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Babette Goes to War (1959)

Summary: Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.

Genres: Comedy, War

Director: Christian-Jaque

Writers: Michel Audiard

, Jacques Emmanuel

, Jean Ferry

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

Production: Iéna Productions, Les Films Ariane

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Country: France

Language: French

The Wasp Woman (1959)

Summary: The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

Release Date: October 30, 1959

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Roger Corman

Writers: Leo Gordon

, Kinta Zertuche

Runtime: 1 h 03 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Santa Cruz Productions Inc.

Distributor: Alpha Video Distributors, Reel Media International, Treeline Films, Retromedia Entertainment, Scream Factory, Penteo Films S.L., YouTube

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000

Night of the Ghouls (1959)

Summary: A phony spiritualist raises the dead.

Release Date: May 03, 1959

Genre: Horror

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.

Writer: Edward D. Wood Jr.

Runtime: 1 h 09 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Atomic Productions Inc.

Distributor: Lumivision, Lumière, Sinister Cinema

Country: United States

Language: English

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

Mr. Lucky (1959)

Summary: A large ship sailing in international waters allowed patrons to gamble the night away. Mr. Lucky was the owner, and with his assistant Andamo, handled problem patrons, crooks, and cops to stay afloat.

Release Date: October 24, 1959

Genres: Comedy, Thriller

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Production: CBS Television Network, Spartan Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Great Expectations (1959)

Summary: A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Release Date: April 05, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Crime

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Johnny Staccato (1959)

Summary: Johnny Staccato is a jazz pianist and private detective.

Release Date: September 10, 1959

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Runtime: 0 h 24 min

Production: Revue Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

The Tingler (1959)

Summary: An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.

Release Date: July 29, 1959

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: William Castle

Writer: Robb White

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures, William Castle Productions

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 400,000

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

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

The Indian Tomb (1959)

Summary: A German architect runs away with the maharajah of Eschnapur's fiancee but is caught and thrown in the dungeon, while his relatives arrive from Europe looking for him and the maharajah's brother is scheming to usurp the throne.

Genres: Adventure, Romance

Director: Fritz Lang

Writers: Werner Jörg Lüddecke

, Thea von Harbou

, Richard Eichberg

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

Production: Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), Rizzoli Film, Regina Production

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP), Fantoma, Film Movement

Countries: France, Italy, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,673

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

The Third Man (1959)

Summary: Harry Lime makes money dealing art and solves crime to save his life.

Release Date: January 23, 1959

Genres: Drama, Crime

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), National Telefilm Associates (NTA), Prestige Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Detectives (1959)

Summary: Captain Matt Holbrook leads detectives tracking lawbreakers instead of having personal lives. His squad of three rarely worked cases together.

Release Date: October 16, 1959

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: Bentley-Blackpool, Four Star Productions, Gramercy Pictures (II)

Country: United States

Language: English

Gidget (1959)

Summary: A young girl discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer.

Release Date: April 10, 1959

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Paul Wendkos

Writers: Gabrielle Upton

, Frederick Kohner

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

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

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

Look Back in Anger (1959)

Summary: A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

Release Date: September 15, 1959

Genre: Drama

Director: Tony Richardson

Writers: John Osborne

, Nigel Kneale

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Woodfall Film Productions

Distributor: Embassy Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Pioneer Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment, United American Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000

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