# List of British films of 1959

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1959 (see 1959 in film):

## 1959

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1959 |||||||
| The 39 Steps | Ralph Thomas | Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Barry Jones | Thriller | Remake of the 1935 film |
| Alive and Kicking | Cyril Frankel | Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Stanley Holloway | Comedy | |
| The Bandit of Zhobe | John Gilling | Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley | Adventure | |
| The Battle of the Sexes | Charles Crichton | Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings | Comedy | |
| Behemoth, the Sea Monster | Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox | Gene Evans, André Morell, Jack MacGowran | Sci-fi | |
| Blind Date | Joseph Losey | Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle | Crime | |
| Bobbikins | Robert Day | Shirley Jones, Max Bygraves, Billie Whitelaw | Comedy | |
| The Boy and the Bridge | Kevin McClory | Ian Maclaine, Liam Redmond | Drama | |
| Breakout | Peter Graham Scott | Lee Patterson, Hazel Court | Drama | |
| The Bridal Path | Frank Launder | Bill Travers, George Cole | Comedy | |
| The Captain's Table | Jack Lee | John Gregson, Peggy Cummins | Comedy | |
| Carlton-Browne of the F.O. | Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell | Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers | Comedy | |
| Carry On Nurse | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims | Comedy | |
| Carry On Teacher | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor | Comedy | |
| The Cat Gang | Darrell Catling | Francesca Annis, John Pike | Family/adventure | |
| Crash Drive | Max Varnel | Dermot Walsh, Wendy Williams | Drama | |
| The Crowning Touch | David Eady | Ted Ray, Greta Gynt | Comedy | |
| Danger List | Leslie Arliss | Philip Friend, Honor Blackman | Drama | Short film |
| Danger Within | Don Chaffey | Richard Todd, Bernard Lee | World War II | |
| The Dawn Killer | Donald Taylor | Jeremy Bulloch, Sally Bulloch | Thriller | |
| Deadly Record | Lawrence Huntington | Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley | Mystery | |
| Desert Mice | Michael Relph | Alfred Marks, Sid James | World War II comedy | |
| The Desperate Man | Peter Maxwell | Conrad Phillips, Jill Ireland | Crime | |
| Devil's Bait | Peter Graham Scott | Geoffrey Keen, Jane Hylton, Gordon Jackson | Drama | |
| The Devil's Disciple | Guy Hamilton | Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier | Drama | Adaption of the play by George Bernard Shaw |
| Don't Panic Chaps! | George Pollock | Dennis Price, George Cole | Comedy | |
| Express Bongo | Val Guest | Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard | Musical | |
| Ferry to Hong Kong | Lewis Gilbert | Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms | Adventure | |
| First Man into Space | Robert Day | Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi | Sci Fi/Horror | |
| Floods of Fear | Charles Crichton | Howard Keel, Anne Heywood | Thriller | |
| Follow a Star | Robert Asher | Norman Wisdom, June Laverick | Comedy/musical | |
| Friends and Neighbours | Gordon Parry | Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins | Comedy | |
| The Heart of a Man | Herbert Wilcox | Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood | Drama | |
| Hidden Homicide | Tony Young | Griffith Jones, Patricia Laffan | Mystery | |
| Honeymoon | Michael Powell | Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina | Drama | |
| Horrors of the Black Museum | Arthur Crabtree | Michael Gough, June Cunningham | Horror | |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, André Morell | Mystery | |
| The House of the Seven Hawks | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey | Mystery | |
| Idol on Parade | John Gilling | Anthony Newley, Sid James | Comedy | |
| I'm All Right Jack | John Boulting | Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough | Comedy | Number 47 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| In the Wake of a Stranger | David Eady | Tony Wright, Shirley Eaton | Thriller | |
| Jack the Ripper | Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne | Crime | |
| Jet Storm | Cy Endfield | Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Diane Cilento | Thriller | |
| Killers of Kilimanjaro | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey | African Adventure | |
| The Lady Is a Square | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott | Musical/romance | |
| Left Right and Centre | Sidney Gilliat | Ian Carmichael | Comedy/romance | |
| Libel | Anthony Asquith | Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland | Drama | |
| Life in Danger | Terry Bishop | Derren Nesbitt, Julie Hopkins | Crime | |
| Life in Emergency Ward 10 | Robert Day | Michael Craig, Wilfrid Hyde-White | Drama | |
| Look Back in Anger | Tony Richardson | Richard Burton, Claire Bloom | Drama | |
| Make Mine a Million | Lance Comfort | Arthur Askey, Sid James | Comedy | |
| The Man Who Could Cheat Death | Terence Fisher | Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee | Horror | |
| The Man Who Liked Funerals | David Eady | Leslie Phillips, Susan Beaumont | Comedy | |
| Model for Murder | Terry Bishop | Keith Andes, Hazel Court | Crime | |
| The Mouse That Roared | Jack Arnold | Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell, Leo McKern | Comedy | |
| The Mummy | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee | Horror | Universal; Remake of 1932 film |
| Naked Fury | Charles Saunders | Reed De Rouen, Kenneth Cope | Crime | |
| The Navy Lark | Gordon Parry | Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips | Comedy | |
| The Night We Dropped a Clanger | Darcy Conyers | Brian Rix, Cecil Parker | Comedy | |
| No Trees in the Street | J. Lee Thompson | Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom | Thriller | |
| North West Frontier | J. Lee Thompson | Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall | Adventure | |
| Operation Amsterdam | Michael McCarthy | Peter Finch, Eva Bartok | World War II Action | |
| Operation Bullshine | Gilbert Gunn | Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray | World War II Comedy | |
| Our Man in Havana | Carol Reed | Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara | Spy/comedy | |
| Please Turn Over | Gerald Thomas | Ted Ray, Leslie Phillips, Julia Lockwood | Comedy | |
| The Price of Silence | Montgomery Tully | Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn | Crime | |
| Room at the Top | Jack Clayton | Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit | Drama | Number 32 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; winner of two Academy Awards, three BAFTAs and an award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Rough and the Smooth | Robert Siodmak | Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton | Drama | |
| Sapphire | Basil Dearden | Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell | Drama | |
| The Scapegoat | Robert Hamer | Alec Guinness, Bette Davis | Crime | |
| Serious Charge | Terence Young | Anthony Quayle, Sarah Churchill | Drama | |
| The Shakedown | John Lemont | Terence Morgan, Hazel Court | Crime | |
| The Siege of Pinchgut | Harry Watt | Aldo Ray, Heather Sears | Action | Filmed in Australia; entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival |
| SOS Pacific | Guy Green | Bryan Forbes, Richard Attenborough | Thriller | |
| The Square Peg | John Paddy Carstairs | Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman | World War II Comedy | |
| Strictly Confidential | Charles Saunders | Richard Murdoch, William Kendall | Comedy | |
| Subway in the Sky | Muriel Box | Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef | Crime | |
| Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Leslie Norman | Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter | Comedy/drama | Co-production with Australia |
| Tarzan's Greatest Adventure | John Guillermin | Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sara Shane | African adventure | |
| Tiger Bay | J. Lee Thompson | John Mills, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz | Crime/Thriller | |
| Tommy the Toreador | John Paddy Carstairs | Tommy Steele, Janet Munro | Musical comedy | |
| Too Many Crooks | Mario Zampi | Terry-Thomas, George Cole | Comedy | |
| Top Floor Girl | Max Varnel | Kay Callard, Neil Hallett | Drama | |
| A Touch of Larceny | Guy Hamilton | James Mason, George Sanders | Comedy | |
| The Treasure of San Teresa | Alvin Rakoff | Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams | Thriller | Also known as Hot Money Girl |
| The Ugly Duckling | Lance Comfort | Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee | Comedy | |
| Upstairs and Downstairs | Ralph Thomas | Michael Craig, Anne Heywood | Comedy | |
| Violent Moment | Sidney Hayers | Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton | Drama | |
| Web of Evidence | Jack Cardiff | Van Johnson, Vera Miles | Thriller | |
| Whirlpool | Lewis Allen | Juliette Gréco, Muriel Pavlow, Marius Goring | Drama | |
| The Witness | Geoffrey Muller | Dermot Walsh, Greta Gynt | Crime | |
| Woman's Temptation | Godfrey Grayson | Patricia Driscoll, Robert Ayres, Neil Hallett | Crime | |
| The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Michael Anderson | Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave | Thriller | |
| Wrong Number | Vernon Sewell | Peter Reynolds, Lisa Gastoni, Olive Sloane | Crime | |
| Yesterday's Enemy | Val Guest | Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern | World War II | |