Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Sara Gómez, Nelson Rodríguez
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short
Country: France | Cuba
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Miki Irie, Teruko Hasegawa, Yoko Matsushita
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Japan
Follows Ako, a 16 year old Japanese girl, as she spends time working in a bakery and going out with her friends.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Mario Montez
Genre: Short
Country: USA
A transvestite, Mario, eats a banana.
Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke’s Drift.
Director: Renato Castellani, Marco Ferreri, Franco Rossi
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Ugo Tognazzi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France
A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.
Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Single and alone, Evie Jackson (Geraldine Page) arrives in New York City for the annual Postmasters’ convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanizing salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. When his path crosses Evie’s, she wonders if this is finally the man for her, while her ways just seem to annoy him. At least to start with
Director: Walter Hugo Khouri
Stars: Norma Bengell, Odete Lara, Mário Benvenutti
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings, and the emptiness of their lives.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Stars: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
An American Naval Officer’s talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.
Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Marie-José Nat, Jacques Charrier, Michel Subor
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | West Germany
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with “Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale”, that tells the same story from another perspective.
Director: René Clément
Stars: Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
French filmmaker Rene Clement presents Alain Delon as a petty criminal on the run from the underground. On the Rivera, he seeks refuge in a flophouse whose soup line is served by Jane Fonda and Lola Albright. The two women move him to a Gothic mansion owned by Albright, a millionairess with a Salvation Army complex.
Director: Arthur Lipsett
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Arthur Lipsett
Snippets from discarded footage, and with footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, combined to a collage with the underlying argument as to whether man is a complex machine or a creature with a soul.
Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot, Achille Majeroni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France
A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her.It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France
The rich man Domenico and Filumena, a penniless prostitute, share great part of their lives in the immediate post WWII Italy.
Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Walter Chiari, Michèle Mercier, Roberto Ciccolini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
It’s the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past.
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Famous Spanish bandit Artiguez returns to his native Spanish village after 20 years in French exile but Spanish cop Vinolas is setting a trap for him.
Director: Jacques Rozier
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France
Jacques Rozier filmed this documentary on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Contempt” (Le Mépris) during location shooting on the island of Capri, and he interviews Godard, star Brigitte Bardot, and the other stars, and captures the making of the film. Most of the footage shot focused on the annoyances of the then-new phenomenon of paparazzi, who tried anything they could to sneak onto the set to take pictures of Bardot; that footage, which included interviews with an annoyed Godard and a perplexed Bardot, was removed to be made into a separate documentary called “Paparazzi”.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.
Director: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: France | Italy | USA
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Antoine Vitez
Country: France
A documentary account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s.
Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.
Director: Michael Roemer
Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Director: Paul Henreid
Stars: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece | USA
An uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
Director: Christian-Jaque
Stars: Francis Blanche, Boy Gobert, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Spain | Italy
Also known in English as “Champagne for Savages”. Set in World War Two occupied France. Several people gather at a house to celebrate a woman’s birthday. Some German soldiers are killed outside. The Gestapo inform the group that they must select two of their party to be executed for the crime. It then becomes a matter of everyone trying to save themselves.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Stars: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Liam Redmond
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada | USA
An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy
Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex: he asks children where babies come from, young and old women if they are men’s equals, men and women if a woman’s virginity matters, how they view homosexuals, how sex and honor connect, if divorce should be legal, and if they support closing the brothels (the Merlina Act).
Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czech teenager when he starts work.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Director: Osamu Tezuka
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Japan
In a totalitarian society where daydreaming is forbidden, an imaginative boy fantasies about catching a mermaid and playing with her.
Director: Dinos Dimopoulos
Stars: Jenny Karezi, Nikos Kourkoulos, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Betrayed by his accomplices, Aris, the fastest knife in Troumba, reunites with his true love, Lola. Now, a mean cabaret owner wants him dead, and he must tie up all the loose ends. But, is there an easy way out from the port of lost souls?
Director: Bill Colleran, John Gielgud
Stars: Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
The highly successful 1964 Richard Burton Broadway production of “Hamlet”, deliberately staged in the style of a “dress rehearsal”, but performed in front of a live audience.
Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger.
Director: John Huston
Stars: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Director: Arthur Lipsett
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Canada
An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, FREE FALL is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality.
Director: Marie Menken
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
A short experimental film made by New York visual and avant-garde artist Marie Menken.
Director: Jacques Rozier
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jean Lescot, David Tonelli
Genre: Short
Country: France
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi.
Director: Steve Binder
Stars: The Beach Boys, The Barbarians, Chuck Berry
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
Surf pop duo, Jan and Dean host this showcase of performances by well-known Rock, R&B, and pop stars of the era.
Director: Larry Peerce
Stars: Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960’s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: John Giorno
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A man sleeps for five hours.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
A critic blackmails a famous musician with his biography filled with the revelations of many of his women.
Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually incredibly inexperienced when it comes to the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
The 2 front runners for their party’s presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former President’s endorsement.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Mario Montez
Genre: Short
Country: USA
Quirky girl eating a “banana.”
Director: Don Owen
Stars: Peter Kastner, Julie Biggs, Claude Rae
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Nadja Tesich
Genre: Short
Country: France
Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust. Besides her student life she likes to stroll about Paris, to explore the variety of this wide and open city..
Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Simone Cousteau
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Italy
Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen and mostly filmed in deep-water seas from within a special designed batiscaff, by the Cousteau family of sea explorers.
Director: Alain Cavalier
Stars: Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Georges Géret
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
1961. Luxemburger Thomas Vlassenroot deserted the French Foreign Legion during the Algiers Putsch. His lieutenant, Fraser, initiated the desertion for the two of them, Fraser believing he could do more for the French working for an underground organization. However, Thomas readily admits that he no longer has any political motivations or affiliations, and thus is hiding out from the authorities in Algiers.
Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow, Barbara Ferris
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling photographer, aims to conquer a fashion model from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. The tables thus turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it’s not the tourists who are being used in these sexual games.
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany | USA
An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town’s expectations with her generosity, but she’s only out for revenge.
Director: George Seaton
Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
Director: Anton Leader
Stars: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Six impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues.
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
Genre: Horror
Country: USA | UK
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land.
Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy | France | West Germany
A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.
Director: George Pal
Stars: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O’Connell
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
A mysterious circus comes to a western town bearing wonders and characters that entertain the inhabitants and teach valuable lessons.
Director: Osamu Tezuka
Stars: Shinsuke Chikaishi, Adolf Hitler
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Japan
Explores the pros, cons and the nature of memory.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.
Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Genre: Documentary, Music, News
Country: USA
A documentary following the Fab Four for five days in 1964. A humorous and freewheeling account of their first trip to America.
Director: Alain Jessua
Stars: Charles Denner, Anna Gaylor, Guy Saint-Jean
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Real estate agent Jacques Valin records his life story on a tape recorder when he loses job.
Director: Philip Saville
Stars: Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw, Alec Clunes
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Denmark
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet’s mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Director: Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa, Roman Polanski
Stars: Mie Hama, Ken Mitsuda, Yatsuko Tan’ami
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France | Italy | Japan | Netherlands
Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo – Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam – The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris – France (L’homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Yûzô Kayama, Mitsukô Kusabue
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.
Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Francis Lacombrade, Didier Haudepin, François Leccia
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Jô Shishido, Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
An injured thief on the run finds sanctuary within a brothel of united, ruthless women.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband’s relationship with his best friend.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Following the death of his friend, an Italian youth grows increasingly closer to his young aunt.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Karen Conrad
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Kelly’s path towards happiness is thrown amiss when she witnesses a shocking event, which threatens not just her happiness, but her mental health as well.
Director: Jan Nemec
Stars: Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man’s struggle to preserve human dignity.
Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, John Gielgud
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA
King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God’s divine will rather than the King’s.
Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK | USA
Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon’s driver at a country estate.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Ira Rubin, Sam DeFazio, Andrea Martin
Genre: Short, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Saro Urzì, Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France
A desperate Sicilian man, whose 15-year-old daughter was seduced and impregnated by his older daughter’s fiancé, tries to find a way to save the family’s honor.
Director: Sergio Leone
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy | Spain | West Germany
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Cuba | Soviet Union
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Two women kill samurais and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
An experimental film from Stan Brakhage in which a man and his dog ascend a wooded mountain.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Bernard Noël, Macha Méril, Philippe Leroy
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Director: Glauber Rocha
Stars: Geraldo Del Rey, Yoná Magalhães, Othon Bastos
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
After killing his employer when said employer tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Surprised that their contract victim didn’t try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.