Domestic Release Schedule for 1959

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1959.

See also: Top 1959 Worldwide - Most Popular 1959

Current Release Schedule 1960 →
Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date		Trailer
January, 1959
January 1 Bob le flambeur (Wide) Triumph Releasing $56,596  
North by Northwest (Wide) $13,275,000  
Pillow Talk (Wide) $18,750,000  
Solomon and Sheba (Wide) $11,000,000  
 
January 14 Anna Lucasta (Limited) Samuel Goldwyn Films    
 
January 29 Sleeping Beauty (Wide) Walt Disney $9,464,608  
February, 1959
February 11 Never Steal Anything Small (Limited) Universal    
March, 1959
March 3 The Giant Behemoth (Limited) Allied Artists    
 
March 18 Rio Bravo (Wide) $5,800,000  
 
March 19 The Shaggy Dog (Wide) $29,000,000  
 
March 20 Alias Jesse James (Limited) United Artists    
 
March 29 Some Like it Hot (Wide) $25,000,000  
April, 1959
April 1 Compulsion (Limited)    
 
April 30 Imitation of Life (Wide) $14,000,000  
May, 1959
May 20 The World, The Flesh and the Devil (Limited) MGM    
 
May 21 Godzilla Raids Again (Limited) Warner Bros.    
 
May 29 Pork Chop Hill (Wide) $3,690,000  
 
 
May TBD Curse of the Undead (Limited) Universal    
June, 1959
June 24 Porgy and Bess (Limited) Samuel Goldwyn Films    
 
June 26 Darby O’Gill and the Little People (Limited)    
July, 1959
July 3 Don’t Give up the Ship (Limited)    
 
July 8 Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (Limited) Paramount Pictures    
 
July 9 Last Train From Gun Hill (Limited) Paramount Pictures    
 
July 15 A Hole in the Head (Wide) $11,000,000  
 
July 16 The Alligator People (Limited) 20th Century Fox    
 
July 18 The Nun's Story (Wide) $12,800,000  
 
July 22 Day of the Outlaw (Limited) United Artists    
Plan 9 from Outer Space (Limited)    
 
July 29 The Tingler (Limited) Columbia    
August, 1959
August 19 It Started With a Kiss (Limited) MGM    
October, 1959
October 13 Odds Against Tomorrow (Limited)    
 
October 30 The Wasp Woman (Limited) The Filmgroup    
November, 1959
November 12 The Miracle (Limited)    
 
November 18 Ben-Hur (Wide) MGM $73,000,000  
December, 1959
December 5 Operation Petticoat (Wide) $23,300,000  
 
December 7 Never so Few (Limited) MGM    
 
December 16 Journey to the Center of the Earth (Wide) $10,000,000  
 
December 17 On the Beach (Wide) $11,000,000  
 
December 18 The Gazebo (Limited)    
 
December 22 Suddenly, Last Summer (Limited)    
 
 
During 1959 Anatomy of a Murder (Limited) Columbia