Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Michiko Saga, Teruyo Yamagami
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Michiko Saga, Teruyo Yamagami
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland
A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK | USA
A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, John Gregson
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
A little Roman Catholic boy and a little Jewish girl become best friends despite the prejudice that surrounds them.
Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed “Chief” by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France
Lorenzo, who’s 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida’s situation or her prospects?
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Kallol Bose, Subir Bose, Norman Ellis
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: India
This documentary shows the life of the greatest Bengali talent of all time, Rabindranath Tagore. His work in Bengali culture and literature.
Director: Val Guest
Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.
Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Adolfas Mekas, Frances Stillman, Ben Carruthers
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.
Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owners three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Director: Jean Rouch
Stars: Nadine Ballot, Denise, Elola
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Côte d’Ivoire
The arrival of Nadine, a new student, in the Abidjan Lyceum is the starting point for a discussion about interratial relationships.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Italy
Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Eitarô Ozawa
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband’s approval, and this complicates the trial.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Elli Davis, Fernandel
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people’s reactions (or lack there of) to the announcement.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Koyama, Yôko Mihara
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”
Director: Guy Green
Stars: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen
Genre: Short, Adventure, Drama
Country: France
In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.
Director: William Castle
Stars: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.
Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Margaret Ashcroft, Gertrude Dickin, Margaret Lacey
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: UK
The movie follows the routine of a busy train station – London’s Waterloo Station – making a brief yet important cultural portrait of 1960s England, mixing reality and fiction.
Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a result of his body not being found the latter will have to wait for five years until they can inherit the count’s money.
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Pietro Germi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A D.A. investigates 3 white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: André Katelbach, Roman Polanski
Genre: Short, Comedy, Music
Country: France
A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps like a madman, wipes his master’s brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella and holds a urinal for him.
Director: Etienne Périer
Stars: Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | USA
Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband’s government.
Director: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
After winning re-election, British Labour Party M.P. Johnnie Byrne faces a series of setbacks in his political career, as well as in his marriage, and must act wisely in order to save both.
Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Everett Chambers
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Ghost is an ideological musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. However, when he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer Jess Polanski, she comes between him and his band members, and he leaves his dreams behind in search of fame.
Director: Seth Holt
Stars: Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father’s estate after ten years, and although she’s told he’s away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Mariko Miyagi, Tamao Nakamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A man has a wife and nine girlfriends, all ten of whom are fed up with his shameless polygamy and plot to kill him. However, this is easier said than done.
Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard, Emilienne Caille
Genre: Short, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
A subtitle warns, “Beware of dark sunglasses.” Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine.
Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy | France
Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police at his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what the investigation is about as we discover details about his life.
Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | USA
A successful business woman, dissatisfied with her current, philandering lover, starts an affair with a much younger man.
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Richard Vernon
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Natalya Arkhangelskaya
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Director: René Laloux
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: France
An animated film whose storyline was created by patients in a French mental health clinic. A dentist steals the teeth of poorer patients for rich clientèle until a monkey magician elicits revenge.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
Genre: Japan
Country: France | Italy
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.
Director: Gilles Grangier
Stars: Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Françoise Rosay
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: France | Italy
“Le Dabe” retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately.
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.
Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: William Redfield, Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A director tries to film a group of junkies in Leach’s room while they are waiting for Cowboy to bring their heroin connection.
Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it’s too late.
Director: Allen Baron
Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Having been ‘away’ for some time, professional killer Frankie Bono returns to New York to do another job: assassinate some mid-level mobster. Although intending to avoid unnecessary ‘contact’ while carefully stalking his victim, Bono is recognized by an old fellow from the orphanage, whose calm and unambitious citizen’s life and happy marriage contrast heavily with Bono’s solitary and haunted existence.
Director: David Swift
Stars: Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Stars: Brad Harris, Sergio Ciani, Mara Berni
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Country: Italy | France
While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Banerjee, Aparna Sen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in the gang start to turn on each other.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Sensitive story of a British girl’s awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend’s party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend Juan, a Spanish activist who had recently broken up with Terry.
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Barbara Rütting, Christine Kaufmann
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland | West Germany | USA
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
A teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing.
Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy | USA
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
Director: John Ford
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones
Genre: Western
Country: USA
A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut
Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Caroline Dim, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Romance, Short
Country: France
A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.