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North by Northwest

Genres: Adventure / Mystery / Romance
Year: 1959
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant / Eva Marie Saint / James Mason / Jessie Royce Landis / Leo G. Carroll / Josephine Hutchinson / Philip Ober / Martin Landau / Adam Williams / Edward Platt / Robert Ellenstein / Les Tremayne / Philip Coolidge / Patrick McVey / Edward Binns

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Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. He gets involved in a series of misadventures and is pursued across the States by both the spies and the government whilst being helped by a beautiful blonde.

Some Like It Hot

Genres: Comedy
Year: 1959
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Mike Mazurki / Dave Barry / George E. Stone / Billy Gray / Joan Shawlee / Nehemiah Persoff / Joe E. Brown / Pat O'Brien / George Raft / Jack Lemmon / Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe / Harry Wilson / Beverly Wills / Barbara Drew

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Two struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and try to find a way out of the city before they are found and killed by the mob. The only job that will pay their way is an all girl band so the two dress up as women. In addition to hiding, each has his own problems; One falls for another band member but can't tell her his gender, and the other has a rich suitor who will not take "No," for an answer.

Ben-Hur

Genres: Action / Adventure / Drama
Year: 1959
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Charlton Heston / Jack Hawkins / Haya Harareet / Stephen Boyd / Hugh Griffith / Martha Scott / Cathy O'Donnell / Sam Jaffe / Finlay Currie / Frank Thring / Terence Longdon / George Relph / André Morell

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Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views separate them.
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Sleeping Beauty

Genres: Animation / Family / Fantasy
Year: 1959
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Starring: Mary Costa / Bill Shirley / Eleanor Audley / Verna Felton / Barbara Luddy / Barbara Jo Allen / Taylor Holmes / Bill Thompson

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Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil witch Maleficent - who declares that before Aurora reaches her 16th birthday she will die by a poisoned spinning-wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into hiding, in the care of three goodnatured - but not too bright - fairies.
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The 400 Blows

Genres: Crime / Drama
Year: 1959
Director: François Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud / Claire Maurier / Albert Rémy / Guy Decomble / Georges Flamant / Patrick Auffay / Daniel Couturier / François Nocher / Richard Kanayan / Renaud Fontanarosa / Michel Girard / Serge Moati / Bernard Abbou / Jean-François Bergouignan / Michel Lesignor

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A young Parisian boy, Antoine Doinel, neglected by his derelict parents, skips school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries (disastrously) to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. Unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick.
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Rio Bravo

Genres: Western / Romance / Drama
Year: 1959
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne / Dean Martin / Ricky Nelson / Angie Dickinson / Walter Brennan / Ward Bond / John Russell / Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez / Estelita Rodriguez / Claude Akins / Malcolm Atterbury / Harry Carey Jr. / Sheb Wooley

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A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

Anatomy of a Murder

Genres: Mystery / Drama / Crime
Year: 1959
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: John Qualen / Ken Lynch / Brooks West / Murray Hamilton / Russ Brown / Orson Bean / George C. Scott / Kathryn Grant / Eve Arden / Arthur O'Connell / Ben Gazzara / Lee Remick / James Stewart / Howard McNear / Alexander Campbell

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Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband's story, the police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped.
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Plan 9 from Outer Space

Genres: Horror / Sci-Fi
Year: 1959
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Starring: Bela Lugosi / John Breckinridge / Duke Moore / Tom Keene / Vampira / Tor Johnson / Gregory Walcott / Dudley Manlove / Mona McKinnon / Joanna Lee / Lyle Talbot / Carl Anthony / Norma McCarty / David De Mering / Bill Ash

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"Can your heart stand the shocking facts about Graverobbers from Outer Space?" That's the question on the lips of the narrator of this tale about flying saucers, zombies and cardboard tombstones. A pair of aliens, angered by the "stupid minds" of planet Earth, set up shop in a California cemetery. Their plan: to animate an army of the dead to march on the capitals of the world.
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House on Haunted Hill

Genres: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Year: 1959
Director: William Castle
Starring: Vincent Price / Carol Ohmart / Richard Long / Alan Marshal / Carolyn Craig / Elisha Cook Jr. / Julie Mitchum / Leona Anderson / Howard Hoffman / Skeleton

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Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren and his 4th wife, Annabelle, have invited 5 people to the house on Haunted Hill for a "haunted House" party. Whoever will stay in the house for one night will earn ten thousand dollars each. As the night progresses, all the guests are trapped inside the house with ghosts, murderers, and other terrors.

Pickpocket

Genres: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Year: 1959
Director: Robert Bresson
Starring: Martin LaSalle / Marika Green / Jean Pélégri / Dolly Scal / Pierre Leymarie / Kassagi / Pierre Étaix / César Gattegno

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Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother dies, and he rejects the support of friends Jeanne and Jacques in favour of returning to pickpocketing (after taking lessons from an expert), because he realises that it's the only way he can express himself.
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Pillow Talk

Genres: Comedy / Romance
Year: 1959
Director: Michael Gordon
Starring: Rock Hudson / Doris Day / Tony Randall / Thelma Ritter / Nick Adams / Julia Meade / Allen Jenkins / Marcel Dalio / Lee Patrick / Mary McCarty / Alex Gerry / Hayden Rorke / Valerie Allen / Jacqueline Beer / Arlen Stuart

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Interior decorator Jan Morrow and composer Brad Allen share a phone line. Brad keeps the line occupied all day talking to his girlfriends, which annoys Jan terribly and animosity between them builds up. They however have never met and when by chance Brad sees Jan, he decides to add her to his list of conquests.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Genres: Adventure / Family / Fantasy
Year: 1959
Director: Henry Levin
Starring: Pat Boone / James Mason / Arlene Dahl / Diane Baker / Thayer David / Peter Ronson / Robert Adler / Alan Napier

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Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.

Imitation of Life

Genres: Drama / Romance
Year: 1959
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Lana Turner / John Gavin / Sandra Dee / Susan Kohner / Robert Alda / Dan O'Herlihy / Juanita Moore / Karin Dicker / Terry Burnham / John Vivyan / Lee Goodman / Ann Robinson / Troy Donahue / Sandra Gould / David Tomack

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Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame.
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Suddenly, Last Summer

Genres: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Year: 1959
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor / Katharine Hepburn / Montgomery Clift / Albert Dekker / Mercedes McCambridge / Gary Raymond / Mavis Villiers / Patricia Marmont / Joan Young / Maria Britneva / Sheila Robbins / David Cameron

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A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds, into lobotomizing her niece, Catherine Holly. Violet wants the operation performed in order to prevent Catherine from defiling the memory of her son, the poet Sebastian.
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On the Beach

Genres: Sci-Fi / Drama
Year: 1959
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Gregory Peck / Ava Gardner / Fred Astaire / Anthony Perkins / Donna Anderson / John Tate / Harp McGuire / Lola Brooks / Ken Wayne / Guy Doleman / Richard Meikle / John Meillon / Joe McCormick / Lou Vernon / Kevin Brennan

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In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him.
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Operation Petticoat

Genres: Comedy / Romance
Year: 1959
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Cary Grant / Tony Curtis / Joan O'Brien / Dina Merrill / Gene Evans / Dick Sargent / Virginia Gregg / Robert F. Simon / Robert Gist / Gavin MacLeod / George Dunn / Dick Crockett / Madlyn Rhue / Marion Ross / Clarence Lung

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A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group of Army nurses and must take them aboard. How bad can it get? Trying to get a primer coat on the sub, they have to mix white and red in order to have enough.
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The Diary of Anne Frank

Genres: Biography / Drama / History
Year: 1959
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Millie Perkins / Joseph Schildkraut / Shelley Winters / Richard Beymer / Gusti Huber / Lou Jacobi / Diane Baker / Douglas Spencer / Dodie Heath / Ed Wynn

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Based on Anne Frank's diary, and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland, Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding, because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms above their place of business, and arrange for the Franks and another family, the Van Daans, to stay there.
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Black Orpheus

Genres: Comedy / Drama / Music
Year: 1959
Director: Marcel Camus
Starring: Breno Mello / Marpessa Dawn / Marcel Camus / Fausto Guerzoni / Lourdes de Oliveira / Léa Garcia / Ademar Da Silva / Alexandro Constantino / Waldemar De Souza / Jorge Dos Santos / Aurino Cassiano / Maria Alice / Ana Amélia / Elizeth Cardoso / Arlete Costa

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In Rio, Orfeo is a trolley conductor and musician, engaged to Mira. During Carnival week, he sees Eurydice, who's fled her village in fear of a stalker; it's love at first sight. Her cousin Sarafina, with whom she stays in Rio, is a friend of Orfeo and Mira, so the star-crossed lovers meet again. Later, during the revels, wearing Sarafina's costume, Eurydice dances a provocative samba with Orfeo.
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The Mouse That Roared

Genres: Comedy / War
Year: 1959
Director: Jack Arnold
Starring: Peter Sellers / Jean Seberg / William Hartnell / David Kossoff / Leo McKern / MacDonald Parke / Austin Willis / Timothy Bateson / Monte Landis / Alan Gifford / Colin Gordon / Harold Kasket

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The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force to New York (armed with longbows) which arrives during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets. Wandering about to find someone to surrender to, they discover a scientist with a special ultimate weapon that can destroy the Earth.
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The Nun's Story

Genres: Drama
Year: 1959
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Audrey Hepburn / Peter Finch / Edith Evans / Peggy Ashcroft / Dean Jagger / Mildred Dunnock / Beatrice Straight / Patricia Collinge / Rosalie Crutchley / Ruth White / Barbara O'Neil / Margaret Phillips / Patricia Bosworth / Colleen Dewhurst / Stephen Murray

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This is a story of a nun who has to overcome a lot of obstacles. Her dad has hard times understanding her. She is a great student in the science of tropical medicine. At last, when she is assigned there, she comes to discover that she is working in the European instead of the native hospital. There she meets Dr.
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