Tag: 1966

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Maria Janiec, Jerzy Braszka
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

A boy shyly watches a girl on a tram. Only when he exits the tram, and its too late, does he realize that he must meet her.

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: 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?

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

An American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples’ patron saint.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Christian Barbier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium

A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.

Director: Philippe de Broca
Stars: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Marc Dudicourt
Genre: Drama, Comedy, War
Country: France | Italy

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Director: Antony Balch
Stars: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin
Genre: Short
Country: UK

The savage deconstruction of the relationship between image and reality.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Maria Janiec, Jerzy Braszka
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

A boy shyly watches a girl on a tram. Only when he exits the tram, and its too late, does he realize that he must meet her.

Director: Vilgot Sjöman
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Per Oscarsson, Jarl Kulle
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Sweden

Sweden in 1782. A young nobleman, named Jacob (Per Oscarsson) returns from France to his home and cherished sister Charlotte (Bibi Andersson) who is engaged to Baron Alsameden (Jarl Kulle). The siblings close relationship becomes incestuous and with fear that the disclosure of Charlotte’s pregnancy will make society view them as libertines, the lovers ultimately choose to part, Jacob decides to leave the country and Charlotte if left to marry the Baron.

Director: Jean Eustache
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Gérard Zimmermann, Henri Martinez
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who’s addicted to morphine.

Director: René Laloux
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: France

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

Director: Henning Carlsen
Stars: Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Norway | Sweden

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression.

Director: Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
Stars: Siegfried Müller
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: East Germany

An interview with former Nazi and mercenary Siegfried Müller about his life and war campaigns.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: John Cale, Gerard Malanga, Sterling Morrison
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

“A Symphony of Sound” – depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground and Nico at the Factory, 231 East 47th St., (loft on 4th floor), New York City. It is essentially a one long loose improvisation including some private conversations and a brief visit from the NYPD.

Director: Jan Nemec
Stars: Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusák, Jiri Nemec
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

A small group of adult bourgeois friends are on a day outing in the country, that outing which includes having a picnic. While they are going for a walk after the picnic, they encounter a group of officious looking men who commandeer them to a small clearing. Although there is no direct threat and the picnickers are not scared, they nonetheless feel the need to do what the men say.

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA

Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.

Director: Domingos de Oliveira
Stars: Leila Diniz, Paulo José, Flávio Migliaccio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil

Womanizer suddenly finds a woman who makes him change the way he looks at women. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man

Director: André Delvaux
Stars: Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium

Govert Miereveld is a schoolteacher who has an unhealthy obsession with Fran, one of his students. On the day of Fran’s graduation, Govert decides that he needs to tell her.

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA | UK

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Natasha Rostova, a young Russian aristocrat, meets prince Andrey Bolkonskiy at a ball and immediately falls in love with him.