1959 Movies

Tongue in cheek film begins with an American standing on Princess bridge narrating what sounds like a postcard to his mother while ogling at a passing...

Australian adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play, produced as a part of Shell Presents.

A couple earning ten pearls by the sea by accident. When the warlord, who lives nearby and did all the bad things, learned the news, he tried his best...

A BFI-produced documentary about documentary filmmaker John Grierson speaking about documentary.

short experimental animation from Spain

Bollywood 1959

Minister Min Yeong-hwan (Kim Dong-won) fears that Korea will cease to exist if the Japanese continue to gain power. He advises King Gojong (Lee Ryong)...

Ignazio Buttitta, in front of a billboard with drawn representations, narrates the problems of Sicily in the manner of Sicilian storytellers. This is...

About life and work in the salt pans

Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members of his Asbestos Hall...

Séance provides one of the first cinematic examples of a flicker effect.

Documentary from British Transport Films

One of the first animated films from Czechoslovakia.

A relic of Belgian colonialism in Africa, made with the collaboration of Catholic missionaries and the then King of Rwanda, who was toppled by a revol...

A Terrytoons cartoons with Dimwit the dog