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Tommy the Toreador (1959)

Tommy the Toreador (1959)

Tommy the Toreador (1959)
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90

Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Tommy finishes up in the bull-ring facing…

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Genre: Comedy, Music
Please Turn Over (1959)

Please Turn Over (1959)

Please Turn Over (1959)
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87

The orderly suburban life of a 1950’s English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously…

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Genre: Comedy
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)

The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)

The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
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80

In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments…

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Expresso Bongo (1959)

Expresso Bongo (1959)

Expresso Bongo (1959)
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111

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

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Genre: Comedy, Music
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
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105

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.

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Sapphire (1959)

Sapphire (1959)

Sapphire (1959)
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92

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects — including the…

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The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)

The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)

The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)
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92

A ship’s captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.

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Libel (1959)

Libel (1959)

Libel (1959)
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100

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and…

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SOS Pacific (1959)

SOS Pacific (1959)

SOS Pacific (1959)
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91

A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness…

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North West Frontier (1959)

North West Frontier (1959)

North West Frontier (1959)
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129

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy’s governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Rough and the Smooth (1959)

The Rough and the Smooth (1959)

The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
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96

Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.

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Genre: Drama
Jet Storm (1959)

Jet Storm (1959)

Jet Storm (1959)
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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.

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Genre: Thriller
Look Back in Anger (1959)

Look Back in Anger (1959)

Look Back in Anger (1959)
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98

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

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Genre: Drama
Yesterday’s Enemy (1959)

Yesterday’s Enemy (1959)

Yesterday’s Enemy (1959)
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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…

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Genre: Drama, War
The Ugly Duckling (1959)

The Ugly Duckling (1959)

The Ugly Duckling (1959)
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84

Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula…

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Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Chaplin Revue (1959)

The Chaplin Revue (1959)

The Chaplin Revue (1959)
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119

Three Chaplin silent comedies “A Dog’s Life”, “Shoulder Arms”, and “The Pilgrim” are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small…

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Genre: Comedy
Carry On Teacher (1959)

Carry On Teacher (1959)

Carry On Teacher (1959)
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86

When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power, and bombs!

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Genre: Comedy
The Devil’s Disciple (1959)

The Devil’s Disciple (1959)

The Devil’s Disciple (1959)
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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…

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Genre: Comedy, History, War
I’m All Right Jack (1959)

I’m All Right Jack (1959)

I’m All Right Jack (1959)
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105

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the…

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Genre: Comedy
The Scapegoat (1959)

The Scapegoat (1959)

The Scapegoat (1959)
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92

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

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The Bridal Path (1959)

The Bridal Path (1959)

The Bridal Path (1959)
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95

Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins…

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Genre: Comedy
The Mummy (1959)

The Mummy (1959)

The Mummy (1959)
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88

One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by…

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Genre: Horror
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)

The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)

The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
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100

An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.

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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Angry Hills (1959)

The Angry Hills (1959)

The Angry Hills (1959)
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105

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)

The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)

The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)
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84

After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.

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Genre: Adventure, Crime
The Mouse That Roared (1959)

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

The Mouse That Roared (1959)
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83

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid….

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Genre: Comedy
Alive and Kicking (1959)

Alive and Kicking (1959)

Alive and Kicking (1959)
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94

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.

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Genre: Comedy
The Visit (1959)

The Visit (1959)

The Visit (1959)
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35

A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.

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Genre: Drama
Operation Bullshine (1959)

Operation Bullshine (1959)

Operation Bullshine (1959)
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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…

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Genre: Comedy, War
Left Right and Centre (1959)

Left Right and Centre (1959)

Left Right and Centre (1959)
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95

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed…

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
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83

Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he’s really 104 years old. But people are starting to get…

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Deadly Record (1959)

Deadly Record (1959)

Deadly Record (1959)
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58

A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.

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Genre: Mystery
Jack the Ripper (1959)

Jack the Ripper (1959)

Jack the Ripper (1959)
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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.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
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87

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

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Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)

Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)

Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
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81

A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.

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Genre: Horror
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
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93

Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Innocent Meeting (1959)

Innocent Meeting (1959)

Innocent Meeting (1959)
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62

The daughter of a textile company owner falls in love with a young illustrator with a secret criminal past.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Idol on Parade (1959)

Idol on Parade (1959)

Idol on Parade (1959)
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88

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

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Genre: Comedy
We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959)

We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959)

We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959)
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53

Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.

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Genre: Documentary
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
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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…

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Genre: Comedy