Search results for "1959"
Cars Without a Home

Cars Without a Home

Cars Without a Home
IMDb: 5.9
6

Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia’s unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.

Genre: Documentary
The Visit

The Visit

The Visit
IMDb: 5.7
35

A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.

Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda

Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda

Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
IMDb: 6.9
95

Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy military governor with land holdings…

Captured

Captured

Captured
IMDb: 6.9
65

Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean…

Genre: War
Brother Wang And Brother Liu Tour Taiwan-Part 1

Brother Wang And Brother Liu Tour Taiwan-Part 1

Brother Wang And Brother Liu Tour Taiwan-Part 1
IMDb: 6.6
88

Overweight shoeshiner Brother Wang (Wang Ge) and skinny rickshaw driver Brother Liu (Liu Ge) are best friends and roommates. One day, they come across a fortune teller who offers a…

Genre: Comedy
Põhjakonn

Põhjakonn

Põhjakonn
IMDb: 6
18

Soviet Estonian animation about a brave young man seeking a magic ring.

Genre: Animation
Underwater Reefs

Underwater Reefs

Underwater Reefs
IMDb: 4.2
75

Tõnis Hoopkaup is the head of a fishing collective in Tagaranna, a village on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. On the day of his wedding to fishing engineer Riina, he…

Genre: Drama
The Naked Road

The Naked Road

The Naked Road
IMDb: 4.5
74

A sleazeball (Ronald Long) who supplies women to his public-relations clients explains the rules of the game to his latest acquisition (Jeanne Rainer).

Genre: Crime
The Song of the Cart

The Song of the Cart

The Song of the Cart
IMDb: 7.2
145

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Genre: Drama
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
IMDb: 6.6
17

A short story narrated by an unknown British soldier who reveals his hopes, fears, and disillusionment while heading into battle against the German army.

The Rambling Guitarist

The Rambling Guitarist

The Rambling Guitarist
IMDb: 6.4
78

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Violent Moment

Violent Moment

Violent Moment
IMDb: 6.4
61

Douglas Baines, a wartime army deserter, is lying low in a shabby flat with his girlfriend Daisy and the couple’s small son, Jiffy. Returning home with a toy for Jiffy’s…

Genre: Drama
The Most Valuable Wife

The Most Valuable Wife

The Most Valuable Wife
IMDb: 6.8
95

In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the Japanese spy service.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Breakout

Breakout

Breakout
IMDb: 6.6
62

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Deadly Record

Deadly Record

Deadly Record
IMDb: 5.9
58

A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.

Genre: Mystery
Jirocho Fuji

Jirocho Fuji

Jirocho Fuji
IMDb: 7
105

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a ‘Fire Festival’ in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Genre: Drama
The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling
IMDb: 5.5
84

Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Island Fishermen

Island Fishermen

Island Fishermen
IMDb: 5.8
87

Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasure of Jenny, his jealous mistress.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Night of the Ghouls

Night of the Ghouls

Night of the Ghouls
IMDb: 3.6
69

Reports of strange activities out by the Old Willow’s place signal new adventures for Kelton the Cop & Co. An apparent mystic, Dr. Acula is engaging in rituals designed to…

Genre: Horror
The Ghost of Yotsuya

The Ghost of Yotsuya

The Ghost of Yotsuya
IMDb: 7
76

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

Genre: Horror
The Black Chapel

The Black Chapel

The Black Chapel
IMDb: 6.1
105

1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter,…

Genre: Thriller, War
The Lonely Sex

The Lonely Sex

The Lonely Sex
IMDb: 5
57

Maniac kidnaps a young girl and holds her prisoner in a shack in the woods.

Genre: Thriller
Cerasella

Cerasella

Cerasella
IMDb: 6.7
98

Cerasella escapes just before her marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Scarface Mob

The Scarface Mob

The Scarface Mob
IMDb: 7.2
102

Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s’ Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Manster

The Manster

The Manster
IMDb: 5.3
72

A reporter is sent to interview a scientist working in his mountain laboratory.

Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre
IMDb: 6.2
95

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman
IMDb: 4.8
61

The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula’s side effects have deadly consequences.

The Stranglers of Bombay

The Stranglers of Bombay

The Stranglers of Bombay
IMDb: 6.2
80

In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments…

The Purple Gang

The Purple Gang

The Purple Gang
IMDb: 6
85

The story of the infamous Purple Gang – a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920’s Detroit.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana
IMDb: 7.2
111

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer…

Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper
IMDb: 6.1
84

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

The Incredible Petrified World

The Incredible Petrified World

The Incredible Petrified World
IMDb: 3.1
70

When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwater world.

Hannibal

Hannibal

Hannibal
IMDb: 5.2
90

A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.

Ferdinand I King of Naples

Ferdinand I King of Naples

Ferdinand I King of Naples
IMDb: 6.4
105

The story of “King Lazzarone” Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises…

Genre: Comedy
Expresso Bongo

Expresso Bongo

Expresso Bongo
IMDb: 6.2
111

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Los chicos

Los chicos

Los chicos
IMDb: 6.5
90

Four young men are cited in a kiosk during a rainy afternoon. One has to study and the other three go to the cinema, although they are not allowed to…

Genre: Drama
Attack of the Giant Leeches

Attack of the Giant Leeches

Attack of the Giant Leeches
IMDb: 3.7
62

A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don’t believe them.

The Young Philadelphians

The Young Philadelphians

The Young Philadelphians
IMDb: 7.4
136

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries…

Genre: Drama
The Young Land

The Young Land

The Young Land
IMDb: 5.4
89

An American gunslinger kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war. The killer is arrested and put on trial for murder with the Hispanic population waiting to…

Genre: Western
Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy
IMDb: 7.1
95

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines…

Genre: Drama, War