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: Leon Hirszman
Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Paulo Gracindo, Ivan Cândido
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Woman who is obsessed with death wants a first-class burial for herself, and even buys a luxury coffin beforehand.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Gino Piserchio, Edie Sedgwick, Chuck Wein
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A couple disports in chimerical role-playing as part of their concours de seduction.
Director: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider
Stars: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one ‘shhh!’) in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley’s principle ‘esse est percipi’ (to be is to be perceived), Keaton’s very existence conspires against his efforts.
Director: Robert Hossein
Stars: Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Roger Dutoit
Genre: Biography, Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy | Spain
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Robert Creeley, Michael McClure
Genre: Short
Country: USA
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which combines flashing light and images.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.
Director: Leonid Gaidai
Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Valeriy Nosik
Genre: Short
Country: Soviet Union
Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: András Kozák, Sergey Nikonenko, Béla Barsi
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more – after he has donned a German uniform for warmth – and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director’s consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power.
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Tony Scott
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: UK
A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Hiroko Fujino, Kazuko Kanô, Aya Mine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Japan, 1960. In a housing complex, a young introverted student observes his neighbors through a telescope. The voyeurism of a young man isolated and gloomy, will cause an explosion of madness.
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.
Director: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.
Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Chris Marker, Kumiko Muraoka
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she’s an intriguing anomaly. He films her around Tokyo, as she speaks of Japan, being Japanese and her unique perspective on life.
Director: Jim Henson
Stars: Jim Henson, Enid Cafritz, Dennis Paget
Genre: Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
A surreal stream of consciousness montage about time and related bizarreness.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Tosh Carillo, Larry Latrae, Gerard Malanga
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Warhol’s strange interpretation of “A Clockwork Orange.” Includes Gerard dancing to the Martha and the Vandellas classic “Nowhere to Run” and being tortured by professional sadists.
Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
The biographical story of Michelangelo’s troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.
Director: Ivan Passer
Stars: Zdenek Bezusek, Karel Blazek, Miroslav Cvrk
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
In this original sad comedy in a small town after ten years encounter two classmates – musicians: one is a member of the regional symphony orchestra, the other made it to the director of local music school puts family villa, playing at funerals.
Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
After the mob tries to kill him for an unknown reason, a comedian steals the identity of a homeless man and goes on the run.
Director: Guy Green
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Hôsei Komatsu
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Japan
Yunbogi is a child who lives in a slum on the outskirts of Taegu, South Korea. Abandoned by his mother, Yunbogi must care for his two sisters and brother by taking on a series of small jobs.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Yasunori Irikawa, Ruriko Asaoka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A young man who’s about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams and desires unfold simultaneously.
Director: Aleksandar Petrovic
Stars: Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Ali Raner, Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Three stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.
Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Italy | France
Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
Director: Fred Coe
Stars: Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.
Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Director: István Szabó
Stars: András Bálint, Ilona Béres, Judit Halász
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Jancsi Oláh is in the transitional phase between adolescence and adultness. He is born in 1938, and is now getting his first employment as an electronic engineer. On some TV-screens he happens to see a young lawyer, Éva Halk, who arrests his attention. In his imagination she is the most interesting woman he ever saw. Jansci is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk.
Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Keve Hjelm, Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, Inger Taube
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
A film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.
Director: Jirí Trnka
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
A delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand’s obstinate demands stop?
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA
In Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.
Director: James Ivory
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | India
The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bolliwood movies.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.
Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he’s an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.
Director: Bruce Conner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
An advertisement for the New York Film Festival which the Festival rejected as being “too fast”
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Takahiro Tamura, Mikio Narita
Genre: Action, Crime, War
Country: Japan
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: don Andrea Carraro, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy
While scouting locations for his classic “The Gospel According to St. Matthew”, director Pier Paolo Pasolini noticed that filming in the actual site of the story, in Palestine, wouldn’t be much of a great choice due to the modern invasion which completely altered the biblical settings. Here, the director explained his reasons of why his search in the Middle East end up being wrong – though somewhat fruitful and rewarding in other ways – and why his native Italy surprised him and became the scenario for his religious epic.
Director: René Laloux
Stars: Roland Dubillard
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: France
What is man ? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.
Director: Mikhail Romm
Stars: Mikhail Romm, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Goebbels
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
A documentary about the rise and fall of fascism and the effects of Nazism on German society..
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
A chance meeting rekindles old memories between a screenwriter and his ex-girlfriend, who is by now married to a well-to-do man.
Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Diego Puente, Tino Pascali, Cacho Espíndola
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
An indictment of a fascist regime running roughshod over its most vulnerable citizens, its children.
Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Annie Girardot, Maurice Ronet, O.E. Hasse
Genre: Drama
Country: France
When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.
Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Director: Bruce Conner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
“A film portrait cut to the tune of Conway Twitty’s version of ‘Mona Lisa.’ Filmed in part at a 1964 show of Conner’s artwork in San Francisco, the film is also a witty statement about forces that take the life out of art.
Director: Arunas Zebriunas
Stars: Lina Braknyte, Valeriy Zubarev, Bronius Babkauskas
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Movie about a friendship of two children – a girl and a boy during the last day of summer holiday
Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are killed one by one. The last two must solve the case themselves before they become the next victims.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.
Director: Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini
Stars: Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone, Valentina Cortese
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
A popular writer visits his favorite holiday destination during the off season looking for the woman he is secretly infatuated with, only to find out that she has committed suicide, but did she really?
Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
In the early 20th century, two rivals, the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate, engage in an epic automobile race from New York to Paris.
Director: Saul J. Turell
Stars: Carl King, Agnes Ayres, Theda Bara
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses’ portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Edie Sedgwick
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffee, and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe.
Director: John Guillermin
Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Ranch owner Katie Elder’s four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Stars: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
A young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.
Director: Cornel Wilde
Stars: Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa | USA
During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Oliver Reed, Clifford David, Ann Lynn
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
An American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish “beatniks”. Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Boguslaw Kierc, Piotr Wysocki
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the 19th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon’s side with the hopes of Poland’s revival.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, Sô Yamamura
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral, but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
A love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.
Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
British Agent Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Director: Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Éric Rohmer, Jean Rouch
Stars: Jean-Pierre Andréani, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors.
Director: Ritwik Ghatak
Stars: Madhabi Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Abhi Bhattacharya
Genre: Drama
Country: India
A man opposes the love between his sister and the orphan they adopted years earlier.
Director: Sergio Leone
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè
Genre: Western
Country: Italy | Spain | West Germany
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.
Director: Stuart Burge
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Robert Lang
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
General Othello’s marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Director: Sergei Parajanov
Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
A timeless Carpathian story – the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father’s killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
Director: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Stars: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarík
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed “Aryan controller” of a Jewish widow’s store.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Heinrich Hargesheimer, Carlheinz Hargesheimer, Martha Staendner
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
An entangled story which details the lives of a German family throughout their various generations.