Baxter! (Jeffries)

Director: Lionel Jeffries
Stars: Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

A young American boy unable to overcome a speech defect is disturbed by the constant bickering of his parents, and when they get divorced, he slides into an emotional breakdown.

Outfit, The (Flynn)

Director: John Flynn
Stars: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Pueblo (Page)

Director: Anthony Page
Stars: Hal Holbrook, Ronny Cox, Andrew Duggan
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A Cold War incident, told in flashbacks, regarding the capture of the American spy ship, U.S.S. Pueblo and its crew by North Korean naval units off the North Korean coast on January 23, 1968.

Sunshine (Sargent)

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Cristina Raines, Cliff De Young, Meg Foster
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her daughter discover she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left.

My Name Is Nobody (Valerii)

Director: Tonino Valerii
Stars: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A young, easygoing gunman worships and competes with an old gunfighter who only wants to retire.

Outrage (Heffron)

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Robert Culp, Marlyn Mason, Beah Richards
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.

Jimi Hendrix (Boyd, Head, Weis)

Director: Joe Boyd, John Head, Gary Weis
Stars: Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, Stella Benabon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix’s untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done, but some of the information in it needs revising in the light of new information uncovered over the years. The film contains concert footage spanning the Marquee in 1967 to his last UK performance at the third Isle of Wight festival in 1970; along the way we see classic performances at Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969), Fillmore East (1969/70), and Berkeley (1970).

Giordano Bruno (Montaldo)

Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Hans Christian Blech, Mathieu Carrière
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Italy

Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for heresy.

La Grande Bouffe (Ferreri)

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.

Blossoms in Autumn (Klopcic)

Director: Matjaz Klopcic
Stars: Milena Zupancic, Polde Bibic, Bert Sotlar
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

Doctor Janez, a somewhat elderly lawyer, tired of urban life, pays a few week’s visit to his relative Presecnik, a well-off farmer living in highland village. Farm life holds a great attraction for him, particularly because a deep and secret love develops between himself and Presecnik’s daughter Meta. After a few serene and cheerful days spent on the farm, filled with pleasant labor and walks together with Meta in the unspoilt surroundings, he has to return to Ljubljana to resume his office work.

Fury (Calenda)

Director: Antonio Calenda
Stars: Oliver Reed, John McEnery, Carole André
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | UK

Based on Lermontov’s novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father.

Photography (Zolnay)

Director: Pál Zolnay
Stars: István Iglódi, Ferenc Sebö, Márk Zala
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A photographer and a retoucher are wandering in small villages. They go from house to house offering their services. They try to record the truth, the true faces of these people.

Homecoming, The (Hall)

Director: Peter Hall
Stars: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Paul Rogers
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife.

Scream, Pretty Peggy (Hessler)

Director: Gordon Hessler
Stars: Ted Bessell, Bette Davis, Sian Barbara Allen
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.

Petrified Forest, The (Shinoda)

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Medical student Himoto Haruo makes no compromises in resolving issues with his mother, his authoritarian department boss, and his girlfriend’s abusive employer.

Wesele (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Marek Walczewski, Izabella Olszewska, Ewa Zietek
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland’s 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.

Let the Good Times Roll (Abel, Levin)

Director: Robert Abel, Sidney Levin
Stars: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

This lively documentary celebrates 1950s rock ‘n’ roll, both through archival clips of the era and concert footage filmed during the ’70s. Although the musicians have aged, the performances are remarkably vibrant, with many acts in fine form. Among the many artists featured are Bill Haley and the Comets, Fats Domino, the Shirelles, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. In one of the film’s highlights, Diddley and Berry take the stage together to the applause of a rapt audience.

Pain in the Ass, A (Molinaro)

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

L’ordre (Pollet)

Director: Malo Aguettant, Maurice Born, Jean-Daniel Pollet,
Stars: Raimondakis, Philippe Sollers
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of his life to the camera after having been excluded from his community to spend years of his life on the island with his fellow sufferers. Themes addressed include love, community, companionship and death and the importance of these values to all people whatever their state of health.

Earth Is a Sinful Song, The (Mollberg)

Director: Rauni Mollberg
Stars: Maritta Viitamäki, Pauli Jauhojärvi, Aimo Saukko
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta’s ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows.

Themroc (Faraldo)

Director: Claude Faraldo
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Marilù Tolo
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, this is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.

Last Train, The (Granier-Deferre)

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Italy

Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

Frankenstein: The True Story (Smight)

Director: Jack Smight
Stars: James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.

Sticenik (Kadijevic)

Director: Djordje Kadijevic
Stars: Milan ‘Caci’ Mihailovic, Branko Plesa, Dusan Janicijevic
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia

A terrified young man is running away from the mysterious man in a black coat and a bowler hat. He finds the asylum in the nearby mental hospital, where the doctor takes care of him. However, one cannot escape from his fate.

Réjeanne Padovani (Arcand)

Director: Denys Arcand
Stars: Jean Lajeunesse, Luce Guilbeault, J. Léo Gagnon
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor’s inauguration party for his new superhighway.

Jail Bait (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Eva Mattes, Ruth Drexel, Harry Baer
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Jailbait (Wildwechsel, 1973), also known as Wild Game Crossing, is a bleak story of teenage angst, set in industrial northern Germany during the 1950s.

Woman of the Year (Metzger)

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Siegfried Rauch, Christiane Krüger, Ivan Desny
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany | Yugoslavia | USA

Woman rises from being an out-of-work actress to the wife of a powerful South American dictator.

Hot Pepper (Blank)

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Clifton Chenier, Cleveland Chenier, Robert St. Julien
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about noted Zydeco artist Clifton Chenier. Based out of New Orleans, Chenier was the self-crowned “King” of Zydeco (a New Orleans musical hybrid containing elements of blues, folk and Tex-Mex music). Included are interviews with Chenier himself as well as relatives and friends, and scenic shots of the New Orleans area Chenier calls home, all of which is edited together by Les Blank.

Come on Children (King)

Director: Allan King
Stars: Alan Dunikowsky, Ken Gibbs, John Hamilton
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Ten teenagers journey down a path to self-discovery as they adjust to life on a farm in this examination of the stress and alienation of adolescence.

Dying Room Only (Leacock)

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Cloris Leachman, Ross Martin, Ned Beatty
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA

A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men’s room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.

Burned Barns, The (Chapot)

Director: Jean Chapot
Stars: Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Paul Crauchet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.

Scarlet Letter, The (Wenders)

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Senta Berger, Lou Castel, Yelena Samarina
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany | Spain

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover.

Invitation, The (Goretta)

Director: Claude Goretta
Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean Champion, Corinne Coderey
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He takes some time off and decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden.

Distant Thunder (S. Ray)

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Bobita, Sandhya Roy
Genre: Drama
Country: India

As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation, while his generous wife, Ananga, conversely tries to help and support the community.

Two Men in Town (Giovanni)

Director: José Giovanni
Stars: Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

Blue Knight, The (Butler)

Director: Robert Butler
Stars: William Holden, Lee Remick, Joe Santos
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after twenty years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.

Offence, The (Lumet)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Pakula)

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms, Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

American Walter Elbertson (Timothy Bottoms), in his late teens, is feeling lost within his family of overachievers. Thirty-something Englishwoman Lila Fisher (Dame Maggie Smith) is emotionally repressed. The two meet on their respective vacations in Spain, when, on the spur of the moment, Walter decides to ditch his overly regimented cycling tour group and join the bus tour group of which Lila is a part.

Indian Summer (Zurlini)

Director: Valerio Zurlini
Stars: Alain Delon, Giancarlo Giannini, Sonia Petrovna
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his mate Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello and Gerardo Pavani. In classroom, he meets nineteen year old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo’s girlfriend, and they fall in love for each other. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.

Visitors, The (Kazan)

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez.

Caliber 9 (Di Leo)

Director: Fernando Di Leo
Stars: Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy

A former gangster is forced to resume his old lifestyle when his violent, jealous ex-colleagues and the police believe that he knows the location of a stolen cache of $300,000.

Chung Kuo – Cina (Antonioni)

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Giuseppe Rinaldi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220 minute version consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older sections of the city, and a clinic where a Cesarean operation is performed, using acupuncture. The middle part visits the Red Flag canal and a collective farm in Henan, as well as the old city of Suzhou. The final part shows the port and industries of Shanghai, and ends with a stage presentation by Chinese acrobats.

Bad Company (Benton)

Director: Robert Benton
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

A God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west

State of Siege (Costa-Gavras)

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay’s government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Garden of Luxor (Jarman)

Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Karl Bowen, Christopher Hobbs
Genre: Short
Country: UK

A silent avant-garde experience created by Derek Jarman, filled with superimposed images forming a whole picture. His palette consists mostly of reddish random images of Egypt and the pyramids; a strange garden destroyed from time to time by a man with a whip; a young peaceful man relaxing on the floor; other smoking and eating insects. This is Jarman’s view of the Garden of Luxor and its mysteries.

Bremen Freedom (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Kieling
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends.

Mattei Affair, The (Rosi)

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed, one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially, he died of a flight accident. Actually, many journalists explored other plausible reasons for the untimely landing of the small aircraft.

Heat (Morrissey)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Spoof of the casual sexual adventures of a one-time child actor in Hollywood. It also involves a bratty on-again, off-again lesbian character.

Child’s Play (Lumet)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

At an exclusive boys’ school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Fritz the Cat (Bakshi)

Director: Ralph Bakshi
Stars: Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s.

Out 1: Spectre (Rivette)

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Pierre Baillot, Gilette Barbier, Jean-Pierre Bastid
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A shorter version of Out 1 (1971), however some of the omitted scenes of the long version are included.

Dawns Here Are Quiet, The (Rostotskiy)

Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy
Stars: Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Super Fly (Parks)

Director: Gordon Parks Jr.
Stars: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

Goodbye CP (Hara)

Director: Kazuo Hara
Stars: Hiroshi Yokota, Kôichi Yokozuka
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

An intimate documentary about a group of people with cerebral palsy in Japan that confronts our preconceptions and prejudices about who they are, what they feel, and how they view their lives.

Pictures of the Old World (Hanák)

Director: Dusan Hanák
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czechoslovakia

The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience.

And Hope to Die (Clément)

Director: René Clément
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy | Canada

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don’t go quite as planned.

Don’t Torture a Duckling (Fulci)

Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

Triple Echo, The (Apted)

Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

Deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection; liking the female role he goes to a dance with another soldier and is exposed.

Tout Va Bien (Gorin, Godard)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

Ulzana’s Raid (Aldrich)

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

Butterflies Are Free (Katselas)

Director: Milton Katselas
Stars: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Man, The (Sargeant)

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An African-American senator becomes the designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the President of the United States. Now the first black President, he attempts to end the bigotry and divide standing in his way.

1776 (Hunt)

Director: Peter H. Hunt
Stars: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Country: USA

A musical retelling of the American Revolution’s political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Goat Horn, The (Andonov)

Director: Metodi Andonov
Stars: Katya Paskaleva, Anton Gorchev, Milen Penev
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria

The film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their little girl, Maria. Karaivan decides to take the law into his own hands and becomes enslaved by his violent wish for revenge.

Alfredo, Alfredo (Germi)

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

Devil, The (Zulawski)

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Leszek Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Poland

During the Prussian army’s invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman, Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of his fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub sees the overall chaos and moral corruption including his father’s death and his fiancee’s betrayal. Being apparently demented by what he has seen, he commits a number of seemingly motiveless and gory killings.

Three Cheers for the Whale (Marker, Ruspoli)

Director: Chris Marker, Mario Ruspoli
Stars: Casamayor, Valérie Mayoux, Lalan
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

THREE CHEERS FOR THE WHALE chronicles the history of mankind’s relationship with the largest and most majestic of marine mammals, and graphically exposes their slaughter by the fishing industry.

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (Nicolaescu)

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Cristian Sofron, Ion Besoiu
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Romania

In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (Godard, Vertov, Gorin)

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Marlon Brando, Moshe Dayan, James Dean
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Letter to Jane (1972) is a postscript film to Tout va bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the Dziga Vertov Group. Narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the film serves as a 52-minute cinematic essay that deconstructs a single news photograph of Jane Fonda in Vietnam.

Slap the Monster on Page One (Bellocchio)

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | West Germany

A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Mekas)

Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | West Germany

A film diary divided into three episodes. In the first part Jonas Mekas tells about his time as emigrant in New York in 1950s, after leaving the home country of Lithuania. The second part depicts his first trip back there, while the last is filmed during a stay in Vienna shortly afterwards.

Valley (Obscured by Clouds), The (Schroeder)

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder explores themes of sexual freedom, mind alteration, and pursuit of paradise against the backdrop of an early 70’s encounter with the Mapuga rain forest tribe in upland New Guinea.

Vladimir et Rosa (Vertov, Godard, Gorin)

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Yves Afonso, Juliet Berto, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Drama
Country: France | West Germany

In Godard and Gorin’s free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler (who doodles notes on Playboy centerfolds), the Chicago Eight become microcosms of French revolutionary society, and Godard and Gorin play Lenin and Karl Rosa, respectively, discussing politics and how to show them through the cinema.

Women in Revolt (Morrissey)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

This film is a satire of the women’s liberation movement, staring a trio of female impersonators. Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. And Holly is a nymphomaniac who has come to loathe men, despite her attraction to them. Together, they join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn’t make them any happier.

Walls of Sana’a, The (Pasolini)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Italy

Documentary footage of the city of Sana’a in Yemen, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, with a voice-over calling for UNESCO to protect the city’s architectural heritage before it is destroyed by development.

Interviews with My Lai Veterans (Strick)

Director: Joseph Strick
Stars: Richard Hammer
Genre: Documentary, Short, War
Country: USA

Interviews with five former American soldiers who were present at the March 16, 1968 attack on the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War; they discuss the orders that were issued leading up to the attack, their expectations of what they would find there, and the subsequent massacre of the inhabitants and destruction of the village, as well as possible motivations for the killings and rapes which took place.

Lulu the Tool (Petri)

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. Although the physical handicap is not serious, the accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.

Sunday Bloody Sunday (Schlesinger)

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.

Le chat (Granier-Deferre)

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence’s anger.

Boy Friend, The (Russell)

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK | USA

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.

Salamander, The (Tanner)

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde, a young working-class woman whom they meet because they’re writing a teleplay about a minor but curious event in which either her uncle was wounded while cleaning his rifle or she shot him. Pierre is a free-lance journalist hired to write the script; he’s short of time so he asks a Bohemian novelist friend, Paul, to help. Pierre wants facts and tracks down Rosemonde for interviews that lead to other explorations; Paul only wants to imagine her and needs little more than her name to do so.

Officers (Rogovoy)

Director: Vladimir Rogovoy
Stars: Georgiy Yumatov, Alina Pokrovskaya, Vasiliy Lanovoy
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union

Epic Soviet era masterpiece depicting the unshakable bonds of love, friendship & duty amid the horror of war. Two friends-both officers-are in love with the same woman. Through the Russian civil war to WWII, they fight and love and die.

Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, A (Fulci)

Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Jean Sorel, Stanley Baker
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy | France | Spain

The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.

Basic Training (Wiseman)

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Frederick Wiseman observes basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky in the Vietnam era. Recruits are seen receiving instructions on everything from brushing their teeth to killing enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

Minamata (Tsuchimoto)

Director: Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

A documentary about the plight of the victims of Minamata disease, which was caused by the ingestion of fish containing abnormal amounts of mercury released into the sea by a fertilizer factory owned by the Chisso company.

Long Ago, Tomorrow (Forbes)

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed mysteriously after his Brothers wedding. Rejected by his family, he is placed in a nursing home. Angry and depressed, he finds hope with a nurse. Can Bruce find a life outside the home?

Raphaël ou le débauché (Deville)

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Maurice Ronet, Françoise Fabian, Jean Vilar
Genre: Drama
Country: France

1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by the death, and wait for it by chasing women and drinking. He first tries to seduce her, but is impressed by her and gives up. But Aurore felt in love with him, and tries not to look as inacessible. A romantic drama, with dispair, cynism, disgust for life and love.

Melody (Hussein)

Director: Waris Hussein
Stars: Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Jack Wild
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible. The story is told from the children’s point of view.

Appointment in Bray (Delvaux)

Director: André Delvaux
Stars: Anna Karina, Mathieu Carrière, Roger Van Hool
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: France | Belgium | West Germany

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family’s empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful but mute woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques’ girlfriend Odile.

Gentlemen of Fortune (Sery)

Director: Aleksandr Sery
Stars: Evgeniy Leonov, Georgiy Vitsin, Radner Muratov
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

It so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar to the terrible villain who stole the helmet of Alexander the Great. And villain’s accomplices are unexpectedly similar to children – they also need love and care.

Fabryka (Kieslowski)

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Poland

Krzysztof Kieslowski follows the bureaucratic and troubled daily routine of a Polish factory under the reigning Communism regime of the period. The documentary follows procedures, meetings with management and employees trying to find ways to improve their goals, observing everything that goes through the difficult working relations they faced at the time.

Emitaï (Sembene)

Director: Ousmane Sembene
Stars: Andongo Diabon, Robert Fontaine, Michel Renaudeau
Genre: Drama
Country: Senegal | France

As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.

Red Sky at Morning (Goldstone)

Director: James Goldstone
Stars: Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight World War II. The move is hard on both mother and son. The boy, one of the few whites in the area, must deal with making friends, the strange new land, and first love. Meanwhile, his mother becomes increasingly withdrawn. When they learn that his father has been killed, the son must fight with his mother’s lover to become the real head of the household.

Nicholas and Alexandra (Schaffner)

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

1 P.M. (Godard, Leacock, Pennebaker)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker
Stars: Marty Balin, Amiri Baraka, Carol Bellamy
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Impressions of resistance and revolution in America, as shot on both coasts by visiting director Godard in the pivotal year of 1968, but not completed and not shown, after being taken over by local director Pennebaker, until three years later.

Whity (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Ron Randell, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: West Germany

Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and the disabled Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others

Demons (Matsumoto)

Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Stars: Katsuo Nakamura, Juro Kara, Yasuko Sanjo
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

Last Valley, The (Clavell)

Director: James Clavell
Stars: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK | USA

During the Thirty Years’ War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.

Anand (Mukherjee)

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Sumita Sanyal
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India

The story of a terminally ill man who wishes to live life to the fullest before the inevitable occurs, as told by his best friend.

Confessions Among Actresses (Yoshida)

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Ruriko Asaoka, Ineko Arima
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young doctor returns to his New England home town after a long absence. He visits with the town’s kindly old physician, Dr. Cook, a man he has admired since childhood. However, he soon finds out that the old doctor isn’t quite what he seems to be, and the young doctor finds his life in danger.

Marta (Nieves Conde)

Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde
Stars: Marisa Mell, Stephen Boyd, Jesús Puente
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | Italy

A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.

Touch, The (Bergman)

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Sweden

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.

Vampyros Lesbos (Franco)

Director: Jesús Franco
Stars: Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany | Spain

An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.

Rio das Mortes (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Michael König, Günther Kaufmann
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel’s girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

Silence (Shinoda)

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: David Lampson, Don Kenny, Tetsurô Tanba
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and to locate their mentor.

Little Murders (Arkin)

Director: Alan Arkin
Stars: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Salut les Cubains (Varda)

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.

Du côté d’Orouët (Rozier)

Director: Jacques Rozier
Stars: Caroline Cartier, Danièle Croisy, Françoise Guégan
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.

Evdokia (Damianos)

Director: Alexis Damianos
Stars: Maria Vassiliou, Giorgos Koutouzis, Koula Agagiotou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece | UK

Athens, 1971. In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life, and the suffocating pressure of fragile societal relations. Will they survive one another?

There Was a Crooked Man… (Mankiewicz)

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA

A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

Sex Jack (Wakamatsu)

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Tamaki Katori, Mizako Kaga, Etsuko Wakayama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

During violent manifestations in late 1960s in Japan, a group of students who called themselves the Rose Colored Regiment hide in the house of a mysterious young man, and have sex with the same girl while waiting for new instructions.

 

See You at Mao (Godard, Roger)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Filmed in the UK in 1969, this documentary by Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group represents an analysis of production and the status of women in capitalist society and a speculation about class consciousness and the need for political organization. A group of men formed by trade unionists and employers debate on what measures would benefit their respective classes. At the same time, a group of young hippies tested several Beatles songs.

 

Spider’s Stratagem, The (Bertolucci)

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A man returns to the place where his father was murdered and tries to find closure. But he finds himself in a similar predicament as his late father instead.

 

Breach, The (Chabrol)

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet
Genre: Thriller
Country: France | Italy | Belgium

Helene Regnier’s husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son’s condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody.

 

Borsalino (Deray)

Director: Jacques Deray
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Rouvel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.

 

Crook, The (Lelouch)

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Danièle Delorme, Charles Gérard
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.

 

I Walk the Line (Frankenheimer)

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.

 

Reconstruction (Angelopoulos)

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness.

 

Lickerish Quartet, The (Metzger)

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | USA | West Germany

A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise.

 

Hospital (Wiseman)

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Eugene Friedman, Stanley Friedman, Robert Schwartz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of health care.

 

Zorns Lemma (Frampton)

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: Rosemarie Castoro, Ginger Michels, Marcia Steinbrecher
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A rhythmically edited alphabet composed of street and shop signs shot in New York City and other elements is gradually replaced by repeated seemingly abstract shots in this influential structuralist film.

 

American Soldier, The (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood accomplice Franz Walsch, and pays a short visit to his mother and doting brother. When Ricky asks the hotel clerk for a girl, one of the cops sends his girlfriend Rosa. However, she falls for the killer.

 

Trash (Morrissey)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Geri Miller
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

During the course of a day, a heroin addict overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool welfare by having his girlfriend fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.

 

Pravda (Godard, Vertov, Burron, Roger)

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Paul Burron, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger
Stars: Vera Chytilová, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany | France

Co-directed by Godard with the Dziga Vertov group in 1969, ‘Pravda’ is a direct attack to revisionism and socialist imperialism. With his usual heterogeneous collage of images taken from real life, the film is structured in a sort of letter that a man writes to a woman called Rosa from Bulgaria and later from Czechoslovakia.

 

Birch Wood, The (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Emilia Krakowska
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930’s music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother’s problems and also becomes the lover of a simpleminded farm girl. The brother’s dead wife may have had an affair with the hired man who is to marry the farm girl.

 

Many Wars Ago (Rosi)

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | Yugoslavia

On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the Italian troops.

 

Multiple Maniacs (Waters)

Director: John Waters
Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA

Lady Divine becomes enraged when her boyfriend cheats on her, and descends into a life of murder and mayhem.

 

They Call Me Trinity (Barboni)

Director: Enzo Barboni
Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy

A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.

 

Land, The (Chahine)

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.

 

Street Scenes (Scorsese)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Verna Bloom, Jay Cocks, Harvey Keitel
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the late Spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C. A group of New York University film students documented the demonstrations as they happened in both cities. Later, in New York, the massive amount of black and white and color 16mm footage was edited into this important record of the day by day events.

 

Hoffman (Rakoff)

Director: Alvin Rakoff
Stars: Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A businessman blackmails his attractive young secretary into spending a weekend with him. Though he’s a creep throughout, he gradually emerges as a sympathetic character.

 

Niklashausen Journey, The (Fassbinder, Fengler)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Stars: Michael König, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the “Black Monk” in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The “Black Monk” suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

 

Le Vent d’Est (Godard, Vertov, Gorin, Martin)

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary.

 

Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, The (Horn)

Director: Leonard J. Horn
Stars: Linda Gillen, Michael Greer, Dianne Hull
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Norway | USA

Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution

 

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Wrede)

Director: Casper Wrede
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Norway | USA

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp.

 

Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The (Billington)

Director: Kevin Billington
Stars: Ann Beach, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Peter Cook
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.

 

Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The (Argento)

Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy | West Germany

An American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder. He learns later that it’s connected to an ongoing murder spree in the city, and decides to do his own investigation, despite being personally targeted by the killer.

 

Tora! Tora! Tora! (Fleischer, Fukasaku, Masuda)

Director: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan | USA

In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a preventive attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.

 

Blue Movie (Warhol)

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.

 

Joke, The (Jires)

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.

 

Ambush, The (Pavlovic)

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.

 

Several Friends (Burnett)

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.

 

Calcutta (Malle)

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.

 

Mondo Trasho (Waters)

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).

 

Learning Tree, The (Parks)

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.

 

Sun’s Gonna Shine, The (Blank)

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.”

 

Medea (Pasolini)

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?

 

Stones in the Park, The (Woodhead)

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.

 

Structure of Crystal, The (Zanussi)

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.

 

John and Mary (Yates)

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.

 

Dream of Kings, A (Mann)

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.

 

Katzelmacher (Fassbinder)

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.

 

Topaz (Hitchcock)

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.

 

Beauty, The (Zebriunas)

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.

 

Virgin’s Bed, The (Garrel)

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.

 

Dependent, The (Favio)

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.

 

Conspirators, The (Magni)

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.

 

Love Is Colder Than Death (Fassbinder)

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.

 

Putney Swope (Downey)

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.

 

Swimming Pool, The (Deray)

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.

 

Precautions Against Fanatics (Herzog)

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.

 

Wszystko na sprzedaz (Wajda)

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.

 

Camille 2000 (Radley Metzger)

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.

 

Last Summer (Perry)

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.

 

Italian Job, The (Collinson)

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.

 

Polowanie na muchy (Wajda)

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.

 

Run a Crooked Mile (Levitt)

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.

 

Adalen 31 (Widerberg)

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.

 

Seven in Darkness (Caffey)

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.

Cactus Flower (Saks)

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.

Oh! What a Lovely War (Attenborough)

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.

Farewell to the Summer Light (Yoshida)

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Tadashi Yokouchi, Paul Beauvais
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.

Saute ma ville (Akerman)

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Chantal Akerman
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Belgium

A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment.

Eat Your Makeup (Waters)

Director: John Waters
Stars: Lizzy Temple Black, Berenica Cipcus, Divine
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

John Waters’ first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to ‘model themselves to death’ in front of her boyfriend and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.

Le révélateur (Garrel)

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Bernadette Lafont, Stanislas Robiolle
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur” describes the prodedure to develop or “reveal” film negatives.

Very Happy Alexander (Robert)

Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène Jobert
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.

Quiet Place in the Country, A (Petri)

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy | France

An accomplished painter rents a dilapidated villa in the country, and soon finds himself absorbed in the property’s history, particularly the murder of a sex-obsessed countess who died there decades prior.

Hang ‘Em High (Post)

Director: Ted Post
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.

Un soir, un train (Delvaux)

Director: André Delvaux
Stars: Yves Montand, Anouk Aimée, Adriana Bogdan
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium

Mathias is a Belgian linguist, living with French theatre producer Anne. After a quarrel about moral questions, they take a train to attend a congress. While Mathias sleeps, Anne disappears. The train stops in the middle of the country and Mathias gets off the train with an older man, Hernhutter, and a young one, Val. The train moves off without them being able to catch it up. They will find a village, but cannot get any help because they do not understand a word of what the inhabitants say.

Hell in the Pacific (Boorman)

Director: John Boorman
Stars: Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
Genre: Adventure, War
Country: USA

During World War II, an American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain are deserted on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must cease their hostility and cooperate if they want to survive, but will they?

Birthday Party, The (Friedkin)

Director: William Friedkin
Stars: Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.

Greetings (De Palma)

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Jonathan Warden, Robert De Niro, Gerrit Graham
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur filmmaking.

Anniversary, The (Baker)

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Three sons who work in the family construction business help their overbearing mother celebrate her anniversary to her late husband.

Queen, The (Simon)

Director: Frank Simon
Stars: Jim Dine, Jack Doroshow, Bruce Jay Friedman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The behind the scenes of a national drag queen contest in New York City, including the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition.

Petulia (Lester)

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.

Thomas Crown Affair, The (Jewison)

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

Gates to Paradise (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Lionel Stander, Ferdy Mayne, Pauline Challoner
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Yugoslavia

In 1212, children from all over Europe lead a crusade to free Jerusalem from Turkish authorities. Nicholas and Stephen use all their might to defeat the enemy.

Sweet November (Miller)

Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Stars: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A woman lures emotionally crippled men into affairs, then helps them repair their lives.

Flesh (Morrissey)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Patti D’Arbanville
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A man desperate for money and no income, turns prostitute and interplays with a variety of clients and hustlers.

Firecreek (McEveety)

Director: Vincent McEveety
Stars: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A peace-loving, part-time Sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

Silence and Cry (Jancsó)

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: Mari Töröcsik, József Madaras, Zoltán Latinovits
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution.

One + One (Godard)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Sean Lynch, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

While The Rolling Stones rehearse “Sympathy for the Devil” in the studio, Godard reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.

Les Biches (Chabrol)

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stéphane Audran
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.

Great Silence, The (Corbucci)

Director: Sergio Corbucci
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
Genre: Western
Country: Italy | France

A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.

Girls, The (Zetterling)

Director: Mai Zetterling
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of Lysistrata, Aristophanes’ classic comic play about women and war. As they re-assess and deal with the problems in their respective private lives, they recognize the parallels with the play and begin to realize that it is serious – even tragic – after all.

La Prisonnière (Clouzot)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Elisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character.

Up the Junction (Collinson)

Director: Peter Collinson
Stars: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Addresses some of the major 60s social issues – a bored rich London-girl from Chelsea decides to go “slumming” in depressed Battersea, getting a flat and starts factory-work and makes friends… of which one has to get an illegal abortion.

La sixième face du pentagone (Marker, Reichenbach)

Director: Chris Marker, François Reichenbach
Stars: William Sloane Coffin, N. Paul Stookey, Mary Travers
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought together a wide cross-section of liberals, radicals, hippies, and Yippies. Che Guevara had been killed in Bolivia only two weeks previously, and, for many, it was the transition from simply marching against the war, to taking direct action to try to stop the ‘American war machine.’ Norman Mailer wrote about the events in Armies of the Night. French filmmaker Chris Marker, leading a team of filmmakers, was also there, and made THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON.

Innocence Unprotected (Makavejev)

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic, Vera Jovanovic
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

Documentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that.

Fando and Lis (Jodorowsky)

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Tamara Garina, Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico

Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky’s memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.

Isadora (Reisz)

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | France

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people’s ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Carmen, Baby (Metzger)

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Uta Levka, Claus Ringer, Carl Möhner
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany | Yugoslavia | USA

A sexy temptress no man can resist and a local police officer who falls hard for her become embroiled in a complicated intrigue of passion and jealousy in Radley Metzger’s boldly original erotic update of the opera Carmen.

Stranger, The (Visconti)

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Algeria

In an atmosphere of political tension when the French still control Algiers, an Algerian is killed on the beach and a French man who has lived in Algiers all his life is arrested for the murder. A trial takes place. One of the witnesses was at the funeral of Arthur Meursault’s mother. It bothers other mourners and Mersault himself that he showed no emotion when his mother died. His eventful day at the beach takes place a short time after the funeral when he is examining what his life has been and what path should he take in the future.

Affair, The (Yoshida)

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother’s lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.

Shock Troops (Costa-Gavras)

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Charles Vanel, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France | Italy

A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?

How I Won the War (Lester)

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK

An inept British World War II commander leads his troops through a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

Last Adventure, The (Enrico)

Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot’s license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.

Time for Burning, A (Connell, Jersey)

Director: Barbara Connell, Bill Jersey
Stars: Ernie Chambers, Ray Cristensen, Bill Youngdahl
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the mid-1960s, 1200 White people attend Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. Nearby, Negro Lutherans worship at Hope Lutheran Church. Reverend Bill Youngdahl, Augustana’s pastor, proposes that ten couples visit ten Negro families from Hope. It’s a controversial idea; within weeks, Youngdahl resigns. The camera observes: Augustana parishioners discuss the idea, the social ministry committee meets with Hope leaders, and Hope youth talk about race and religion.

Privilege (Watkins)

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK

Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity for projects like increasing the consumption of apples after a bumper crop as an aid to farmers. The handlers decide that Steven should support God and Country next. This leads to, among other things, a rock version of “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and the inclusion of a Nazi salute to make it clear (to the viewer) how far the British population will be taken for love of God and Country under Steven’s guidance.

President’s Analyst, The (Flicker)

Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Stars: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

When the overworked and stressed-out White House presidential shrink runs away, the CEA and the FBR scramble to retrieve him before he could be abducted by various competing foreign intelligence services.

Dirty Dozen, The (Aldrich)

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK | USA

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Sing a Song of Sex (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Ichirô Araki, Kazuko Tajima, Jûzô Itami
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with thier inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs.

Jungle Book, The (Reitherman)

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman, James Algar, Jack Kinney
Stars: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.

Crush, The (Olmi)

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Giovanna Claudia Mongino, Luciano Piergiovanni
Genre: Romance
Country: Italy

Fun, sweet featurette (49 minutes) about a 15 year old (“let’s say 16”) boy who likes to take an industrial approach to courting.

Red and the White, The (Jancsó)

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary | Soviet Union

During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army – aided by Hungarian Communists – and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.

Risky Business (Cayatte)

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Jacques Brel, Emmanuelle Riva, René Dary
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Jean Doucet is a popular schoolmaster teaching in a small town in Normandy. At least he was… Until the day one of his pupils, Catherine Roussel, a garage owner’s daughter, accuses him of trying to rape her. But although Doucet (happily married to schoolmistress Suzanne) has always had a conduct above reproach, the Roussels decide to file a complaint against him.

We Still Kill the Old Way (Petri)

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don’t want him to learn it.

Herostratus (Levy)

Director: Don Levy
Stars: Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Peter Stephens
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

When Max (Michael Gothard), a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.

Quatermass and the Pit (Baker)

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK | Japan

A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.

Festival (Lerner)

Director: Murray Lerner
Stars: Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who’s acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin’ Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform

Anna (Koralnik)

Director: Pierre Koralnik
Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Marianne Faithfull
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: France

Released in 1967, this was the first colour film made for French TV. The story is about a man obsessively looking for a woman he saw in a photograph.

Thief of Paris, The (Malle)

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance’s family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.

Wife of Seishu Hanaoka, The (Masumura)

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, “Tsusensan”, some forty years before the better-known innovations of his American counterparts Long, Wells and Morton.

Mad Monster Party (Bass)

Director: Jules Bass
Stars: Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

On the Isle of Evil, the head of the “World Organization of Monsters” reveals his imminent retirement and that he has refined a formula for total destruction, only to be upset when the monsters try to steal the formula and kill his nephew.

Zoo, The (S. Ray)

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Uttam Kumar, Kalipada Chakraborty, Nripati Chatterjee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India

Byomkesh Bakshi, a detective, is hired by a rich man to investigate the name of an actress appeared in a movie decades ago, who has eloped ever since. The case became complicated when the rich man is murdered by someone for that.

Jokers, The (Winner)

Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Michael Tremayne (Michael Crawford) and David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.

Pink Floyd London ’66-’67 (Whitehead)

Director: Peter Whitehead
Stars: Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: UK

Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60’s Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary ’14 hour Technicolor Dream’ extravaganza in April ’67 at Alexandra Palace. The footage includes performance art by Yoko Ono and a Sgt. Pepper era John Lennon taking in the festivities (John and Yoko had not met then).

Man Vanishes, A (Imamura)

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Yoshie Hayakawa, Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima’s fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.

Peppermint Frappé (Saura)

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Mayo
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain

Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with her and tries to seduce her, but she mockingly pushes him away from her. He then finds that Ana, his nurse, bears a troubling resemblance to Elena. He decides to gradually transform Ana into Elena.

Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight!

Director: Paul Bogart
Stars: Hal Holbrook
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, ‘Hal Holbrook’ portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain’s own words for a commentary on slavery, religion and politics, mixing the satire with comic yarns about life on the Mississippi and a very effective ghost story..

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kei Satô, Keiko Sakurai, Rokkô Toura
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.

Far from Vietnam (Godard, Ivens, Klein, LeLouch, Varda, Marker, Resnais)

Director: Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Stars: Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: France

In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy and support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam war.

Dutchman (Harvey)

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.

Gambit (Neame)

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.

Alley Cats, The (Metzger)

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.

Nevada Smith (Hathaway)

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.

Moment of Terror (Naruse)

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.

Morgan! (Reisz)

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.

Grand Prix (Frankenheimer)

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.

Un uomo a metà (De Seta)

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.

Little Chaos, The (Fassbinder)

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.

Brigitte et Brigitte (Moullet)

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.

Irezumi (Masumura)

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.

Sand Pebbles, The (Wise)

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.

Good Times, Wonderful Times (Rogosin)

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.

Barrier (Skolimowski)

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.

Rosalie (Borowczyk)

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.

Chappaqua (Rooks)

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.

Kill, Baby… Kill! (Bava)

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.

Blue Max, The (Guillerman)

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.

Captive’s Island (Shinoda)

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.

Rondo (Berkovic)

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.

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vorlícek)

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.

Patriotism (Mishima)

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.

For Love and Gold (Monicelli)

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.

Madame X (Rich)

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.

Trouble with Angels, The (Lupino)

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.

Fantastic Voyage (Fleischer)

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.

Nine Letters to Bertha (Patino)

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.

Transfer (Cronenberg)

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.

Trap, The (Hayers)

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.

Wrong Box, The (Forbes)

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.

Thirst for Love (Kurahara)

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.

Fighting Elegy (Suzuki)

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.

Here Is Your Life (Troell)

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.

Creatures, The (Varda)

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.

Man and a Woman, A (Lelouch)

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.

Meet Marlon Brando (Maysles)

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.

Breakaway (Conner)

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.

Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)

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.

No. 4 (Cox, Ono)

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.

Silence Has No Wings (Kuroki)

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.

Line of Demarcation (Chabrol)

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.

Night Games (Zetterling)

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.

Priest and the Girl, The (de Andrade)

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.

Endless Summer, The (Brown)

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.

La Grande Vadrouille (Oury)

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.

Return, The (Pavlovic)

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.

Father (Szabo)

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.

Carriage to Vienna (Kachyna)

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.

Big Gundown, The (Sollima)

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.

Punch and Judy (Svankmajer)

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.

Great White Tower, The (Yamamoto)

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.

Trans-Europ-Express (Robbe-Grillet)

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.

Tramway (Kieslowski)

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.

My Sister My Love (Sjöman)

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.

Hunger (Carlsen)

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.

Todas as Mulheres do Mundo (de Oliveira)

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

Empire (Warhol)

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.

Obsession (Gaidai)

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.

My Way Home (Jancsó)

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.

Boy and Bicycle (Scott)

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.

Ipcress File, The (Furie)

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.

Ship of Fools (Kramer)

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.

Vinyl (Warhol)

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.

Intimate Lighting (Passer)

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.

Mickey One (Penn)

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.

Diary of Yunbogi (Ôshima)

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.

Three (Petrovic)

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.

Thousand Clowns, A (Coe)

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.

In Harm’s Way (Preminger)

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.

Age of Illusions (Szabó)

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.

Kärlek 65 (Widerberg)

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.

Return from the Ashes (Thompson)

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.

Shakespeare-Wallah (Ivory)

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.

Heitai yakuza (Masumura)

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.

Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo (Pasolini)

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.

Dead Times (Laloux)

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.

Three Rooms in Manhattan (Carné)

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.

Vivian (Conner)

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.

Compartiment tueurs (Costa-Gavras)

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.

Possessed, The (Bazzoni, Rossellini)

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?

Great Race, The (Edwards)

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.

Naked Prey, The (Wilde)

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.

Party’s Over, The (Hamilton)

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.

Ashes, The (Wajda)

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.

With Beauty and Sorrow (Shinoda)

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.

Countersex (Castellani, Ferreri, Rossi)

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.

Sex and the Single Girl (Quine)

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.

Dear Heart (D. Mann)

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

Anatomy of a Marriage (Cayatte)

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.

Joy House (Clément)

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.

Thursday, The (Risi)

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.

Behold a Pale Horse (Zinnemann)

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.

Le Parti des choses: Bardot et Godard (Rozier)

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”.

Let’s Talk About Women (Scola)

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.

Zorba the Greek (Cacoyannis)

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.

Le repas des fauves (Christian-Jaque)

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.

Luck of Ginger Coffey, The (Kershner)

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.

Black Peter (Forman)

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.

Fate Is the Hunter (Nelson)

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.

What a Way to Go! (Thompson)

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.

Lola (Dimopoulos)

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?

Hamlet (Colleran, Gielgud)

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.

Topkapi (Dassin)

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.

Paparazzi (Rozier)

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.

One Potato, Two Potato (Peerce)

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.

Man’s Favorite Sport? (Hawks)

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.

Unvanquished, The (Cavalier)

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.

Girl-Getters, The (Winner)

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.

36 Hours (Seaton)

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.

Children of the Damned (Leader)

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.

Hamlet at Elsinore (Saville)

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.

World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers, The (Chabrol, Godard, Gregoretti, Horikawa, Polanski)

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).

Leather Boys, The (Furie)

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.

Becket (Glenvile)

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.

18 Who Cause a Storm (Yoshida)

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Tamotsu Hayakawa, Yoshiko Kayama, Taiji Tonoyama
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan

A shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest house. Upon arriving there, he finds out that he also has to take care of a flock of undisciplined youngsters.

Highway Pick-Up (Duvivier)

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Robert Hossein, Jean Sorel, Catherine Rouvel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl – what could go wrong? Almost everything.

To Die in Madrid (Rossif)

Director: Frédéric Rossif
Stars: Irene Worth, John Gielgud, Suzanne Flon
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

To Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif.

Bay of Angels (Demy)

Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Monaco

Jean is a clerk in a bank. His colleague Caron is a gambler and gives him the virus. In the casinos, Jean meets Jackie. Their love affair will follow their luck at the roulette.

Blow Job (Warhol)

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: DeVeren Bookwalter, Willard Maas
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man’s face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.

Guest, The (Donner)

Director: Clive Donner
Stars: Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

While renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston’s brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.

Visit, The (Pietrangeli)

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Sandra Milo, François Périer, Mario Adorf
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Twenty-four hours in the life of Pina and Adolfo. The story of a 36-year-old woman and the flashbacks that show the pair’s lives and fills in some details of their other relationships.

Any Number Can Win (Verneuil)

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis (Alain Delon), to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

La corruzione (Bolognini)

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Alain Cuny, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jacques Perrin
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

The son of a rich Italian industrialist finds out how tough it is to leave the path society has set for him.

Boom, The (De Sica)

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, Elena Nicolai
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.

Dementia 13 (Coppola)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA | Ireland

Shocked by the death of her spouse, a scheming widow hatches a bold plan to get her hands on the inheritance, unaware that she is targeted by an axe-wielding murderer who lurks in the family’s estate. What mystery shrouds the noble house?

Dark Room of Damocles, The (Rademakers)

Director: Fons Rademakers
Stars: Lex Schoorel, Nan Los, Van Doude
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands

The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable resemblance to Ducker. Ducker follows Dorbeck blindly, becomes involved in the Dutch resistance and soon starts killing people. When he escapes through German lines to the freed South Netherlands, no one has ever heard of Dorbeck.

All the Way Home (Segal)

Director: Alex Segal
Stars: Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In the early 1900’s Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father’s sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (Drew)

Director: Robert Drew
Stars: John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA

Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy. Loud shouts come from both sides of the issue as JFK stands by his decisions.

Teacher from Vigevano, The (Petri)

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claire Bloom, Vito De Taranto
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial review by fiscal authorities drive the firm to ruin. Ada, his wife, starts to be unfaithful and this is another strong hit to his life. But it isn’t still enough, a tragedy is waiting Mombelli behind the corner.

Alone on the Pacific (Ichikawa)

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Adventure
Country: Japan

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.

Eat (Warhol)

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Robert Indiana
Genre: Experimental, Art Film
Country: USA

This art experiment by Andy Warhol captures the simple act of a man eating mushrooms.

Stripper, The (Schaffner)

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Lila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga’s stage shows. When her boyfriend, Rick, runs off with the show’s money, Madame Olga and Ronny let Lila go. Lila goes to stay with her old neighbors, Helen Bard and her teenage son, Kenny. Lila decides to go out and get a regular job and try and live a normal life. All seems well, until Lila and Kenny stop fighting their attraction for one another.

Robinson’s Place (Eustache)

Director: Jean Eustache
Stars: Aristide, Daniel Bart, Dominique Jayr
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France

Two men in their twenties spend their time in Parisian cafes trying to pick up women. They take one girl dancing, and then steal her purse when she prefers to dance with another man.

Basilisks, The (Wertmüller)

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Antonio Petruzzi, Stefano Satta Flores, Sergio Ferranino
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

The story follows the uneventful lives of three young men, who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.

Magnet of Doom (Melville)

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.

Empty Canvas, The (Damiani)

Director: Damiano Damiani
Stars: Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

The son of a dead Italian nobleman and a wealthy American woman forgets the disappointment of finding he has no talent for being a painter by succumbing to the sexual advances of an amoral model who believes in indiscriminate love affairs.

Evil Eye, The (Bava)

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy

A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.

From Pink to Yellow (Summers)

Director: Manuel Summers
Stars: Cristina Galbó, Pedro Díez del Corral, Lina Onesti
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain

As the title of the film indicates, this film starts with pink – a story about a teenage boy who falls in love with a girl of his very same age but more mature, and goes on to yellow, the love between two elders that are not allowed to see each other.

Pour la suite du monde (Brault, Perrault)

Director: Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault
Stars: Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Abel Harvey
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.

Le joli mai (Marker, Lhomme)

Director: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme
Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

A portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962;the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France was not involved in any war.

Green Years, The (Rocha)

Director: Paulo Rocha
Stars: Rui Gomes, Isabel Ruth, Ruy Furtado
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

Julio, aged nineteen, has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives there in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop, he gets to know Ilda, a young housemaid and regular customer. Ilda is pretty, joyful and modern and Julio falls for her. The two young people, although very different from each other, embark on an idyll.

Ladybug Ladybug (Perry)

Director: Frank Perry
Stars: Jane Connell, William Daniels, James Frawley
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (Neilson)

Director: James Neilson
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK

In eighteenth century England, the mysterious masked rider known as the Scarecrow (Patrick McGoohan) leads a rebel band to save the town of Romney Marsh from King George III’s (Eric Pohlmann’s) oppression and Naval press gangs.

Spencer’s Mountain (Daves)

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, James MacArthur
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

Grand Teton quarryman and family patriarch carefully navigates issues of religion and education in order to eke out a brighter future for his family.

Householder, The (Ivory)

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India

A young Indian newlywed finds his independent wife troublesome and seeks help and advice from his overbearing mother, a supposedly worldly wise friend, an American seeker of enlightenment and a swami.

Judex (Franju)

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by “Judex”, demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at his masked ball. However, he is only drugged by Judex and locked away.

Paranoiac (Francis)

Director: Freddie Francis
Stars: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.

Girl from Parma, The (Pietrangeli)

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Catherine Spaak, Didi Perego
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino and makes up her mind to join him. But he has found a new lover.

War of the Buttons (Robert)

Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Jacques Dufilho, Yvette Etiévant, Michel Galabru
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France

The school boys of two villages in France are fighting. Their trophy are the buttons they will snatch from the enemy. This fight will bring those kids to everlasting friendship…eventually.

Two for the Seesaw (Wise)

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from Greenwich Village, and the two try to straighten out their lives together.

Black Test Car (Masumura)

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Eiji Funakoshi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Light in the Piazza (Green)

Director: Guy Green
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Upper class Americans Noel and Meg Johnson have a twenty-six year old daughter named Clara Johnson. Clara suffered a head injury as a child which resulted in her being mentally disabled. Clara’s mental capacity is equivalent to that of a ten year old. In many social situations, Clara’s disability can be passed off as a simple joy of life. The issue of Clara’s care has placed a strain between Noel and Meg, the latter who clings to the hope that one day Clara can lead a “normal” life.

Third Lover, The (Chabrol)

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Jacques Charrier, Stéphane Audran, Walther Reyer
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

André Mercier, a journalist known as Albin Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer. Sent to cover an event in Germany, he gets to know Andreas Hartmann, another writer who, for his part, has not… failed. The successful Andreas is married to Hélène, a beautiful Frenchwoman. Both attracted to her and jealous of the couple’s happiness, Mercier decides to shatter it.

Siberian Lady Macbeth (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman’s adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.

Damn the Defiant! (Gilbert)

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

His Days Are Numbered (Petri)

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Salvo Randone, Franco Sportelli, Regina Bianchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.

Careless (Bolognini)

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Anthony Franciosa, Betsy Blair
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The place is Trieste and the time is 1927. Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. At least until the day he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful young woman. But the lady is also fickle, wayward and coquettish. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her…

Chushingura (Inagaki)

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Chûsha Ichikawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Sanjuro (Kurosawa)

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Graceful Brute, The (Kawashima)

Director: Yûzô Kawashima
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Yûnosuke Itô, Hisano Yamaoka
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.

Walk in the Shadow (Dearden)

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

When John Harris’s daughter is badly injured in an boating accident, the hospital tells him that she will need an urgent blood transfusion. Due to his religious beliefs Harris refuses permission, and the child dies. When the inquest clears Harris of all blame, the doctor in charge of the case tries to get the police to press manslaughter charges against Harris.

When the Trees Were Tall (Kulidzhanov)

Director: Lev Kulidzhanov
Stars: Inna Gulaya, Yuriy Nikulin, Leonid Kuravlyov
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.

March on Rome (Risi)

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

After the 1st world war, two veterans, starving, but fools, are enlisted with the fascists, where they can eat. But when it comes to killing, they drop out.

Hedda Gabler (Segal)

Director: Alex Segal
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.

Phaedra (Dassin)

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | France | USA

To build bridges with his estranged son, a Greek shipping magnate enlists the help of his second wife, Phaedra. But, in rain-soaked Paris, their passionate affair threatens to destroy his empire. Will the modern temptress accept her fate?

Panic in the Year Zero (Milland)

Director: Ray Milland
Stars: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A family leaves L.A. for a camping trip – just before a nuclear bomb destroys the city. As the city descends into chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive.

Revolutionary, The (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Satomi Oka
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Condemned of Altona, The (De Sica)

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.

All Night Long (Dearden)

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Betsy Blair
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK

This movie, based on William Shakespeare’s Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.

Mutiny on the Bounty (Milestone, Reed)

Director: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Woton’s Wake (De Palma)

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: William Finley, Robin Brooks, Norma Green
Genre: Short, Horror
Country: USA

Woton Wretchichevsky has a disfigured face, dresses in cloak and mask and stalks couples to burn them with a blowtorch. He is also a sculptor of steel and garbage installations. One day one of his creations comes alive in the form of a young woman. She flees him when he tries to express his love by pointing the blowtorch at her. She hides in a house where some kind of orgy or happening is going on

Nine Days of One Year (Romm)

Director: Mikhail Romm
Stars: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.

Boys, The (Furie)

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

In 1962 London, four troublesome teenagers are charged by the police with robbing a garage and murdering the night watchman.

View from the Bridge, A (Lumet)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities

Intruder, The (Corman)

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble–trouble he soon finds he can’t control.

Human (Shindô)

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.

Reach for Glory (Leacock)

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Michael Anderson Jr., Oliver Grimm, Martin Tomlinson
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

During World War II, in a small English coastal town, teenage boys eager to join the army but unable to do so participate in their own homemade private brutal war games with tragic results.

Being Two Isn’t Easy (Ichikawa)

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroo Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Husband and wife Gorô and Chiyo, and their only offspring, an infant son named Tarô, go through the ups and downs of family life living in a cramped modern apartment building in suburban Tokyo. Their story is told in Tarô’s second year of life.

Inheritance, The (Kobayashi)

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sô Yamamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

Electra (Cacoyannis)

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Jigsaw (Guest)

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.

Very Private Affair, A (Malle)

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicolas Bataille
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won’t leave her alone. Her mother’s ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.

Counterfeit Traitor, The (Seaton)

Director: George Seaton
Stars: William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

That Touch of Mink (Mann)

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage.

Boccaccio ’70 (Fellini, De Sica, Monicelli, Visconti)

Director: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti
Stars: Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Inspired by Boccaccio’s novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy’s 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.

Mother Joan of the Angels (Kawalerowicz)

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland

A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.

Hand in Hand (Leacock)

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, John Gregson
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK

A little Roman Catholic boy and a little Jewish girl become best friends despite the prejudice that surrounds them.

Outsider, The (Mann)

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA

Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed “Chief” by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.

Rabindranath Tagore (S. Ray)

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Kallol Bose, Subir Bose, Norman Ellis
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: India

This documentary shows the life of the greatest Bengali talent of all time, Rabindranath Tagore. His work in Bengali culture and literature.

Guns of the Trees (Mekas)

Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Adolfas Mekas, Frances Stillman, Ben Carruthers
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.

Human Pyramid, The (Rouch)

Director: Jean Rouch
Stars: Nadine Ballot, Denise, Elola
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Côte d’Ivoire

The arrival of Nadine, a new student, in the Abidjan Lyceum is the starting point for a discussion about interratial relationships.

Last Judgment, The (De Sica)

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Elli Davis, Fernandel
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people’s reactions (or lack there of) to the announcement.

Catch, The (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Koyama, Yôko Mihara
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Enrico)

Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen
Genre: Short, Adventure, Drama
Country: France

In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.

Homicidal (Castle)

Director: William Castle
Stars: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.

Terminus (Schlesinger)

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Margaret Ashcroft, Gertrude Dickin, Margaret Lacey
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: UK

The movie follows the routine of a busy train station – London’s Waterloo Station – making a brief yet important cultural portrait of 1960s England, mixing reality and fiction.

Spotlight on a Murderer (Franju)

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a result of his body not being found the latter will have to wait for five years until they can inherit the count’s money.

La viaccia (Bolognini)

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Pietro Germi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle.

Fat and the Lean, The (Polanski)

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: André Katelbach, Roman Polanski
Genre: Short, Comedy, Music
Country: France

A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps like a madman, wipes his master’s brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella and holds a urinal for him.

Bridge to the Sun (Périer)

Director: Etienne Périer
Stars: Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | USA

Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband’s government.

No Love for Johnnie (Thomas)

Director: Ralph Thomas
Stars: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

After winning re-election, British Labour Party M.P. Johnnie Byrne faces a series of setbacks in his political career, as well as in his marriage, and must act wisely in order to save both.

Too Late Blues (Cassavetes)

Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Everett Chambers
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Ghost is an ideological musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. However, when he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer Jess Polanski, she comes between him and his band members, and he leaves his dreams behind in search of fame.

Ten Dark Women (Ichikawa)

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Mariko Miyagi, Tamao Nakamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A man has a wife and nine girlfriends, all ten of whom are fed up with his shameless polygamy and plot to kill him. However, this is easier said than done.

Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald, The (Varda)

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard, Emilienne Caille
Genre: Short, Comedy, Romance
Country: France

A subtitle warns, “Beware of dark sunglasses.” Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine.

Assassin, The (Petri)

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy | France

Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police at his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what the investigation is about as we discover details about his life.

Goodbye Again (Litvak)

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | USA

A successful business woman, dissatisfied with her current, philandering lover, starts an affair with a much younger man.

Steamroller and the Violin, The (Tarkovsky)

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Natalya Arkhangelskaya
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.

Pocketful of Miracles (Capra)

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.

Counterfeiters of Paris, The (Grangier)

Director: Gilles Grangier
Stars: Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Françoise Rosay
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: France | Italy

“Le Dabe” retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately.