Search results for "1959"

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as…

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler’s concentration camps.

As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a…

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the…

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

An old lighthouse keeper who lives with his daughter secretly keeps a prehistoric fish-man by feeding it scraps and fish. One day he misses the feeding and all hell breaks…

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

Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She’s fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make…

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

When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems peacefully.

Two close friends’ plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.

A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.

Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain’s son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon’s mines. He dons a special medallion given by his father from the Watusi tribe,…

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

Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the…

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…

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an…

Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act…

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 brother of…

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.

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.

The emotional story of a boy, his grandfather, and his dog. The boy’s dream of becoming a great classical painter appears shattered when his loving grandfather dies.

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…

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…

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays…

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he’s been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his…

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it’s all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor…

Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean’s ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.

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….

Douglas Baines, a wartime army deserter, is lying low in a shabby flat with his girlfriend Daisy and the couple’s small son, Jiffy. Returning home with a toy for Jiffy’s…

The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.

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

A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting…

The first pilot to leave Earth’s atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside…

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

Joseph “Doc” Frail is a doctor with a past he’s trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man…

Jail house tensions mount as a killer’s execution approaches.