1959 Movies

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Iranian film by Rahim Roshanian

The story is set in Naples, in the home of Baron Ottavio De Duca and his wife Aspasia. The couple get along well, but their days, though free of conflict, drift drearily toward old age. They both feel the absence of a child and an heir. The baroness channels h...

Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time.

Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an...

A film directed by Pierre Patry.

A naive youth from a provincial town journeys to Tehran with aspirations of advancement, only to become ensnared by the city's allure, ultimately returning to his hometown with nothing to show for it. This cinematic work draws its inspiration from a theatrical...

Drunkard Garsevan is supposed to bring wine for testing to specialist Poghosyan. On the road he drinks the wine and is picked up by two young men who think that he is a victim of road accident.

The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.

A distinguished sculptor Mr Peacock laid an egg. Thrilled with himself and his work of art, he made it widely known.

The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is notable for featuring Jean Paul Belmondo in the lead.

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked ball for the club's grand opening, and invite everyone to come dressed as their favori...

An UFO that could be the Russian satellite Sputnik falls on a hillbilly's hencoop.

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, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.