Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Brel (Jacques Brel - Comme Quand On Était Beau) (1959-1973)
- Feat. Jacques Brel
- Comprehensive French boxed set of the television performances of the ground–breaking and influential Belgian singer and songwriter, Jacques…
Bucket of Blood, A (1959)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Dick Miller, Ed Nelson
- This has the twin distinction of being both a hilarious send–up of 'beat' culture and a ripping black comedy. Dick Miller is Walter Paisley, a…
Carlton Browne of the F.O. / Hoffman (1959-1969)
- Dir. Jeffrey Dell, Roy Boulting, Alvin Rakoff
Feat. Peter Sellers
- A pair of eclectic, little known comedies starring Peter Sellers on one cassette.
Come Dance with Me (Voulez-Vous Danser Avec Moi?) (1959)
- Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Dawn Addams
- Surprisingly entertaining French mystery thriller tracking a wife attempting to clear her husband's name from involvement in a dance studio murder.…
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…
Danger Within (1959)
- Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Richard Attenborough
- In an Italian POW camp in WW2, 400 plan to escape but one plans to betray. Can you spot the traitor? Richard Attenborough leads the cast of suspects.
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Albert Sharpe, Sean Connery, Jack MacGowran…
- Sharpe plays an Irish caretaker who befriends the King of the Leprechauns. This live–action classic from Uncle Walt, mixes whimsy, humour and…
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
- Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise…
- Bleak snowbound western has a gang of outlaws terrorizing the inhabitants of a small farming town.
Shot in stark black and white this is a…