Drama Movies of 1959
Suddenly, Last Summer
In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
They Came to Cordura
Gary Cooper stars in one of his final roles in They Came To Cordura, Robert Rossen's moody ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
The Nun's Story
Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned in her ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Solomon and Sheba
Romance, treachery, intrigue and spiritual awakenings abound in the Biblical film adaptation of Solomon and Sheba. Trouble begins between two brothers when poet Solomon (Yul Brynner) is chosen to be ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Compulsion
Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Anatomy of a Murder
Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
The Five Pennies
The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
A Summer Place
The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) settle in to a beach house on the island where Ken was a young lifeguard twenty ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Up Periscope
Lt. (jg) Ken Braden (James Garner) is a US Navy frogman and underwater demolitions expert who is assigned to a vital mission, and to a submarine captained by Commander ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
The Young Land
Although it revolves around a crucial issue in the history of ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Imitation of Life
This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
These Thousand Hills
Don Murray stars as a humble cowboy with aspirations for bigger things. He borrows money from his dance-hall ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
The Best of Everything
A star-studded cast enlivens this glossy '50s soap opera, based on a novel by Rona Jaffe. The action unfolds at the Gotham-based Fabian Publishing, where numerous women work ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Too Hot to Handle
With dialogue ranging from flat to offensive and acting in the same range, this low-brow erotic crime drama by director Terence Young stars Jayne Mansfield as Midnight Franklin, a star stripper ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Burning Bright
Four-time Emmy Award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst and Tony Award-winner Myron McCormick star in this performance of the classic John Steinbeck play concerning a veteran circus performer who is crushed to learn that he will ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
The Rebel Set
A standard crime story with a dash of a disillusioned generation of men thrown in for good measure, The Rebel Set, also known as Beatsville, is about an armored car hold-up. Mr. Tucker ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
The Virgin Spring
Inspired by a medieval Swedish ballad, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Alain Resnais's multi-award-winning Hiroshima, Mon Amour is neither an easy film to watch nor to synopsize, but it remains one of the high-water marks of the French "new ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Bala Perdida
A small-town bullfighter finds his love for a ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Expresso Bongo
In this witty music-business satire, Johnny Jackson (Laurence Harvey) is a talent agent down on his luck who thinks his tide may have ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Dama S Sobachkoy
The lady of the title is beautiful Anna (Iya Savvina), who is vacationing in turn-of-the-century Yalta. Each day, ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
The 400 Blows
For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Pickpocket
Director Robert Bresson chose Uruguayan nonactor Martin LaSalle for his leading ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Mis Padres Se Divorcen
An intense drama about divorce portrayed by two leading stars of the Mexican screen. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
T-Bird Gang
In this crime drama, a courageous high-schooler goes undercover and joins a teen-age gang so he can get revenge upon his father. When his cover is blown, his life is endangered. Fortunately, the second-in-command has a change of heart and ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
The Scavengers
This low-budget Asian-set adventure concerns a reformed ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
Kaagaz Ke Phool
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Yo... El Aventurero
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The Nightingale's Prayer
A poor woman plots revenge against the engineer who soiled her family name in this drama starring Arabian screen sensation Faten Hamama. As tradition and poverty weigh down on Amna (Mamama)'s shoulders following a the ... [ Drama movie - 1959 ]
