1959 Movies

Television play adaptation of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy Saul (1782).

Training film for the Canadian Department of National Defence.

An array of brave 1950s water skiing girls and guys bring a bit of Hollywood glamour to the chilly waters of Loch Earn.

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...

A man and his sister-in-law are suspects in a murder; they do not know that the man's wife is involved.

A drowned body with strangulation marks was found by a large river, while a man stained in vermilion collapsed at the “Hisago” liquor store. A dropped...

Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzer...

Scotland Yard detectives pursue the murderers of a Hungarian girl found dead on an amusement park ride. Their inquiries lead them to a rooming house f...

A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the r...

The unscrupulous Klaus Petzold has developed a very special business model: with his company, which outwardly presents itself as a normal detective ag...

Pedro and Julian, two friends entomologists are in love the same woman, Adela, who decides to marry Peter. Julian attends the marriage, but acts again...

Story depicting the national liberation struggle of the Albanian people against the Italian and German invaders during World War II.

In 1940 Osaka, a celebrated shamisen performer lives fast as war and shifting tastes erode his fame. The daughter of a restaurant owner quietly loves...

A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear...

A look at the business of beauty.

Puppet film-fairy tale in an entertaining form teaches viewers to ski correctly, to overcome steep hills.

Two girls, a virtuous one and a hussy, fight for a young man in the vineyards of the south of France.

In 1959 the United Nations commissioned Lye to make this one-minute film, “Fountain of Hope,” to publicize United Nations Day (24th October). The fil...