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1. A Woman's Temptation (1959)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Patricia Driscoll, Robert Ayres, John Pike, Neil Hallett
Votes: 15
2. The Giant Behemoth (1959)
Not Rated | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur that threatens London.
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Gene Evans, André Morell, John Turner, Leigh Madison
Votes: 2,906
3. Web of Evidence (1959)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A British-American returns to Britain after 20 years to discover that his father has been jailed since WW2 for a murder that took place in murky circumstances.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee
Votes: 320
4. Chance Meeting (1959)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, John Van Eyssen
Votes: 905
5. Bobbikins (1959)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy
Parents Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Shirley Jones, Max Bygraves, Billie Whitelaw, Barbara Shelley
Votes: 188
6. Breakout (1959)
62 min | Drama
A government official arranges prison breaks as a sideline, but the police steps in and his gang is caught.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, William Lucas, John Paul
Votes: 83
7. Man in a Cocked Hat (1959)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy
A former British colony in dire need of economic aid tries to play the British against the Soviets in an attempt to secure economic aid from either side in return for political loyalty.
Directors: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Ian Bannen
Votes: 868
8. Carry on Nurse (1959)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
An idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and there is even a spot of DIY surgery!
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 3,196
9. Carry on Teacher (1959)
86 min | Comedy
Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 2,667
10. Cover Girl Killer (1959)
Not Rated | 61 min | Crime, Thriller
Set in the sleazy world of a backstreet 1950s nightclub, a serial killer is believed to be murdering the models of a glamour magazine.
Director: Terry Bishop | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Felicity Young, Spencer Teakle, Victor Brooks
Votes: 460
11. Crash Drive (1959)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama
An international race car driver is informed he'll never walk again, then regains his will to live through the efforts of his wife and a sympathetic race care manufacturer.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Wendy Williams, Ian Fleming, Anton Rodgers
Votes: 29
12. Breakout (1959)
101 min | Drama, War
In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 758
13. Date at Midnight (1959)
57 min | Crime
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Paul Carpenter, Jean Aubrey, Harriette Johns, Ralph Michael
14. Deadly Record (1959)
58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An airline pilot, falsely accused of wife-murder, sets out to find who really did it.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley, Jane Hylton, Peter Dyneley
Votes: 196
15. Desert Mice (1959)
85 min | Comedy, War
WW2 British entertainment troupe bring comedy and chaos to North Africa.
Director: Michael Relph | Stars: Alfred Marks, Sidney James, Dora Bryan, Dick Bentley
Votes: 148
16. Devil's Bait (1959)
58 min | Drama
The police with the help of a baker try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Geoffrey Keen, Jane Hylton, Gordon Jackson, Dermot Kelly
Votes: 163
17. Don't Panic Chaps (1959)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, War
Charming farce about British and German soldiers peacefully sharing a little island in the Adriatic in 1943 - that is until the beautiful Elsa is cast ashore.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Nadja Regin
Votes: 173
18. Expresso Bongo (1959)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Music
Sleazy talent agent Johnny Jackson discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts ... See full summary »
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard
Votes: 579
19. Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
Approved | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Spenser
Votes: 513
20. First Man Into Space (1959)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, Robert Ayres
Votes: 1,743
21. Follow a Star (1959)
93 min | Comedy
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer who's star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, June Laverick, Jerry Desmonde, Hattie Jacques
Votes: 627
22. Friends and Neighbours (1959)
79 min | Comedy
At the height of the Cold War, a working-class British family have to entertain two visitors from Russia resulting in a hilarious clash of cultures.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins, Peter Illing, Tilda Thamar
Votes: 28
23. The Great Van Robbery (1959)
Not Rated | 71 min | Crime, Drama
Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Denis Shaw, Kay Callard, Tony Quinn, Philip Saville
Votes: 121
24. Hidden Homicide (1959)
Approved | 81 min | Mystery
A man wakes up in a strange location with a gun in his hand and a dead body, not knowing how the whole thing happened. He doesn't remember anything about the whole scenario.
Director: Anthony Young | Stars: Griffith Jones, Patricia Laffan, James Kenney, Bruce Seton
Votes: 104
25. High Jump (1959)
Not Rated | 66 min | Crime, Drama
A woman enlists a trapeze artist to help her with a jewel heist, but two deaths during the robbery heighten his guilt and tempt him to go to authorities.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Richard Stapley, Lisa Daniely, Leigh Madison, Michael Peake
Votes: 32
27. Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
Unrated | 93 min | Horror
A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotizes his assistant to make him commit the required crimes.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Anne Field
Votes: 1,672
28. I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 4,366
29. Idol on Parade (1959)
88 min | Comedy
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: William Bendix, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 202
30. In the Wake of a Stranger (1959)
69 min | Thriller
Suspected of killing a man while on shore leave, sailor Tom Cassidy sets out to prove his innocence.
Director: David Eady | Stars: Tony Wright, Shirley Eaton, Danny Green, Willoughby Goddard
Votes: 14
31. Innocent Meeting (1959)
Not Rated | 62 min | Crime, Drama
A teenager on probation is falsely accused of robbery. A young girl, knowing the truth, must persuade the boy to give himself up and overcome his conviction that he is condemned to being a lifelong criminal.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Sean Lynch, Beth Rogan, Raymond Huntley, Ian Fleming
Votes: 51
32. Jack the Ripper (1959)
Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, History
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon
Votes: 963
33. Jet Storm (1959)
88 min | Thriller
Sir Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, ... See full summary »
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Bernard Braden
Votes: 526
34. Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)
91 min | Adventure
In the 19th century, during the German colonial rule, railway engineer Robert Adamson arrives in the Kilimanjaro Region to finish building a railroad through hostile territory.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Grégoire Aslan
Votes: 408
35. Left Right and Centre (1959)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Patricia Bredin, Eric Barker, Jack Hedley, Leslie Dwyer
Votes: 383
36. Libel (1959)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley
Votes: 1,599
37. Life in Danger (1959)
Not Rated | 63 min | Crime, Drama
The inhabitants of a small village, led by a war veteran, try to catch a vagrant, who they suspect to be an escaped mental patient.
Director: Terry Bishop | Stars: Derren Nesbitt, Julie Hopkins, Howard Marion-Crawford, Victor Brooks
Votes: 204
38. Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959)
86 min | Drama
A new registrar, with a revolutionary heart lung machine he has bought from America, joins a small county hospital, and has to win over his colleagues, including the senior house surgeon, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Christopher Witty, Rupert Davies, Dorothy Alison, Joan Sims
Votes: 91
39. Look Back in Anger (1959)
Approved | 98 min | Drama
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans
Votes: 4,366
40. Honeymoon (1959)
109 min | Drama, Music
Australian famer Kit Kelly and his new bride Anna are driving through Europe when they help a stranded motorist. They discover he is Antonio, a famous dancer. Upon learning that Anna was a ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina, Antonio El Bailarín, Léonide Massine
Votes: 196
41. Make Mine a Million (1959)
81 min | Comedy
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Arthur Askey, Sidney James, Dermot Walsh, Olga Lindo
Votes: 162
42. Man Accused (1959)
Not Rated | 58 min | Drama
Just after he has become engaged to a baronet's daughter, Bob Jenson is arrested for robbery and murder. He breaks jail, tracks down the real criminals and hands them over to the authorities.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Ronald Howard, Carol Marsh, Ian Fleming, Catharina Ferraz
Votes: 75
43. 48 Hours to Live (1959)
86 min | Crime, Mystery
A spy melodrama in which a New York newspaper reporter, sent to Gotland to interview a nuclear scientist, becomes involved with foreign agents who have kidnapped the scientist's daughter.
Director: Peter Bourne | Stars: Anthony Steel, Birger Malmsten, Lewis Charles, Håkan Westergren
Votes: 27
44. No Time to Kill (1959)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A man is convicted and imprisoned for an arson that he didn't commit. When he is released, he sets out to track down the person who actually committed the crime and framed him for it. His ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Younger | Stars: John Ireland, Ellen Schwiers, Birgitta Andersson, Frank Sundström
Votes: 45
45. Model for Murder (1959)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An American officer, searching England for his dead brother's girlfriend, becomes involved in a jewel robbery.
Director: Terry Bishop | Stars: Keith Andes, Hazel Court, Jean Aubrey, Michael Gough
Votes: 201
46. More Deadly Than the Male (1959)
60 min
An American in London falls for a married woman. He kills her husband, hoping this will clear a path to the woman. Instead, the woman retaliates by killing the American's girlfriend. But the killing does not stop there.
Director: Robert Bucknell | Stars: Jeremy White, John Mahoney, Pamela Ann Davy, Edna Doré
47. Murder at Site 3 (1959)
67 min | Drama
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Geoffrey Toone, Barbara Shelley, John Warwick, Jill Melford
48. Mystery in the Mine (1959)
127 min | Family, Mystery
Jane and Tom set out on an adventure in which they must keep the corrupt Grimblatt from locating the K-13 fuel for his evil space mirror.
Director: James Hill | Stars: Ingrid Cardon, Stewart Guidotti, Howard Greene, Peter Copley
Votes: 26
49. Naked Fury (1959)
73 min | Crime, Drama
Story of a safe robbery gang who hide in a derelict warehouse.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Reed De Rouen, Kenneth Cope, Leigh Madison, Arthur Lovegrove
Votes: 149
50. No Safety Ahead (1959)
68 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: James Kenney, Susan Beaumont, Denis Shaw, Gordon Boyd
51. No Trees in the Street (1959)
96 min | Crime, Drama
Surrounded by new 1950s East End high-rise flats, a London detective thinks back to how different things were in the late 1930s. Then it was an area of overcrowded tenements teeming with ... See full summary »
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Ronald Howard, Stanley Holloway
Votes: 249
52. North West Frontier (1959)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Drama
Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 3,049
53. Nature's Paradise (1959)
67 min | Drama
An American art student in England falls in love with a beautiful Englishwoman. It turns out that she's a nudist, and in spite of his misgivings, he decides to join her at her nudist camp.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Anita Love, Katy Cashfield, Carl Conway, Dennis Carnell
Votes: 29
54. Operation Amsterdam (1959)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, History, War
When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
Director: Michael McCarthy | Stars: Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox
Votes: 855
55. Operation Bullshine (1959)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Romance, War
The fun starts when a group of A.T.S. girls are posted to a light ack-ack command post on a remote part of the English coast.
Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray, Carole Lesley, Ronald Shiner
Votes: 201
56. Operation Stogie (1959)
75 min | Adventure, Comedy
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: John Hewer, Anton Rodgers, Susan Stephen, Peter Illing
57. Our Man in Havana (1959)
Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives, Ernie Kovacs
Votes: 6,098
58. Pasaporte al infierno (1959)
50 min | Crime, Thriller
A forger (Carpenter) flees to Spain but his daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang.
Director: Cecil H. Williamson | Stars: Paul Carpenter, María Martín, Joe Robinson, Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Votes: 72
59. Please Turn Over (1959)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy
The orderly suburban life of a 1950s English town is turned on its head when the teenage daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Ted Ray, Jean Kent, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims
Votes: 517
60. Room at the Top (1958)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit
Votes: 7,317
61. SOS Pacific (1959)
92 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Due to an accident, a seaplane operated by a small airline company ditches off an island in the Pacific and the surviving passengers must find a way to be rescued.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eva Bartok
Votes: 439
62. Sapphire (1959)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Paul Massie
Votes: 2,307
63. Serious Charge (1959)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
A vicar falsely accused of assaulting a youth attempts to prove his innocence and save his reputation.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Anthony Quayle, Sarah Churchill, Andrew Ray, Irene Browne
Votes: 269
64. Strictly Confidential (1959)
Not Rated | 62 min | Comedy
Two con-men are released from prison, but get straight back up to their old tricks.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Richard Murdoch, William Kendall, Maya Koumani, Neil Hallett
Votes: 51
65. Subway in the Sky (1959)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama
1959. Drama. Directed by Muriel Box. Starring Hildegard Knef, Katherine Kath and Van Johnson. A military doctor is falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Can he prove his innocence?
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef, Albert Lieven, Cec Linder
Votes: 168
66. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Approved | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker
Votes: 17,207 | Gross: $13.90M
67. Season of Passion (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 327
68. Sweet Beat (1959)
66 min | Drama, Romance
An aspiring singer wins a trip to London and is promised a record deal, but when she gets there an underhanded American record producer spirits her off to New York and away from her boyfriend.
Director: Ronnie Albert | Stars: Sheldon Lawrence, Julie Amber, Irv Bauer, Al Burnett
Votes: 37
69. Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Action, Drama, Romance
After 1945, six German ex-soldiers are hired to defuse unexploded Allied bombs in the ruins of Berlin.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Martine Carol, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 1,190
70. The 39 Steps (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones
Votes: 2,332
71. The Adventures of Rex (1959)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Director: Leonard Reeve | Stars: John Pike, Shirley Joy
72. The Angry Hills (1959)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, War, Thriller
In 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Elisabeth Müller, Gia Scala
Votes: 1,137
73. The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Adventure
In India, the 19th century, the rebellious Kasim Khan fought the English.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley, Norman Wooland
Votes: 150
74. The Boy and the Bridge (1959)
91 min | Drama
After an unpleasant argument with his dad, a boy has interesting adventures all around London town as he runs away from home and is sought by police.
Director: Kevin McClory | Stars: Ian Maclaine, Liam Redmond, James Hayter, Geoffrey Keen
Votes: 24
75. The Bridal Path (1959)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Bill Travers, Bernadette O'Farrell, George Cole, Duncan Macrae
Votes: 296
76. The Captain's Table (1959)
90 min | Comedy
A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Lee | Stars: John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray
Votes: 400
77. The Cat Gang (1959)
50 min | Family, Crime
The Cat Gang are a group of English children who like to hang around the local harbour even though the Customs Officers wish they'd go away. Then one day the gang spots somebody behaving ... See full summary »
Director: Darrell Catling | Stars: Francesca Annis, John Pike, Jeremy Bulloch, John Gabriel
Votes: 73
78. The Chaplin Revue (1959)
G | 119 min | Comedy
Three Charlie Chaplin short films edited together with new connective tissue.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman
Votes: 1,611
79. The Child and the Killer (1959)
Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Drama
On-the-run psychopathic escaped murderer Mather (Ryck Rydon) sweet-talks a very imaginative small boy Tommy (played by 11-year-old Richard Williams) into believing that if he quietly ... See full summary »
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Patricia Driscoll, Robert Arden, Richard Williams, Ryck Rydon
Votes: 28
80. The Crowning Touch (1959)
75 min | Comedy
Several stories linked by a hat.
Director: David Eady | Stars: Ted Ray, Greta Gynt, Griffith Jones, Sydney Tafler
81. The Dawn Killer (1959)
107 min
Sheepdog Glen, accused of sheep killing on the Romney Marshes, is cleared by the efforts of his two youthful owners in time for the Sheepdog Trials.
Director: Donald Taylor | Stars: Jeremy Bulloch, Sally Bulloch, Suzan Farmer, David Markham
82. The Devil's Disciple (1959)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, History, Romance
The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.
Directors: Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Janette Scott
Votes: 2,875
83. The Heart of a Man (1959)
92 min | Drama
Frankie, an out-of-work sailor, meets Bud, a tramp who claims he is a millionaire. Bud gives him a shilling and promises him that if he can make £100 from it, he will be given £1,000. Armed... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood, Tony Britton, Peter Sinclair
Votes: 34
84. The Headless Ghost (1959)
Not Rated | 62 min | Comedy, Horror
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their bit to help him find it.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose, Clive Revill
Votes: 456
85. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
Votes: 12,380
86. The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
The film follows an American captain searching for sunken treasure who becomes entangled with criminals and is arrested by the Dutch police.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey, Linda Christian, Donald Wolfit
Votes: 525
87. The Lady Is a Square (1959)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Frankie Vaughan stars as young pop singer Johnny Burns, who is enlisted reluctantly by Frances Baring (Anna Neagle), a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott, Anthony Newley
Votes: 99
88. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marlé
Votes: 2,425
89. The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959)
60 min | Comedy
A gangster's death leads a man to blackmail the deceased's family. The man wants money to save a youth club. He then tries blackmailing a villain's prominent family.
Director: David Eady | Stars: Anthony Green, Brian Tyler, Leslie Phillips, Shaun O'Riordan
Votes: 54
90. The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell, David Kossoff
Votes: 9,457
91. The Mummy (1959)
Unrated | 88 min | Adventure, Horror
In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne
Votes: 10,994
92. The Navy Lark (1959)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
Film version of a popular BBC radio show about the incompetent crew of a Royal Navy ship.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips, Elvi Hale
Votes: 130
93. Make Mine a Double (1959)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Thriller, War
A WWII British secret agent has a desperate mission in occupied France. An airman who is his double is enlisted in the scheme with the intention of confusing the enemy, but everyone gets confused.
Director: Darcy Conyers | Stars: Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell, Leslie Phillips
Votes: 176
94. Portrait of a Sinner (1959)
96 min | Drama
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix, Natasha Parry
Votes: 204
95. The Scapegoat (1959)
Unrated | 91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth
Votes: 2,441
96. Four Desperate Men (1959)
100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three men attempt a prison break, but their plan derails when their boat falters near an island, where the caretaker recognizes the convict. A hostage situation erupts, leading to a tense standoff with authorities.
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Aldo Ray, Heather Sears, Neil McCallum, Victor Maddern
Votes: 325
97. The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Adventure, History
In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate the criminal Thugee Cult of Kali, an organized crime group of stranglers and thieves.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank, George Pastell
Votes: 1,268
98. Hot Money Girl (1959)
81 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Hidden somewhere inside St. Teresa's Convent in Czechoslovakia is a box containing a fortune in jewels. A lot of people are after it.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams, Marius Goring, Christopher Lee
Votes: 123
99. The Ugly Duckling (1959)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Henry Jeckle was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Bernard Bresslaw, Reginald Beckwith, Jon Pertwee, Maudie Edwards
Votes: 196
100. The White Trap (1959)
58 min | Crime, Drama
Serving a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems, his wife is about to go into labor with their first baby.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Lee Patterson, Conrad Phillips, Ewen Solon, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 88
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