1959 Movies

Jirocho Fuji

The Moralist

The Bridge
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht…

Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Take a wee bit of ancient folklore, mix in some spectacular special effects and a magical cast (including Sean Connery) — and you’ve got one of the most enchanting fantasies…

Please Turn Over

When Angels Fall

The Wayward Girl

The World of Apu

Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from…

India: Matri Bhumi
Divided into four episodes Roberto Rosellini’s performs a ritual trip with India covering culture, beautiful architecture and also the State of India society, create an impression and a feeling of…

Thus Another Day
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their…

The Tingler

Never Steal Anything Small

Hiroshima Mon Amour
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….

The Wonderful Country

Have Rocket, Will Travel
The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula, and an alien computer who…

The Ghost of Yotsuya

Black Orpheus
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu’s vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between…
Cars Without a Home
Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia’s unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.

Floating Weeds

Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after…

The Visit
A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.

Battle of the Coral Sea

The Alligator People
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their…

The Stranglers of Bombay
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments…

Blue Denim

The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of…