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The Bat (1959)

Summary: A crazed killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose in a mansion full of people.

Release Date: August 09, 1959

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Crane Wilbur

Writers: Crane Wilbur

, Mary Roberts Rinehart

, Avery Hopwood

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Liberty Pictures (IV)

Distributor: VCI Home Video, The Roan Group, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors, Reel Media International, Mill Creek Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Film Detective, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, Penteo Films S.L., 3GTG, Sinister Cinema

Country: United States

Language: English

30 - Rotten Tomatoes
10 votes

Night of the Ghouls (1959)

Summary: A phony spiritualist raises the dead.

Release Date: May 03, 1959

Genre: Horror

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.

Writer: Edward D. Wood Jr.

Runtime: 1 h 09 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Atomic Productions Inc.

Distributor: Lumivision, Lumière, Sinister Cinema

Country: United States

Language: English

60 - Rotten Tomatoes
5 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

68 - Rotten Tomatoes
22 votes

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Summary: A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writers: Tennessee Williams

, Gore Vidal

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures, Horizon Pictures (II), Academy Pictures Corporation

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia TriStar Home Video, Twilight Time, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

71 - Rotten Tomatoes
14 votes

A Bucket of Blood (1959)

Summary: A dim-witted busboy finds acclaim as an artist for a plaster-covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. The desire for more praise soon leads to an increasingly deadly series of works.

Release Date: October 21, 1959

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Horror

Director: Roger Corman

Writer: Charles B. Griffith

Runtime: 1 h 06 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Alta Vista Productions

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP), American-International Television (AIP-TV), Rhino Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, E-Realbiz.com, Madacy Entertainment, Marengo Films, Alpha Video Distributors, Gotham Distribution, Reel Media International, GoodTimes Home Video, Toppraffel! DVD, Film Detective, Penteo Films S.L., Something Weird Video (SWV)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000

72 - Rotten Tomatoes
46 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

77 - Rotten Tomatoes
22 votes

On the Beach (1959)

Summary: After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

Release Date: December 17, 1959

Genres: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Director: Stanley Kramer

Writers: John Paxton

, Nevil Shute

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Stanley Kramer Productions, Lomitas Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Image Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,900,000

80 - Rotten Tomatoes
15 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

80 - Rotten Tomatoes
15 votes

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

80 - Rotten Tomatoes
5 votes

They Came to Cordura (1959)

Summary: An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.

Release Date: August 20, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Robert Rossen

Writers: Ivan Moffat

, Robert Rossen

, Glendon Swarthout

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures, Goetz Pictures, Baroda Productions

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Image Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

82 - Rotten Tomatoes
28 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: March 20, 1959

Genre: Drama

Director: Douglas Sirk

Writers: Eleanore Griffin

, Allan Scott

, Fannie Hurst

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: Approved

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

82 - Rotten Tomatoes

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

83 - Rotten Tomatoes
18 votes

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

83 - Rotten Tomatoes
6 votes

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

85 - Rotten Tomatoes
53 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

88 - Rotten Tomatoes
8 votes

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

90 - Rotten Tomatoes
21 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

91 - Rotten Tomatoes
11 votes

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