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The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture, among winning a record-setting eleven Oscars.
A-B
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock |
Sidney Miller |
Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine |
Comedy |
Released five months after Lou Costello died. |
| 4D Man |
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. |
Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether |
Science Fiction |
Produced and written by Jack H. Harris |
| Alias Jesse James |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming |
Western |
United Artists |
| The Alligator People |
Roy Del Ruth |
Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett |
Horror |
|
| Anatomy of a Murder |
Otto Preminger |
James Stewart, Lee Remick, George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden |
Drama |
Columbia Pictures |
| The Angry Red Planet |
Ib Melchior |
Gerald Mohr |
Science Fiction |
|
| Argument About Basia |
|
|
Drama |
|
| The Atomic Submarine |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Arthur Franz |
Science Fiction |
|
| Attack of the Giant Leeches |
Bernard L. Kowalski |
Ken Clark |
Science Fiction |
|
| Ballad of a Soldier |
|
|
Drama |
Russia |
| The Bat |
Crane Wilbur |
Vincent Price |
Sci-Fi |
|
| Battle in Outer Space |
Ishiro Honda |
|
Science Fiction |
Japan |
| The Battle of the Sexes |
Charles Crichton |
Peter Sellers |
Comedy |
|
| Beast from Haunted Cave |
|
|
Science Fiction |
|
| The Beat Generation |
Charles F. Haas |
Mamie Van Doren |
Comedy Drama |
|
| Behemoth, the Sea Monster |
|
|
Science Fiction |
|
| Beloved Infidel |
Henry King |
Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr |
Biopic |
|
| Ben-Hur |
William Wyler |
Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd |
Drama |
Academy Award for Best Picture; a record 11 Oscars |
| The Big Fisherman |
Frank Borzage |
Howard Keel |
Drama |
|
| The Birth of Japan |
|
|
Drama |
|
| Black Orpheus |
|
|
Drama |
Brazil |
| Blue Denim |
Philip Dunne |
Carol Lynley, Brandon de Wilde |
Drama |
|
| Bonanza Bunny |
|
|
Animated |
|
| Born to Be Loved |
Hugo Haas |
Carol Morris |
Drama |
|
| A Bucket of Blood |
Roger Corman |
Dick Miller |
Horror |
|
C-D
E-H
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Expresso Bongo |
Val Guest |
Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard |
Drama |
Based on 1958 play |
| The FBI Story |
Mervyn LeRoy |
James Stewart |
Drama |
|
| Ferry to Hong Kong |
|
|
Drama |
|
| Fires on the Plain |
|
|
War drama |
Japan |
| First Man into Space |
Robert Day |
Marshall Thompson |
Sci-Fi |
|
| Fishing Child |
|
|
Drama |
|
| The Five Pennies |
Melville Shavelson |
Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong |
Biopic, Musical |
4 Oscar nominations |
| Floating Weeds |
|
|
Drama |
|
| The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake |
Edward L. Cahn |
Eduard Franz |
Sci-Fi |
|
| The Gene Krupa Story |
Don Weis |
Sal Mineo |
Biopic |
|
| The Giant Gila Monster |
Ray Kellogg |
Don Sullivan |
Sci-Fi |
|
| The Giant of Marathon |
Jacques Tourneur |
Steve Reeves |
Drama |
|
| Gidget |
Paul Wendkos |
Sandra Dee, James Darren |
Comedy |
|
| Girls Town |
Charles F. Haas |
Mamie van Doren, Paul Anka |
Drama |
Anka sings his #1 hit Lonely Boy |
| Good Morning |
|
|
Comedy |
Japan |
| Great is my Country |
|
|
Drama |
Russia |
| The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery |
|
Steve McQueen |
Drama |
United Artists |
| Green Mansions |
Mel Ferrer |
Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck |
Drama |
|
| The Hanging Tree |
Delmer Daves |
Gary Cooper, Karl Malden |
Drama |
|
| Happy Anniversary |
David Miller |
David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor |
Comedy |
|
| Have Rocket, Will Travel |
David Lowell Rich |
Three Stooges |
Science Fiction |
Columbia Pictures |
| Hercules and the Queen of Lydia |
|
|
Fantasy |
|
| A Hole in the Head |
Frank Capra |
Frank Sinatra, Eddie Hodges |
Drama |
Sinatra sings hit High Hopes |
| Horrors of the Black Museum |
|
|
Fantasy |
|
| The Horse Soldiers |
John Ford |
John Wayne, William Holden |
Western |
United Artists |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Terence Fisher |
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee |
Suspense |
Sherlock Holmes |
| House on Haunted Hill |
William Castle |
Vincent Price |
Horror |
|
I-N
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| I'm All Right Jack |
John and Roy Boulting |
Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael |
Comedy |
British |
| Imitation of Life |
Douglas Sirk |
Lana Turner |
Drama |
Universal International Pictures |
| The Immoral Mr. Teas |
Russ Meyer |
|
Sex comedy |
|
| Island of Lost Women |
Frank Tuttle |
Jeff Richards |
Sci-Fi |
|
| It Happened to Jane |
Richard Quine |
Doris Day |
Comedy |
|
| It Started with a Kiss |
George Marshall |
Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds |
Romantic comedy |
|
| Jazz on a Summer's Day |
Bert Stern |
|
Documentary |
Newport jazz festival |
| John Paul Jones |
John Farrow |
Robert Stack |
Biopic |
|
| Journey to the Center of the Earth |
Henry Levin |
James Mason, Pat Boone |
Sci-Fi |
20th Century Fox |
| The Killer Shrews |
|
|
Science Fiction |
|
| The Last Angry Man |
Daniel Mann |
Paul Muni, David Wayne |
Drama |
|
| The League of Gentlemen |
Basil Dearden |
Jack Hawkins |
Mystery |
British |
| Left, Right & Centre |
Sidney Gilliat |
Ian Carmichael |
Comedy |
British |
| Libel |
Anthony Asquith |
Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde |
Drama |
|
| A Memory of Two Mondays |
|
Alan Bates |
Drama |
TV version of Arthur Miller play |
| Miracle on 34th Street |
|
Ed Wynn, Orson Bean |
Holiday fantasy |
Made for TV |
| The Miracle |
|
|
Drama |
|
| The Mouse That Roared |
Jack Arnold |
Peter Sellers |
Comedy |
Sellers in three roles |
| The Mummy |
Terence Fisher |
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing |
Science Fiction |
|
| Muscle Up a Little Closer |
Jules White |
Three Stooges |
Short subject |
|
| My Second Brother |
|
|
Drama |
Japan |
| Never So Few |
John Sturges |
Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen |
War drama |
|
| Night Train |
|
|
Drama |
Poland |
| Night of the Ghouls |
|
|
Horror |
|
| No Name on the Bullet |
Jack Arnold |
Audie Murphy |
Western |
|
| North by Northwest |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll |
Suspense |
|
| North West Frontier |
J. Lee Thompson |
Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More |
Adventure |
|
| The Nun's Story |
Fred Zinnemann |
Audrey Hepburn |
Drama |
|
O-S
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Odds Against Tomorrow |
Robert Wise |
Harry Belafonte, Shelley Winters |
Film noir |
|
| On the Beach |
Stanley Kramer |
Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins |
Science Fiction |
|
| Operation Petticoat |
Blake Edwards |
Cary Grant, Tony Curtis |
Comedy |
|
| Our Man in Havana |
|
Alec Guinness, Noel Coward |
Comedy |
Based on novel by Graham Greene |
| Pickpocket |
Robert Bresson |
Martin LaSalle |
Drama |
|
| Pillow Talk |
Michael Gordon |
Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall |
Comedy |
|
| Plan 9 from Outer Space |
Edward D. Wood, Jr. |
Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Tor Johnson |
Science Fiction |
|
| Planet Prince |
|
|
Drama |
|
| Porgy and Bess |
Otto Preminger |
Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Pearl Bailey |
Musical |
|
| Pork Chop Hill |
Lewis Milestone |
Gregory Peck |
Drama, War |
|
| Pull My Daisy |
|
|
Short subject |
|
| Return of the Fly |
Edward Bernds |
Vincent Price |
Science Fiction |
|
| Ride Lonesome |
Budd Boetticher |
Randolph Scott |
Western |
|
| Rio Bravo |
Howard Hawks |
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan |
Western |
Warner Bros. |
| Room at the Top |
Jack Clayton |
Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret |
Drama |
Oscar for Best Actress. |
| Sampo |
|
|
Drama |
|
| Santa Claus |
|
Jose Elias Moreno |
Holiday fantasy |
Mexico |
| Sapphire |
Basil Deardon |
Nigel Patrick |
Drama |
|
| Savage Beach |
|
|
Drama |
|
| The Savage Innocents |
Nicholas Ray |
Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole |
Drama |
|
| Shadows |
John Cassavetes |
Ben Carruthers |
Drama |
|
| The Shaggy Dog |
|
Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk |
Comedy |
Walt Disney |
| Shake Hands with the Devil |
Michael Anderson |
James Cagney |
War drama |
|
| The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw |
Raoul Walsh |
Jayne Mansfield |
Comedy |
|
| Sleeping Beauty |
Clyde Geronimi |
Eleanor Audley, Mary Costa |
Animated film |
Walt Disney Productions |
| Solomon and Sheba |
|
Yul Brynner |
Drama |
|
| Some Like It Hot |
Billy Wilder |
Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Joe E. Brown |
Comedy |
United Artists |
| Space Invasion of Lapland |
|
|
Science Fiction |
|
| Suddenly, Last Summer |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift |
Drama |
|
| A Summer Place |
Delmer Daves |
Richard Egan, Sandra Dee |
Drama |
Based on the novel |
T-Z
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Tarzan's Greatest Adventure |
John Guillerman |
Gordon Scott, Sean Connery |
Adventure |
|
| Tarzan, the Ape Man |
Joseph M. Newman |
Denny Miller, Joanna Barnes |
Adventure |
|
| Teenage Zombies |
|
|
Horror |
|
| Teenagers from Outer Space |
Tom Graeff |
Dawn Bender |
Science Fiction |
|
| The Facts of Murder |
Pietro Germi |
Claudia Cardinale |
Drama |
Italy |
| The Mating Game |
George Marshall |
Tony Randall, Debbie Reynolds |
Romantic comedy |
|
| The Monster of Piedras Blancas |
|
Les Tremayne |
Sci-Fi |
|
| There Will Be No Leave Today |
|
|
Drama |
Russia |
| Thunder in the Sun |
Russell Rouse |
Susan Hayward |
Drama |
|
| Tiger Bay |
J. Lee Thompson |
John Mills, Hayley Mills |
Drama |
|
| The Tingler |
William Castle |
Vincent Price |
Sci-Fi |
|
| The Trap |
Norman Panama |
Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb |
Crime |
20th Century Fox |
| Up Periscope |
Gordon Douglas |
James Garner |
War |
|
| Warlock |
Edward Dmytryk |
Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda |
Western |
|
| Web of Evidence |
Jack Cardiff |
Van Johnson, Vera Miles |
Drama |
|
| When Angels Fall |
Roman Polanski |
|
Short subject |
|
| Window Water Baby Moving |
|
|
Drama |
|
| Woman Obsessed |
Henry Hathaway |
Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd |
Drama |
|
| The World, the Flesh and the Devil |
Ranald MacDougall |
Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens |
Sci-Fi |
|
| The Young Captives |
Irvin Kershner |
Steven Marlo |
Drama |
|
| The Young Philadelphians |
Vincent Sherman |
Paul Newman, Robert Vaughn |
Drama |
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