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1959 romantic drama films
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The list 1959 romantic drama films includes
Imitation of Life, A Summer Place, Solomon and Sheba, Der Tiger von Eschnapur and That Kind of Woman.
The list consists of 29 members.
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Imitation of Life
1959 film directed by Douglas Sirk
Overview: Imitation of Life (1959) is an American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal International. It was Sirk's final Hollywood film and dealt with issues of ...
Release date: 17 April 1959Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Douglas SirkProducer: Ross HunterWriter: Eleanore Griffin, Allan ScottAn aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
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A Summer Place
1959 film by Delmer Daves
Overview: A Summer Place is a 1959 American romantic drama film based on Sloan Wilson's 1958 novel of the same name, about teenage lovers from different classes who get back together 20 years later, and then must ...
Release date: 22 October 1959Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Delmer DavesProducer: Delmer DavesWriter: Sloan Wilson, Delmer DavesA self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences ... 0
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Solomon and Sheba
1959 film
Overview: Solomon and Sheba is a 1959 American epic historical romance film directed by King Vidor, shot in Technirama (color by Technicolor), and distributed by United Artists. The film dramatizes events described ...
Release date: 24 November 1959Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: King VidorProducer: Tyrone Power, Ted RichmondWriter: Crane Wilbur, Anthony VeillerAfter becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming ... 0
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Der Tiger von Eschnapur
1959 film by Fritz Lang
Overview: The Tiger of Eschnapur (German: Der Tiger von Eschnapur) is a 1959 West German-French-Italian adventure film directed by Fritz Lang. It is the first of two films comprising what has come to be known as ...
Release date: 22 January 1959Genre: Romance, Adventure, Drama, ThrillerDirector: Fritz LangProducer: Artur BraunerWriter: Werner Jörg Lüddecke, Thea von HarbouAn architect travels to the remote city of Eschnapur to oversee some work being done at the bequest of the local Maharajah... 0
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That Kind of Woman
1959 film by Sidney Lumet
Overview: That Kind of Woman is a 1959 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, who was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. It stars Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter. The ...Release date: 1 June 1959Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, WarDirector: Sidney LumetProducer: Marcello Girosi, Carlo PontiWriter: Robert Lowry, Walter BernsteinIn 1944, Kay and Jane travel on an overnight train from Miami to New York, accompanied by Harry. Kay is the mistress of "The Man"... 0
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Dangerous Liaisons
1959 French film
Overview: Les liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a 1959 French drama romance film loosely based on the 1782 novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, set in present-day France.Release date: 9 September 1959Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Roger VadimCast: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Stroyberg, Madeleine Lambert, Jeanne Valérie, Nicolas VogelWriter: Roger VadimJuliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both... 0
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The Indian Tomb
1959 film
Overview: The Indian Tomb (German: Das indische Grabmal) is a 1959 adventure film, co-written and directed by Fritz Lang. Produced by Artur Brauner, it is an international co-production of West Germany, France and ...Release date: 5 March 1959Genre: AdventureDirector: Fritz LangProducer: Artur BraunerWriter: Werner Jörg Lüddecke, Thea von HarbouHarald Berger and his Indian lover, the temple dancer Seetha, desperately flee from the shikaris (cavalry) of Eschanapur's maharajah Chandra... 0
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959 film by Alain Resnais
Overview: Hiroshima mon amour (lit. Hiroshima, My Love, Japanese: 二十四時間の情事, Nijūyojikan no jōji, 'Twenty-four hour love affair'), is a 1959 romantic drama film directed by French director Alain Resnais and written ...
Release date: 10 June 1959Genre: Drama, War, RomanceDirector: Alain ResnaisProducer: Anatole Dauman, Samy HalfonWriter: Marguerite DurasA French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war ... 0
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Ballad of a Soldier
1959 film
Overview: Ballad of a Soldier (Russian: Баллада о солдате, Ballada o soldate), is a 1959 Soviet war romance film directed by Grigory Chukhray and starring Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko. While set during ...
Release date: 1 December 1959Genre: Drama, War, RomanceDirector: Grigoriy ChukhrayCast: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Yevgeni Urbansky, Elza LezhdeyProducer: M. ChernovaWriter: Grigoriy Chukhray, Valentin Ezhov 0
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Hicran yarasi
1959 Turkish film
Overview: The Wound of Separation (Turkish: Hicran Yarası) is a 1959 Turkish romantic drama film directed by Metin Erksan. It stars Sadri Alisik, Mualla Kaynak, and Nese Yulaç. 0
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Woman Obsessed
1959 film by Henry Hathaway
Overview: Woman Obsessed is a 1959 American romantic drama film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols, Dennis Holmes, Theodore Bikel, Ken Scott, James Philbrook, and ...
Release date: 27 May 1959Genre: Romance, Drama, AdventureDirector: Henry HathawayProducer: Sydney BoehmWriter: Sydney Boehm, John MantleyOn a farm in the Canadian North-West, a young widow becomes the source of a jealous rivalry between her little son and her new husband. 0
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Verboten!
1959 film by Samuel Fuller
Overview: Verboten! is a 1959 American romantic war drama film written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller and starring James Best, Susan Cummings, Tom Pittman, and Harold Daye. It was the last film of the ...
Release date: 13 March 1959Genre: War, Thriller, Drama, RomanceDirector: Samuel FullerProducer: Samuel FullerWriter: Samuel FullerA young American serviceman, stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his... 0
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The Best of Everything
1959 film by Jean Negulesco
Overview: The Best of Everything is a 1959 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco from a screenplay by Edith Sommer and Mann Rubin, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. It stars Hope ...Release date: 9 October 1959Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Jean NegulescoProducer: Jerry WaldWriter: Edith R. Sommer, Mann RubinAn expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups. 0
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Middle of the Night
1959 film
Overview: Middle of the Night is a 1959 American drama film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Kim Novak and Fredric March. This story of a May-December romance was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from his own 1954 ...
Release date: 20 May 1959Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Delbert MannProducer: George JustinWriter: Paddy ChayefskyA widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser. 0
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Green Mansions
1959 American film
Overview: Green Mansions is a 1959 American adventure-romance film directed by Mel Ferrer. It is based upon the 1904 novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson. The film starred Audrey Hepburn (who at the time ...
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, ActionDirector: Mel FerrerProducer: Edmund GraingerWriter: Dorothy Kingsley, William Henry HudsonA young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her. 0
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Count Your Blessings
1959 film by Jean Negulesco
Overview: Count Your Blessings is a 1959 American romantic comedy drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Jean Negulesco, written and produced by Karl Tunberg, based on the 1951 novel The ...Release date: 23 April 1959Genre: Drama, ComedyDirector: Jean NegulescoProducer: Nancy Mitford, Karl TunbergGrace hastily marries a French aristocrat during WWII, but is separated by circumstance from him for almost nine years... 0
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Come Dance with Me!
1959 film
Overview: Come Dance with Me! (French: Voulez-vous danser avec moi ?), released in Italy as Sexy Girl, is a 1959 French-Italian drama film directed by Michel Boisrond and starring Brigitte Bardot. The film is based ...Release date: 22 December 1959Genre: Crime, Drama, MysteryDirector: Michel BoisrondProducer: Francis CosneWriter: Kelley Roos, Gerard OuryHandsome dentist Herve Dandieu, temporarily separated from his new, delectable wife Virginie by a lovers' tiff... 0
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Belye nochi
1959 film
Overview: White Nights (Russian: Белые ночи, Belye nochi) is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Ivan Pyryev. 0
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Il padrone delle ferriere
1959 Italian-Spanish historical melodrama film
Overview: Il padrone delle ferriere (Spanish: Felipe Derblay, lit. The Master of the Ironworks) is a 1959 Italian-Spanish historical melodrama film written and directed by Anton Giulio Majano. It is based on the ...Release date: 11 March 1959Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Anton Giulio MajanoProducer: Anton Giulio Majano, Georges Ohnet 0
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The Soldiers of Pancho Villa
1959 Mexican film
Overview: The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (Spanish: La Cucaracha) is a 1959 Mexican epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Ismael Rodríguez, inspired by the popular Mexican Revolution corrido ...Release date: 12 November 1959Genre: Drama, War, RomanceDirector: Ismael RodríguezCast: María Félix, Dolores del Rio, Emilio Fernández, Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Ignacio López TarsoProducer: José Bolaños, José Luis de Celis 0
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