1959 Movies
When Angels Fall
The Wayward Girl
The World of Apu
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from…
India: Matri Bhumi
Divided into four episodes Roberto Rosellini’s performs a ritual trip with India covering culture, beautiful architecture and also the State of India society, create an impression and a feeling of…
Thus Another Day
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their…
The Tingler
Never Steal Anything Small
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave….
The Wonderful Country
Have Rocket, Will Travel
The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula, and an alien computer who…
The Ghost of Yotsuya
Black Orpheus
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu’s vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between…
Cars Without a Home
Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia’s unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.
Floating Weeds
Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after…
The Visit
A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Alligator People
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their…
The Stranglers of Bombay
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…
Blue Denim
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of…
Picnic on the Grass
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a…
Invisible Invaders
Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity…
The Angry Red Planet
The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?