The best movies 1959

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander —...

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she...

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne,...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful...

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...

"You are about to see a surrealistic study of an infantile creator"

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in...

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly...

Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the...

Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He...

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her....

Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned...

Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to...

A well-composed psychological dance drama of a completely different kind from the usual romantic and sometimes superficial ballets. And an intrusive...

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

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only...

The movie adaptation based on the legend of Raden May Ayu. It follows the original tale rather closely, though a few variations of the legend do...

The cartoon film sets out to justify the existence of UNESCO as an instrument for world peace.

Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.

Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to...

Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the...

The dwarfs of the Carnaval Catamarqueño party (La Chaya) and their actions over the muleteers.

When a newborn baby is abandoned in a convent Andalusian Mother Superior decides to be the gardener who takes over from him. As the boy grows,...

Garcia, a shy young musician who can not release any of his works, is in love with Lupe, a singer who makes a living working in a modest amusement...

Mary dreams of following the footsteps of his mother, Stella Marco, once famous popular singer. Both survive renting rooms to people in show...

In a town that relies heavily on horses, two men try to get rich by patenting and selling bags that hold the animals' body waste.

An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.

Short documentary about Peace based on the paintings of José María Sert, showed in the Nations Palace Congress Sessions Hall at Geneva.

Gambler faces comical mishaps trying to pay off a poker debt.

The sailor Quico Carola, alleged war hero of the Francoist side, emigrated to America and amassed a great fortune. Fifteen years later he returns to...

María de la O leaves her family and her former boyfriend Miguel to go with a rich landowner who's supposedly in love with her...

Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.

John Lucero, who was born poor, became the richest of the region, his great love for horses was what led him to make this fortune. His fame...

Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.