List of French films of 1959 explained

A list of films produced in France in 1959.

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
125 Rue Montmartre		Lino Ventura, Andréa Parisy, Dora Doll	Crime
The 400 Blows			Drama	^[1]
All the Boys Are Called Patrick			Drama (short)
Archimède le clochard			Comedy	French-Italian co-production^[2]
Beast at Bay			Thriller
The Big Chief			Comedy	Co-production with Italy
Black Orpheus	Marcel Camus	Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Léa Garcia	Fantasy, romance	French-Italian-Brazilian co-production^[3] ^[4]
Come Dance with Me			Mystery	French-Italian co-production^[5]
Les Cousins			Drama	^[6]
The Cow and I			Comedy-Drama	French-Italian co-production^[7]
Double Agents			Thriller	French-Italian co-production
Du rififi chez les femmes			Crime	French-Italian co-production^[8]
The Female			Drama	French-Italian production^[9]
La Fievre Monte a El Pao			Drama	French-Mexican production^[10]
The Gendarme of Champignol			Comedy	^[11]
General Della Rovere	Roberto Rossellini	Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli	Drama	Italian-French co-production^[12]
The Giant of Marathon			Action adventure	Co-produced with Italy ^[13]
The Green Mare			Comedy, drama, history	Co-production with Italy
Head of a Tyrant	Fernando Cerchio	Massimo Girotti, Isabelle Corey	Historical	Co-production with Italy
Hercules Unchained	Pietro Francisci	Steve Reeves, Sylvia Lopez, Sylva Koscina	Adventure, fantasy	Italian-French co-production^[14] ^[15]
Hiroshima Mon Amour			Drama	French-Japanese co-production^[16]
Hit and Run			Crime	French-Italian-Yugoslav co-production
Houla Houla			Comedy
The Indestructible			Comedy
The Indian Tomb	Fritz Lang	Debra Paget, Paul Christian, Paul Hubschmid	Adventure	West German-French-Italian co-production^[17] ^[18] ^[19]
I Spit on Your Grave			Crime
It Only Happens to the Living			Drama mystery thriller
Julie the Redhead	Claude Boissol		Comedy	^[20]
Les Liaisons Dangereuses			Drama	French-Italian co-production^[21]
The Lovers of Tomorrow			Drama musical mystery
Magnificent Sinner			Drama, Historical, Romance
Marie-Octobre			Mystery
Nathalie, Secret Agent			Comedy	Co-production with Italy
The Night of the Hunted			Crime	Co-production with Belgium
Nina			Comedy
Toi, le venin			Mystery	Co-production with Italy
Pensione Edelweiss			Drama thriller	Co-production with Italy
Picnic on the Grass			Comedy Romance	^[22]
Pickpocket			Drama	^[23]
Quay of Illusions			Drama	Co-production with Italy
The Road to Shame			Crime
Signé Arsène Lupin			Comedy crime	Co-production with Italy
The Sign of Leo			Comedy-drama	^[24]
Stars at Noon			Adventure	Entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival
The Tiger Attacks			Crime
The Tiger of Eschnapur	Fritz Lang	Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Claus Holm	Adventure	West German-French-Italian co-production^[25] ^[26] ^[27]
This Desired Body			Drama
Too Late to Love			Drama
Twelve Hours by the Clock			Crime	Co-production with West Germany
Venetian Honeymoon	Alberto Cavalcanti		Romantic comedy	Co-production with Italy
The Verdict			Drama	Entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival
Visa to Hell			Crime
Way of Youth			Drama	^[28]
Witness in the City			Crime	Co-production with Italy
Women Are Weak			Comedy Romance	^[29]

See also

• 1959 in France
• 1959 in French television

External links

• French films of 1959 at the Internet Movie Database
• French films of 1959 at Cinema-francais.fr

Notes and References

1. Web site: The 400 Blows. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Erickson, Hal. Hal Erickson (author).
2. Web site: Archimède le clochard. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Pavlides, Dan.
3. Web site: Black Orpheus. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Erickson, Hal.
4. Web site: Orfeu Negro . Bifi.fr . February 18, 2013 . fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202095630/http://cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=47215 . February 2, 2014 .
5. Web site: Come Dance with Me!. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Mannikka, Eleanor.
6. Web site: Les Cousins. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Hobart, Tana.
7. Web site: The Cow and I. AllMovie. August 2, 2015. Erickson, Hal.
8. Web site: Du rififi chez les femmes. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Erelewine, Iotis.
9. News: The Female. The New York Times. August 2, 2015. Archer, Eugene. 1960-04-28.
10. Web site: La Fievre monte a El Pao femmes. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Erickson, Hal.
11. Web site: Le Gendarme de Champignol (1959) .
12. Web site: Il General della Rovere. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Mannikka, Eleanor.
13. Web site: La battaglia di Maratona (1960) - JPBox-Office.
14. Web site: Hercules Unchained. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Eder, Bruce.
15. Web site: Ercole e la regina di Lidia. BFI Film & Television Database. British Film Institute. February 18, 2013. London. https://web.archive.org/web/20140204001406/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/32408. February 4, 2014. dead.
16. Web site: Hiroshima Mon Amour. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Erickson, Hal.
17. Web site: The Indian Tomb. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Mannikka, Eleanor.
18. Web site: Das indische Grabmal. https://web.archive.org/web/20090207002200/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37543. dead. February 7, 2009. BFI Film & Television Database. British Film Institute. February 18, 2013. London.
19. Web site: Das indische Grabmal. Filmportal.de. February 18, 2013.
20. Web site: Julie la Rousse (1959) .
21. Web site: Les liaisons dangereuses. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Erickson, Hal.
22. Web site: Picnic on the Grass. AllMovie. August 2, 2015. Grunes, Dennis. 2008-08-20.
23. Web site: Pickpocket. The Ascetica Theme. WordPress. February 18, 2013. Erickson, Hal.
24. Web site: Le Signe du Lion. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Mannikka, Eleanor.
25. Web site: The Tiger of Eschnapur. AllMovie. February 18, 2013. Mannikka, Eleanor.
26. Web site: Der Tiger von Eschnapur. https://web.archive.org/web/20090207002216/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54463. dead. February 7, 2009. BFI Film & Television Database. British Film Institute. February 18, 2013. London.
27. Web site: Der Tiger von Eschnapur. Filmportal.de. February 18, 2013.
28. Web site: Way of Youth. UniFrance Films. August 2, 2015.
29. News: Women Are Weak. The New York Times. August 2, 2015. Crowther, Bosley. 1959-06-09.