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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Shocked by the death of her spouse, a scheming widow hatches a bold plan to get her hands on the inheritance, unaware that she is targeted by an axe-wielding murderer who lurks in the family’s estate. What mystery shrouds the noble house?

Director: Fons Rademakers
Stars: Lex Schoorel, Nan Los, Van Doude
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands

The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable resemblance to Ducker. Ducker follows Dorbeck blindly, becomes involved in the Dutch resistance and soon starts killing people. When he escapes through German lines to the freed South Netherlands, no one has ever heard of Dorbeck.

Director: Alex Segal
Stars: Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In the early 1900’s Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father’s sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.

Director: Georges Lautner
Stars: Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

A dying mob boss hands over his business to an old friend, Fernand. The boss’ assistants want to get rid of the latter. But are the Volfoni brothers and Théo real threats? Ensuing fights and shootouts are more comical than deadly.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list.

Director: Robert Drew
Stars: John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA

Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy. Loud shouts come from both sides of the issue as JFK stands by his decisions.

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claire Bloom, Vito De Taranto
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial review by fiscal authorities drive the firm to ruin. Ada, his wife, starts to be unfaithful and this is another strong hit to his life. But it isn’t still enough, a tragedy is waiting Mombelli behind the corner.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France | Yugoslavia

A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.

Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Homer Smith, an unemployed construction worker heading out west, stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert…

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Adventure
Country: Japan

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Uno Henning, Allan Edwall
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden

The god Indra’s daughter descends to earth to experience firsthand people’s living conditions. Bergman’s first staging of Strindberg’s play “Ett drömspel.”

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Robert Indiana
Genre: Experimental, Art Film
Country: USA

This art experiment by Andy Warhol captures the simple act of a man eating mushrooms.

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Despite his fiancee’s reluctance, a young man moves to Sicily for a better job, but soon starts questioning his decision.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bachchan
Genre: Drama
Country: India

Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Lila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga’s stage shows. When her boyfriend, Rick, runs off with the show’s money, Madame Olga and Ronny let Lila go. Lila goes to stay with her old neighbors, Helen Bard and her teenage son, Kenny. Lila decides to go out and get a regular job and try and live a normal life. All seems well, until Lila and Kenny stop fighting their attraction for one another.

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

A short film which combines a series of unrelated images together much like a notebook.

Director: Jean Eustache
Stars: Aristide, Daniel Bart, Dominique Jayr
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France

Two men in their twenties spend their time in Parisian cafes trying to pick up women. They take one girl dancing, and then steal her purse when she prefers to dance with another man.

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Antonio Petruzzi, Stefano Satta Flores, Sergio Ferranino
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

The story follows the uneventful lives of three young men, who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.

Director: Giovanni Guareschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Gigi Artuso
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

“La Rabbia” employs documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear?

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: Rony Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.

Director: Damiano Damiani
Stars: Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

The son of a dead Italian nobleman and a wealthy American woman forgets the disappointment of finding he has no talent for being a painter by succumbing to the sexual advances of an amoral model who believes in indiscriminate love affairs.

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy

A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.

Director: Mai Zetterling
Stars: Ian Ellis, Joseph Robinson
Genre: Drama, Short, War
Country: UK

Two boys quarrel about a toy pistol. The game becomes serious. On the roof in a skyskraper district they risk their lives for the toy pistol.

Director: Manuel Summers
Stars: Cristina Galbó, Pedro Díez del Corral, Lina Onesti
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain

As the title of the film indicates, this film starts with pink – a story about a teenage boy who falls in love with a girl of his very same age but more mature, and goes on to yellow, the love between two elders that are not allowed to see each other.

Director: Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault
Stars: Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Abel Harvey
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.

Director: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme
Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

A portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962;the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France was not involved in any war.

Director: Paulo Rocha
Stars: Rui Gomes, Isabel Ruth, Ruy Furtado
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

Julio, aged nineteen, has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives there in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop, he gets to know Ilda, a young housemaid and regular customer. Ilda is pretty, joyful and modern and Julio falls for her. The two young people, although very different from each other, embark on an idyll.

Director: Frank Perry
Stars: Jane Connell, William Daniels, James Frawley
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.

Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm, Emy Storm
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

An aspiring young writer lives in a bleak working class block in the late 1930s.

Director: James Neilson
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK

In eighteenth century England, the mysterious masked rider known as the Scarecrow (Patrick McGoohan) leads a rebel band to save the town of Romney Marsh from King George III’s (Eric Pohlmann’s) oppression and Naval press gangs.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, James MacArthur
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

Grand Teton quarryman and family patriarch carefully navigates issues of religion and education in order to eke out a brighter future for his family.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India

A young Indian newlywed finds his independent wife troublesome and seeks help and advice from his overbearing mother, a supposedly worldly wise friend, an American seeker of enlightenment and a swami.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

Director: Brunello Rondi
Stars: Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff, Anna María Aveta
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France | Italy

Purificata (Daliah Lavi), a young peasant living in a small village in Southern Italy, is considered a witch by the locals; incurring this way into their wrath – up to a point where she is condemned to a terrible sentence as a punishment to her supposedly evil deeds.

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by “Judex”, demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at his masked ball. However, he is only drugged by Judex and locked away.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban, Maria Pia Schiaffino
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

Director: Freddie Francis
Stars: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.

Director: Metin Erksan
Stars: Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

A tobacco farmer tries to ruin his competitors crops by diverting water to his property.

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

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

Director: Vilgot Sjöman
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Gunnar Björnstrand, Sven Nykvist
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

Vilgot Sjöman and a crew from Swedish Television followed Ingmar Bergman during the filming of Winter Light and came away with a five-part documentary, including set construction, rehearsals, editing, and behind-the-camera conversations with Bergman and the cast and crew, and audience reactions to the film.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A woman remember’s her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Catherine Spaak, Didi Perego
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino and makes up her mind to join him. But he has found a new lover.

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History
Country: UK

The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family’s fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States.

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy | France | USA

Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring’s rightful owner.

Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Psychologist Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of the Crawthorne State Training Institute, one of the first boarding schools for developmentally challenged children. Dr. Clark is sympathetic but demanding of his teachers and students. His approach of tough love is controversial. He takes a chance at hiring former aspiring concert pianist Jean Hansen as the school’s music teacher, Miss Hansen who has no background in nursing, teaching or dealing with the developmentally challenged.

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Emiko Aizawa, Setsuko Amamiya, Tomio Aoki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Patrice Moullet, Marino Masé, Geneviève Galéa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France | Italy

During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet
Genre: War, Drama
Country: France

During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

A burglar betraying other criminals, prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend that might be as untrustworthy as he.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzen, Christian Charrière
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

The friendship of Bertrand and Guillaume is complicated when the womanizing Guillaume begins to pursue a charming girl named Suzanne.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: France | Algeria

A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.

Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Jacques Dufilho, Yvette Etiévant, Michel Galabru
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France

The school boys of two villages in France are fighting. Their trophy are the buttons they will snatch from the enemy. This fight will bring those kids to everlasting friendship…eventually.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town’s population of lost souls.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Soumitra Chatterjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A taxi driver attempts to introduce his cab service in rural Bengal against many odds.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from Greenwich Village, and the two try to straighten out their lives together.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Director: Roberto Farias
Stars: Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria, Jorge Dória
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil

Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Eiji Funakoshi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Director: Guy Green
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Upper class Americans Noel and Meg Johnson have a twenty-six year old daughter named Clara Johnson. Clara suffered a head injury as a child which resulted in her being mentally disabled. Clara’s mental capacity is equivalent to that of a ten year old. In many social situations, Clara’s disability can be passed off as a simple joy of life. The issue of Clara’s care has placed a strain between Noel and Meg, the latter who clings to the hope that one day Clara can lead a “normal” life.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Jacques Charrier, Stéphane Audran, Walther Reyer
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

André Mercier, a journalist known as Albin Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer. Sent to cover an event in Germany, he gets to know Andreas Hartmann, another writer who, for his part, has not… failed. The successful Andreas is married to Hélène, a beautiful Frenchwoman. Both attracted to her and jealous of the couple’s happiness, Mercier decides to shatter it.

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

Trnka’s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships.

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

In Britain, a high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher but, after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.

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

Experimental short uses Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a young man prone to heavy bouts with the bottle.

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend Heavenly, the daughter of the local politician Tom ‘Boss’ Finley, who more or less forced him to leave the town many years ago.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman’s adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.

Director: Kenji Misumi
Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Masayo Banri, Ryûzô Shimada
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Hubert Deschamps, Claude Berri, Evelyne Ker
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France

Two men are disappointed by women and united by a whore.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student for a two-day ride through the Roman and Tuscany countries.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jean Bobet
Genre: Documentary, Short, Sport
Country: France

Chronicles the cyclists of the Tour de France and their daily trails along the race.

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob
Genre: Drama
Country: France

After Thérèse is acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Bernard Desqueyroux, she recalls the events that lead to her being charged.

Director: Hubert Cornfield, Stanley Kramer
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

Director: David Miller
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Henryk Kluba, Michal Zolnierkiewicz, Voytek Frykowski
Genre: Comedy, Short
Country: Poland

“Waiting for Godot” on ice and snow, without words.

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Salvo Randone, Franco Sportelli, Regina Bianchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Anthony Franciosa, Betsy Blair
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The place is Trieste and the time is 1927. Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. At least until the day he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful young woman. But the lady is also fickle, wayward and coquettish. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her…

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Chûsha Ichikawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Yûnosuke Itô, Hisano Yamaoka
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

When John Harris’s daughter is badly injured in an boating accident, the hospital tells him that she will need an urgent blood transfusion. Due to his religious beliefs Harris refuses permission, and the child dies. When the inquest clears Harris of all blame, the doctor in charge of the case tries to get the police to press manslaughter charges against Harris.

Director: Georges Lautner
Stars: Bernard Blier, Danièle Delorme, Maurice Biraud
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.

Director: Alberto Lattuada
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades’ old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

After his girlfriend’s pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Robert Benson
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An early experimental black and white animated film from artist Stan Brakhage.

Director: Lev Kulidzhanov
Stars: Inna Gulaya, Yuriy Nikulin, Leonid Kuravlyov
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

After the 1st world war, two veterans, starving, but fools, are enlisted with the fascists, where they can eat. But when it comes to killing, they drop out.

Director: Alex Segal
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | France | USA

To build bridges with his estranged son, a Greek shipping magnate enlists the help of his second wife, Phaedra. But, in rain-soaked Paris, their passionate affair threatens to destroy his empire. Will the modern temptress accept her fate?

Director: Ray Milland
Stars: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A family leaves L.A. for a camping trip – just before a nuclear bomb destroys the city. As the city descends into chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive.

Director: Peter Ustinov
Stars: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK

Billy Budd is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship’s sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Satomi Oka
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Betsy Blair
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK

This movie, based on William Shakespeare’s Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.

Director: Karel Zeman
Stars: Milos Kopecký, Rudolf Jelínek, Jana Brejchová
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

An examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud’s career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

Director: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: William Finley, Robin Brooks, Norma Green
Genre: Short, Horror
Country: USA

Woton Wretchichevsky has a disfigured face, dresses in cloak and mask and stalks couples to burn them with a blowtorch. He is also a sculptor of steel and garbage installations. One day one of his creations comes alive in the form of a young woman. She flees him when he tries to express his love by pointing the blowtorch at her. She hides in a house where some kind of orgy or happening is going on

Director: Mikhail Romm
Stars: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

In 1962 London, four troublesome teenagers are charged by the police with robbing a garage and murdering the night watchman.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Jess Hahn, Michèle Girardon, Van Doude
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A French-American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy