1959 Movies

A boy lives obsessed with having a crab as a pet, but frees him to take care of his survival

“Apolline” is an adaptation of a short story by Franz Hellens from the collection Les saisons de Pontoise, published in 1956 by Albin Michel. The stor...

Set on the Argentine coast in 1870, a man pretends to be an outlaw to catch an army deserter.

Sonic boom is the sound of security.

Directed by Abdel-Jabar Wali.

A feature-length travelogue from Cameroon.

An adaptation of the Diego Fabbri play.

A refugee starts a business in Germany.

The grandfather's guitar starts to play by itself in response to the beautiful heart of the flower vendor's daughter. The guitar is broken by the peop...

A unique chronicle of Salvador Dali’s constructivist outrageousness. As you know, during this period, Dali began, as the newspapers wrote, “shaking th...

short experimental animation from Spain

Jim MacAndrew's interview with director René Clair was televised live in November 1959. With the cooperation of the New York State Education Departmen...

A postman has to deliver a letter addressed to the “best boy”. He goes door to door, looking for this boy, but finds that children everywhere are naug...

Pramila lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her widower dad, Raosaheb Jadhav, and is a strong believer in women's liberation. After a heated debate,...

A short film displaying Joan Miller's plaid-heavy fashions for young women.

A document of an early encounter between native New Guineans and Western anthropologists, the film was shot, edited, and used in lectures by Prof. Leo...