1959 Movies

In his quest for fame and success, Ismail, a driver for a newspaper company, tries to take some unauthorized photographs of the inside of a German roc...

One of the rare documentaries that allows the viewer to get into the intimacy of a monastery. We are indeed - through the experience of a novice - mad...

Short by Makavejev.

Composer Alexander Marhold is to be officially honored on his 50th birthday. His two adult sons, Bobby and Alexander, from two previous marriages, are...

Don and Nicky head into the city, where a reckless night with two fast girls leaves Don with more than he bargained for. Pressuring his girlfriend Bet...

About the life of the famous Kyrgyz akyn.

A documentary about a small island in the Glacial Ocean, which during the Arctic summer becomes a kingdom of singing birds.

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

Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.

In 1952, former farmhand Erich Kattner arrives in a Mecklenburg village from West Germany to take on a new farming job, which he had originally planne...

A banana tree was uprooted by the storm and washed to the shore by flash floods. When the tortoise found out, he called the monkey to help him carry t...

The story of a young girl who was kicked out of a brothel by her boyfriend.

Nazi soldiers committed atrocities even when sober – and if they got drunk, they did even worse. The inhabitants of a Slovak village during the nation...

In this crime drama, an impoverished but enamored bank clerk joins his brother's gang of bank robbers so he can afford to marry his sweetheart. Unfort...

A trio of rural fishermen find a yacht and expect to receive a millionaire's amount for it. They travel to Madrid in search of a buyer, but they will...

A look at the business of beauty.

The school of a remote and poor village shut down, the head master Krishna Prasanna (Chhabi) migrates to city in search of job. He moves with family,...

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

The film tells the story of the mountain and seaside resorts of the user’s country.