1959

Film Decades: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• 4D Man, starring Robert Lansing and Lee Meriwether
• The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine
• The 39 Steps – directed by Ralph Thomas, starring Kenneth More – (Britain)
• The 400 Blows – directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – France
• The Adventures of Buratino (Priklyucheniya Buratino) – (USSR)
• Al Capone, starring Rod Steiger
• Alias Jesse James, starring Bob Hope
• The Alligator People, starring Beverly Garland
• Anari, starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
• Anatomy of a Murder – directed by Otto Preminger, starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, Arthur O’Connell, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott
• The Angry Hills, starring Robert Mitchum and Gia Scala
• The Angry Red Planet (aka Invasion of Mars), starring Gerald Mohr
• Argument About Basia (Awantura o Basię) – (Poland)
• Bad Girls Don’t Cry (La notte brava), starring Rosanna Schiaffino – (Italy)
• Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate), directed by Grigory Chukhray – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Bat – starring Vincent Price & Agnes Moorehead
• Battle Beyond the Sun (Nebo zovet) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Battle in Outer Space, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
• The Battle of the Sexes, starring Peter Sellers – (Britain)
• The Beat Generation, starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren
• Ben-Hur – directed by William Wyler, starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins
• The Best of Everything, starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford
• The Big Circus – starring Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming, Red Buttons, Gilbert Roland, Kathryn Grant, Vincent Price
• The Big Fisherman, starring Howard Keel
• The Big Operator, starring Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren
• The Birth of Japan (Nippon Tanjō), starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
• Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus – Brazil/France/Italy
• Blessings of the Land (Biyaya ng lupa), starring Rosa Rosal – (Philippines)
• Breakout, starring Hazel Court
• The Bridge (Die Brücke), directed by Bernhard Wicki – (West Germany)
• A Bucket of Blood – directed by Roger Corman
• But Not for Me, directed by Walter Lang, starring Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb
• The Captain’s Table, starring John Gregson and Peggy Cummins – (Britain)
• Career – starring Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Franciosa
• Carlton-Browne of the F.O., starring Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, John Le Mesurier – (Britain)
• Carry On Nurse, starring Shirley Eaton and Kenneth Connor – (Britain)
• Carry On Teacher, starring Kenneth Connor and Leslie Phillips – (Britain)
  The Chasers (Jakten) – (Norway)
• City of Fear
• Come Dance with Me, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France/Italy)
• Compulsion – starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall
• Court Martial (Kriegsgericht) – (West Germany)
• Les Cousins, directed by Claude Chabrol – (France)
• The Crimson Kimono – directed by Samuel Fuller, starring James Shigeta
• La Cucaracha (aka The Soldiers of Pancho Villa), starring María Félix and Dolores del Río – (Mexico)
• Danger Within, starring Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Richard Attenborough – (Britain)
• Darby O’Gill and the Little People – directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Sean Connery
• Date With Death, starring Gerald Mohr
• Day of the Outlaw, starring Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Burl Ives
• The Death Ship (Das Totenschiff), starring Horst Buchholz – (West Germany)
• Destiny of a Man (Sudba cheloveka), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Devil’s Disciple, starring Laurence Olivier, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas – (U.S./Britain)
• The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by George Stevens, starring Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn
• Dil Deke Dekho, starring Shammi Kapoor – (India)
• Donald in Mathmagic Land (short subject)
• Don’t Give Up The Ship, starring Jerry Lewis
• Dust on the Brain (Støv på hjernen) – (Norway)
• Expresso Bongo, starring Laurence Harvey and Cliff Richard – (Britain)
• The FBI Story – starring James Stewart
• Face of a Fugitive, starring Fred MacMurray
• The Facts of Murder (Un maledetto imbroglio), directed by and starring Pietro Germi with Claudia Cardinale – (Italy)
• La fièvre monte à El Pao (Fever Mounts at El Pao), directed by Luis Buñuel – (France/Mexico)
• Fires on the Plain (Nobi), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan)
• The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye
• Floating Weeds (Ukikusa), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• Follow a Star, starring Norman Wisdom, Ron Moody, Hattie Jacques – (Britain)
• The Fugitive Kind – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward
• The Gazebo – directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
• The Gene Krupa Story – directed by Don Weis, starring Sal Mineo, Susan Kohner, James Darren, & Susan Oliver
• Il Generale della Rovere – directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
• The Giant Behemoth, starring Gene Evans and André Morell
• Gidget, starring Sandra Dee
• Girls Town, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Good Morning (Ohayō), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• La grande guerra (The Great War), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
• The Gunfight at Dodge City, starring Joel McCrea
• The Hanging Tree – directed by Delmer Daves, starring Gary Cooper, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
• The Hangman, starring Robert Taylor and Tina Louise
• Hannibal, starring Victor Mature and Rita Gam
• Happy Anniversary, starring David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor
• The Heart of a Man, starring Frankie Vaughan and Anne Heywood – (Britain)
• Hiroshima Mon Amour, directed by Alain Resnais – (France/Japan)
• A Hole in the Head – starring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Carolyn Jones, Eddie Hodges
• Holiday for Lovers, starring Jane Wyman, Clifton Webb, Jill St. John
• A Home for Tanya (Otchiy dom) – (USSR)
• Honeymoon (Luna de miel), directed by Michael Powell – (Britain/Spain)
• The Horse Soldiers – directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – (Britain)
• House on Haunted Hill – directed by William Castle, starring Vincent Price
• I’m All Right Jack, directed by the Boulting Brothers, starring Peter Sellers and Ian Carmichael – (Britain)
• Imitation of Life – directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Juanita Moore
• The Immoral Mr. Teas, directed by Russ Meyer
• The Indian Tomb, directed by Fritz Lang – (West Germany)
• It Happened to Jane – starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
• It Started with a Kiss, starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford
• The Jazz Singer, a television film starring Jerry Lewis
• Jet Over the Atlantic, starring Guy Madison and Virginia Mayo
• Jet Storm, starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Diane Cilento, Mai Zetterling – (Britain)
• John Paul Jones, starring Robert Stack
• The Journey – starring Yul Brynner & Deborah Kerr
• Journey to the Center of the Earth, starring James Mason and Pat Boone
• Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers), directed by and starring Guru Dutt – (India)
• Kapò, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Susan Strasberg – (Italy/France/Yugoslavia)
• Killers of Kilimanjaro, starring Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey
• The Last Angry Man, starring Paul Muni
• Last Train from Gun Hill, starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman
• The Law (La Legge), starring Gina Lollobrigida and Yves Montand – (Italy)
• El Lazarillo de Tormes – (Spain)
• Le Signe du Lion, directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)
• The Legend of Tom Dooley, starring Michael Landon
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jeanne Moreau – (France)
• Letter Never Sent (Neotpravlennoye pismo) – (USSR)
• Libel – directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Dirk Bogarde & Olivia de Havilland – (Britain)
• Li’l Abner, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Stella Stevens, Julie Newmar, Stubby Kaye
• Look Back in Anger, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom – (Britain)
• Magic Boy (Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke) – Japanese animated film
• Make Mine a Million, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Arthur Askey and Sid James – (Britain)
• The Man in the Net – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Alan Ladd & Carolyn Jones
• The Man Who Could Cheat Death, starring Anton Diffring and Hazel Court
• Model for Murder, starring Keith Andes and Hazel Court
• The Master and His Servants (Herren og hans tjenere) – (Norway)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sen noci svatojánské), an animated puppet film by Jiří Trnka – (Czechoslovakia)
• The Miracle, starring Carroll Baker and Roger Moore
• Mise Éire – (Ireland)
• The Mouse That Roared, starring Peter Sellers and Jean Seberg – (Britain)
• The Mummy, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – (Britain)
• My Second Brother, directed by Shōhei Imamura – (Japan)
• Nazarín, directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)
• Never So Few – starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen
• Night Train (Pociąg) – (Poland)
• The Nightingale’s Prayer (Doaa al-Karawan) – (Egypt)
• No Name on the Bullet – starring Audie Murphy
• North by Northwest – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
• North West Frontier – starring Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall – UK
• The Nun’s Story – directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Audrey Hepburn
• Odd Obsession – directed by Kon Ichikawa – Japan
• Odds Against Tomorrow, starring Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan
• On the Beach – directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins
• Operation Petticoat – directed by Blake Edwards, starring Cary Grant & Tony Curtis
• Our Man in Havana – directed by Carol Reed, starring Alec Guinness, Maureen O’Hara, Noël Coward, Ernie Kovacs – UK
• The Overcoat (Shinel) – (USSR)
• Paigham, directed by S. S. Vasan, starring Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Raaj Kumar, B. Saroja Devi – (India)
• Pickpocket, directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
• Pillow Talk – starring Doris Day & Rock Hudson
• El Pisito (The Little Apartment), directed bt Marco Ferreri – (Spain)
• Plan 9 from Outer Space – directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr., starring Tor Johnson, Vampira, Bela Lugosi
• Porgy and Bess – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dorothy Dandridge & Sidney Poitier
• Pork Chop Hill – starring Gregory Peck
• A Private’s Affair – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Sal Mineo, Chistine Carère, Barry Coe, Barbara Eden, & Gary Crosby
• The Rest Is Silence (Der Rest ist Schweigen), starring Hardy Krüger – (West Germany)
• Return of the Fly – director by Edward Bernds, starring Vincent Price
• Ride Lonesome – directed by Budd Boeticher, starring Randolph Scott
• Rio Bravo – directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson
• The Rookie, starring Julie Newmar, Tommy Noonan, Peter Marshall
• Room at the Top, directed by Jack Clayton, starring Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey – (Britain)
• The Roots of Heaven – directed by John Huston, starring Errol Flynn, Trevor Howard, Juliette Gréco, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles
• Sampo (The Day the Earth Froze) – (U.S.S.R./Finland)
• Sapphire – directed by Basil Dearden – UK
• Say One for Me – directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner
• The Scapegoat – directed by Robert Hamer, starring Alec Guinness & Bette Davis – UK
• Serious Charge – starring Anthony Quayle – UK
• Shadows – directed by John Cassavetes
• The Shaggy Dog – starring Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk
• The Shakedown, starring Donald Pleasence and Hazel Court
• Shake Hands with the Devil – directed by Michael Anderson, starring James Cagney – US/Ireland
• Sleeping Beauty
• Solomon and Sheba – starring Yul Brynner & Gina Lollobrigida
• Some Like It Hot ** – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown, Pat O’Brien, George Raft
• SOS Pacific – directed by Guy Green, starring Richard Attenborough – UK
• The Sound and the Fury – directed by Martin Ritt, starring Yul Brynner & Joanne Woodward
• Stars (Sterne) – (East Germany/Bulgaria)
• A Stranger in My Arms, starring Jeff Chandler, June Allyson, Mary Astor, Sandra Dee
• Suddenly, Last Summer – directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn
• A Summer Place – starring Troy Donahue & Sandra Dee
• Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure – directed by John Guillermin, starring Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sean Connery
• Telegrame – (Romania)
• Ten Seconds to Hell – directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Jack Palance
• Terror Is a Man – starring Francis Lederer – (U.S./Philippines)
• That Kind of Woman – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sophia Loren, & Tab Hunter
• There Will Be No Leave Today (Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (USSR)
• These Thousand Hills, starring Richard Egan, Don Murray, Lee Remick
• They Came to Cordura – directed by Robert Rossen, starring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Richard Conte, Dick York, Tab Hunter
• Third Man on the Mountain, starring Michael Rennie
• Tiger Bay – directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring John Mills & Hayley Mills – Britain
• The Tiger of Eschnapur – directed by Fritz Lang – West Germany
• The Tingler – directed by William Castle, starring Vincent Price
• Tommy the Toreador, starring Tommy Steele – (Britain)
• Too Many Crooks, starring Terry-Thomas and George Cole – (Britain)
• Train Without a Timetable (Vlak bez voznog reda) – (Yugoslavia)
• The Trap – starring Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Earl Holliman, Tina Louise
• Up Periscope – starring James Garner & Edmond O’Brien
• Il vedovo (The Widower), directed by Dino Risi, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
• La vida alrededor (Life Around Us) – (Spain)
• Violent Summer – starring Jean-Louis Trintignant – Italy/France
• Warlock – directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, DeForest Kelley
• The Wasp Woman – directed by Roger Corman, starring Susan Cabot
• We Are Altogether Crazy – Denmark
• Westbound – directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott & Virginia Mayo
• When the Woman Butts In – Czechoslovakia
• The Wild and the Innocent, starring Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Sandra Dee
• Woman Obsessed – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Susan Hayward
• The Wonderful Country, starring Robert Mitchum and Julie London
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil, starring Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens
• The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) – directed by Satyajit Ray – India
• The Wreck of the Mary Deare – starring Gary Cooper & Charlton Heston – UK/US
• Yellowstone Kelly, starring Clint Walker and Edd Byrnes
• Yesterday’s Enemy, directed by Val Guest, starring Stanley Baker – (Britain)
• The Young Captives – directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Steven Marlo, Luana Patten, & Tom Selden
• The Young Philadelphians – directed by Vincent Sherman, starring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Brian Keith, Alexis Smith, Robert Vaughn
• Zorro, the Avenger