Films set in 1959

1989 film directed by Peter Weir

1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola

1960 film directed by Billy Wilder

2000 film directed by Lasse Hallström

1999 film by Anthony Minghella

2019 film by James Mangold

1978 film directed by Randal Kleiser

2009 film directed by Alex Proyas

Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, in 1959. Stand by Me stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell as four boys who set out on a journey to find the dead body of a missing boy. The film's title is derived from the 1961 song of the same name by Ben E. King, which plays during the film's closing credits.

1964 film by Jacques Demy

1983 film by Philip Kaufman

1993 film by Michael Caton-Jones

2012 film directed by Sacha Gervasi

1994 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

1973 American crime film directed by Terrence Malick

2013 American independent comedy anthology film

2007 film by Todd Haynes

2014 computer-animated comedy film by Peter Lepeniotis

2023 film by Sofia Coppola

Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 independent animated musical comedy film produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios Ireland Limited and Goldcrest Films. Loosely based on Edmond Rostand's 1910 comedy play Chantecler, Rock-a-Doodle was directed by Don Bluth and written by David N. Weiss. The film features the voices of Christopher Plummer, Phil Harris (in his final film role), Glen Campbell, Sorrell Booke, Sandy Duncan, Eddie Deezen, Ellen Greene, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Toby Scott Ganger (in his film debut).

Suburbicon is a 2017 American black comedy crime film directed by George Clooney and co-written by the Coen brothers, Clooney, and Grant Heslov. It stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, and Oscar Isaac, and follows a mild-mannered father in 1959 who must face his demons after a home invasion, all while a black family moves into the all-white neighborhood. The black family storyline is loosely based on a 1957 incident in Levittown, Pennsylvania, in which a black family moved into the previously all-white neighborhood, leading to racism and violence against the family.

1967 film by Richard Brooks

2018 film by Drew Goddard

2006 film by Douglas McGrath

2005 film by Susan Stroman

2014 film by Clint Eastwood

1982 film directed by Barry Levinson

1959 film by Blake Edwards

Hollywoodland is a 2006 American mystery drama film directed by Allen Coulter and written by Paul Bernbaum. The story presents a fictionalized account of the circumstances surrounding the death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), the star of the 1950s film Superman and the Mole Men and the television series Adventures of Superman. Adrien Brody stars as a fictional character, Louis Simo, a private detective investigating Toni Mannix (Diane Lane); who was involved in a long romantic relationship with Reeves and was the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix (Bob Hoskins). Reeves had ended t

2010 animated film about a French magician directed by Sylvain Chomet

1985 Swedish film directed by Lasse Hallström

2010 film directed by Ben Stassen

1987 film directed by Luis Valdez

1997 film by Pat O'Connor

1976 film by Brian De Palma

1986 film directed by Fred Dekker

1994 American film directed by Jessie Nelson

2012 film by Régis Roinsard

2013 film by Renny Harlin

1959 film by Roger Vadim

1983 film by Koreyoshi Kurahara

1992 film directed by Edward James Olmos

2016 Hindi film directed by Tinu Suresh Desai

1987 French film directed by Jean-Loup Hubert

2007 film by Florent Emilio Siri

2008 animated superhero film by Dave Bullock

1992 film by John Mackenzie

1985 film by Donna Deitch

1960 film by Wolfgang Staudte

2018 film by Bruce Beresford

2013 film by Nae Caranfil

2016 live production of the 1971 musical of the same name

1960 film by Carlos Saura

1976 French film directed by Michel Lang

1991 film by Simon Moore

1993 film directed by Jan Hřebejk

1983 French drama film directed by Pascal Kané

2017 film directed by Jesse V. Johnson

1959 cartoon animated short film directed by Robert McKimson

2007 film