1959 Movies

Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his u...

Unpopular at school because of his high I.Q., neglected by his weak and alcoholic father, Marvin is easy prey for the campus vamp, Betty, who pretends...

In 1949, as Shanghai faced liberation, prices soared, and people struggled. Students worried about tuition waivers. At a middle school, corrupt influe...

Two men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neigh...

When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who d...

A group of sailors disembark in Hong Kong. One of them, with a very naive character, spots a beautiful young woman. He decides to follow her but loses...

Two astronauts are in charge of a giant space station. During an attempted rocket launch, a meteor smashes into the station, damaging it. Later it's d...

Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her bookish neighbour. But, the effervescent feelings o...

A Shaw Brothers film from 1959

Mr. Girard will not be seen on the program. But twelve minutes of the production will be devoted to his illustrations for the Nativity story, which wi...

Tony Rivers - the teenage werewolf (played by Paul Klug) returns. It was thought that he had been killed (Return of the Teenage Werewolf).

Some gangsters try to con local bookies, but Inspector Pink spoils their fun.

Diwakar is a poet and loves his wife Jamuna on everything. But Jamuna does not agree that Diwakar lives out of sheer poetry in a fantasy world and the...

Uldis Brauns' diploma film at VGIK

Gauri lives with her crippled ex-army dad and brother. One day she notices a man calling himself Ranjeet lurking around their house. What she doesn't...

A small vessel is caught in a storm at sea. With no fuel and no radio, Boatswain Pukhov — an amateur pigeon breeder — sends two pigeons carrying a mes...

Bugs fights with Blacque Jacque Shellacque over Klondike gold.