1959 Movies

A young couple achieve their dream of settling in Rio Negro's Alto Valle. They will start a plantation and fight against the harshness of the weather...

From the opening sequence, combining underwater and aerial footage, this masterpiece about the construction of a steam-power plant in Kurihama (south...

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory, Belso...

The film deals with a fisherman's home on the coast, where everyone one autumn evening sits with their work in the living room.

Set on the Argentine coast in 1870, a man pretends to be an outlaw to catch an army deserter.

Short documentary about a small circus.

The New York Times called this “a prodigious work of inspiring quality,” when it was first shown over CBS television in 1959. Using the same technique...

Made during the time Eduardo Coutinho was studying cinema at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (Idhec),in the French capital, the fic...

Excessive speed is the number one killer on the roads: one-thrid of all road deaths are caused by it. By excessive speeding drivers risk their own liv...

A BFI-produced documentary about documentary filmmaker John Grierson speaking about documentary.

A troupe of Chinese acrobats go to Japan to help celebrate the building of a shrine. At the same time a series of mysterious assassinations take place...

Documentary of life on bord the sailing ship Pamir

A Bollywood adventure movie.

A woman in her twenties has just admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital in California. A staff doctor characterizes her behavior as antisocial and...

A sports journalist engages in a romantic rivalry with a boxing champion.