Best award winning movies with a good pace from 1959
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a good pace from 1959! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a good pace from 1959, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
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. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
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- 1959-01-07 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- James Stewart, Lee Remick
Rating
7.829
2 Ben-Hur (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 trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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- 1959-11-18 | History / Drama
Cast
- Charlton Heston, Haya Harareet
Rating
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7.885
3 Some Like It Hot (1959)
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 an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
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- 1959-03-19 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Rating
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8.099
4 North by Northwest (1959)
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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- 1959-07-08 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
Rating
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7.983
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5 The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
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.
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- 1959-03-18 | Drama / History
Cast
- Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut
Rating
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7.222
6 The Bridge (1959)
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.
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- 1959-10-21 | Drama / History
Cast
- Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper
Rating
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7.5
7 On the Beach (1959)
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
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- 1959-12-16 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner
Rating
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6.6
8 Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
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- 1959-12-15 | Adventure / Fantasy
Cast
- Pat Boone, James Mason
Rating
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7.0
9 Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
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 insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
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- 1959-12-22 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn
Rating
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7.3
10 Rio Bravo (1959)
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 brother of the local bad guy.
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- 1959-03-18 | Western
Cast
- John Wayne, Dean Martin
Rating
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7.824
