Best 1959 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1959 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#14. On the Beach
- Stacker score: 69.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 55
- Director: Stanley Kramer
- Actors: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
- Runtime: 2 hours 14 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#13. The Mummy
- Stacker score: 70.7
- IMDb user rating: 6.6 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 62
- Director: Terence Fisher
- Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
- Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
- Rating: Unrated
- Box office: N/A

#12. Suddenly, Last Summer
- Stacker score: 71.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 18,000)
- Metascore: 54
- Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#11. The Diary of Anne Frank
- Stacker score: 73.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 59
- Director: George Stevens
- Actors: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut
- Runtime: 3 hours
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#10. Pillow Talk
- Stacker score: 81.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Michael Gordon
- Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $18,750,000

#9. The Nun's Story
- Stacker score: 84.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
- Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans
- Runtime: 2 hours 29 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#8. Sleeping Beauty
- Stacker score: 86.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 169,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Les Clark, Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson
- Actors: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley
- Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $51,600,000

#7. Good Morning
- Stacker score: 91.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Yasujirô Ozu
- Actors: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû
- Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#6. Imitation of Life
- Stacker score: 91.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Douglas Sirk
- Actors: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee
- Runtime: 2 hours 5 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#5. Ben-Hur
- Stacker score: 94.5
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 266,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: William Wyler
- Actors: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
- Runtime: 3 hours 32 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $74,432,704

#4. Rio Bravo
- Stacker score: 95.6
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 72,000)
- Metascore: 93
- Director: Howard Hawks
- Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
- Runtime: 2 hours 21 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $12,535,000

#3. Anatomy of a Murder
- Stacker score: 96.7
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 76,000)
- Metascore: 95
- Director: Otto Preminger
- Actors: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
- Runtime: 2 hours 41 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $11,900,000

#2. Some Like It Hot
- Stacker score: 99.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 298,000)
- Metascore: 98
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#1. North by Northwest
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 363,000)
- Metascore: 98
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
- Runtime: 2 hours 16 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $66,728