Sort by:

Title
Date
Random
Rating
Ratings
ZR Aggregate Rating
IMDb
Metacritic MetaScore
Metacritic UserScore
Metacritic % Gap
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes Audience
Rotten Tomatoes % Gap
ZR User Score
ZR Critics (beta)
Global Ratings
Douban
Eiga
Kinopoisk
MovieMeter
OFDb
Popularity
Most Talked About
Popularity Total
IMDb
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes Audience
ZR Critics
ZR User Score
4chan
Global Popularity
Douban
Eiga
Kinopoisk
MovieMeter
OFDb
Wokeness
Family Friendly Score
ZR Woke Meter
Forced Diversity
"Diversity" %
Female %
Literal Diversity
Possibly Woke
LGBTQ
Review Sites
BechdelTest
CherryPicks
Audience Warnings
NEO-MARXISM
FEMINISM
FEDORA TIPPING
Finances
Budget
Profit
Worldwide Box Office
International Box Office
Domestic Box Office

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)

Summary: In Eschnapur, a local Maharajah and a German architect fall in-love with the same temple dancer.

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Director: Fritz Lang

Writers: Werner Jörg Lüddecke

, Thea von Harbou

, Richard Eichberg

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

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

Distributor: Fantoma, Film Movement

Countries: France, Italy, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,673

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

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

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

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: Approved

Production: Arwin Productions

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

Country: United States

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

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

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 Crimson Kimono (1959)

Summary: Two detectives seek a stripper's killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship.

Release Date: May 05, 1960

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Samuel Fuller

Writer: Samuel Fuller

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures, Globe Enterprises

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, Mill Creek Entertainment, Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

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

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

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

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

Fires on the Plain (1959)

North by Northwest (1959)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Ben-Hur (1959)

The 400 Blows (1959)

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)

Compulsion (1959)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

Pillow Talk (1959)

The Indian Tomb (1959)

Porgy and Bess (1959)

Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)

The Crimson Kimono (1959)

Experiment in Evil (1959)

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

The World of Apu (1959)

The Nun's Story (1959)

Active filters

Release Date

Types

Genres

Provider

Ratings

Wokeness

Indie-ness

Cast

Crew

Finances

Keywords

Country

Language

Filters

Active filters

Release Date

Types

Genres

Provider

Ratings

Wokeness

Indie-ness

Cast

Crew

Finances

Keywords

Country

Language