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Italy 1959

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  • Black Orpheus (1959)

    1. Black Orpheus

    19591h 40mPG81Metascore
    7.4 (13K)
    A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
    DirectorMarcel CamusStarsBreno MelloMarpessa DawnLourdes de Oliveira
  • John Merivale and Daniela Rocca in Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959)

    2. Caltiki, the Immortal Monster

    19591h 17mApproved
    5.9 (1.8K)
    A team of archaeologists in Mexico encounter an amorphous, blob-like monster that appears to be connected with the collapse of the Mayan civilization.
    DirectorsRiccardo FredaMario BavaStarsJohn MerivaleDidi SullivanGérard Herter
  • Dangerous Liaisons (1959)

    3. Dangerous Liaisons

    19591h 46m
    6.8 (1.6K)
    Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
    DirectorRoger VadimStarsJeanne MoreauGérard PhilipeAnnette Stroyberg
  • Paul Hubschmid, Sabine Bethmann, Debra Paget, and Walther Reyer in The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)

    4. The Tiger of Eschnapur

    19591h 41m
    6.6 (3.4K)
    In Eschnapur, a local Maharajah and a German architect fall in love with the same temple dancer.
    DirectorFritz LangStarsDebra PagetPaul HubschmidWalther Reyer
  • Brigitte Bardot in Come Dance with Me! (1959)

    5. Come Dance with Me!

    19591h 31m
    6.3 (813)
    Handsome dentist Herve Dandieu, temporarily separated from his new, delectable wife Virginie by a lovers' tiff, is picked up by sexy dance teacher Anita Flores...object blackmail. Sensing trouble, Virginie follows him to the dance school, only to find him circumstantially incriminated in murder. Soon, the school has a gorgeous new instructress, whose slightly scatterbrained attempts to clear her husband confuse both police and suspects...and bring potential danger.
    DirectorMichel BoisrondStarsBrigitte BardotHenri VidalDawn Addams
  • Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, and Alberto Sordi in The Great War (1959)

    6. The Great War

    19592h 17mApproved
    8.1 (4.9K)
    The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
    DirectorMario MonicelliStarsAlberto SordiVittorio GassmanBernard Blier
  • Gina Lollobrigida and Yves Montand in The Law (1959)

    7. The Law

    19591h 54mNot Rated
    6.7 (922)
    Illicit passions pervade an Italian town, where men gather nightly for the cynical "game of the law."
    DirectorJules DassinStarsGina LollobrigidaPierre BrasseurMarcello Mastroianni
  • Vittorio De Sica, Sandra Milo, Giovanna Ralli, and Anne Vernon in General Della Rovere (1959)

    8. General Della Rovere

    19592h 9mNot Rated
    7.7 (3.9K)
    Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
    DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsVittorio De SicaHannes MessemerSandra Milo
  • Christine Kaufmann and Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)

    9. The Last Days of Pompeii

    19591h 43mApproved
    5.6 (1.4K)
    A demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
    DirectorMario BonnardStarsSteve ReevesChristine KaufmannFernando Rey
  • The Indian Tomb (1959)

    10. The Indian Tomb

    19591h 42m
    6.6 (3.1K)
    A German architect runs away with the maharajah of Eschnapur's fiancee but is caught and thrown in the dungeon, while his relatives arrive from Europe looking for him and the maharajah's brother is scheming to usurp the throne.
    DirectorFritz LangStarsDebra PagetPaul HubschmidWalther Reyer
  • Steve Reeves in Hercules Unchained (1959)

    11. Hercules Unchained

    19591h 45mG
    4.6 (2.5K)
    While negotiating peace between two brothers contesting the throne of Thebes, an amnesiac Hercules is seduced by the evil Queen Omphale.
    DirectorsPietro FrancisciMario BavaStarsSteve ReevesSylva KoscinaGabriele Antonini
  • Bourvil, Jean Marais, and Sabine Sesselmann in Le Bossu (1959)

    12. Le Bossu

    19591h 45m
    6.9 (1.6K)
    Prince Philippe de Gonzague decides to get rid of his cousin Duke de Nevers, having wished for long his properties and wealth.
    DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsJean MaraisBourvilSabine Sesselmann
  • Sign of the Gladiator (1959)

    13. Sign of the Gladiator

    19591h 38m
    5.3 (391)
    Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops - but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
    DirectorsGuido BrignoneMichelangelo AntonioniRiccardo FredaStarsAnita EkbergGeorges MarchalFolco Lulli
  • Violent Summer (1959)

    14. Violent Summer

    19591h 38m
    7.3 (2.1K)
    Summer 1943: The war is in full swing in southern Italy. Together with friends, Carlo enjoys a carefree summer in youthful naïveté. He falls in love with Roberta, whose husband was killed in the war.
    DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsEleonora Rossi DragoJean-Louis TrintignantLilla Brignone
  • The Giant of Marathon (1959)

    15. The Giant of Marathon

    19591h 30m
    5.1 (1.1K)
    A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
    DirectorsJacques TourneurBruno VailatiMario BavaStarsSteve ReevesMylène DemongeotSergio Fantoni
  • Hannibal (1959)

    16. Hannibal

    19591h 43mApproved
    5.2 (1.2K)
    During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army.
    DirectorsCarlo Ludovico BragagliaEdgar G. UlmerStarsVictor MatureGabriele FerzettiRita Gam
  • The Big Night (1959)

    17. The Big Night

    19591h 35m
    7.1 (767)
    In Rome, small-time thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles and catch prostitutes Anna and Supplizia on the street to mislead the police. They seek the jobber Mosciarella, but he is at a funeral and gives them no attention. But Gino "Bellabella" overhears them and offers to deal the merchandise with another contact. He fails and the whores present a deaf-mute acquaintance who lives on the outskirts of Rome to buy the guns; the prostitute Nicoletta who was with the man returns to Rome with the quintet. When the youngsters propose to have sex in the middle of nowhere, the prostitutes believe that they intend to leave them there. Scinttilone, Ruggeretto, and Bellabella sneak out to the car and leave the women in the countryside. Later they discover that the women stole their money. They seek them out on the streets and fight against another gang. However, when the police arrive, the six youngsters leave the place together and head to the house of one of them, and Ruggeretto falls for the host's sister. However, Bellabella steals the host's bountiful wallet and Ruggeretto fights him to get the wallet and return it to the host. While they are fighting, Scinttilone flees with the wallet to the house of his girlfriend Rossana. Ruggeretto chases Scinttilone along a night of alienation, illusions, and adventures.
    DirectorMauro BologniniStarsRosanna SchiaffinoElsa MartinelliLaurent Terzieff
  • Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)

    18. Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

    19591h 41m
    7.0 (1.6K)
    The Countess de Saint-Fiacre, having received a terrible anonymous letter predicting her imminent death, summons Commissioner Maigret in the hope that he can protect her and save her from a secret ill-wisher.
    DirectorJean DelannoyStarsJean GabinMichel AuclairValentine Tessier
  • Web of Passion (1959)

    19. Web of Passion

    19591h 50mNot Rated
    6.6 (1.5K)
    A wealthy wine grower has trouble with his wife, his children, his best friend, and his mistress across the way, who is murdered.
    DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsMadeleine RobinsonAntonella LualdiJean-Paul Belmondo
  • Uncle Was a Vampire (1959)

    20. Uncle Was a Vampire

    19591h 25m
    5.0 (407)
    A baron down on his luck has to sell his family castle to pay off his mounting debt. After the castle is turned into a hotel, he's hired as a bellboy. But all is not lost, as he discovers he has a rich uncle; unfortunately, he's a vampire.
    DirectorStenoStarsRenato RascelSylva KoscinaLia Zoppelli
  • Chelo Alonso and Steve Reeves in Goliath and the Barbarians (1959)

    21. Goliath and the Barbarians

    19591h 26m
    5.6 (374)
    When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.
    DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsSteve ReevesChelo AlonsoGiulia Rubini
  • Pietro Germi and Eleonora Rossi Drago in The Facts of Murder (1959)

    22. The Facts of Murder

    19591h 55m
    7.4 (1.7K)
    A police detective and his team attempt to solve two crimes committed within a day of each other in neighboring apartment rooms.
    DirectorPietro GermiStarsPietro GermiClaudia CardinaleFranco Fabrizi
  • The Moralist (1959)

    23. The Moralist

    19592h
    6.5 (451)
    Augustino works as the General Secretary of Social Morality Union and takes fight to all kinds of mundane vices - striptease, nudity in movies and commercials. He is incorrupt and unyielding. Unfortunately, the rigid professional ethics sabotages his private life. Meanwhile, his boss plans to marry off his unattractive 29-year old daughter...to Augustino.
    DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsAlberto SordiVittorio De SicaFranco Fabrizi
  • Steve Reeves in The White Warrior (1959)

    24. The White Warrior

    19591h 31m
    5.3 (352)
    The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
    DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsSteve ReevesGiorgia MollScilla Gabel
  • Linda Cristal, Ettore Manni, and Georges Marchal in Legions of the Nile (1959)

    25. Legions of the Nile

    19591h 31mApproved
    5.4 (291)
    Roman Emperor Octavian rules the empire from Rome, and his rival Marc Antony has taken Egyptian queen Cleopatra as his lover and seized the eastern empire, ruling it from Alexandria. Octavian intends to regain his empire by landing his army at Alexandria, besieging the city and capturing and executing the pair. However, while Octavian's army is bigger than Marc Antony's forces, he and Cleopatra have allies who can come to their aid. Both sides prepare for a final showdown.
    DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsLinda CristalEttore ManniGeorges Marchal

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