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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

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Summary: After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.

Release Date: January 29, 1959

Genres: Family, Fantasy, Animation

Directors: Clyde Geronimi

, Eric Larson

, Les Clark

Writers: Erdman Penner

, Charles Perrault

, Joe Rinaldi

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: Walt Disney Home Video, Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company, Disney Channel, Buena Vista Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 51,600,000

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

Good Morning (1959)

Summary: Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Writers: Kôgo Noda

, Yasujirô Ozu

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Shochiku

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

The Bat (1959)

Summary: A crazed killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose in a mansion full of people.

Release Date: August 09, 1959

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Crane Wilbur

Writers: Crane Wilbur

, Mary Roberts Rinehart

, Avery Hopwood

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Liberty Pictures (IV)

Distributor: VCI Home Video, The Roan Group, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors, Reel Media International, Mill Creek Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Film Detective, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, Penteo Films S.L., 3GTG, Sinister Cinema

Country: United States

Language: English

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

The Bridge (1959)

Summary: In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.

Release Date: May 01, 1961

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Bernhard Wicki

Writers: Manfred Gregor

, Michael Mansfeld

, Heinz Pauck

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Deutsche Film Hansa, Fono Film, FONO Film

Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Passed! - BechdelTest

Araya (1959)

Summary: "Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, t...

Genre: Documentary

Director: Margot Benacerraf

Writers: Margot Benacerraf

, Pierre Seghers

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Caroni Films C.A., Films de l'Archer

Distributor: Milestone Film & Video, Oscilloscope, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Venezuela, France

Language: Spanish

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

The Wild Women of Wongo (1959)

Summary: Men, women and apes live together as three different tribes on the tropical island of Wongo. When the tribes discover that they live together on the island, ape-men start planning a raid on the tribe in order to capture mates.

Release Date: March 01, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Comedy

Director: James L. Wolcott

Writer: Cedric Rutherford

Runtime: 1 h 12 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Jaywall Productions, Tropical Pictures, Wolcott Productions

Distributor: Bentley, Alpha Video Distributors, Reel Media International, Film Detective

Country: United States

Language: English

Passed! - BechdelTest

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

Passed! - BechdelTest

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)

Summary: Hot rods, monsters and rock'n'roll... In this teen-oriented picture, a gang of greasers hole up in a reputedly haunted mansion after getting evicted from their clubhouse.

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Director: William J. Hole Jr.

Writer: Lou Rusoff

Runtime: 1 h 05 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Alta Vista Productions

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP), American-International Television (AIP-TV), MGM Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Passed! - BechdelTest

The Giant Gila Monster (1959)

Summary: A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community and a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the creature.

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Ray Kellogg

Writers: Ray Kellogg

, Jay Simms

Runtime: 1 h 14 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Hollywood Pictures Corporation (II)

Distributor: McLendon-Radio Pictures Distributing Company, VCI Home Video, Alpha Video Distributors

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 138,000

Talk about a man - BechdelTest

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

Ben-Hur (1959)

The Nun's Story (1959)

Imitation of Life (1959)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Wasp Woman (1959)

Good Morning (1959)

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

The Bat (1959)

Pillow Talk (1959)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

The Bridge (1959)

Araya (1959)

Gidget (1959)

The Wild Women of Wongo (1959)

Babette Goes to War (1959)

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)

The Giant Gila Monster (1959)

A Bucket of Blood (1959)

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