1959 Movies

Short film about the making of "El candidato".

Director: Giuseppe Maria Scotese Starring: Amador Bendayan, Susana Duijm, Nyta Dover

Cusco film school.

A sociohistorical drama about the construction of the Simplon-tunnel: A conflict develops when German workers want to strike and fight for better work...

A veteran officer and a young detective investigate a late-night taxi-driver killing; tracing an illegally held pistol leads them through a chain of o...

A very respectable married couple, dentist Rudolf Thomsen and Helene, his sweet and quiet wife. He is deeply absorbed in his dental work and expects t...

A fortune-teller tells Ng Sze-tak that his days are numbered. His friend Chu Tai-fat is told that he will soon win a lottery. Soon, Chu's prediction c...

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when h...

The second film by Cecilia Mangini is based on the words of neo-realist writer Vasco Pratolini. It alternates between documentary and the reconstructi...

Chinese opera

One day, while Nadia is returning by car at night, she hits a woman with her car and she is killed, which causes her to suffer a nervous shock. After...

A litter basket muses on the failure of people to feed it at a busy mainline railway station.

The miner Dařbuján has a lot of children that he cannot support and another one has just been born. He needs to find a godfather and three are offered...

A virtuous young man employed at a king's court is delegated to carry out an important task. However, he faces a series of obstacles as he works towar...

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his former lov...

A ghost is hired by a real-estate agent on the behalf of a Scots-client to haunt the tight-wad's mansion while he is away so he won't have to pay for...

Thomas is a good but low intelligence man. He is in love with Urania, a widow, whose stingy husband Sotiris is over a year dead, as the ship he was sa...