Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1959

4D Man – Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock – Sidney Miller

The 39 Steps – Ralph Thomas

Al Capone – Richard Wilson

Alias Jesse James – Norman Z. McLeod

The Alligator People – Roy Del Ruth

All the Boys Are Called Patrick – Jean-Luc Godard

Anari – Hrishikesh Mukherjee

The Angry Hills – Robert Aldrich

The Angry Red Planet (Invasion of Mars) – Ib Milchior

Archimede le clochard – Gilles Grangier

Argument About Basia – Kornel Makuszynki

Bad Girls Don’t Cry – Mauro Bolognini

Ballad of a Soldier – Grigori Chukhrai

The Bandit of Zhobe – John Gilling

Battle Beyond the Sun – Mikhail Karyukov / Aleksandr Kozyr

Battle in Outer Space – Ishior Honda

Battle of the Sexes – Charles Crichton

The Beat Generation – Charles F. Haas

The Big Circus – Joseph M. Newman

The Big Fisherman – Frank Borzage

The Big Operator – Charles F. Haas

The Birth of Japan – Hiroshi Inagaki

Blessings of the Land – Manuel Silos

Blue Denim – Philip Dunne

The Boy and the Bridge – Kevin McClory

Breakout – Peter Graham Scott

The Bridge (Die Brucke) – Bernhard Wicki

A Bucket of Blood – Rodger Corman

But Not for Me – Walter Lang

Career – Joseph Anthony

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. – Boulting Bros.

Carry On Nurse – Gerald Thomas

Carry On Teacher – Gerald Thomas

The Chasers – Erik Lochen

Come Dance with Me! – Michel Boisrond

Court Martial – Kurt Meisel

Le Cousins – Claude Chabrol

The Crimson Kimoo – Samuel Fuller

La cucaracha (The Soldiers of Pancho Villa) – Ismael Rodriguez

Danger Within – Don Chaffey

Day of the Outlaw – Andre De Toth

The Death Ship (Das Totenschiff) – George Tressler

Destiny of a Man – Sergei Bondarchuk

The Devil’s Disciple – Guy Hamilton

The Diary of Anne Frank – George Stevens

Dil Deke Dekho – Nasir Hussain

Don’t Give Up the Ship – Norman Taurong

Dust on the Brian – (Stov pa hjernen) – Oyvind Vennerod

Express Bongo – Val Guest

The FBI Sotry – Mervyn LeRoy

Face of a Fugitive – Paul Wendkos

The Facts of Murder (Un maledetto imbroglio) – Pietre Germi

Ferry to Hong Kong – Lewis Gilbert

Fires on the Plain – Kon Ichikawa

The Five Pennies – Melville Shavelson

Floating Weeds – Yasujiro Ozu

Follow a Star – Robert Asher

The Fugitive Kind – Sidney Lumet

The Gazebo – George Marshall

General della Rovere – Roberto Rossellini

Gidget – Paul Wendkos

Girls Town – Charles F. Haas

Good Morning – Yasujiro Ozu

The Great War (La Grande Guerra) – Mario Monicelli

Green Mansions – Mel Ferrer

The Gunfight at Dodge City – Joseph M. Newman

The Hangman – Michael Curtiz

Hannibal (Annibale) – Edgar G. Ulmer

Happy Anniversary – David Miller

Hercules Unchained – Pietro Francisci

A Hole in the Head – Frank Capra

Holiday for Lovers – Henry Levin

A Home for Tanya – Lev Kulidzhanov

Honeymoon (Luna de miel) – Michael Powell

The Horse Soldiers – John Ford

The House of the Seven Hawks – Richard Thorpe

Idol on Parade – John Gilling

Il vedovo – Dino Risi

I’m Allright Jack – John Boulting

The Indian Tomb – Fritz Lang

It Started with a Kiss – George Marshall

The Immoral Mr. Teas – Russ Meyer

Jet Over the Atlantic – Byron Haskin

Jet Storm – Cy Endfield

John Paul Jones – John Farrow

The Journey – Anatole Litvak

Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers) – Guru Dutt

Kapo – Gillo Pontecorvo

Killers of Kilimanjaro – Richard Thorpe

The Last Angry Man – Daniel Mann

Last Train From Gun Hill – John Sturges

The Law (Le legge / Where the Hot Wind Blows) – Jules Dassin

El Lazarillo de Tormes – Cesar Fernandez

Le Signe du Lion (The Sign of Leo) – Eric Rohmer

The Legend of Tom Dooley – Ted Post

Letter Never Sent – Mikhail Malatozov

Les liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liasons) – Roger Vadim

Libel – Anthony Asquith

Li’l Abner – Melvin Frank

Look Back in Anger – Tony Richardson

Magic Boy (Shonen Sarutobi Sasuke) – Akira Daikbara / Taiji Okawa

Make Mine a Million – Lance Comfort

The Man in the Net – Michael Curtiz

The Man Who Could Cheat Death – Terence Fisher

Marked for Murder – Elmer Clifton

The Master and His Servants (Herren og han tjenere) – Arne Skouen

The Miracle – Irving Rapper

Mise Eire (I am Ireland) – George Morrison

The Mummy – Terence Fisher

My Second Brother (Nianchan) – Shohel Imamura

Nazarin – Luis Bunuel

Never So Few – John Sturges

Night Train (Baltic Express) – Jerzy Kawalerowicz

No Mane on the Bullet – Jack Arnold

Northwest Frontier – J. Lee Thompson

The Nun’s Story – Fred Zinnemenn

Odd Obsession – Kon Ichikawa

On The Beach – Nevil Shute

Operation Amsterdam – Michael McCarthy

The Overcoat – Alexskey Batalov

Paigham – S.S. Vasan

Pickpocket – Robert Bresson

Pillow Talk – Michael Gordon

El Pisito (The Little Apartment) – Marco Ferreri

Policarpo – Mario Soldati

Porgey and Bess – Otto Preminger

Pork Chop Hill – Lewis Milestone

The Rest Is Silence (Der Rest ist Schweigen) – Helmut Kautner

The Rookie – Geroge O’Hanlon

Room at the Top – Jack Clayton

The Roots of Heaven – John Huston

Sampo – Aleksandr Ptushko / Risto Orko

Sapphire – Basil Dearden

Say One for Me – Frank Tahslin

The Scapegoat – Robert Hamer

Serious Charge – Terence Young

Shadows – John Cassavetes

The Shakedown – John Lemont

Shake Hands with the Devil – Michael Anderson

Solomon and Sheba – King Vidor

SOS Pacific - Guy Green

The Sound and the Fury – Martin Ritt

Stars (Sterne) – Konrad Wolf

Stars at Noon – Jacques Ertaud / Marcel Ichac

A Stranger in My Arms

Suddenly Last Summer – Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll – Leslie Norman

Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure – John Guillermin

Telegrame – Gheorghe Naghi

Ten Seconds To Hell – Robert Aldrich

Terror Is A Man – Gerardo de Leon

That Kind of Woman – Sidney Lumet

There Will Be No Leave Today – Andri Tarkovsky

These Thousand Hills – Richard Fleischer

They Came to Cordura – Robert Rossen

Third Man on the Mountain – Ken Annakin

Tiger Bay – J. Lee Thompson

The Tiger of Eschnapur – Fritz Lang

The Tingler – William Castle

Tommy the Poreador – John Paddy Carstairs

Too Many Crooks – Mario Zampi

A Touch of Larceny – Guy Hamilton

Train Without a Timetable – Veljko Bulajic

The Trap – Norman Panama

Up Periscope – Gordon Douglas

I vedovo (The Widower) – Dino Risi

La Vida alrededor (Life Around Us) – Fernando Feran Gomez

Violent Summer (Estate Violenta) – Valerio Zurlini

Virgin Island – Pat Jackson

Verboten! – Sam Fuller

The Verdict – Jean Valere

Warlock – Ed Dmytryk

The Wasp Woman – Roger Corman / Jack Hill

We Are Altogether Crazy (Vi er allesammen tossede) – Sven Methling

Westbound – Budd Boetticher

When the Woman Butts In (Kam cert nemuze) – Zdenek Podskalsky

The Wild and the Innocent – Jack Sher

Woman Obsessed – Henry Hathaway

The Wonderful Country – Robert Parrish

The Wreck of the Mary Dear – Michael Anderson

Yellowstone Kelly – Gordon Douglas

Yesterday’s Enemy – Val Guest

The Young Captives – Irvin Kershner