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 the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.

The Horse Soldiers

1959

English

7.1

♡ 16

81%

John Ford Director

William Wellman Jr. as Bugler

Carleton Young as Col. Jonathan Miles

Constance Towers as Hannah Hunter

Chuck Hayward as Union Captain

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

1959

English

6.4

♡ 19

50%

John Guillermin Director

Niall MacGinnis as Kruger

Sean Connery as O'Bannion

Anthony Quayle as Slade

Gordon Scott as Tarzan

The greatest adventure of jungle king Tarzan. Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so they nearly destroy the settlement, so Tarzan pursues them to their mine.

The Savage Eye

1959

English

6.8

♡ 2

divorcee

Drama

religious fundamentalism

Joseph Strick Director

Barbara Baxley as Judith McGuire

Herschel Bernardi as Kirk

Gary Merrill as The Poet

Jean Hidey as Venus the Body

Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire moves to Los Angeles. Adrift and detached, she spends her days and nights wandering through her new city, cynically remarking on the hypocrisy, vanity and brutality of the modern world and humanity's alienation from themselves and each other.

Don't Give Up the Ship

1959

English

6.3

♡ 6

46%

Comedy

navy

Norman Taurog Director

Kenneth Gibson as Congressman

Pamela Duncan as Lt. Ward

Mary Treen as Mother at Wedding Party

John Indrisano as The Referee

The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.

Jet Storm

1959

English

6.5

♡ 6

airplane

hit-and-run

Thriller

Cy Endfield Director

Diane Cilento as Angelica Como

Peter Bayliss as Bentley

Cec Linder as Colonel Coe

Richard Attenborough as Ernest Tilley

Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

Jeca Tatu

1959

Portuguese

7.0

♡ 5

Milton Amaral Director

Marthus Mathias as

Geny Prado as

Roberto Duval as

Amácio Mazzaropi as Jeca

Jeca Tatu is a lazy, simple-minded guy who has his property threatened by the greed of a landowner.

The World of Apu

1959

Bangla

8.4

♡ 38

97%

Satyajit Ray Director

Asha Devi as

Biren Ghosh as

Soumitra Chatterjee as Apurba Roy

Sefalika Devi as Shashinarayan's wife

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

1959

Japanese

8.5

♡ 38

Action

conscientious objector

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Kenjirô Uemura as Bannai Jôtôhei

Takashi Ebata as Kanamori - Nitôhei

Yûsuke Kawazu as Terada Nitôhei

Kaneko Iwasaki as Tokunaga Kangofu

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

Hannibal

1959

Italian

5.2

♡ 4

Edgar G. Ulmer Director

Remo De Angelis as

Terence Hill as Quintilius

Bud Spencer as Rutario

Benito Stefanelli as Wrestler

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

Operation Petticoat

1959

English

7.2

♡ 23

81%

Blake Edwards Director

Arthur O'Connell as Chief Mechinist's Mate Sam Tostin

William Bryant as Crewman

Joan O'Brien as Lt. Dolores Crandall RN

Robert Gist as Lt. Watson

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

1959

English

7.1

♡ 13

100%

Robert Stevenson Director

Denis O'Dea as Father Murphy

Sean Connery as Michael McBride

Kieron Moore as Pony Sugrue

Estelle Winwood as Sheelah Sugrue

A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.

The Five Pennies

1959

English

7.1

♡ 4

92%

Biography

Drama

Music

Melville Shavelson Director

Susan Seaforth Hayes as Girl at Birthday Party

Kenneth Gibson as Hotel Guest

Louis Armstrong as Louis Armstrong

Ned Glass as Murray

Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio.

Cast a Long Shadow

1959

English

6.1

♡ 9

Thomas Carr Director

Ann Doran as Charlotte Calvert

Robert Foulk as Hugh Rigdon

Terry Moore as Janet Calvert

James Best as Sam Mullen

A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.

The Bat

1959

English

6.1

♡ 7

17%

doctor patient relationship

Crane Wilbur Director

Agnes Moorehead as Cornelia van Gorder

Vincent Price as Dr. Malcolm Wells

Harvey Stephens as John Fleming

Darla Hood as Judy Hollander

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959

Japanese

8.5

♡ 29

73%

95%

Action

conscientious objector

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Eijirô Tôno as

Shinichirô Minami as (as Shin'ichirô Minami)

Akitake Kôno as Kôno Taii

Masao Mishima as Kuroki Shochô

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

Return of the Fly

1959

English

5.7

♡ 7

36%

Edward Bernds Director

Danielle De Metz as Cecile Bonnard

Vincent Price as Francois Delambre

Brett Halsey as Philippe Delambre

Court Shepard as Policeman

Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.

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Yesterday's Enemy

The Horse Soldiers

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

The Savage Eye

Don't Give Up the Ship

Jet Storm

Jeca Tatu

The World of Apu

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Hannibal

Operation Petticoat

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

The Five Pennies

Cast a Long Shadow

The Bat

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Return of the Fly