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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

3.8 - MovieMeter
170 votes

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

3.7 - MovieMeter
1189 votes

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

3.7 - MovieMeter
34 votes

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: Not Rated

Production: Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

3.6 - MovieMeter
639 votes

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

3.6 - MovieMeter
99 votes

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

3.6 - MovieMeter
44 votes

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

3.6 - MovieMeter
17 votes

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

3.4 - MovieMeter
60 votes

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

3.4 - MovieMeter
58 votes

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

3.3 - MovieMeter
24 votes

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

3.2 - MovieMeter
96 votes

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

3.2 - MovieMeter
92 votes

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

3.1 - MovieMeter
104 votes

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

3.1 - MovieMeter
67 votes

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

3 - MovieMeter
16 votes

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

2.9 - MovieMeter
91 votes

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

2.6 - MovieMeter
20 votes

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

2.6 - MovieMeter
15 votes

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

2.3 - MovieMeter
13 votes

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

Ben-Hur (1959)

Imitation of Life (1959)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Porgy and Bess (1959)

Rio Bravo (1959)

The World of Apu (1959)

Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)

Araya (1959)

Floating Weeds (1959)

Compulsion (1959)

The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Operation Petticoat (1959)

The Tingler (1959)

The FBI Story (1959)

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

Experiment in Evil (1959)

Carry on Teacher (1959)

Invisible Invaders (1959)

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