1959 Movies

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband’s death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country house, with her four children. The eldest one, Emmy, is a beautiful and pure young girl of seventeen, who tentatively...

Excavations in the Po Delta provide insights into Greek-Etruscan times.

An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto.

A shy young man, Tony, lives with his two aunts. The aunts are rather old-fashioned and, because they are very attached to their nephew, they prevent him from getting married. But that's without counting on two other cousins who are determined to find a wife f...

24 hours in the lives of three aimless and lost young people looking for work.

A film adaptation of a short story by O. Henry. In a small neighborhood in Greenwich Village, two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, live in a three-story building. Johnsy has contracted pneumonia and is on the verge of death. Outside her window, leaves are fallin...

The fourth "Diary of a Successful Salaryman" feature.

A documentary record of the construction of the Lorenzo Arenas Market, an iconic building and architectural landmark from the mid-20th century located in the city of Concepción, Chile. Designed in 1959 by the renowned architects Osvaldo Cáceres and Gabriela Go...

Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his master, Asano of Ako, committed seppuku, meets a skillful spear fighter, Genban, who trains him to fight with honor on the day of retribution.

A film made secretly in Moscow by Peter Schamoni during the World Festival of Youth and Students in the summer of 1957. His cameraman was Jost Vacano. During their trip, they made authentic film and audio recordings of a kind that had never been seen before in...

A delinquent teenage boy strives to become an upstanding citizen following the tragic death of the girl he loves.

A short film about driving. Traffic scenes from Oslo, including Rådhusplassen. The actor Rolf Kirkvaag explains and sits behind the wheel, demonstrating the situations in practice. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and aroun...

A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.

An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.

South African Film

A young boy (Master Suresh),and his pet duck, are found by the owners of a circus. A gangster (Habib) plans to kidnap the kid and hold him for ransom, but circus star Usha Devi (Fearless Nadia) and police detective Kishore (John Cawas) foil the plan.