1959 Movies

The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems to fit t...

Two girls, a virtuous one and a hussy, fight for a young man in the vineyards of the south of France.

A tribute to Stan Brakhage's pet dog Sirius, whose decompostion was recorded over 6 months after he had died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive i...

Bombay Police are baffled by a series of crimes - all at the hands of arch-criminal "Black Cat" who leaves his calling card at every scene of the crim...

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...

Spring is coming. Deaf-mute girl and boy feel the warmth of the sun on their faces, the air is flooded with light. The world of these young people lac...

Because abortions required complicated approvals, an enterprising doctor secretly set up a sort of private practice where she offered this "service" i...

The title translates as Fools of Bărăgan, in reference to a band of beleaguered feudal Rumanian peasants. But these are no fools: instead, they are fe...

A Shaw Brothers Romance Drama

Against a backdrop of music hall and comedy acts, a Pigalle cabaret is famous for the activities of real and fake maharajas. One of them buys the caba...

'Water', says the transport man, 'is lovely stuff' - and the development plan for British Waterways is based on this belief. The film shows parts of t...

Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.

A young cellist falls in love with a foreigner visiting Greece. The young man abandons his fiancée and her father will kill him, while the stranger wi...

A provincial arrives in Athens, where he is approached by two mini-patrons in order to eat his money.

Both this film and The Passion and Resurrection introduce the new technique of painting directly on film—a technique that provides images of unique qu...

A short film made by Umberto Lenzi as his graduation project at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC)

Engineer Kallio, who is searching for uranium, arrives at the summer hotel owned by Director Lehtelä, accompanied by his assistants Joltinen and Pummi...