Most Viewed Year 1959

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of...

Genre: History

Cast: Charlton Heston

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Mary Costa

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Curtis

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Cary Grant

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: James Mason

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Millie Perkins

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the...

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the...

Genre: History

Cast: Yul Brynner

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her....

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Stewart

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes...

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Audrey Hepburn

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire...

Genre: Western

Cast: Richard Widmark

A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Albert Sharpe

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Doris Day

Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Vincent Price

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Peter Cushing

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Bouquet

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Robert Taylor

Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Conrad

Deadline is a 1959-1961 American television drama series that re-enacted famous newspaper stories from the past. Hosted and narrated by Paul Stewart,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Stewart

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

Genre: Western

Cast: Lorne Greene

Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ross Martin

Clutch Cargo is an animated television series produced by Cambria Productions and syndicated beginning on March 9, 1959. Notable for its very limited...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Richard Cotting

Genre: Talk

Cast: Denise Glaser

A variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying...

Genre: Animation

Cast: William Conrad

The annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio to determine the country's...

Genre: Reality

Cast: Edvin Törnblom

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Cast: Rod Serling

Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John...

Genre: Western

Cast: Robert Fuller

Philip Marlowe is a 1959-1960 half-hour ABC crime series, featuring Philip Carey as Marlowe, the fictional detective originally created by Raymond...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Philip Carey

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Stack

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry...

Genre: Western

Cast: Henry Fonda

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Newland

The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Art Fleming

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

Genre: Western

Cast: Clint Eastwood

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dwayne Hickman

Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast:

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Johnny Briggs