Search results for "1959"
The Legend of Tom Dooley

The Legend of Tom Dooley

The Legend of Tom Dooley
IMDb: 6
79

Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for making…

Genre: Drama, Western
Desperado Outpost

Desperado Outpost

Desperado Outpost
IMDb: 6.8
109

When Sergeant Okubo’s brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother’s killer.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Bridal Path

The Bridal Path

The Bridal Path
IMDb: 6.8
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…

Genre: Comedy
Innocent Meeting

Innocent Meeting

Innocent Meeting
IMDb: 5.9
62

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

Genre: Crime, Drama
Green Harvest

Green Harvest

Green Harvest
IMDb: 7.2
95

In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to…

Genre: Drama, War
The Purple Gang

The Purple Gang

The Purple Gang
IMDb: 6
85

The story of the infamous Purple Gang – a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920’s Detroit.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Day the Earth Froze

The Day the Earth Froze

The Day the Earth Froze
IMDb: 4.3
90

Based on Finnish mythology; Lemminkäinen woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. Louhi kidnaps Annikki to compel her brother to build for her a Sampo, a magical…

Cerasella

Cerasella

Cerasella
IMDb: 6.7
98

Cerasella escapes just before her marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
But Not for Me

But Not for Me

But Not for Me
IMDb: 6.3
111

Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary,…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Hannibal

Hannibal

Hannibal
IMDb: 5.2
90

A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.

Gunmen from Laredo

Gunmen from Laredo

Gunmen from Laredo
IMDb: 5.1
67

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

Genre: Western
Surrender – Hell!

Surrender – Hell!

Surrender – Hell!
IMDb: 5.7
85

Director John Barnwell’s 1959 WWII drama stars Keith Andes as an American soldier in the Philippines who trains a village of headhunters to fight the Japanese. Also in the cast…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Deadly Record

Deadly Record

Deadly Record
IMDb: 5.9
58

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

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Bloody Brood

The Bloody Brood

The Bloody Brood
IMDb: 5.1
88

Nico, a drug dealer, murders a telegram messenger-boy “for kicks”, egged on by partner-in-crime, TV director Francis. Cliff, the boy’s older brother, investigates his death due to the slow progress…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Most Valuable Wife

The Most Valuable Wife

The Most Valuable Wife
IMDb: 6.7
95

In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the Japanese spy service.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow
IMDb: 4.7
65

A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked…

Genre: Comedy, Horror
The Incredible Petrified World

The Incredible Petrified World

The Incredible Petrified World
IMDb: 3.1
70

When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwater world.

The Angry Hills

The Angry Hills

The Angry Hills
IMDb: 5.7
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…

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda

Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda

Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
IMDb: 6.9
95

Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy military governor with land holdings…

Pier 5, Havana

Pier 5, Havana

Pier 5, Havana
IMDb: 5.3
67

A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting to overturn Castro.

Underwater Reefs

Underwater Reefs

Underwater Reefs
IMDb: 4.2
75

Tõnis Hoopkaup is the head of a fishing collective in Tagaranna, a village on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. On the day of his wedding to fishing engineer Riina, he…

Genre: Drama
Sign of the Gladiator

Sign of the Gladiator

Sign of the Gladiator
IMDb: 5.3
98

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.

The Journey

The Journey

The Journey
IMDb: 6.8
126

A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Violent Moment

Violent Moment

Violent Moment
IMDb: 6.5
61

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…

Genre: Drama
Come Back, Africa

Come Back, Africa

Come Back, Africa
IMDb: 7.1
95

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

Cast a Long Shadow

Cast a Long Shadow

Cast a Long Shadow
IMDb: 6.1
82

A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.

Genre: Western
No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street
IMDb: 6
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
The Tiger of Eschnapur

The Tiger of Eschnapur

The Tiger of Eschnapur
IMDb: 6.6
101

In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah’s favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah’s friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall…

Brother Wang And Brother Liu Tour Taiwan-Part 1

Brother Wang And Brother Liu Tour Taiwan-Part 1

Brother Wang And Brother Liu Tour Taiwan-Part 1
IMDb: 6.6
88

Overweight shoeshiner Brother Wang (Wang Ge) and skinny rickshaw driver Brother Liu (Liu Ge) are best friends and roommates. One day, they come across a fortune teller who offers a…

Genre: Comedy
Escort West

Escort West

Escort West
IMDb: 6.2
75

Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his daughter meet Beth (Elaine Stewart), whose fiancé is a Union soldier. Lassiter falls for…

Genre: Action, Western
Tokyo After Dark

Tokyo After Dark

Tokyo After Dark
IMDb: 6.6
80

An American serviceman stationed in Tokyo, who’s engaged to a local singer, faces both a military court-martial and a trial in the Japanese courts after an accidental shooting in which…

Genre: Drama
The Head

The Head

The Head
IMDb: 5.3
91

A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog’s head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head…

Marie-Octobre

Marie-Octobre

Marie-Octobre
IMDb: 7.5
95

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…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Please Turn Over

Please Turn Over

Please Turn Over
IMDb: 6.3
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…

Genre: Comedy
Return of the Fly

Return of the Fly

Return of the Fly
IMDb: 5.7
80

Fifteen years after his father’s experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have…

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones
IMDb: 6.3
126

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

Gunfighters of Abilene

Gunfighters of Abilene

Gunfighters of Abilene
IMDb: 5.3
66

A gunman receives a request for help from his brother, but arrives too late to save him from the lawless rancher who wanted him dead.

Genre: Romance, Western
Operation Amsterdam

Operation Amsterdam

Operation Amsterdam
IMDb: 6.4
104

When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Hunchback of Paris

The Hunchback of Paris

The Hunchback of Paris
IMDb: 6.9
105

Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him enough to organise an…

The Great War

The Great War

The Great War
IMDb: 8.1
137

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War