1959)
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
The Big Operator (1959)
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Jay North, Vampira, Charles…
Blue Denim (1959)
Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.
The Angry Hills (1959)
In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is…
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
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.
The Big Circus (1959)
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959)
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…
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
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. Over the course of an…
The Visit (1959)
A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.
The Rebel Set (1959)
Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.
Imitation of Life (1959)
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.
Island Fishermen (1959)
Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasure of Jenny, his jealous mistress.
Porgy and Bess (1959)
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn…
The Nun’s Story (1959)
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
The Five Pennies (1959)
Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then…
The Man in the Net (1959)
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…
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave….
Nazarin (1959)
Jirocho Fuji (1959)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force,…
Woman Obsessed (1959)
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in…