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Director: René Clément
Stars: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marlène Jobert
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy

A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Chieko Akaza, Etsuko Akaza, Tami Akaza
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

A documentary film showcasing life in postwar Japan as seen through the eyes of a bar hostess.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Stars: Michael König, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the “Black Monk” in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The “Black Monk” suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kazuo Goto, Sukio Fukuoka, Kenichi Fukuda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student’s camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.

Director: Les Blank, Skip Gerson
Stars: Lightnin Hopkins, Billy Bizor, Mance Lipscomb
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA

A portrait of the great Texas bluesman, ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.

Director: Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

Follows Martin Luther King’s life and decades long civil rights activism.

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary.

Director: Leonard J. Horn
Stars: Linda Gillen, Michael Greer, Dianne Hull
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Norway | USA

Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution

Director: Casper Wrede
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Norway | USA

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp.

Director: Kevin Billington
Stars: Ann Beach, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Peter Cook
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.

Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy | West Germany

An American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder. He learns later that it’s connected to an ongoing murder spree in the city, and decides to do his own investigation, despite being personally targeted by the killer.

Director: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan | USA

In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a preventive attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France | Soviet Union | USA

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany

A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.

Director: Jaromil Jires
Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Inspired by fairytales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood, is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world.

Director: Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He’s a dutiful husband; his wife’s a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He’s a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab’s wife’s expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK | USA

When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Riccardo Billi, Federico Fellini, Gigi Reder
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A ragout of real memories and mockumentary, as Fellini explores a childhood obsession: circus clowns.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Peggy Lynch
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA

A woman’s dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Director: Norman Cohen
Stars: James Mason
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

A 45-minute trippy documentary of late 1960’s London and is a fascinating time capsule of the remnants of a bygone age before Londons’s extensive redevelopment in the late 1960’s.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Viva, Louis Waldon
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Viva (playing herself) and Louis Waldon (playing himself) spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.

Director: Jaromil Jires
Stars: Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

In the 1950’s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic
Stars: Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Severin Bijelic
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia’s communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what’s right and what’s wrong.

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A suicidal advertising executive is forced to re-evaluate his life while dealing with his unhappy marriage, his mistress, and his aging father.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Shizue Kawarazaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.

Director: Charles Burnett
Stars: Andy Burnett, Eugene Cherry, Charles Bracy
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An improvised late ’60’s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Director, Charles Burnett; done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A day-in-the-life South Central L.A. tale about a rag-tag group of unemployed black male pals.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Louis Malle
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960’s: rich and poor, exotic and mundane, secular and religious, children and adults, animate and inanimate. Given only the images, the viewer can read any meaning she or he wants into the film.

Director: John Waters
Stars: Mary Vivian Pearce, Divine, David Lochary
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).

Director: Gordon Parks
Stars: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.

Director: Les Blank, Skip Gerson
Stars: Lightnin Hopkins, Billy Bizor, Wendell Anderson
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank’s stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins’ reminiscences of his youth “one of the three most important films on the South.”

Director: Miguel Littin
Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Marcelo Romo
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile

The real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son’s death.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with the powerful sorceress, Medea. However, when the king banishes her, it’s only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath?

Director: Leslie Woodhead
Stars: The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

Extensive footage of the Rolling Stones performing on July 5th 1969 in Hyde Park in front of an audience of appropriately 500,000 people just two days after the untimely death of former lead gutiarist and band founder Brian Jones.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Barbara Wrzesinska, Jan Myslowicz, Andrzej Zarnecki
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Jan and Marek used to study physics together but after graduation their paths were different. Jan got married and moved to the countryside. Marek stayed in Warsaw and now wants to persuade Jan to follow his path.

Director: Peter Yates
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.

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

A lemon is disclosed by lighting, then slowly disappears back into shadow.

Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Inger Stevens
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy’s life. However, money is a problem.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a “Communist” and “Greek dog”. After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.

Director: Arunas Zebriunas
Stars: Inga Mickyte, Lilija Zadeikyte, Arvidas Samukas
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union

The cruelty of children is offered in all its unadorned ugliness in “Grazuole”. The title character is a 9-year-old girl, shunned by her classmates because of her alleged homeliness.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Viva, James Rado, Gerome Ragni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | USA

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Stars: Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.

Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Japan

Two series of images, chaotically showcasing Japan in the ’60s, showing images of student riots, ads and pop culture.

Director: Pierre Étaix
Stars: Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

After fifteen years of average married life and stifling in-laws, a businessman undergoes a midlife crisis and pursues his attractive young secretary.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Mimi Kozakura, Michio Akiyama, Yôko Yamamoto
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Soviet Union

Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Zouzou, Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A loose Biblical allegory starring the legendary model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.

Director: Charles Jarrott
Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Walter Vidarte, Graciela Borges, Nora Cullen
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams…and her family.

Director: Luigi Magni
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany

Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join. Things are turned on their head when Franz and Bruno become friends, to the point that they even share Franz’s girlfriend Joanna. But Joanna soon becomes bored of Bruno.

Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Stars: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don’t get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board’s token black man, Putney Swope.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Petar Radenkovic, Mario Adorf, Hans Tiedemann
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: West Germany

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Andrzej Lapicki
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

The disappearance of the leading actor from the film’s set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor’s wife and mistress.

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Danièle Gaubert, Nino Castelnuovo, Eleonora Rossi Drago
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Sensuous Marguerite is addicted to sex and money. She is kept by a wealthy man, has a string of young lovers and hosts wild orgies in her luxurious villa.

Director: Frank Perry
Stars: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio’s newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.

Director: Peter Collinson
Stars: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK | USA

Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Zygmunt Malanowicz, Malgorzata Braunek, Ewa Skarzanka
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland

Wlodek is a shy man who’s afraid of his mother as well as his wife. However, upon meeting Irena, his life takes a new turn.

Director: Gene Levitt
Stars: Louis Jourdan, Mary Tyler Moore, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there’s no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. He finds a key on the floor and goes to his boss to get help when he’s struck from behind. He wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he’s had amnesia for two years, is now married, and living in Switzerland.

Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Sweden

Based on an incident in which five strikers were shot and killed, the film is lyrical and a visually beautiful film, definitely rising above TV movie-level.

Director: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA

During WWII in Italy, a wine producing village hide a million bottles from the Germans.

Director: Haskell Wexler
Stars: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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

Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.

Director: Michael Caffey
Stars: Milton Berle, Sean Garrison, Dina Merrill
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

Based on the Leonard Bishop’s novel Against Heaven’s Hand. Seven blind people are on a plane on their way to a convention for the blind in Seattle. Due to bad weather, the plane crashes and only the seven blind people survive.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Drama
Country: France | West Germany

How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris’s student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile’s subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters’ musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix – and how filmmaking is a path.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s’ students researching Osugi’s theories.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.

Director: Gene Saks
Stars: Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.

Director: Rogério Sganzerla
Stars: Helena Ignez, Jô Soares, Stênio Garcia
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.

Director: Allan King
Stars: Billy Edwards, Antoinette Edwards, Bogart Edwards
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

An “actuality drama” about a real-life marriage in crisis, in which the couple attempts to identify and resolve the conflicts and resentments that have driven them to the brink of separation.

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Gino Lavagetto
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

A man decides to cook for himself, but finds the revolver of John Dillinger hidden in his kitchen instead.

Director: Péter Bacsó
Stars: Ferenc Kállai, Lajos Öze, Béla Both
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Hungary

Banned for over a decade for its outspoken criticism of the post-WWII communist regime in Hungary, Péter Bacsó’s ‘The Witness’ has since then achieved unparalleled cult status in its native land. Known as the best satire about communism, ‘The Witness’ has become a cult classic, which was also well received by critics and general audiences alike when it was finally released outside of Hungary.

Director: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Wendy Allnutt, Colin Farrell, Malcolm McFee
Genre: Comedy, Musical, War
Country: UK

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Ken Yoshizawa, Yôko Mutô, Rokkô Toura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother – a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Eri Ashikawa, Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Miki Hayashi
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Japan

A bunch of violent hippies kidnap and humiliate a young romantic couple, while a nearby yakuza gang observes the situation.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India

Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.

Director: Lee H. Katzin, Bernard Girard
Stars: Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.

Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Tadashi Yokouchi, Paul Beauvais
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Chantal Akerman
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Belgium

A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi
Genre: Horror
Country: UK

Devil worshipers plan to convert two new victims.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Jirí Hálek, Ludek Kopriva, Míla Myslíková
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

Josef shows his friend Frank his garden and his rabbits. Frank is most interested in the unsettling fact that Josef’s garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.

Director: Susumu Hani
Stars: Haruo Asanu, Kazuko Fukuda, Kuniko Ishii
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

Director: Jack Smight
Stars: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down.

Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

1183 A.D.: King Henry II’s three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won’t commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

Director: John Waters
Stars: Lizzy Temple Black, Berenica Cipcus, Divine
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

John Waters’ first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to ‘model themselves to death’ in front of her boyfriend and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sylvie Bréal, Zuzana Kocúriková
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Italy | Czechoslovakia

On the run from pursuing soldiers, a man hides in a small European town.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Bernadette Lafont, Stanislas Robiolle
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur” describes the prodedure to develop or “reveal” film negatives.

Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène Jobert
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy | France

An accomplished painter rents a dilapidated villa in the country, and soon finds himself absorbed in the property’s history, particularly the murder of a sex-obsessed countess who died there decades prior.

Director: Ted Post
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.

Director: André Delvaux
Stars: Yves Montand, Anouk Aimée, Adriana Bogdan
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium

Mathias is a Belgian linguist, living with French theatre producer Anne. After a quarrel about moral questions, they take a train to attend a congress. While Mathias sleeps, Anne disappears. The train stops in the middle of the country and Mathias gets off the train with an older man, Hernhutter, and a young one, Val. The train moves off without them being able to catch it up. They will find a village, but cannot get any help because they do not understand a word of what the inhabitants say.

Director: Ulu Grosbard
Stars: Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents’ turbulent relationship.

Director: John Boorman
Stars: Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
Genre: Adventure, War
Country: USA

During World War II, an American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain are deserted on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must cease their hostility and cooperate if they want to survive, but will they?

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: Kasper König
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental film by Hollis Frampton documenting a man talking while a telephone rings, a tour of New York, and a goldfish.

Director: Emile de Antonio
Stars: Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A documentary chronicling the background to, and history of, the Vietnam War.

Director: William Friedkin
Stars: Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.

Director: Richard Irving
Stars: Peter Falk, Gene Barry, Katherine Justice
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant (Columbo).

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: UK

A bizarre comedy short by Terry Gilliam telling various absurdly comic stories.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kei Satô, Do-yun Yu, Fumio Watanabe
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Italy

When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.

Director: Tokuzô Tanaka
Stars: Shiho Fujimura, Akira Ishihama, Machiko Hasegawa
Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Japan

The lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Three sons who work in the family construction business help their overbearing mother celebrate her anniversary to her late husband.

Director: Paul Newman
Stars: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Ivan Kraus, Juraj Herz
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

Director: Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey
Stars: Viva, Tom Hompertz, Louis Waldon
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot & bothered at home en the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

Director: Richard Rush
Stars: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A deaf runaway arrives in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury hippie district looking for her missing brother.

Director: Brian G. Hutton
Stars: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK

Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that’s not all that’s really going on.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: n/a
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Workers on a car factory argue with revolutionary students.

Director: Frank Simon
Stars: Jim Dine, Jack Doroshow, Bruce Jay Friedman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The behind the scenes of a national drag queen contest in New York City, including the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition.

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Lionel Stander, Ferdy Mayne, Pauline Challoner
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Yugoslavia

In 1212, children from all over Europe lead a crusade to free Jerusalem from Turkish authorities. Nicholas and Stephen use all their might to defeat the enemy.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Stars: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A woman lures emotionally crippled men into affairs, then helps them repair their lives.

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Patti D’Arbanville
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A man desperate for money and no income, turns prostitute and interplays with a variety of clients and hustlers.

Director: Vincent McEveety
Stars: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A peace-loving, part-time Sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

Director: Peter Yates
Stars: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: Mari Töröcsik, József Madaras, Zoltán Latinovits
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic, “The Informer.”

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Sean Lynch, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

While The Rolling Stones rehearse “Sympathy for the Devil” in the studio, Godard reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stéphane Audran
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.

Director: Sergio Corbucci
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
Genre: Western
Country: Italy | France

A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.

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

A short film in which a man performs various exercises to support James Maxwell’s theory of gas molecules.

Director: Mai Zetterling
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of Lysistrata, Aristophanes’ classic comic play about women and war. As they re-assess and deal with the problems in their respective private lives, they recognize the parallels with the play and begin to realize that it is serious – even tragic – after all.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Elisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character.

Director: Peter Collinson
Stars: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Addresses some of the major 60s social issues – a bored rich London-girl from Chelsea decides to go “slumming” in depressed Battersea, getting a flat and starts factory-work and makes friends… of which one has to get an illegal abortion.

Director: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim
Stars: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | Italy

Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen.

Director: Chris Marker, François Reichenbach
Stars: William Sloane Coffin, N. Paul Stookey, Mary Travers
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought together a wide cross-section of liberals, radicals, hippies, and Yippies. Che Guevara had been killed in Bolivia only two weeks previously, and, for many, it was the transition from simply marching against the war, to taking direct action to try to stop the ‘American war machine.’ Norman Mailer wrote about the events in Armies of the Night. French filmmaker Chris Marker, leading a team of filmmakers, was also there, and made THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON.

Director: Jack Kaufman
Stars: Richard Basehart, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Erich Kempka
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

“The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” exposes the darkest chapter in history, from Adolf Hitler’s rise to power as a Nazi demagogue to his ultimate fatal mistakes. Researchers spent decades uncovering shocking footage of war, carnage and genocide and examined government documents and interviews with Hitler’s closest associates to discover how one man led his nation and the world into hell.

Director: William Greaves
Stars: Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, Jonathan Gordon
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously shooting the behind-the-scenes drama taking place.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Jean Renoir, Henri Langlois, Éric Rohmer
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France | USA

A short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic, Vera Jovanovic
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

Documentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Richard Levin, Pamela McMyler, Henry Axelrod
Genre: Short, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

They were both wanderers but to be more specific…Hippies.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Tamara Garina, Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico

Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky’s memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | France

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people’s ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Lefteris Daskalakis, Antonis Papadakis
Genre: Short
Country: West Germany

The story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don’t have much to say except to repeat their tellings over and over again. But the person who has the final word on the matter, the lonely character himself, may not explain anything about his personal reasons for not abandoning the place.

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Jack Fisk
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A commercial for Anacin.

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Uta Levka, Claus Ringer, Carl Möhner
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany | Yugoslavia | USA

A sexy temptress no man can resist and a local police officer who falls hard for her become embroiled in a complicated intrigue of passion and jealousy in Radley Metzger’s boldly original erotic update of the opera Carmen.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

Director: Jack Clayton
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Leclere, Pamela Franklin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears…

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Juro Kara, Keiko Koyanagi, Miki Hayashi
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A young man breaks into a nurse’s rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Algeria

In an atmosphere of political tension when the French still control Algiers, an Algerian is killed on the beach and a French man who has lived in Algiers all his life is arrested for the murder. A trial takes place. One of the witnesses was at the funeral of Arthur Meursault’s mother. It bothers other mourners and Mersault himself that he showed no emotion when his mother died. His eventful day at the beach takes place a short time after the funeral when he is examining what his life has been and what path should he take in the future.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother’s lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Charles Vanel, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France | Italy

A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK

An inept British World War II commander leads his troops through a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

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

A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.

Director: Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol
Stars: Tom Baker, Nico, Valerie Solanas
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

About a male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women.

Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot’s license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

In Nazi-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK | USA

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

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

An eight-part portrait of animal species in the different biological classes, accompanied by a different style of music. Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.

Director: Barbara Connell, Bill Jersey
Stars: Ernie Chambers, Ray Cristensen, Bill Youngdahl
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the mid-1960s, 1200 White people attend Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. Nearby, Negro Lutherans worship at Hope Lutheran Church. Reverend Bill Youngdahl, Augustana’s pastor, proposes that ten couples visit ten Negro families from Hope. It’s a controversial idea; within weeks, Youngdahl resigns. The camera observes: Augustana parishioners discuss the idea, the social ministry committee meets with Hope leaders, and Hope youth talk about race and religion.

Director: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Don Murray, Inger Stevens, Barry Nelson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn’t want to give them up so easily.

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK

Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity for projects like increasing the consumption of apples after a bumper crop as an aid to farmers. The handlers decide that Steven should support God and Country next. This leads to, among other things, a rock version of “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and the inclusion of a Nazi salute to make it clear (to the viewer) how far the British population will be taken for love of God and Country under Steven’s guidance.

Director: Peter Brook
Stars: Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK

In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat’s last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.

Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Stars: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

When the overworked and stressed-out White House presidential shrink runs away, the CEA and the FBR scramble to retrieve him before he could be abducted by various competing foreign intelligence services.

Director: Larry Peerce
Stars: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK | USA

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic
Stars: Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic, Dusica Zegarac, Severin Bijelic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

A lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister’s treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkô Toura, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Brigid Berlin, Julian Burrough, Taylor Mead
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter. Some of the “nude” patrons leave the establishment, their places taken by new customers, also nearly in the buff.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Ichirô Araki, Kazuko Tajima, Jûzô Itami
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with thier inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Italy | Yugoslavia

In World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he’s drafted into the S.S.

Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Carol White
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | USA

The professional and romantic misadventures of an advertising executive in 1960s swinging London.

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman, James Algar, Jack Kinney
Stars: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.

Director: Allan King
Stars: Martin Fischer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Chronicles 7-weeks in the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children and their therapist’s experimental method of treatment at the Toronto-area Warrendale facility.

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Giovanna Claudia Mongino, Luciano Piergiovanni
Genre: Romance
Country: Italy

Fun, sweet featurette (49 minutes) about a 15 year old (“let’s say 16”) boy who likes to take an industrial approach to courting.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsukô Kusabue
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.

Director: George Lucas
Stars: Dan Nachtsheim, Joy Carmichael, David Munson
Genre: Sci-Fi, Short
Country: USA

While monitored and pursued, a man races to escape through a futuristic labyrinth.

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary | Soviet Union

During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army – aided by Hungarian Communists – and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK

In Hong Kong, the ambassador returning to America meets the Russian countess, a refugee without a passport, who decides to hide in his cabin.

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

Stones of different shapes and colors live and die together.

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Jacques Brel, Emmanuelle Riva, René Dary
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Jean Doucet is a popular schoolmaster teaching in a small town in Normandy. At least he was… Until the day one of his pupils, Catherine Roussel, a garage owner’s daughter, accuses him of trying to rape her. But although Doucet (happily married to schoolmistress Suzanne) has always had a conduct above reproach, the Roussels decide to file a complaint against him.

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Black gay prostitute Jason Holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character, revealing nuanced truths about life and art.

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don’t want him to learn it.

Director: Don Levy
Stars: Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Peter Stephens
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

When Max (Michael Gothard), a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK | Japan

A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.

Director: Murray Lerner
Stars: Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who’s acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin’ Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform

Director: Pierre Koralnik
Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Marianne Faithfull
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: France

Released in 1967, this was the first colour film made for French TV. The story is about a man obsessively looking for a woman he saw in a photograph.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance’s family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Mario David
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Neurotic businessman must find the right man for his pregnant daughter. In fact, it is little bit complicated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Swedish film in eight episodes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A meditation on photographs from all kinds of themes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The departure of the German Army from Paris in 1944.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A comedy divided into four episodes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.

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

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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