Director: Jirí Menzel
Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect “bourgeois elements”, a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Henry Tawes is the sheriff in a small town in Tennessee. A man of strong moral fiber, he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. Then he meets Alma McCain, a beautiful young girl who turns his world upside down. Unable to ignore his feelings, he starts an affair with her. But in a small town nothing is secret for long.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Director: David Greene
Stars: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Clare Sutcliffe
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
A 14-year-old girl coming to terms with her sexuality, discovers that her adored older brother may be guilty of a series of bizarre sex crimes.
Director: Youssef Chahine
Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
A small peasant village’s struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner, The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
Director: David Lynch
Stars: Peggy Lynch
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA
A woman’s dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
Director: Norman Cohen
Stars: James Mason
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
A 45-minute trippy documentary of late 1960’s London and is a fascinating time capsule of the remnants of a bygone age before Londons’s extensive redevelopment in the late 1960’s.
Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Viva, Louis Waldon
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Viva (playing herself) and Louis Waldon (playing himself) spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.
Director: Jaromil Jires
Stars: Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
In the 1950’s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
Director: Zivojin Pavlovic
Stars: Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Severin Bijelic
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia’s communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what’s right and what’s wrong.
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A suicidal advertising executive is forced to re-evaluate his life while dealing with his unhappy marriage, his mistress, and his aging father.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Shizue Kawarazaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.
Director: Charles Burnett
Stars: Andy Burnett, Eugene Cherry, Charles Bracy
Genre: Short
Country: USA
An improvised late ’60’s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Director, Charles Burnett; done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A day-in-the-life South Central L.A. tale about a rag-tag group of unemployed black male pals.
Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Louis Malle
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960’s: rich and poor, exotic and mundane, secular and religious, children and adults, animate and inanimate. Given only the images, the viewer can read any meaning she or he wants into the film.
Director: John Waters
Stars: Mary Vivian Pearce, Divine, David Lochary
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
Director: Gordon Parks
Stars: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.
Director: Les Blank, Skip Gerson
Stars: Lightnin Hopkins, Billy Bizor, Wendell Anderson
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA
A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank’s stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins’ reminiscences of his youth “one of the three most important films on the South.”
Director: Miguel Littin
Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Marcelo Romo
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile
The real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son’s death.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy | France | West Germany
After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with the powerful sorceress, Medea. However, when the king banishes her, it’s only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath?
Director: Leslie Woodhead
Stars: The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK
Extensive footage of the Rolling Stones performing on July 5th 1969 in Hyde Park in front of an audience of appropriately 500,000 people just two days after the untimely death of former lead gutiarist and band founder Brian Jones.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Barbara Wrzesinska, Jan Myslowicz, Andrzej Zarnecki
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Jan and Marek used to study physics together but after graduation their paths were different. Jan got married and moved to the countryside. Marek stayed in Warsaw and now wants to persuade Jan to follow his path.
Director: Peter Yates
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
A lemon is disclosed by lighting, then slowly disappears back into shadow.
Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Inger Stevens
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy’s life. However, money is a problem.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a “Communist” and “Greek dog”. After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Director: Arunas Zebriunas
Stars: Inga Mickyte, Lilija Zadeikyte, Arvidas Samukas
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
The cruelty of children is offered in all its unadorned ugliness in “Grazuole”. The title character is a 9-year-old girl, shunned by her classmates because of her alleged homeliness.
Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Viva, James Rado, Gerome Ragni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | USA
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Stars: Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Japan
Two series of images, chaotically showcasing Japan in the ’60s, showing images of student riots, ads and pop culture.
Director: Pierre Étaix
Stars: Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
After fifteen years of average married life and stifling in-laws, a businessman undergoes a midlife crisis and pursues his attractive young secretary.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Mimi Kozakura, Michio Akiyama, Yôko Yamamoto
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.
Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy
A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Soviet Union
Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Zouzou, Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
A loose Biblical allegory starring the legendary model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.
Director: Charles Jarrott
Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Walter Vidarte, Graciela Borges, Nora Cullen
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams…and her family.
Director: Luigi Magni
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join. Things are turned on their head when Franz and Bruno become friends, to the point that they even share Franz’s girlfriend Joanna. But Joanna soon becomes bored of Bruno.
Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Stars: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don’t get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board’s token black man, Putney Swope.
Director: Jacques Deray
Stars: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy
Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Petar Radenkovic, Mario Adorf, Hans Tiedemann
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: West Germany
The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Andrzej Lapicki
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
The disappearance of the leading actor from the film’s set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor’s wife and mistress.
Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Danièle Gaubert, Nino Castelnuovo, Eleonora Rossi Drago
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Sensuous Marguerite is addicted to sex and money. She is kept by a wealthy man, has a string of young lovers and hosts wild orgies in her luxurious villa.
Director: Frank Perry
Stars: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio’s newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.
Director: Peter Collinson
Stars: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK | USA
Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Zygmunt Malanowicz, Malgorzata Braunek, Ewa Skarzanka
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Wlodek is a shy man who’s afraid of his mother as well as his wife. However, upon meeting Irena, his life takes a new turn.
Director: Gene Levitt
Stars: Louis Jourdan, Mary Tyler Moore, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there’s no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. He finds a key on the floor and goes to his boss to get help when he’s struck from behind. He wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he’s had amnesia for two years, is now married, and living in Switzerland.
Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Sweden
Based on an incident in which five strikers were shot and killed, the film is lyrical and a visually beautiful film, definitely rising above TV movie-level.
Director: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
During WWII in Italy, a wine producing village hide a million bottles from the Germans.
Director: Haskell Wexler
Stars: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Austria
Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.
Director: Michael Caffey
Stars: Milton Berle, Sean Garrison, Dina Merrill
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Based on the Leonard Bishop’s novel Against Heaven’s Hand. Seven blind people are on a plane on their way to a convention for the blind in Seattle. Due to bad weather, the plane crashes and only the seven blind people survive.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Drama
Country: France | West Germany
How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris’s student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile’s subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters’ musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix – and how filmmaking is a path.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s’ students researching Osugi’s theories.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.
Director: Gene Saks
Stars: Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
Director: Rogério Sganzerla
Stars: Helena Ignez, Jô Soares, Stênio Garcia
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
Director: Allan King
Stars: Billy Edwards, Antoinette Edwards, Bogart Edwards
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
An “actuality drama” about a real-life marriage in crisis, in which the couple attempts to identify and resolve the conflicts and resentments that have driven them to the brink of separation.
Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Gino Lavagetto
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
A man decides to cook for himself, but finds the revolver of John Dillinger hidden in his kitchen instead.
Director: Péter Bacsó
Stars: Ferenc Kállai, Lajos Öze, Béla Both
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Banned for over a decade for its outspoken criticism of the post-WWII communist regime in Hungary, Péter Bacsó’s ‘The Witness’ has since then achieved unparalleled cult status in its native land. Known as the best satire about communism, ‘The Witness’ has become a cult classic, which was also well received by critics and general audiences alike when it was finally released outside of Hungary.
Director: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Wendy Allnutt, Colin Farrell, Malcolm McFee
Genre: Comedy, Musical, War
Country: UK
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Ken Yoshizawa, Yôko Mutô, Rokkô Toura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother – a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Eri Ashikawa, Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Miki Hayashi
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
A bunch of violent hippies kidnap and humiliate a young romantic couple, while a nearby yakuza gang observes the situation.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India
Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.
Director: Lee H. Katzin, Bernard Girard
Stars: Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.
Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it.
Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Josée Destoop
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
During the rehearsals for the production of the tragedy Andromaque, the leading actress and her director, a couple behind the scenes, can’t find a way to leave their personal problems at home. And life imitates fiction, creating a real tragedy for this couple when the man finds comfort with other women while the actress prefers to stay focused on her work, as if nothing is happening with her partner.
Director: Marcel Ophüls
Stars: Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Switzerland | West Germany
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government’s acceptance of Nazi invasion.
Director: Glauber Rocha
Stars: Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Brazil | West Germany | USA
In this sequel to “Black God, White Devil”, Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.
Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Timothy Leary, Ed Emshwiller, Franz Fuenstler
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels