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Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone
Genre: Western
Country: USA

John Russell, disdained by his “respectable” fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, War
Country: USA

An experimental film with various flashing lights, colors, and World War II footage. This is part of the Song series by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Jean Varda, Tom Luddy, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA | France

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda gets to know a relative she had never heard of before. This unknown uncle lives on a boat, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, “Tsusensan”, some forty years before the better-known innovations of his American counterparts Long, Wells and Morton.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Edith Evans, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Elderly Mrs. Ross lives alone in her meager flat, scraping by on government assistance even as she claims to have great wealth. After finding stolen money she is victimized, making it necessary to find her support in her declining years.

Director: Jules Bass
Stars: Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

On the Isle of Evil, the head of the “World Organization of Monsters” reveals his imminent retirement and that he has refined a formula for total destruction, only to be upset when the monsters try to steal the formula and kill his nephew.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | France

In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.

Director: Kamran Shirdel
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Iran

A documentary which explores what did or did not happen on a rainy night a young boy allegedly saved a train from crashing.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Mort Ritts, Stefan Nosko
Genre: Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada

Some time in the near future two veterans from some conflict engage in a conversation while sitting in a bath.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Uttam Kumar, Kalipada Chakraborty, Nripati Chatterjee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India

Byomkesh Bakshi, a detective, is hired by a rich man to investigate the name of an actress appeared in a movie decades ago, who has eloped ever since. The case became complicated when the rich man is murdered by someone for that.

Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Michael Tremayne (Michael Crawford) and David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.

Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

Director: Peter Whitehead
Stars: Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: UK

Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60’s Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary ’14 hour Technicolor Dream’ extravaganza in April ’67 at Alexandra Palace. The footage includes performance art by Yoko Ono and a Sgt. Pepper era John Lennon taking in the festivities (John and Yoko had not met then).

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Yoshie Hayakawa, Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima’s fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.

Director: William Hale
Stars: Robert Wagner, Peter Lawford, Lola Albright
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Mayo
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain

Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with her and tries to seduce her, but she mockingly pushes him away from her. He then finds that Ana, his nurse, bears a troubling resemblance to Elena. He decides to gradually transform Ana into Elena.

Director: King Hu
Stars: Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan | Hong Kong

When the children of an executed General are pursued in 1457 China, some heroic martial arts swordsmen intervene.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee’s suicide.

Director: Mauro Bolognini, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Luchino Visconti
Stars: Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Peter Brumm, Georg Eska, Karl-Heinz Steffel
Genre: Short
Country: West Germany

Four guys break into an old castle and find uniforms and military equipment. They then prepare to defend it from an imaginary enemy.

Director: Peter Whitehead
Stars: Alan Aldridge, Julie Christie, David Hockney
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” each depicting a different theme underscored by music.

Director: Paul Bogart
Stars: Hal Holbrook
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, ‘Hal Holbrook’ portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain’s own words for a commentary on slavery, religion and politics, mixing the satire with comic yarns about life on the Mississippi and a very effective ghost story..

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kei Satô, Keiko Sakurai, Rokkô Toura
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.

Director: Hans Abramson, Hans Alfredson, Arne Arnbom, Ingmar Bergman, Tage Danielsson,
Jörn Donner, Lars Görling, Gustaf Molander, Vilgot Sjöman
Stars: Hans Abramson, Hans Alfredson, Harriet Andersson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A Swedish film in eight episodes.

Director: Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Stars: Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: France

In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy and support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam war.

Director: Jack Hill
Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

A caretaker devotes himself to three demented siblings after their father’s death.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Morocco

Rescued from abandonment and raised by the King and Queen, Oedipus is still haunted by a prophecy–he’ll murder his father and marry his mother.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia | Italy

A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up sleeping with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.

Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr., Frank Lieberman
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual.

Director: Kostas Manoussakis
Stars: Elli Fotiou, Anestis Vlahos, Spyros Fokas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

In this disturbing family drama, a prosperous middle-aged farmer takes up gambling and whoring at the expense of his devoted second wife. Meanwhile, his son the pervert becomes fascinated with the family’s maid, a deaf-mute. The son’s stepsister returns from college in hopes that she can marry the young engineer she fancies. Unfortunately her father hates the boy. Real trouble ensues when the perverted son sees his stepsister and the engineer make love.

Director: Marie Menken
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

A short film which uses light to convey emotion and beauty.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer’s help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Anne Arthur, Karin Field, Sabrina Koch
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A couple about to be married are both having affairs, with women. This campy sex-romp takes place in some European city where everyone appears to be sex crazed and speaks with a different accent.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A half American Indian and half white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents’ murderers.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Yôko Tsukasa, Eitarô Ozawa
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A child is killed in a hit and run. The mother plots her revenge by posing as a maid in the house of the murderer.

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

After his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back.

Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard.

Director: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
Stars: Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: UK

This experimental silent short is very rare (filmed in 8mm) and only lasts 11 minutes. Nigel Gordon, film student, filmed Syd Barrett while he tripped on mushrooms.

Director: Vittorio De Seta
Stars: Jacques Perrin, Lea Padovani, Ilaria Occhini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Michele, a young intellectual, enters an existential crisis when, without realizing it, his conception of life comes into conflict with collective morality. The result is a serious neurosis that detaches him from life, from work, from the neighbor.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Christoph Roser, Marite Greiselis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genre: Short, Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany

Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.

Director: Peter Whitehead
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

Two days in the life of the Rolling Stones during their tour of Ireland in 1965.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen
Genre: Drama
Country: India

En route to Delhi to receive an award, a Bengali film star reevaluates his success through his fellow passengers, dreams and past experiences.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film which displays the various contrasts in colors.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France

At a boarding school in the pre-war Austro-Hungarian Empire, a pair of students torture one of their fellow classmates, Basini, who has been caught stealing money from one of the two. The two decide that rather than turn Basini in to the school authorities, they will punish him themselves and proceed to torture, degrade, and humiliate the boy, with ever-increasing sadistic delight.

Director: Luc Moullet
Stars: Colette Descombes, Françoise Vatel, Claude Melki
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A twenty minute documentary about the two smallest French villages. Then, Paris, 1960s. Two girls named Brigitte from the two villages share an apartment and study at the Sorbonne.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.

Director: Lionel Rogosin
Stars: Molly Parkin
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: USA

GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was Lionel Rogosin’s plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. He interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party’s mundane chatter. GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was released in 1964, at the height of the Vietnam War, and became one of the great anti-war films of the era.

Director: Petr Schulhoff
Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirí Pleskot
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives are not so clear. Two criminologists from Prague – Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) – patiently collect all available leads and question the villagers.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars: Joanna Szczerbic, Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland

A rebellious student wants to get total independence and overcome all the barriers in his life: of money, age, status, cults and conventions. However, he meets a girl with completely different ideals.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Stars: Ligia Branice
Genre: Short, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A haunting, minimalist short that mostly consists of a monologue to camera by the young Rosalie, on trial for the murder of her new-born infant.

Director: Conrad Rooks
Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Conrad Rooks, William S. Burroughs
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | France

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.

Director: David Lynch
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Experimental, Horror, Animation
Country: USA

A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.

Director: Jonathan Miller
Stars: Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK

A girl named Alice (Anne-Marie Mallik) falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy

A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Ikuko Asô, Toshimi Hiramatsu, Jôji Hosoda
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.

Director: Robert Precht
Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK | USA

Documentary film of The Beatles classic August 15, 1965 New York concert.

Director: Zvonimir Berkovic
Stars: Stevo Zigon, Milena Dravic, Relja Basic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia’s wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Stars: Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo
Genre: Comedy
Country: Cuba

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.

Director: Václav Vorlícek
Stars: Dana Medrická, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia

“What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?” a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, productive workers). There’s a problem: after an injection of her elixir, dream elements become real.

Director: Masaki Dômoto, Yukio Mishima
Stars: Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: Japan

A Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History
Country: Italy | France | Spain

A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.

Director: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When her lover is killed, the wife of a wealthy man is convinced to fake her own death, which leads her into greater depths of depravity until fate reunites her with her long-lost son, who is unaware of her real identity.

Director: Ida Lupino
Stars: Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) and her staff of bewildered Sisters.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Director: Basilio Martín Patino
Stars: Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Mary Carrillo, Elsa Baeza
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

Lorenzo is a young man who has just returned to Salamanca (Spain) from England, where he fell in love with Berta, a girl daughter of exiled parents who have never seen Spain. Lorenzo tries through some beautiful letters that she understands how is the world where her parents once lived.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Pierre Vaneck, Nicolas Youmatoff, Catherine Le Couey
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | West Germany

A meditation on photographs from all kinds of themes.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Miharu Shima, Hatsuo Yamaya
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A man keeps a young employee tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Rafe Macpherson, Mort Ritts
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: Canada

A psychiatrist, referred to only as Doctor, is living alone in a snowy field surrounded by pine woods. When a former patient named Ralph appears, the Doctor is distraught. Ralph has been following him obsessively.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Saeda Kawaguchi, Akiko Koyama, Kei Satô
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they’re deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France

In the near future, leftist writer Paula goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cité when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P. Is she there to investigate? On the surface, faces are beautiful, colors bright, clothes trendy. Beneath, little is clear: some talk to Paula as if she’s Alice in Wonderland, corpses pile up, and ideological struggles insert themselves. A murder victim’s nephew and a political party’s hired hands hover around Paula. Is obscuring things her goal or is it life that’s obscure?

Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Canada

A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: C. Andre, Rosemarie Castoro, Lucinda Childs
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films 14 of his friends in various poses.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Edie Sedgwick
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film in which a copy of an interview is shown on a monitor next to the live interview creating the illusion that the two are talking to each other.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Louis Aragon, Michel Piccoli, Elsa Triolet
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

The story of a poet’s (Louis Aragon) love for his wife, the writer Elsa Triolet.

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara
Stars: Nobuo Nakamura, Ruriko Asaoka, Akira Yamanouchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Etsuko, after her husbands death, moves in with her in-laws. With ambivalence, she finds herself sexually involved with her father-in-law. She then finds herself desiring young gardener Saburo, who has a relationship with the maid Miyo.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Hideki Takahashi, Junko Asano, Yûsuke Kawazu
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

During the 1930s, a teenager yearns for a Catholic girl, whose only desire is to reform his sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, the young man channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence.

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Eddie Axberg, Gudrun Brost, Ulla Akselson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Eva Dahlbeck
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Sweden

A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.

Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Avril Angers
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France | USA

The departure of the German Army from Paris in 1944.

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Stars: Marlon Brando, Rex Morgan, Mary Frann
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Journalists from all over America meet Marlon Brando in a New York hotel room to interview him about his new film, Morituri. Seeing this as an opportunity to let the legendary actor promote the film, they find Brando unwilling to talk about it, instead he is more interested in larking about and turning on the charm when being interviewed by a former winner of the Miss USA competition.

Director: Bruce Conner
Stars: Toni Basil
Genre: Short, Music
Country: USA

Bruce Conner’s 1966 dazzling dance short, “Breakaway”, a film poem marrying the rhythm of the editing, movement of the body and the camera to a beautiful effect.

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Shirley Anne Field, Alexandra Stewart
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

A comedy divided into four episodes.

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Stars: Ingrid Bergman
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

Director: Otar Iosseliani
Stars: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Gogi Kharabadze, Marina Kartsivadze
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | USA

Restless married couple Maria and Paul take a road trip through Spain with their friend Claire. While Paul and Claire carry on a clandestine affair, Maria becomes obsessed with a recent murder in a small town along the way. What begins as a vacation ends as a meditation on tragedy and infidelity.

Director: Alex Segal
Stars: Stanley Adams, Edward Andrews, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An abridged award-winning television adaptation of a famous play about an aging travelling salesman who’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His job is gone, and his family hates him for never being there. He tries mending things with them.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

An unrepentant ladies’ man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Antoine Vitez
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

An examination of the lifestyles of female college students in 1966.

Director: Anthony Cox, Yoko Ono
Stars: Susannah Campbell, Philip Corner, Anthony Cox
Genre: Short
Country: UK

This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons’ bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.

Director: Kazuo Kuroki
Stars: Mariko Kaga, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shôichi Ozawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life’s turning points.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tamotsu Hayakawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Daniel Gélin
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

1941. A little town in the Jura is cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone.

Director: Mai Zetterling
Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Keve Hjelm, Jörgen Lindström
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

The story about a man who’s trying to get rid of his memories from his past. He grew up in an upper-class family in a castle and now revisits the castle with his fiancee.

Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Stars: Helena Ignez, Paulo José, Mário Lago
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.

Director: Bruce Brown
Stars: Robert August, Michael Hynson, Lord James Blears
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA

The crown jewel to ten years of Bruce Brown surfing documentaries. Brown follows two young surfers around the world in search of the perfect wave, and ends up finding quite a few in addition to some colorful local characters.

Director: Gérard Oury
Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France | UK

Several ordinary Frenchmen, helping British pilots avoid Nazi captivity, go on epic voyage through the occupied country to the Swiss border.

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Christoph Roser, Susanne Schimkus, Michael Fengler
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: West Germany

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic
Stars: Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Snezana Lukic, Milan Pauljevic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

An ex-convict attempts to adapt in a new, changed environment. Wishing to start from the very beginning with his new girlfriend, he tries to stay away from his former buddies who want to involve him into their new ventures.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: András Bálint, Miklós Gábor, Dániel Erdély
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A boy in Budapest lost his father in 1945, when he was the age of six. He does not remember much of the father but fantasize that he performed various heroic feats.

Director: Karel Kachyna
Stars: Iva Janzurová, Jaromír Hanzlík, Ludek Munzar
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

Director: Fielder Cook
Stars: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA

Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow.

Director: Sergio Sollima
Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes
Genre: Western
Country: Italy | Spain

Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne’s virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father’s forgeries and protect his secret.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Nad’a Munzarová, Jirí Procházka, Bohuslav Srámek
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Two puppets, Punch and Joey, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: William Seitz, Rudolf Arnheim, Irving H. Leopold
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Documentary about an artwork opening at The Museum of Modern Art.

Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Eijirô Tôno, Takahiro Tamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Zaizen Goro may only be an assistant professor but he has already made a name for himself. His superior, however, does not approve of his attitude towards their profession, and is at odds over who to nominate as his successor. The selection of the new professor reveals a rich and complex political world inside Naniwa University.

Director: Pierre Étaix
Stars: Pierre Étaix, Denise Péronne, Simone Fonder
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

The director’s cut (restored version) opens and closes with theatrical curtains in homage to Georges Méliés films, and is divided into four parts, separated by title cards.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Mitsukô Kusabue
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend’s flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn’t feel well. What’s come over him?

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

An American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples’ patron saint.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Christian Barbier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium

A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.

Director: Philippe de Broca
Stars: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Marc Dudicourt
Genre: Drama, Comedy, War
Country: France | Italy

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Director: Antony Balch
Stars: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin
Genre: Short
Country: UK

The savage deconstruction of the relationship between image and reality.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Maria Janiec, Jerzy Braszka
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

A boy shyly watches a girl on a tram. Only when he exits the tram, and its too late, does he realize that he must meet her.

Director: Vilgot Sjöman
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Per Oscarsson, Jarl Kulle
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Sweden

Sweden in 1782. A young nobleman, named Jacob (Per Oscarsson) returns from France to his home and cherished sister Charlotte (Bibi Andersson) who is engaged to Baron Alsameden (Jarl Kulle). The siblings close relationship becomes incestuous and with fear that the disclosure of Charlotte’s pregnancy will make society view them as libertines, the lovers ultimately choose to part, Jacob decides to leave the country and Charlotte if left to marry the Baron.

Director: Jean Eustache
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Gérard Zimmermann, Henri Martinez
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who’s addicted to morphine.

Director: René Laloux
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: France

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

Director: Henning Carlsen
Stars: Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Norway | Sweden

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression.

Director: Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
Stars: Siegfried Müller
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: East Germany

An interview with former Nazi and mercenary Siegfried Müller about his life and war campaigns.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: John Cale, Gerard Malanga, Sterling Morrison
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

“A Symphony of Sound” – depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground and Nico at the Factory, 231 East 47th St., (loft on 4th floor), New York City. It is essentially a one long loose improvisation including some private conversations and a brief visit from the NYPD.

Director: Jan Nemec
Stars: Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusák, Jiri Nemec
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

A small group of adult bourgeois friends are on a day outing in the country, that outing which includes having a picnic. While they are going for a walk after the picnic, they encounter a group of officious looking men who commandeer them to a small clearing. Although there is no direct threat and the picnickers are not scared, they nonetheless feel the need to do what the men say.

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA

Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.

Director: Domingos de Oliveira
Stars: Leila Diniz, Paulo José, Flávio Migliaccio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil

Womanizer suddenly finds a woman who makes him change the way he looks at women. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man

Director: André Delvaux
Stars: Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium

Govert Miereveld is a schoolteacher who has an unhealthy obsession with Fran, one of his students. On the day of Fran’s graduation, Govert decides that he needs to tell her.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA | UK

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Natasha Rostova, a young Russian aristocrat, meets prince Andrey Bolkonskiy at a ball and immediately falls in love with him.

Director: Leon Hirszman
Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Paulo Gracindo, Ivan Cândido
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Woman who is obsessed with death wants a first-class burial for herself, and even buys a luxury coffin beforehand.

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Gino Piserchio, Edie Sedgwick, Chuck Wein
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A couple disports in chimerical role-playing as part of their concours de seduction.

Director: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider
Stars: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA

A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one ‘shhh!’) in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley’s principle ‘esse est percipi’ (to be is to be perceived), Keaton’s very existence conspires against his efforts.

Director: Robert Hossein
Stars: Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Roger Dutoit
Genre: Biography, Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy | Spain

A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Robert Creeley, Michael McClure
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which combines flashing light and images.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.

Director: Leonid Gaidai
Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Valeriy Nosik
Genre: Short
Country: Soviet Union

Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: András Kozák, Sergey Nikonenko, Béla Barsi
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary

In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more – after he has donned a German uniform for warmth – and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director’s consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Tony Scott
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: UK

A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world.

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK

In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Hiroko Fujino, Kazuko Kanô, Aya Mine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Japan, 1960. In a housing complex, a young introverted student observes his neighbors through a telescope. The voyeurism of a young man isolated and gloomy, will cause an explosion of madness.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

Director: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Chris Marker, Kumiko Muraoka
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she’s an intriguing anomaly. He films her around Tokyo, as she speaks of Japan, being Japanese and her unique perspective on life.

Director: Jim Henson
Stars: Jim Henson, Enid Cafritz, Dennis Paget
Genre: Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA

A surreal stream of consciousness montage about time and related bizarreness.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Tosh Carillo, Larry Latrae, Gerard Malanga
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Warhol’s strange interpretation of “A Clockwork Orange.” Includes Gerard dancing to the Martha and the Vandellas classic “Nowhere to Run” and being tortured by professional sadists.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The biographical story of Michelangelo’s troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Director: Ivan Passer
Stars: Zdenek Bezusek, Karel Blazek, Miroslav Cvrk
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia

In this original sad comedy in a small town after ten years encounter two classmates – musicians: one is a member of the regional symphony orchestra, the other made it to the director of local music school puts family villa, playing at funerals.

Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA

After the mob tries to kill him for an unknown reason, a comedian steals the identity of a homeless man and goes on the run.

Director: Guy Green
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Hôsei Komatsu
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Japan

Yunbogi is a child who lives in a slum on the outskirts of Taegu, South Korea. Abandoned by his mother, Yunbogi must care for his two sisters and brother by taking on a series of small jobs.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Yasunori Irikawa, Ruriko Asaoka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young man who’s about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams and desires unfold simultaneously.

Director: Aleksandar Petrovic
Stars: Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Ali Raner, Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Three stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Italy | France

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Director: Fred Coe
Stars: Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: András Bálint, Ilona Béres, Judit Halász
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Jancsi Oláh is in the transitional phase between adolescence and adultness. He is born in 1938, and is now getting his first employment as an electronic engineer. On some TV-screens he happens to see a young lawyer, Éva Halk, who arrests his attention. In his imagination she is the most interesting woman he ever saw. Jansci is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk.

Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Keve Hjelm, Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, Inger Taube
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.

Director: Jirí Trnka
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia

A delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand’s obstinate demands stop?

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

In Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | India

The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bolliwood movies.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he’s an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Director: Bruce Conner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An advertisement for the New York Film Festival which the Festival rejected as being “too fast”

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Takahiro Tamura, Mikio Narita
Genre: Action, Crime, War
Country: Japan

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: don Andrea Carraro, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

While scouting locations for his classic “The Gospel According to St. Matthew”, director Pier Paolo Pasolini noticed that filming in the actual site of the story, in Palestine, wouldn’t be much of a great choice due to the modern invasion which completely altered the biblical settings. Here, the director explained his reasons of why his search in the Middle East end up being wrong – though somewhat fruitful and rewarding in other ways – and why his native Italy surprised him and became the scenario for his religious epic.

Director: René Laloux
Stars: Roland Dubillard
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: France

What is man ? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.

Director: Mikhail Romm
Stars: Mikhail Romm, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Goebbels
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Soviet Union

A documentary about the rise and fall of fascism and the effects of Nazism on German society..

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India

A chance meeting rekindles old memories between a screenwriter and his ex-girlfriend, who is by now married to a well-to-do man.

Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Diego Puente, Tino Pascali, Cacho Espíndola
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

An indictment of a fascist regime running roughshod over its most vulnerable citizens, its children.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Annie Girardot, Maurice Ronet, O.E. Hasse
Genre: Drama
Country: France

When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Director: Bruce Conner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

“A film portrait cut to the tune of Conway Twitty’s version of ‘Mona Lisa.’ Filmed in part at a 1964 show of Conner’s artwork in San Francisco, the film is also a witty statement about forces that take the life out of art.

Director: Arunas Zebriunas
Stars: Lina Braknyte, Valeriy Zubarev, Bronius Babkauskas
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

Movie about a friendship of two children – a girl and a boy during the last day of summer holiday

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are killed one by one. The last two must solve the case themselves before they become the next victims.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

Director: Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini
Stars: Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone, Valentina Cortese
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A popular writer visits his favorite holiday destination during the off season looking for the woman he is secretly infatuated with, only to find out that she has committed suicide, but did she really?

Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

In the early 20th century, two rivals, the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate, engage in an epic automobile race from New York to Paris.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Miki Irie, Teruko Hasegawa, Yoko Matsushita
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Japan

Follows Ako, a 16 year old Japanese girl, as she spends time working in a bakery and going out with her friends.

Director: Saul J. Turell
Stars: Carl King, Agnes Ayres, Theda Bara
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses’ portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Edie Sedgwick
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffee, and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Ranch owner Katie Elder’s four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.

Director: Elliot Silverstein
Stars: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.

Director: Cornel Wilde
Stars: Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa | USA

During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.

Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Oliver Reed, Clifford David, Ann Lynn
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

An American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish “beatniks”. Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Boguslaw Kierc, Piotr Wysocki
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the 19th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon’s side with the hopes of Poland’s revival.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, Sô Yamamura
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA

During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral, but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia

A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

A love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

British Agent Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Director: Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Éric Rohmer, Jean Rouch
Stars: Jean-Pierre Andréani, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors.

Director: Ritwik Ghatak
Stars: Madhabi Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Abhi Bhattacharya
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A man opposes the love between his sister and the orphan they adopted years earlier.

Director: Sergio Leone
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè
Genre: Western
Country: Italy | Spain | West Germany

Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.

Director: Stuart Burge
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Robert Lang
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

General Othello’s marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

Director: Sergei Parajanov
Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A timeless Carpathian story – the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father’s killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.

Director: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Stars: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarík
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia

A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed “Aryan controller” of a Jewish widow’s store.

Director: Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Heinrich Hargesheimer, Carlheinz Hargesheimer, Martha Staendner
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany

An entangled story which details the lives of a German family throughout their various generations.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Mario Montez
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A transvestite, Mario, eats a banana.

Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke’s Drift.

Director: Renato Castellani, Marco Ferreri, Franco Rossi
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Ugo Tognazzi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.

Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Single and alone, Evie Jackson (Geraldine Page) arrives in New York City for the annual Postmasters’ convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanizing salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. When his path crosses Evie’s, she wonders if this is finally the man for her, while her ways just seem to annoy him. At least to start with

Director: Walter Hugo Khouri
Stars: Norma Bengell, Odete Lara, Mário Benvenutti
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings, and the emptiness of their lives.

Director: Arthur Hiller
Stars: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An American Naval Officer’s talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Marie-José Nat, Jacques Charrier, Michel Subor
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with “Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale”, that tells the same story from another perspective.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

French filmmaker Rene Clement presents Alain Delon as a petty criminal on the run from the underground. On the Rivera, he seeks refuge in a flophouse whose soup line is served by Jane Fonda and Lola Albright. The two women move him to a Gothic mansion owned by Albright, a millionairess with a Salvation Army complex.

Director: Arthur Lipsett
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Arthur Lipsett

Snippets from discarded footage, and with footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, combined to a collage with the underlying argument as to whether man is a complex machine or a creature with a soul.

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot, Achille Majeroni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her.It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The rich man Domenico and Filumena, a penniless prostitute, share great part of their lives in the immediate post WWII Italy.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Walter Chiari, Michèle Mercier, Roberto Ciccolini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

It’s the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

Famous Spanish bandit Artiguez returns to his native Spanish village after 20 years in French exile but Spanish cop Vinolas is setting a trap for him.

Director: Jacques Rozier
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Jacques Rozier filmed this documentary on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Contempt” (Le Mépris) during location shooting on the island of Capri, and he interviews Godard, star Brigitte Bardot, and the other stars, and captures the making of the film. Most of the footage shot focused on the annoyances of the then-new phenomenon of paparazzi, who tried anything they could to sneak onto the set to take pictures of Bardot; that footage, which included interviews with an annoyed Godard and a perplexed Bardot, was removed to be made into a separate documentary called “Paparazzi”.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Director: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: France | Italy | USA

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Antoine Vitez
Country: France

A documentary account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.

Director: Michael Roemer
Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Director: Paul Henreid
Stars: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece | USA

An uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Director: Christian-Jaque
Stars: Francis Blanche, Boy Gobert, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Spain | Italy

Also known in English as “Champagne for Savages”. Set in World War Two occupied France. Several people gather at a house to celebrate a woman’s birthday. Some German soldiers are killed outside. The Gestapo inform the group that they must select two of their party to be executed for the crime. It then becomes a matter of everyone trying to save themselves.

Director: Irvin Kershner
Stars: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Liam Redmond
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada | USA

An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex: he asks children where babies come from, young and old women if they are men’s equals, men and women if a woman’s virginity matters, how they view homosexuals, how sex and honor connect, if divorce should be legal, and if they support closing the brothels (the Merlina Act).

Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czech teenager when he starts work.

Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Director: Osamu Tezuka
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Japan

In a totalitarian society where daydreaming is forbidden, an imaginative boy fantasies about catching a mermaid and playing with her.

Director: Dinos Dimopoulos
Stars: Jenny Karezi, Nikos Kourkoulos, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

Betrayed by his accomplices, Aris, the fastest knife in Troumba, reunites with his true love, Lola. Now, a mean cabaret owner wants him dead, and he must tie up all the loose ends. But, is there an easy way out from the port of lost souls?

Director: Bill Colleran, John Gielgud
Stars: Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The highly successful 1964 Richard Burton Broadway production of “Hamlet”, deliberately staged in the style of a “dress rehearsal”, but performed in front of a live audience.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Director: Arthur Lipsett
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Canada

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, FREE FALL is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality.

Director: Marie Menken
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A short experimental film made by New York visual and avant-garde artist Marie Menken.

Director: Jacques Rozier
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jean Lescot, David Tonelli
Genre: Short
Country: France

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi.

Director: Steve Binder
Stars: The Beach Boys, The Barbarians, Chuck Berry
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Surf pop duo, Jan and Dean host this showcase of performances by well-known Rock, R&B, and pop stars of the era.

Director: Larry Peerce
Stars: Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960’s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: John Giorno
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A man sleeps for five hours.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden

A critic blackmails a famous musician with his biography filled with the revelations of many of his women.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually incredibly inexperienced when it comes to the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The 2 front runners for their party’s presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former President’s endorsement.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Mario Montez
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Quirky girl eating a “banana.”

Director: Don Owen
Stars: Peter Kastner, Julie Biggs, Claude Rae
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Nadja Tesich
Genre: Short
Country: France

Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust. Besides her student life she likes to stroll about Paris, to explore the variety of this wide and open city..

Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Simone Cousteau
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Italy

Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen and mostly filmed in deep-water seas from within a special designed batiscaff, by the Cousteau family of sea explorers.

Director: Alain Cavalier
Stars: Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Georges Géret
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

1961. Luxemburger Thomas Vlassenroot deserted the French Foreign Legion during the Algiers Putsch. His lieutenant, Fraser, initiated the desertion for the two of them, Fraser believing he could do more for the French working for an underground organization. However, Thomas readily admits that he no longer has any political motivations or affiliations, and thus is hiding out from the authorities in Algiers.

Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow, Barbara Ferris
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling photographer, aims to conquer a fashion model from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. The tables thus turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it’s not the tourists who are being used in these sexual games.

Director: Bernhard Wicki
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany | USA

An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town’s expectations with her generosity, but she’s only out for revenge.

Director: George Seaton
Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA

Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

Director: Anton Leader
Stars: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

Six impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
Genre: Horror
Country: USA | UK

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land.

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.

Director: George Pal
Stars: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O’Connell
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Western
Country: USA

A mysterious circus comes to a western town bearing wonders and characters that entertain the inhabitants and teach valuable lessons.

Director: Osamu Tezuka
Stars: Shinsuke Chikaishi, Adolf Hitler
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Japan

Explores the pros, cons and the nature of memory.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Genre: Documentary, Music, News
Country: USA

A documentary following the Fab Four for five days in 1964. A humorous and freewheeling account of their first trip to America.

Director: Alain Jessua
Stars: Charles Denner, Anna Gaylor, Guy Saint-Jean
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Real estate agent Jacques Valin records his life story on a tape recorder when he loses job.

Director: Philip Saville
Stars: Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw, Alec Clunes
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Denmark

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet’s mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

Director: Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa, Roman Polanski
Stars: Mie Hama, Ken Mitsuda, Yatsuko Tan’ami
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France | Italy | Japan | Netherlands

Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo – Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam – The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris – France (L’homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Yûzô Kayama, Mitsukô Kusabue
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Francis Lacombrade, Didier Haudepin, François Leccia
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Jô Shishido, Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

An injured thief on the run finds sanctuary within a brothel of united, ruthless women.

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband’s relationship with his best friend.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Following the death of his friend, an Italian youth grows increasingly closer to his young aunt.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Karen Conrad
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Kelly’s path towards happiness is thrown amiss when she witnesses a shocking event, which threatens not just her happiness, but her mental health as well.

Director: Jan Nemec
Stars: Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia

Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man’s struggle to preserve human dignity.

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, John Gielgud
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God’s divine will rather than the King’s.

Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK | USA

Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon’s driver at a country estate.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Ira Rubin, Sam DeFazio, Andrea Martin
Genre: Short, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential.

Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Saro Urzì, Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

A desperate Sicilian man, whose 15-year-old daughter was seduced and impregnated by his older daughter’s fiancé, tries to find a way to save the family’s honor.

Director: Sergio Leone
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy | Spain | West Germany

A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Cuba | Soviet Union

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

Two women kill samurais and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An experimental film from Stan Brakhage in which a man and his dog ascend a wooded mountain.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Bernard Noël, Macha Méril, Philippe Leroy
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

Director: Glauber Rocha
Stars: Geraldo Del Rey, Yoná Magalhães, Othon Bastos
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil

After killing his employer when said employer tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Surprised that their contract victim didn’t try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Tamotsu Hayakawa, Yoshiko Kayama, Taiji Tonoyama
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan

A shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest house. Upon arriving there, he finds out that he also has to take care of a flock of undisciplined youngsters.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Robert Hossein, Jean Sorel, Catherine Rouvel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl – what could go wrong? Almost everything.

Director: Frédéric Rossif
Stars: Irene Worth, John Gielgud, Suzanne Flon
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

To Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo’s targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.

Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Monaco

Jean is a clerk in a bank. His colleague Caron is a gambler and gives him the virus. In the casinos, Jean meets Jackie. Their love affair will follow their luck at the roulette.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: DeVeren Bookwalter, Willard Maas
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man’s face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland, Constance Cummings
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK

Ten year old Sammy travels 4500 miles on his own from the Suez Canal to Durban, South Africa.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Rufus Collins, Johnny Dodd, Fred Herko
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

Close-ups of couples kissing for three minutes each.

Director: Clive Donner
Stars: Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

While renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston’s brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Sandra Milo, François Périer, Mario Adorf
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Twenty-four hours in the life of Pina and Adolfo. The story of a 36-year-old woman and the flashbacks that show the pair’s lives and fills in some details of their other relationships.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis (Alain Delon), to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Jô Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawaji
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.

Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Alain Cuny, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jacques Perrin
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

The son of a rich Italian industrialist finds out how tough it is to leave the path society has set for him.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, Elena Nicolai
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA | Ireland