All Films

Zattō ni hikarume

1959 • 51 min • Japan

1959 Japanese movie

Triple Crossed

1959 • 16 min • United States of America

Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Joe's fiancée. When Moe's become suspicious, Larry attempts to frame Joe as the boyfriend. Larry's plan backfires when Joe catches him and lets Moe deliver some punishment.

おヤエの家つき女中

1959 • 58 min • Japan

Keep in Step

1959 • 60 min • United States of America

An hour of music and comedy sketches hosted by Phil Silvers. Sponsored by Pontiac automobiles.

Age of Nudity

1959 • 54 min • Japan

The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.

Night and Fog

1959 • 32 min • France

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

Merciless Bullet

1959 • 57 min • Japan

Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sawamura clan (Kaneko), who is with his mistress, impassively pulls the trigger of a pistol with a silencer. Kenji was hired by Sawamura's advisor, Matsumoto (Ashida). It was a cunning plan: eliminate Sawamura, sell the smuggling rights to the Hamasaki clan and make a profit. And for Kenji, the motive did not matter, as long as he was paid, his job was to kill opponents without a miss.…

Tomorrow's Sun

1959 • 7 min • Japan

Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time.

Kikenna onna

1959 • 55 min • Japan

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Unnatural History

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

Are animals human? Or vice versa? This is the question asked by a professor, Dr. Beest Lee, who appears on a stage in a theater to give a lecture and show a film about the human-like qualities of various cartoon animals, among them a beaver who "damns" a troublesome river, a groundhog who uses technology to predict the coming of spring, and a dog who scolds his neglectful master.

Log Jammed

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker gets into a mêlée with a lumberjack in the north woods. When the woodchopper chops down Woody's tree.

Brutal battle

1959 • 60 min • Japan

The president of the Hong Kong Almond Cola company, Liu's grandfather, signed a purchase and sale agreement with Showa Nakajima from Japan, and shortly before leaving for Japan, someone attacked him. Before he died, before he lost consciousness, he transferred all the rights to the company to his close confidant Murota and told him to transfer them to his daughter, whom he left in Japan 20 years ago. Murota, who inherited Liu's will, went to Japan. However, the gang of James Howe, the head of the Hong Kong trading world, was waiting for him, seeking to obtain the rights to Almond Cola…

Robinson Gruesome

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

Robinson Gruesome, marooned on a tropical island, has had nothing to eat but bananas for 28 years. Then Chilly Willy gets marooned with him.

Bread

1959 • 59 min • Portugal

Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's recolt, transport to the mills – traditional or industrial ones – manipulation of the flour into actual bread, transport to a variety of locations and consumers. And then, after the consumption, the cycle restarts.

Piko

1959 • 39 min • Yugoslavia

A small, neglected boy protests against his busy parents by rambling across the city alone.

Why UNESCO?

1959 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia

The cartoon film sets out to justify the existence of UNESCO as an instrument for world peace.

Witty Kitty

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

Two alley cats craving food decide to pull "the old raffle game". They enlist Doc to enter their raffle drawing (one) name out of a fish bowl. Being the only contestant, he naturally wins and is told his prize is a roast turkey and is given the whereabouts of the prize. Unfortunately, the turkey is in a refrigerator guarded by watchdog Cecil. Doc invents a number of ways to get past Cecil (sawing a hole around the fridge from the basement, feeding Cecil knockout drops, trying to catapult the fridge out of the kitchen), finally putting roller skates on Cecil enabling him to make off with the turkey. But he hasn't quite won yet...

Kiddie League

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

The final (and championship) baseball game of the Kiddie League pits pitcher Woody Woodpecker and his team (the Woody Woodpeckers) against a zany team, the Bubble Gummers. The game begins with the Bubble Gummers at bat and Woody pitching. A little tyke wearing diapers is first up. Before batting, he gulps down a bottle of milk for strength. The first ball is called a strike....

My Milkman, Joe

1958 • 21 min • United States of America

Educational short film featuring a milkman and his puppet

Nagarjunakonda

1958 • 16 min • India

The film takes us to through the silent stone relics of Nagarjunakonda, ancient secluded centre of art, learning and research founded 2000 years ago on the banks of the river Krishna in Andhra Pradesh.

A Dog's Life with Me

1958 • 15 min • Norway

A Dog's Life is about Passopp, a troubadour and storyteller with a sense of the ridiculous, and his beloved Bella, who is both clever and sensible. Having spent all his money at the fun fair, Bella steers him in a different direction and he takes a job as a carpenter in the village of the dogs.

Musée Grévin

1958 • 21 min • France

A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.

A Wedding of Jays

1958 • 25 min • Soviet Union

To revenge brave jay Zakara, evil crown Kvanchala teams with a fox and kidnaps Zakara's bride Ketevan from the wedding. Kvanchala's cruel plan fails as Zakara's friends help him to rescue Ketevan and the fiesta continues.

Teenagers Battle the Thing

1958 • 58 min • United States of America

Archaeology students uncover a prehistoric manster… part man, part monster, and all bad attitude with a cheap costume. This film was completed in 1960 but the only theatrical release it received was in the director's hometown. The movie remained unreleased until 1975 when the director used the footage in Curse of Bigfoot.