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95 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
3909 votes

The World of Apu (1959)

Summary: This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.

Release Date: October 04, 1960

Genre: Drama

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writers: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

, Satyajit Ray

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Satyajit Ray Productions

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, Cinephile Media, The Criterion Channel

Country: India

Language: English

Domestic: $ 134,241

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
82464 votes

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Summary: After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Release Date: March 19, 1959

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Music

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder

, I.A.L. Diamond

, Robert Thoeren

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Ashton Productions, The Mirisch Corporation

Distributor: United Artists, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), VidAmerica, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,883,848

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
79963 votes

North by Northwest (1959)

Summary: A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Release Date: December 18, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: Ernest Lehman

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS, RCA (II), MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Time-Life Video, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, Fathom Events, Home Box Office (HBO), The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,101,000

Domestic: $ 66,728

International: $ 78,039

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
38854 votes

The 400 Blows (1959)

Summary: A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

Release Date: November 16, 1959

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: François Truffaut

Writers: François Truffaut

, Marcel Moussy

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Les Films du Carrosse, Sédif Productions

Distributor: Zenith International Films, Fox Lorber, HBO Max, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 509

International: $ 194,655

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

The Twilight Zone (1959)

Summary: Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.

Release Date: October 02, 1959

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Runtime: 0 h 50 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Cayuga Productions, CBS Television Network

Country: United States

Language: English

93 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1090 votes

Fires on the Plain (1959)

Summary: In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.

Release Date: November 03, 1959

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Kon Ichikawa

Writers: Shohei Ooka

, Natto Wada

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei Studios, Kadokawa Herald Pictures

Distributor: Edward Harrison, The Criterion Collection, Janus Films

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
9612 votes

Imitation of Life (1959)

Summary: An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.

Release Date: April 02, 1959

Genre: Drama

Director: Douglas Sirk

Writers: Eleanore Griffin

, Allan Scott

, Fannie Hurst

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal International Pictures (UI)

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
2603 votes

Floating Weeds (1959)

Summary: The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

Release Date: November 24, 1970

Genre: Drama

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Writers: Yasujirô Ozu

, Kôgo Noda

, Tadao Ikeda

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei Studios

Distributor: Altura Films International, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
23993 votes

Rio Bravo (1959)

Summary: 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 brother of the local bad guy.

Release Date: April 04, 1959

Genres: Action, Drama, Western

Director: Howard Hawks

Writers: Jules Furthman

, Leigh Brackett

, B.H. McCampbell

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Armada Productions

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
12459 votes

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Summary: An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

Release Date: July 13, 1959

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Otto Preminger

Writers: Wendell Mayes

, John D. Voelker

Runtime: 2 h 41 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Otto Preminger Films

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

89 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
106347 votes

Ben-Hur (1959)

Summary: After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Release Date: November 18, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Lew Wallace

, Karl Tunberg

, Gore Vidal

Runtime: 3 h 32 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS, United Artists, MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 74,432,704

International: $ 5,016

89 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
10051 votes

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

Summary: A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

Release Date: May 16, 1960

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Alain Resnais

Writer: Marguerite Duras

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Studios, Pathé Entertainment, Pathé Overseas, Argos Films

Distributor: Zenith International Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Reel Media International, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, Japan

Language: French

Domestic: $ 96,439

International: $ 41,673

87 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
20335 votes

Pillow Talk (1959)

Summary: An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.

Release Date: October 07, 1959

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Michael Gordon

Writers: Stanley Shapiro

, Maurice Richlin

, Russell Rouse

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Arwin Productions

Distributor: MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6694 votes

Pickpocket (1959)

Summary: Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.

Release Date: December 16, 1959

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Robert Bresson

Writer: Robert Bresson

Runtime: 1 h 16 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Compagnie Cinématographique de France, World Wonder Ring Stardom

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6840 votes

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Summary: A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writers: Tennessee Williams

, Gore Vidal

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures, Horizon Pictures (II), Academy Pictures Corporation

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia TriStar Home Video, Twilight Time, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5570 votes

The Nun's Story (1959)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: July 18, 1959

Genre: Drama

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Writers: Robert Anderson

, Kathryn Hulme

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: CBS, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

80 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1655 votes

Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)

Summary: A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.

Release Date: October 23, 1959

Genres: Drama, Romance, Western

Director: John Sturges

Writers: Les Crutchfield

, James Poe

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Bryna Productions, Wallis-Hazen

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Viacom, American Movie Classics (AMC), Trifecta Entertainment and Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,500,000

77 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
9540 votes

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

Summary: 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 as caretaker.

Release Date: June 22, 1960

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: Robert Stevenson

Writers: Lawrence Edward Watkin

, H.T. Kavanagh

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Walt Disney Home Video, Buena Vista Distribution Company, Home Box Office (HBO), Disney Channel, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

77 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1067 votes

Porgy and Bess (1959)

Summary: A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly - if only everyone else would allow them to.

Release Date: October 14, 1959

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance

Directors: Otto Preminger

, Rouben Mamoulian

Writers: Dorothy Heyward

, DuBose Heyward

, N. Richard Nash

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

76 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
7617 votes

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

Summary: In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.

Genres: Adventure, Romance, War

Director: John Ford