Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Untouchables, The (TV Series) (1959-1963)
- Feat. Robert Stack, Paul Picerni
- An iconic crime series that once baited controversy for its escalation of television violence, this pulled out the stops to authentically…
Warlock (1959)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn…
- A–grade western set in the lawless town of Warlock where the citizens hire a notorious gunman to keep the peace who brings with him his own set…
World of Apu, The (1959)
- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty
- Final installment of the 'Apu trilogy' sees the complexities of adulthood painfully and euphorically realised for Apu through ambition, marriage and…
Young Philadelphians, The (1959)
- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Paul Newman, Barbara Rush
- Engaging drama with Paul Newman as an attorney of dubious background who defends an affluent friend in a murder trial while hussling his way into the…
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. John Gavin, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore…
- Bittersweet WWII melodrama finds Douglas Sirk at his gravest; John Gavin plays a returning German solider who falls in love under the shadow of war.…
Another Time, Another Place (1958)
- Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns…
- Though a vehicle for Lana Turner, this enjoyable romantic melodrama is remembered for introducing Sean Connery to a wider audience, as a married BBC…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
- Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney…
- One of the earliest depictions of the creepy puppet master, this low budget sci–fi horror follows a doll maker with abandonment issues who…
Auntie Mame (1958)
- Dir. Morton DaCosta
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Peggy Cass, Coral Browne
- Classic Oscar–nominated showcase for Rosalind Russell, as a colourful, high–living rouser who educates her 10yr old nephew in the ways of…
Ballad of Narayama, The (Narayama bushiko) (1958)
- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka
- Sombre but stylised retelling of a Japanese legend, about a poverty–stricken village and its eldest resident who, in accordance with tradition,…
Barbarian and the Geisha, The (1958)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. John Wayne, Sam Jaffe, Eiko Ando
- Uncharacteristic John Wayne vehicle has the big lug play an ambassador to Japan following the US intervention in 1863. Eiko Ando plays the titular…