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- DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.Release date March 19, 1959
Directed by Billy Wilder
Marilyn Monroe ... Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis ... Joe / Josephine
Jack Lemmon ... Jerry / Daphne
George Raft ... Spats Colombo
Academy Awards, USA 1960
NOMINEE Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Lemmon)
NOMINEE Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
NOMINEE Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
WINNER Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
NOMINEE Best Director
NOMINEE Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen BoydAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.Release date November 18, 1959
Directed by William Wyler
Charlton Heston ... Judah Ben-Hur
Academy Awards, USA 1960
WINNER Best Picture
WINNER Best Actor in a Leading Role (Charlton Heston)
WINNER Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Hugh Griffith)
WINNER Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
WINNER Best Cinematography, Color
WINNER Best Costume Design, Color
WINNER Best Director
WINNER Best Effects, Special Effects
WINNER Best Film Editing
WINNER Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
WINNER Best Sound
NOMINEE Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.Release date July 1, 1959
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant ... Roger Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint ... Eve Kendall
James Mason ... Phillip Vandamm
Academy Awards, USA 1960
NOMINEE Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
NOMINEE Best Film Editing
NOMINEE Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen - DirectorKing VidorStarsYul BrynnerGina LollobrigidaGeorge SandersAfter becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming Queen of Sheba.Release date October 27, 1959
Directed by King Vidor
Yul Brynner ... Solomon
Gina Lollobrigida ... Sheba - DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsRomy SchneiderHenri VidalMichèle MercierA female guardian angel tries to convince Pierre not to marry his rich but mean fiance, but rather fall in love with a stewardess who is secretly in love with him.Release date 28 August 1959
Directed by Géza von Radványi
Romy Schneider ... Line / L'ange
Michèle Mercier ... Augusta de Munchenberg
Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Michel Barrot - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMillie PerkinsShelley WintersJoseph SchildkrautDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.Release date March 18, 1959
Directed by George Stevens
Shelley Winters ... Mrs. Petronella Van Daan
Academy Awards, USA 1960
NOMINEE Best Picture
NOMINEE Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ed Wynn)
WINNER Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Shelley Winters)
WINNER Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
WINNER Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
NOMINEE Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
NOMINEE Best Director
NOMINEE Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelPierre-LouisEllen SchwiersIn 1942, a French prisoner of war in Germany decides to escape to France using a cow held by a lunge as a decoy. He crosses all Germany in this way.Release date 16 December 1959
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Fernandel ... Charles Bailly - DirectorOtto PremingerStarsJames StewartLee RemickBen GazzaraAn upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?Release date June 29, 1959
Directed by Otto Preminger
James Stewart ... Paul Biegler
Lee Remick ... Laura Manion
Academy Awards, USA 1960
NOMINEE Best Picture
NOMINEE Best Actor in a Leading Role (James Stewart)
NOMINEE Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Arthur O'Connell)
NOMINEE Best Actor in a Supporting Role (George C. Scott)
NOMINEE Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
NOMINEE Best Film Editing
NOMINEE Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - DirectorRolf ThieleStarsRomy SchneiderCarlos ThompsonMagda SchneiderNicole is a young librarian who writes romantic poetry. A successful new erotic novel, gives her the idea to secretly write a daring play, only about sex.Release date February 11, 1959
Directed by Rolf Thiele
Romy Schneider ... Nicole - DirectorMichael GordonStarsRock HudsonDoris DayTony RandallAn interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.Release date October 6, 1959
Directed by Michael Gordon
Rock Hudson ... Brad Allen
Doris Day ... Jan Morrow
Academy Awards, USA 1960
NOMINEE Best Actress in a Leading Role (Doris Day)
NOMINEE Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Thelma Ritter)
NOMINEE Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
NOMINEE Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
WINNER Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen - DirectorJohn SturgesStarsKirk DouglasAnthony QuinnCarolyn JonesA marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.Release date July 9, 1959
Directed by John Sturges
Kirk Douglas ... Marshal Matt Morgan
Anthony Quinn ... Craig Belden - DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsRomy SchneiderCurd JürgensPierre BlancharCzar Alexander II meets a schoolgirl called Katia. Realizing that he loves her, he attempts to push her away but to no avail. She becomes his mistress. With Katia's help, Alexander is working on a liberal constitution.Release date December 22, 1959
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Romy Schneider ... Katia
Curd Jürgens ... Czar Alexander II - DirectorLes ClarkClyde GeronimiEric LarsonStarsMary CostaBill ShirleyEleanor AudleyAfter being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.Release date January 29, 1959
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson & Les Clark
Academy Awards, USA 1960
NOMINEE Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture - DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn WayneDean MartinRicky NelsonA small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.Release date March 18, 1959
Directed by Howard Hawks
John Wayne ... Sheriff John T. Chance
Angie Dickinson ... Feathers - DirectorAxel von AmbesserStarsRomy SchneiderHans MoserJean-Claude PascalIn Vienna in 1815. A lovely corset-maker fell madly in love with a so-called first valet.Release date September 10, 1959
Directed by Axel von Ambesser
Romy Schneider ... Fanny Emmetsrieder - DirectorRenato CastellaniStarsAnna MagnaniGiulietta MasinaCristina GaioniA harsh study about the grim realities of life in a female prison environment. The story concerns a young girl sent to prison who experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive women who are totally lost in prison life.Release date January 29, 1959
Directed by Renato Castellani
Anna Magnani ... Egle - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsGregory PeckHarry GuardinoRip TornDuring the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.Release date May 29, 1959
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Gregory Peck ... Lt. Joe Clemons
George Peppard ... Cpl. Chuck Fedderson - DirectorMichel BoisrondStarsFrançoise ArnoulBourvilLino VenturaLe chemin des ecoliers (The Way of Youth) is a 1959 French film starring Alain Delon. It is based in the novel The Transient Hour by Marcel Ayme.Release date September 23, 1959
Directed by Michel Boisrond
Bourvil ... Charles Michaud
Lino Ventura ... Tiercelin
Alain Delon ... Antoine Michaud - DirectorJosé Antonio de la LomaStarsAgnès LaurentArmand MestralBarbara LaageOn a lonely beach in the Mediterranean, a man and woman meet. She takes his to her summer villa, where he reveals a deadly secret-- a plan of murder. Seeking to dissuade him, the woman relates the story of Andre and Theresa, a story of youthful passion and murderous revenge.Release date 15 June 1959
Directed by José Antonio de la Loma - DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsPatricia ConelleDon RobertsArianne UlmerA young American painter and his French wife move with their small daughter to the US when the husband's father dies. His mother takes an instant dislike to the wife, and when she finds out that her daughter-in-law is a nudist who once posed naked for an artist, she declares her son's wife to be an unfit mother and sets out to break up the marriage--which may not be difficult to do, as the son is a weak-willed "mama's boy" who's terrified to stand up against his domineering mother.Release date April 22, 1959
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer - DirectorStenoStarsTotòAldo FabriziCathia CaroMr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.Release date April 10, 1959
Directed by Steno
Louis de Funès ... Ettore - DirectorCharles GuggenheimJohn StixStarsSteve McQueenCrahan DentonDavid ClarkeA gang's plans for a St. Louis bank robbery are complicated when the sister of one of the thieves starts voicing her well-founded suspicions.Release date September 10, 1959
Directed by Charles Guggenheim & John Stix
Steve McQueen ... George Fowler - DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelGino CerviPapoufIn Paris, scoundrel mates Paolo and Antoine Venturen hope to get rich quick by asking ransom fro rich Mr. Jumelin's preteen son Eric. Masquerading as Indians, the scamp's favorite game, does the trick. They soon learn such bratty rascal is more trouble then he's worth. The boy's a P.I. instead of paying, and it gets worse.Release date March 20, 1959
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Fernandel ... Antoine Venturen - DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsBen CarruthersLelia GoldoniHugh HurdCassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.Release date November 11, 1959
Directed by John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes ... Pedestrian (uncredited)
Gena Rowlands ... Woman in Nightclub (uncredited) - DirectorChuck JonesAbe LevitowStarsMel BlancBugs conducts the Warner Brothers Symphony in Franz von Suppé's "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" while reacting to a bothersome fly.Release date 10 January 1959
Directed by Chuck Jones & Abe Levitow
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