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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

-17 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-15 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-10 - Metacritic % Gap

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 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-4 - Metacritic % Gap

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

4 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

Cuban Rebel Girls (1959)

Summary: Errol Flynn , playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista . The film was shot, with Castro's cooperation, while he was still fighting Batista.

Release Date: December 25, 1959

Genre: Adventure

Director: Barry Mahon

Writer: Errol Flynn

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Exploit Films

Country: United States

Language: English

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

Invisible Invaders (1959)

Summary: Invisible aliens from the Moon invade the Earth by occupying the bodies of recently deceased humans but a scientist, his daughter and an army Major, try to fight them.

Release Date: May 15, 1959

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Edward L. Cahn

Writer: Samuel Newman

Runtime: 1 h 07 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Premium Pictures Inc.

Distributor: United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

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

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

The FBI Story (1959)

Summary: A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Writers: Richard L. Breen

, John Twist

, Don Whitehead

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Mervyn LeRoy Productions Inc.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

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