The best movies 1959

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

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,...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

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...

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....

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

A series of mysterious robberies at gas stations across Tokyo and a seasoned detective with no leads—until his runaway son suddenly emerges as...

A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him...

In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

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...

Cusco film school.

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns...

A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.

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.

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,...

Antonio is the leader of an underground armed group fighting in the village of Ronda against Napoleon's troops which have imposed French rule in 1808...

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

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

A documentary film about the creation and organization of an agricultural cooperative and the economic benefits for farmers.

Cusco Film School.

"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred...

An alligator hunter falls in love with a teacher who has arrived from the west. Rurrenabaque, the town where the story takes place, is at a...

A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco.

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...