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Subgenre Sampler
Amants, Les (Lovers, The) (1959)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny - This helped push the envelope of frank sexuality in cinema and made a star of Jeanne Moreau, as the rich, bored housewife whose extra–marital…
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara… - Smalltown lawyer James Stewart defends a man accused of murdering a suspected rapist. The shifting ambiguities of the case make this more a…
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)- Dir. Bernard Kowalski
Feat. Yvette Vickers - A 'rubber–suited' swamp thing lurks in a Florida bayou. Even B–movie aficianados shouldn't get suckered by this one. 'Stars' Yvette…
Battle of the Sexes, The (1959)- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings… - An archly engaging comedy based upon a James Thurber story in which the head clerk (Sellers) of a tweed manufacturer resists the efforts of the…
Ben-Hur (1959)- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd - Spectacular production of the Jews plight against the Roman empire, complete with landmark chariot race, awesome sea battle and a cast of thousands…
Beyond the Time Barrier (1959)- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Robert Clarke - An astronaut on a space mission is unwittingly catapulted into a plague–ridden Earth of 50 years into the future. Inriguing low–budgeter…
Black Orpheus (1959)- Dir. Marcel Camus
Feat. Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes De Oliveira - Get caught up in the rhythms and colour of Rio De Janiero at Carnival time for an exotic, utterly unique spin on the Greek legend of doomed lovers…
Brand (1959)- Dir. Michael Elliot
Feat. Patrick McGoohan - Spellbinding BBC version of Henrik Ibsen's great play, with Patrick McGoohan playing a young priest who idealistically adopts a doctrine that one…
Compulsion (1959)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles… - As distinctive a rendition of the infamous Leopold–Loeb murder case as ROPE and SWOON, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman playing the…
Crimson Kimono, The (1959)- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta - Two detectives, one of Japanese heritage, both fall in love with the key witness in a murder case. Noted for its inclusion of an interracial romance…
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