Oscar Nominated Movies from 1959

A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

An aspiring journalist's story of his aged uncle doctor leads to the uncle's life being profiled on TV.

An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.

A promising lawyer tries to handle his social and professional problems while climbing the ranks in Philadelphia.

An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

Exploring the life of Peter, from being a successful fisherman to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ and being dependent on Jesus Christ.

Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun.

A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly - if only everyone else would allow them to.

More than anything in the world, Sam Lawson wants to be a successful actor. Is he willing to sacrifice his wife, happiness and personal reputation to achieve his goal?

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

TV writer Elliott Nash buries something under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let it rest there.

An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.

A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.

After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

Widower Tony is trying to keep a small Miami hotel afloat while raising a 12-year-old son. He's forced to ask his harried brother Mario for help, but he'll only bail Tony out if he quits his bohemian lifestyle and marries a sensible woman.

Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.