Search results for "1959"
Operation Bullshine

Operation Bullshine

Operation Bullshine
IMDb: 5.6
84

During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Big Operator

The Big Operator

The Big Operator
IMDb: 6.4
91

A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Jay North, Vampira, Charles…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Scarface Mob

The Scarface Mob

The Scarface Mob
IMDb: 7.1
102

Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s’ Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

Genre: Crime
Sapphire

Sapphire

Sapphire
IMDb: 7.1
92

Two Scotland Yard detectives (Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig) investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate…

Jet Storm

Jet Storm

Jet Storm
IMDb: 6.5
99

Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

Genre: Thriller
The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net
IMDb: 6.1
98

A artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law…

Too Many Crooks

Too Many Crooks

Too Many Crooks
IMDb: 7
87

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon – who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue – but he sees Fingers…

Genre: Comedy
A Summer Place

A Summer Place

A Summer Place
IMDb: 6.9
130

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

Genre: Drama, Romance
This Earth Is Mine

This Earth Is Mine

This Earth Is Mine
IMDb: 6.4
124

Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootleggers to survive.

Genre: Drama
Green Mansions

Green Mansions

Green Mansions
IMDb: 5.5
100

A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters…

The Wild and the Innocent

The Wild and the Innocent

The Wild and the Innocent
IMDb: 6.5
84

Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy’s first taste “big city” life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy’s…

Genre: Western
Captured

Captured

Captured
IMDb: 6.9
65

Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean…

Genre: War
Idol on Parade

Idol on Parade

Idol on Parade
IMDb: 5.7
88

A rock’n’roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

Genre: Comedy
Attack of the Giant Leeches

Attack of the Giant Leeches

Attack of the Giant Leeches
IMDb: 3.7
62

A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don’t believe them.

The Giant Gila Monster

The Giant Gila Monster

The Giant Gila Monster
IMDb: 3.6
74

A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chopming on motorists…

Face of Fire

Face of Fire

Face of Fire
IMDb: 6.9
79

A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

Genre: Drama
The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table
IMDb: 5.9
90

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship,…

Genre: Comedy
The Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews
IMDb: 4.1
69

Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who…

The Young Philadelphians

The Young Philadelphians

The Young Philadelphians
IMDb: 7.5
136

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries…

Genre: Drama
No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street
IMDb: 5.9
96

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn’t completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression….

Genre: Crime, Drama
Go, Johnny, Go!

Go, Johnny, Go!

Go, Johnny, Go!
IMDb: 5.7
75

Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn’t know he has won.

Genre: Music
The Lonely Sex

The Lonely Sex

The Lonely Sex
IMDb: 5.2
57

Maniac kidnaps a young girl and holds her prisoner in a shack in the woods.

Breakout

Breakout

Breakout
IMDb: 6.5
62

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Genre: Drama
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
IMDb: 6.3
88

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to…

Genre: Comedy
Teenagers from Outer Space

Teenagers from Outer Space

Teenagers from Outer Space
IMDb: 3.8
86

A young alien falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as…

The Devil’s Disciple

The Devil’s Disciple

The Devil’s Disciple
IMDb: 7.1
82

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Night Train

Night Train

Night Train
IMDb: 7.8
97

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta’s spurned…

Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy
IMDb: 7.1
95

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines…

Genre: Drama, War
North by Northwest

North by Northwest

North by Northwest
IMDb: 8.3
136

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

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Astronauts

The Astronauts

The Astronauts
IMDb: 6.5
14

An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
IMDb: 6.7
17

A short story narrated by an unknown British soldier who reveals his hopes, fears, and disillusionment while heading into battle against the German army.

All the Boys Are Called Patrick

All the Boys Are Called Patrick

All the Boys Are Called Patrick
IMDb: 7.1
21

A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Vice Raid

Vice Raid

Vice Raid
IMDb: 5.4
71

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.

For the First Time

For the First Time

For the First Time
IMDb: 6.5
92

In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Crimson Kimono

The Crimson Kimono

The Crimson Kimono
IMDb: 6.9
82

A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper’s murder.

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper
IMDb: 6.2
84

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

Ten Seconds to Hell

Ten Seconds to Hell

Ten Seconds to Hell
IMDb: 6.5
93

Two rivals (Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance) from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Hangman

The Hangman

The Hangman
IMDb: 6.6
87

A marshal nicknamed “The Hangman” because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known…

Don’t Give Up the Ship

Don’t Give Up the Ship

Don’t Give Up the Ship
IMDb: 6.5
89

The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.

Genre: Comedy
Blue Denim

Blue Denim

Blue Denim
IMDb: 6.7
89

Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion. Director Philip Dunne’s 1959 film about teenage pregnancy stars Brandon de Wilde, Carol Lynley, Macdonald…

Genre: Drama