1959

Violent Summer 1959 Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man ...

Jirocho Fuji 1959 An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, ...

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) ...

An honest man dreams of a better life for his family, but a childhood friend leads him into a world of crime that keeps happiness just out of reach.

Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great ...

As a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

A Japanese pacifist and socialist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise ...

In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.

Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy ...

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago had been the scene of some ...

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 ...

In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to ...

This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open ...

Japanese war drama.

3 friends want to become warriors. Ramli, Aziz and Sudin wanted to learn Silat from an expert, Pendekar Mustar. Mustar’s daughter, Ros the ...

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul’s flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a ...

Back in 1959, air hostess was considered one of the most glamorous and privileged occupations for young girls with a dream. This first colour ...

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