1959 Movies

An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming i...

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...

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

This film focuses on the urban planning reform in the USSR; the early 1960s saw the emergence of Khrushchevki, allowing Soviet citizens—who had spent...

If I give birth, I will certainly be punished and lose my reputation. If I don't, then I may be punished, too. And also lose my reputation.

Impoverished scholar Leung (Yam Kim-fai) became a widower and his in-laws give him 30 taels of silver to find a new wife. He gives the money away to h...

The lion calls himself king in the forest, and he treats all small animals with pride and cruelty. One morning, when the little animals were playing i...

Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his head is...

Greek-American Peter Papas, vacationing with his wife in Greece, crashes into a taxi driver and discovers that the driver is his old friend Meletis, w...

Two concentration camp prisoners are taken by Nazis to disable un exploded bombs in German towns. When they work on the ruins, with their guards safel...

An early experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto. Produced as part of the student riots in Japan at the start of the 1960s, Matsumoto uses collage, arch...

The first Georgian television short feature film: "Mother's Hand", December 31, 1959.

Nicolette, François, Céline, Frédéric, and the oldest Edouard, meet, fall in love, break up or go away, are swept up in a whirlwind that sometimes see...

The first Vietnamese animated film, based on a polemical poem from Ho Chi Minh.

A fresh graduate from a university in Tokyo takes a job as an English teacher at a prestigious high school in Kobe. However, shortly after arriving, h...