Best Drama Movies of 1959

Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.

As the fiercely dedicated general practitioner who tries to help the sick, the poor and the unfortunate in his decrepit neighborhood, Paul Muni is the testy old man who faces life without compromise and David Wayne is the troubled television producer fighting to preserve his career.

Short drama-documentary showing the first day in England of a Hungarian refugee.

The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Al Graham runs a trucking business in Alaska, America’s final frontier which confronts him with washed out bridges, female hitchhikers and mayhem concerning his partner Gerard Mason and his scheming wife.

A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive

The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.

Remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 classic.