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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

8.3 - OFDb
1080 votes

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

8.2 - OFDb
893 votes

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

8.1 - OFDb
34 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

8 - OFDb
692 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

7.8 - OFDb
536 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

7.8 - OFDb
4 votes

Maigret (1959)

Summary: Televisations of the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon.

Release Date: October 31, 1960

Genres: Drama, Crime

Runtime: 0 h 50 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Winwell Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

7.7 - OFDb
23 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

7.7 - OFDb
3 votes

The Detectives (1959)

Summary: Captain Matt Holbrook leads detectives tracking lawbreakers instead of having personal lives. His squad of three rarely worked cases together.

Release Date: October 16, 1959

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: Bentley-Blackpool, Four Star Productions, Gramercy Pictures (II)

Country: United States

Language: English

7.6 - OFDb
5 votes

Third Man on the Mountain (1959)

Summary: A boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel.

Release Date: November 10, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family

Director: Ken Annakin

Writers: Eleanore Griffin

, James Ramsey Ullman

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Disney Channel, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney+

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: Spanish

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

7.5 - OFDb
207 votes

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: $ 193,681

7.5 - OFDb
2 votes

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959)

Summary: Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now-famous faces.

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Production: Merton Park Studios

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

7.4 - OFDb
135 votes

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

Writer: Marguerite Duras

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Studios, Pathé Entertainment, Pathé Overseas, Argos Films

Distributor: Zenith International Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Reel Media International, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, Japan

Language: French

Domestic: $ 96,439

International: $ 41,673

7.4 - OFDb
79 votes

The Twilight Zone (1959)

Summary: Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.

Release Date: October 02, 1959

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Runtime: 0 h 51 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Cayuga Productions, CBS Television Network

Country: United States

Language: English

7.3 - OFDb
309 votes

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Summary: An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: Henry Levin

Writers: Walter Reisch

, Charles Brackett

, Jules Verne

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: G

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Joseph M. Schenck Enterprises, Cooga Mooga

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,440,000

7.3 - OFDb
195 votes

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

7.3 - OFDb
29 votes

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

7.2 - OFDb
249 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

7.2 - OFDb
92 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

7.1 - OFDb
97 votes

Pickpocket (1959)

Summary: Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.

Release Date: December 16, 1959

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Robert Bresson

Writer: Robert Bresson

Runtime: 1 h 16 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Compagnie Cinématographique de France, World Wonder Ring Stardom

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Fires on the Plain (1959)

North by Northwest (1959)

Ben-Hur (1959)

Floating Weeds (1959)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Rio Bravo (1959)

Maigret (1959)

The World of Apu (1959)

The Detectives (1959)

Third Man on the Mountain (1959)

The 400 Blows (1959)

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959)

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

The Twilight Zone (1959)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Good Morning (1959)

Operation Petticoat (1959)

Imitation of Life (1959)

Pickpocket (1959)

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