1959 Movies

A large Caucasian family is expecting a new addition – Khanu is pregnant. Bashir, the head of the family, doesn’t want any more daughters — he already...

Art history student Ursula discovers Frankfurt am Main after she starts living there.

Both this film and The Passion and Resurrection introduce the new technique of painting directly on film—a technique that provides images of unique qu...

The kitten from Yasuji Mori's earlier "Koneko no Rakugaki" returns, this time putting his talents toward directing a samurai film starring his mouse f...

A British documentary that covers the atomic energy developments made in Great Britain since the end of World War II, with a focus towards advancing p...

Aunt Lusha, the chairman of the collective farm, is still far from old age. But his youth flew by like a day, worrying about others and caring for the...

A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.

The three friends Stepan, Kolja and Anton go camping together on the beach and are looking forward to living "like the wild ones" for a while and esca...

In 1959 Hiroshi Teshigahara shot the following 16 mm footage of he and his father’s first trip to Barcelona and the outlying Catalonian countryside, i...

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

'Water', says the transport man, 'is lovely stuff' - and the development plan for British Waterways is based on this belief. The film shows parts of t...

The history of money in Finland with a "candid camera" segment of people reacting to a banknote glued to the street.

Nazi soldiers committed atrocities even when sober – and if they got drunk, they did even worse. The inhabitants of a Slovak village during the nation...

An incident from Mahabharata wherein the Pandavas were exiled.

About the plight of poor man Dek Sam and his daughter Bok Sir, expelled from the north of Korea by supporters of the South Korean regime of Singman Ri...

Two brothers inherit a lot of wealth. One of them tries to get rid of his brother and use his money. When he fails to do so, he looks to abuse someone...