Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Tamotsu Hayakawa, Yoshiko Kayama, Taiji Tonoyama
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
A shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest house. Upon arriving there, he finds out that he also has to take care of a flock of undisciplined youngsters.
Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Robert Hossein, Jean Sorel, Catherine Rouvel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy
A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl – what could go wrong? Almost everything.
Director: Frédéric Rossif
Stars: Irene Worth, John Gielgud, Suzanne Flon
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
To Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo’s targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.
Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Monaco
Jean is a clerk in a bank. His colleague Caron is a gambler and gives him the virus. In the casinos, Jean meets Jackie. Their love affair will follow their luck at the roulette.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: DeVeren Bookwalter, Willard Maas
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA
Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man’s face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland, Constance Cummings
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK
Ten year old Sammy travels 4500 miles on his own from the Suez Canal to Durban, South Africa.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Rufus Collins, Johnny Dodd, Fred Herko
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA
Close-ups of couples kissing for three minutes each.
Director: Clive Donner
Stars: Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
While renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston’s brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Sandra Milo, François Périer, Mario Adorf
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | France
Twenty-four hours in the life of Pina and Adolfo. The story of a 36-year-old woman and the flashbacks that show the pair’s lives and fills in some details of their other relationships.
Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis (Alain Delon), to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Jô Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawaji
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.
Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Alain Cuny, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jacques Perrin
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
The son of a rich Italian industrialist finds out how tough it is to leave the path society has set for him.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, Elena Nicolai
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA | Ireland
Shocked by the death of her spouse, a scheming widow hatches a bold plan to get her hands on the inheritance, unaware that she is targeted by an axe-wielding murderer who lurks in the family’s estate. What mystery shrouds the noble house?
Director: Fons Rademakers
Stars: Lex Schoorel, Nan Los, Van Doude
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands
The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable resemblance to Ducker. Ducker follows Dorbeck blindly, becomes involved in the Dutch resistance and soon starts killing people. When he escapes through German lines to the freed South Netherlands, no one has ever heard of Dorbeck.
Director: Alex Segal
Stars: Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
In the early 1900’s Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father’s sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
Director: Georges Lautner
Stars: Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France | Italy | West Germany
A dying mob boss hands over his business to an old friend, Fernand. The boss’ assistants want to get rid of the latter. But are the Volfoni brothers and Théo real threats? Ensuing fights and shootouts are more comical than deadly.
Director: John Huston
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
A former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list.
Director: Robert Drew
Stars: John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA
Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy. Loud shouts come from both sides of the issue as JFK stands by his decisions.
Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claire Bloom, Vito De Taranto
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial review by fiscal authorities drive the firm to ruin. Ada, his wife, starts to be unfaithful and this is another strong hit to his life. But it isn’t still enough, a tragedy is waiting Mombelli behind the corner.
Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France | Yugoslavia
A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Homer Smith, an unemployed construction worker heading out west, stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert…
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Adventure
Country: Japan
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Uno Henning, Allan Edwall
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
The god Indra’s daughter descends to earth to experience firsthand people’s living conditions. Bergman’s first staging of Strindberg’s play “Ett drömspel.”
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Robert Indiana
Genre: Experimental, Art Film
Country: USA
This art experiment by Andy Warhol captures the simple act of a man eating mushrooms.
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Despite his fiancee’s reluctance, a young man moves to Sicily for a better job, but soon starts questioning his decision.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bachchan
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Lila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga’s stage shows. When her boyfriend, Rick, runs off with the show’s money, Madame Olga and Ronny let Lila go. Lila goes to stay with her old neighbors, Helen Bard and her teenage son, Kenny. Lila decides to go out and get a regular job and try and live a normal life. All seems well, until Lila and Kenny stop fighting their attraction for one another.
Director: Marie Menken
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
A short film which combines a series of unrelated images together much like a notebook.
Director: Jean Eustache
Stars: Aristide, Daniel Bart, Dominique Jayr
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France
Two men in their twenties spend their time in Parisian cafes trying to pick up women. They take one girl dancing, and then steal her purse when she prefers to dance with another man.
Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Antonio Petruzzi, Stefano Satta Flores, Sergio Ferranino
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
The story follows the uneventful lives of three young men, who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.
Director: Giovanni Guareschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Gigi Artuso
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy
“La Rabbia” employs documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear?
Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: Rony Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy
Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.
Director: Damiano Damiani
Stars: Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
The son of a dead Italian nobleman and a wealthy American woman forgets the disappointment of finding he has no talent for being a painter by succumbing to the sexual advances of an amoral model who believes in indiscriminate love affairs.
Director: Mario Bava
Stars: John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.
Director: Mai Zetterling
Stars: Ian Ellis, Joseph Robinson
Genre: Drama, Short, War
Country: UK
Two boys quarrel about a toy pistol. The game becomes serious. On the roof in a skyskraper district they risk their lives for the toy pistol.
Director: Manuel Summers
Stars: Cristina Galbó, Pedro Díez del Corral, Lina Onesti
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
As the title of the film indicates, this film starts with pink – a story about a teenage boy who falls in love with a girl of his very same age but more mature, and goes on to yellow, the love between two elders that are not allowed to see each other.
Director: Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault
Stars: Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Abel Harvey
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.
Director: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme
Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
A portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962;the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France was not involved in any war.
Director: Paulo Rocha
Stars: Rui Gomes, Isabel Ruth, Ruy Furtado
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Julio, aged nineteen, has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives there in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop, he gets to know Ilda, a young housemaid and regular customer. Ilda is pretty, joyful and modern and Julio falls for her. The two young people, although very different from each other, embark on an idyll.
Director: Frank Perry
Stars: Jane Connell, William Daniels, James Frawley
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.
Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm, Emy Storm
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
An aspiring young writer lives in a bleak working class block in the late 1930s.
Director: James Neilson
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK
In eighteenth century England, the mysterious masked rider known as the Scarecrow (Patrick McGoohan) leads a rebel band to save the town of Romney Marsh from King George III’s (Eric Pohlmann’s) oppression and Naval press gangs.
Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, James MacArthur
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Grand Teton quarryman and family patriarch carefully navigates issues of religion and education in order to eke out a brighter future for his family.
Director: James Ivory
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
A young Indian newlywed finds his independent wife troublesome and seeks help and advice from his overbearing mother, a supposedly worldly wise friend, an American seeker of enlightenment and a swami.
Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Director: Brunello Rondi
Stars: Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff, Anna María Aveta
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France | Italy
Purificata (Daliah Lavi), a young peasant living in a small village in Southern Italy, is considered a witch by the locals; incurring this way into their wrath – up to a point where she is condemned to a terrible sentence as a punishment to her supposedly evil deeds.
Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by “Judex”, demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at his masked ball. However, he is only drugged by Judex and locked away.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban, Maria Pia Schiaffino
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Director: Freddie Francis
Stars: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
Director: Metin Erksan
Stars: Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
A tobacco farmer tries to ruin his competitors crops by diverting water to his property.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | France
Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.
Director: Vilgot Sjöman
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Gunnar Björnstrand, Sven Nykvist
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden
Vilgot Sjöman and a crew from Swedish Television followed Ingmar Bergman during the filming of Winter Light and came away with a five-part documentary, including set construction, rehearsals, editing, and behind-the-camera conversations with Bergman and the cast and crew, and audience reactions to the film.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A woman remember’s her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Catherine Spaak, Didi Perego
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino and makes up her mind to join him. But he has found a new lover.
Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History
Country: UK
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family’s fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States.
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy | France | USA
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring’s rightful owner.
Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Psychologist Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of the Crawthorne State Training Institute, one of the first boarding schools for developmentally challenged children. Dr. Clark is sympathetic but demanding of his teachers and students. His approach of tough love is controversial. He takes a chance at hiring former aspiring concert pianist Jean Hansen as the school’s music teacher, Miss Hansen who has no background in nursing, teaching or dealing with the developmentally challenged.
Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Emiko Aizawa, Setsuko Amamiya, Tomio Aoki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Patrice Moullet, Marino Masé, Geneviève Galéa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France | Italy
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet
Genre: War, Drama
Country: France
During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzen, Christian Charrière
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
The friendship of Bertrand and Guillaume is complicated when the womanizing Guillaume begins to pursue a charming girl named Suzanne.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: France | Algeria
A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.