Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.

The Stranglers of Bombay

1959

English

6.2

♡ 7

Terence Fisher Director

Roger Delgado as Bundar

John Harvey as Burns

Marie Devereux as Karim

Warren Mitchell as Merchant

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 of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.

The Visit

1959

English

5.7

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Jack Gold Director

Alice Spaul as Alice

George Wood as Alice's Father

Eunice Phelps as Alice's Mother

Denyse Alexander as Neighbour

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

It Started with a Kiss

1959

English

6.0

♡ 5

31%

George Marshall Director

Warren Frost as Lt. McCann

Carleton Young as McVey

Frances Bavier as Mrs. Tappe

Martin Garralaga as Señor Lagonzaga

While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.

Fires on the Plain

1959

Japanese

7.9

♡ 17

100%

struggle for survival

War

world war ii

Kon Ichikawa Director

Yoshio Inaba as

Yûzô Hayakawa as

Shunji Tsuda as

Eiji Funakoshi as Tamura

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

Cars Without a Home

1959

Czech

6.0

♡ 3

Jan Schmidt Director

Vlastimil Brodský as Self - Commentator

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

The Ghost of Yotsuya

1959

Japanese

7.0

♡ 18

74%

Action

based on play or musical

Nobuo Nakagawa Director

Hiroshi Hayashi as Kiemon Itô

Kikuko Hanaoka as Maki

Jun Ôtomo as Takuetsu

Ryûzaburô Nakamura as Yomoshichi Satô

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend which tells of a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.

Have Rocket -- Will Travel

1959

English

5.6

♡ 8

David Lowell Rich Director

Larry Fine as Larry

Marjorie Bennett as Mrs. Hermine Huntingford

George DeNormand as Party Guest

Cosmo Sardo as Party Guest

The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula, and an alien computer who has destroyed all human life on the planet and creates three evil duplicates of the Stooges. When the boys return home triumphant, they are given a hero's welcome.

The Big Night

1959

Italian

7.1

♡ 6

Mauro Bolognini Director

Elsa Martinelli as Anna

Mylène Demongeot as Laura

Tomas Milian as Moretto

Jean-Claude Brialy as Scintillone

The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day, beginning with arms theft, leading to an encounter with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but the ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. It's back to the city for the boys, where they continue their destructive games...

The Tingler

1959

English

6.6

♡ 12

78%

William Castle Director

Darryl Hickman as David Morris

Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin

Ernest Torrence as Luke Hatburn, in clip from Tol'able David

George DeNormand as Member of Silent Movie Audience

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

Thus Another Day

1959

Japanese

6.6

♡ 5

Action

Drama

Romance

Keisuke Kinoshita Director

Rentarô Mikuni as Kenzô Akada

Takahiro Tamura as Tetsuo Mori

Murasaki Fujima as Tomoe Takemura

Shizue Natsukawa as Yasuko's mother

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...

Samurai Saga

1959

Japanese

6.9

♡ 3

Action

Drama

Romance

Hiroshi Inagaki Director

Kichijirô Ueda as

Toshirô Mifune as Heihachiro Komaki

Akira Takarada as Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe

Seizaburô Kawazu as Nagashima

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

When Angels Fall

1959

Polish

6.8

♡ 4

Roman Polanski Director

Henryk Kluba as

Barbara Lass as (as Barbara Kwiatkowski)

Roman Polanski as Old woman

Andrzej Kostenko as (uncredited)

The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.

The Mouse That Roared

1959

English

6.9

♡ 7

90%

Jack Arnold Director

Leo McKern as Benter

Monte Landis as Cobbley

Timothy Bateson as Roger

Eve Eden as Spectator

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.

The Moralist

1959

Italian

6.5

♡ 4

Giorgio Bianchi Director

Christiane Nielsen as Marga

Maria Perschy as Monique

Leopoldo Trieste as The Advertising Designer

Vittorio De Sica as The O. I. M. P. President

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

Verboten!

1959

English

6.7

♡ 5

55%

Samuel Fuller Director

Paul Dubov as Capt. R. Harvey

Anna Hope as Frau Schiller

Joe Turkel as Infantryman

James Best as Sgt. David Brent

A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.

Jirôchô Fuji

1959

Japanese

6.9

♡ 3

Action

Drama

History

Kazuo Mori Director

Eiji Funakoshi as

Raizô Ichikawa as Kira no Nikichi

Machiko Kyô as Okatsu

Ayako Wakao as Okiku

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.

Violent Summer

1959

Italian

7.3

♡ 4

76%

Action

Drama

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

summer

War

Valerio Zurlini Director

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Carlo Caremoli

Bruno Carotenuto as Giulio

Jacqueline Sassard as Rosanna

Cathia Caro as Serena

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?

The House of the Seven Hawks

1959

English

6.0

♡ 4

20%

Richard Thorpe Director

Paul Hardtmuth as Beukleman

Philo Hauser as Charlie Ponz

Linda Christian as Elsa

Robert Taylor as John Nordley

A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.

The Big Boss

1959

Japanese

6.5

♡ 3

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Tadao Nakamaru as

Yôsuke Natsuki as Kashimura's assistant

Toshirô Mifune as Kashimura, the mechanic.

Akira Takarada as Mineo Komatsu

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.

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The World, the Flesh and the Devil

The Stranglers of Bombay

The Visit

It Started with a Kiss

Fires on the Plain

Cars Without a Home

The Ghost of Yotsuya

Have Rocket -- Will Travel

The Big Night

The Tingler

Thus Another Day

Samurai Saga

When Angels Fall

The Mouse That Roared

The Moralist

Verboten!

Jirôchô Fuji

Violent Summer

The House of the Seven Hawks

The Big Boss