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The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events. January 23 – Republic Pictures releases its last production, Plunderers of Painted Flats. [5] January 29 – Walt Disney releases his 16th animated film, Sleeping Beauty in Beverly Hills.
The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture, among winning a record-setting eleven Oscars.
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Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Meyer Levin, which in turn was a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial. It was the first film produced by Richard D. Zanuck .
- $1,345,000
- Richard D. Zanuck
1959 films. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1959 films. For convenience, all 1959 films should be included in this category. This includes all 1959 films that can also be found in the subcategories. Film portal. 1950s portal. 1954. 1955. 1956.
The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 American biographical drama film based on the Pulitzer Prize -winning 1955 play of the same name, which was in turn based on the posthumously published diary of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl who lived in hiding in Amsterdam with her family during World War II.
- $3.8 million
- Alfred Newman
- George Stevens
1. The 400 Blows (1959) Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama. 8.1. Rate. A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble. Votes: 127,852. Watch on Max. with Prime Video Channels. 2. Some Like It Hot (1959)
On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins. Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, [2] it is based on Nevil Shute 's 1957 novel On the Beach depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. [3]
