1959 Movies

A lonely man wanders the streets of contemporary Warsaw. He reads the daily press, observes women in a beauty salon and follows the action on a film s...

Further adventures of Wong Fei Hung

A young girl pulls a sled as she explores Philadelphia in the summer.

The film documents the well-known story of Anne Frank, whose family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Eventually caught, Frank was sent to the Bergen-B...

A satirical Soviet puppet animation film from 1959. Based on the poem of the same name (1926) by Vladimir Mayakovsky.

A film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.

A "Monster Mash" riff grinds away as a door opens on leather-clad teenage toughs huddled in a dark room. A caption reads, "This is Doctor Mabuse." Und...

One of Jordan Belson's presentation reels used in the Vortex Concerts.

Séance provides one of the first cinematic examples of a flicker effect.

Al Gaban wl Hob coward in love

In this crime drama, an impoverished but enamored bank clerk joins his brother's gang of bank robbers so he can afford to marry his sweetheart. Unfort...

Documentary about German city Oberhausen.

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

A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.