25 Greatest Films of 1959

These feature films are ranked according to their direction, story/script, cinematography, acting, music, editing, creativity, and originality, along with its general success and impact/influence in the film industry. While prolonged success is important, this list emphasizes the success during the noted period more strongly.

C* : Critics votes, V* : Viewers votes. The release dates for each movie may depend upon country. Only registred users are allowed to vote. Every 5 votes caste, makes the entity go up one in the list.

C*	V*	Title	Genre	Director (d) / Writer (w)	Cast	Year
4	4	Anatomy of a Murder	Crime Drama Mystery Thriller	Otto Preminger (d) Wendell Mayes (w)	James Stewart Lee Remick Ben Gazzara	1959
15	15	Ballad of a Soldier	Drama Romance Foreign	Grigori Tchoukhrai.. (d)	Vladimir Ivashov Zhanna Prokhorenko.. Antonina Maksimova..	1959
7	7	Ben-Hur	Adventure Drama Action History	William Wyler (d) Lew Wallace (w) Karl Tunberg (w)	Charlton Heston Jack Hawkins Haya Harareet	1959
12	12	Black Orpheus	Fantasy Drama Science Fiction Music Romance Foreign	Marcel Camus (d)		1959
22	22	Compulsion	Drama	Richard Fleischer (d) Richard Murphy (w)	Orson Welles Dean Stockwell	1959
24	24	Darby O'Gill and the Little People	Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Family	Robert Stevenson (d)	Sean Connery Albert Sharpe Janet Munro	1959
11	11	Fires on the Plain	Drama Foreign War	Kon Ichikawa (d)	Eiji Funakoshi Osamu Takizawa Mickey Curtis	1959
6	6	Floating Weeds	Drama Foreign Indie	Yasujirô Ozu (d) Kôgo Noda (w) Yasujirô Ozu (w)	Ganjiro Nakamura Machiko Kyô Ayako Wakao	1959
8	8	Hiroshima mon amour	Drama History	Alain Resnais (d) Marguerite Duras (w)	Emmanuelle Riva Eiji Okada Stella Dassas	1959
20	20	I'm All Right Jack	Comedy Foreign	John Boulting (d) Frank Harvey (w) John Boulting (w)	Peter Sellers Ian Carmichael Terry-Thomas	1960
14	14	Imitation of Life	Drama Romance	Douglas Sirk (d) Eleanore Griffin (w) Allan Scott (w)	Lana Turner Juanita Moore John Gavin	1959
3	3	North by Northwest	Action Adventure Drama Mystery Suspense Thriller	Alfred Hitchcock (d)	Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason	1959
18	18	Pickpocket	Crime Drama Foreign Indie	Robert Bresson (d) Robert Bresson (w)	Martin LaSalle Marika Green Jean Pélégri	1959
13	13	Pillow Talk	Comedy Romance	Michael Gordon (d)	Rock Hudson Doris Day Tony Randall	1959
9	9	Rio Bravo	Action Drama Western	Howard Hawks (d) Jules Furthman (w) Leigh Brackett (w)	John Wayne Dean Martin Ricky Nelson	1959
10	10	Room at the Top	Drama Foreign	Jack Clayton (d)	Simone Signoret Laurence Harvey Heather Sears	1959
19	19	Shadows	Drama Indie	John Cassavetes (d)	Ben Carruthers Lelia Goldoni Hugh Hurd	1959
2	2	Some Like It Hot	Comedy Crime Musical Romance	Billy Wilder (d)	Marilyn Monroe Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon	1959
21	21	Suddenly, Last Summer	Drama Action Thriller Mystery	Joseph L. Mankiewi.. (d) Gore Vidal (w)	Elizabeth Taylor Katharine Hepburn Montgomery Clift	1959
1	1	The 400 Blows	Drama Foreign Indie	François Truffaut.. (d)	Jean-Pierre Léaud.. Claire Maurier Albert Rémy	1959
16	16	The Cousins	Drama Foreign	Claude Chabrol (d) Claude Chabrol (w)	Gérard Blain Jean-Claude Brialy.. Juliette Mayniel	1959
23	23	The Diary of Anne Frank	Comedy Drama History Romance	George Stevens (d) Albert Hackett (w) Frances Goodrich (w)	Millie Perkins Joseph Schildkraut.. Shelley Winters	1959
25	25	The Mouse That Roared	Comedy Foreign History	Jack Arnold (d) Roger MacDougall (w) Stanley Mann (w)	William Hartnell David Kossoff Jean Seberg	1959
17	17	The Nun's Story	Drama	Fred Zinnemann (d) Kathryn Hulme (w) Robert Anderson (w)	Audrey Hepburn Peter Finch Peggy Ashcroft	1959
5	5	অপুর সংসার	Drama Foreign Indie	Satyajit Ray (d) Satyajit Ray (w)	Soumitra Chatterje.. Sharmila Tagore Alok Chakravarty	1959

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