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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

6.4 - ZR Critics
2 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

6.3 - ZR Critics
11 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

6.3 - ZR Critics
3 votes

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Summary: A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

Release Date: February 17, 1959

Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Director: William Castle

Writer: Robb White

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000

6.1 - ZR Critics
20 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

6.1 - ZR Critics
4 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

6.1 - ZR Critics
1 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: $ 198,264

6.1 - ZR Critics

Carry on Teacher (1959)

Summary: Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him.

Genre: Comedy

Director: Gerald Thomas

Writer: Norman Hudis

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

Production: Peter Rogers Productions, Beaconsfield Productions

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

6 - ZR Critics
7 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

5.9 - ZR Critics
5 votes

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Summary: An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: Henry Levin

Writers: Walter Reisch

, Charles Brackett

, Jules Verne

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: G

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Joseph M. Schenck Enterprises, Cooga Mooga

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,440,000

5.9 - ZR Critics

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: Not Rated

Production: Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

5.8 - ZR Critics
4 votes

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Summary: A bounty hunter (Randolph Scott) escorts a killer (James Best) to be tried for murder, but allows the man's outlaw brother (Lee Van Cleef) to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.

Release Date: April 04, 1959

Genre: Western

Director: Budd Boetticher

Writer: Burt Kennedy

Runtime: 1 h 13 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Ranown Pictures Corp.

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

5.6 - ZR Critics

Pork Chop Hill (1959)

Summary: During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.

Release Date: June 14, 1959

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Lewis Milestone

Writers: S.L.A. Marshall

, James R. Webb

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Melville Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Image Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Olive Films, YouTube

Country: United States

Language: English

5.5 - ZR Critics
2 votes

A Bucket of Blood (1959)

Summary: A dim-witted busboy finds acclaim as an artist for a plaster-covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. The desire for more praise soon leads to an increasingly deadly series of works.

Release Date: October 21, 1959

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Horror

Director: Roger Corman

Writer: Charles B. Griffith

Runtime: 1 h 06 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Alta Vista Productions

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP), American-International Television (AIP-TV), Rhino Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, E-Realbiz.com, Madacy Entertainment, Marengo Films, Alpha Video Distributors, Gotham Distribution, Reel Media International, GoodTimes Home Video, Toppraffel! DVD, Film Detective, Penteo Films S.L., Something Weird Video (SWV)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000

5.4 - ZR Critics
3 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

5.4 - ZR Critics
1 votes

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Summary: During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Release Date: April 17, 1959

Genres: Drama, Family, Biography

Director: George Stevens

Writers: Frances Goodrich

, Albert Hackett

, Anne Frank

Runtime: 3 h 00 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: George Stevens Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,800,000

5.2 - ZR Critics

Carry on Nurse (1959)

Summary: An idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and there is even a spot of DIY surgery!

Release Date: September 16, 1960

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Gerald Thomas