Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters…
- Absorbing film version of the play based on the experience of a Jewish girl who was forced to live within the confines of a tiny attic, under…
Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill
- Comedy with Jerry Lewis playing a Junior Navy Officer whose ship mysteriously goes missing years after WWII, and he is called upon to find it right…
European Nights (1959)
- Dir. Alessandro Blasetti
- A variety bill of nightclub acts from the heyday of European cabaret. Included are acts from Carmen Sevilla, The Platters, Ukrainian Balalaika…
FBI Story, The (1959)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton…
- This official ‘biopic’ of the FBI, seen through the eyes of career agent James Stewart from 1924 to the late 1950s, has sturdy…
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Curt Jurgens
- Maritime adventure in which Orson Welles portrays a reluctant sea captain forced to take a shady rogue deportee from Hong Kong onboard his vessel…
Five Pennies, The (1959)
- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong…
- Cheery Red Nichols biopic with Danny Kaye turning in a heartfelt performance as the famed jazz trumpter.
Contains many soapy moments between Kaye…
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura
- An aging actor who returns with his troupe to his provincial town, and becomes caught between his long–lost family and his jealous…
Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Henry Daniell
- Beware–the–family–curse is the theme in this low–budget take on Orville H. Hampton's tale about a family whose members are…
Francois Truffaut Collection (1959-1983)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
- A boxed collection of key films from French auteur Francois Truffaut, who was at the forefront of the "Nouvelle Vague" in the 1960s. Eight discs,…
Fugitive Kind, The (1959)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani…
- A directionless, but quirky version of Tennesse Williams' play 'Orpheus Descending' with Brando playing a troublesome hobo who spreads romantic…