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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

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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

639 - MovieMeter

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

170 - MovieMeter

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

134 - MovieMeter

Black Orpheus (1959)

Summary: A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

Release Date: June 12, 1959

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Marcel Camus

Writers: Jacques Viot

, Vinicius de Moraes

, Marcel Camus

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: G

Production: Dispat Films, Gemma Cinematografica, Tupan Filmes

Distributor: Lopert Pictures Corporation

Countries: Brazil, France, Italy

Language: Portuguese

104 - MovieMeter

Operation Petticoat (1959)

Summary: During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Release Date: December 24, 1959

Genres: Comedy, Romance, War

Director: Blake Edwards

Writers: Stanley Shapiro

, Maurice Richlin

, Paul King

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Granart Company

Distributor: Universal Pictures, NTA Home Entertainment, Republic Pictures Home Video, Olive Films, Artisan Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, National Telefilm Associates (NTA)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 23,300,000

99 - MovieMeter

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

96 - MovieMeter

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Summary: An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.

Genre: Comedy

Director: Jack Arnold

Writers: Roger MacDougall

, Stanley Mann

, Leonard Wibberley

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Highroad Productions

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 450,000

92 - MovieMeter

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

91 - MovieMeter

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

Writers: John Lee Mahin

, Martin Rackin

, Harold Sinclair

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Mirisch Corporation, Mahin-Rackin

Distributor: United Artists, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,753,526

67 - MovieMeter

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

60 - MovieMeter

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

58 - MovieMeter

Compulsion (1959)

Summary: Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.

Release Date: May 01, 1959

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Richard Fleischer

Writers: Richard Murphy

, Meyer Levin

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Darryl F. Zanuck Productions

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

44 - MovieMeter

Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)

Summary: The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

Release Date: February 11, 1960

Genres: Music, Documentary

Directors: Bert Stern

, Aram Avakian

Writers: Albert D'Annibale

, Arnold Perl

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Galaxy Productions (I), Raven Films

Distributor: Galaxy Attractions, CBS

Country: United States

Language: English

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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

31 - MovieMeter

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

24 - MovieMeter

The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

Summary: A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.

Release Date: May 01, 1959

Genres: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Director: Ranald MacDougall

Writers: M.P. Shiel

, Ferdinand Reyher

, Ranald MacDougall

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: HarBel Productions, Sol C. Siegel Productions

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,659,000

20 - MovieMeter

Experiment in Evil (1959)

Summary: Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier's lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people's behavior can be adjusted at will...

Release Date: November 16, 1961

Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Jean Renoir

Writers: Jean Renoir

, Robert Louis Stevenson

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF), Société Financière de Radiodiffusion - Sofirad, Compagnie Jean Renoir

Distributor: Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

17 - MovieMeter

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