Tag: Priority 4

Director: Gérard Oury
Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France | UK

Several ordinary Frenchmen, helping British pilots avoid Nazi captivity, go on epic voyage through the occupied country to the Swiss border.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Christoph Roser, Susanne Schimkus, Michael Fengler
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: West Germany

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic
Stars: Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Snezana Lukic, Milan Pauljevic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

An ex-convict attempts to adapt in a new, changed environment. Wishing to start from the very beginning with his new girlfriend, he tries to stay away from his former buddies who want to involve him into their new ventures.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: András Bálint, Miklós Gábor, Dániel Erdély
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A boy in Budapest lost his father in 1945, when he was the age of six. He does not remember much of the father but fantasize that he performed various heroic feats.

Director: Karel Kachyna
Stars: Iva Janzurová, Jaromír Hanzlík, Ludek Munzar
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

Director: Fielder Cook
Stars: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA

Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow.

Director: Sergio Sollima
Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes
Genre: Western
Country: Italy | Spain

Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father’s forgeries and protect his secret.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Nad’a Munzarová, Jirí Procházka, Bohuslav Srámek
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Two puppets, Punch and Joey, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: William Seitz, Rudolf Arnheim, Irving H. Leopold
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Documentary about an artwork opening at The Museum of Modern Art.

Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Eijirô Tôno, Takahiro Tamura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Zaizen Goro may only be an assistant professor but he has already made a name for himself. His superior, however, does not approve of his attitude towards their profession, and is at odds over who to nominate as his successor. The selection of the new professor reveals a rich and complex political world inside Naniwa University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Gino Piserchio, Edie Sedgwick, Chuck Wein
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A couple disports in chimerical role-playing as part of their concours de seduction.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Robert Creeley, Michael McClure
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which combines flashing light and images.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.

Director: Leonid Gaidai
Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Valeriy Nosik
Genre: Short
Country: Soviet Union

Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: András Kozák, Sergey Nikonenko, Béla Barsi
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary

In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more – after he has donned a German uniform for warmth – and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director’s consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Tony Scott
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: UK

A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world.

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK

In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

Director: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Tosh Carillo, Larry Latrae, Gerard Malanga
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Warhol’s strange interpretation of “A Clockwork Orange.” Includes Gerard dancing to the Martha and the Vandellas classic “Nowhere to Run” and being tortured by professional sadists.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The biographical story of Michelangelo’s troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Director: Ivan Passer
Stars: Zdenek Bezusek, Karel Blazek, Miroslav Cvrk
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia

In this original sad comedy in a small town after ten years encounter two classmates – musicians: one is a member of the regional symphony orchestra, the other made it to the director of local music school puts family villa, playing at funerals.

Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA

After the mob tries to kill him for an unknown reason, a comedian steals the identity of a homeless man and goes on the run.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Hôsei Komatsu
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Japan

Yunbogi is a child who lives in a slum on the outskirts of Taegu, South Korea. Abandoned by his mother, Yunbogi must care for his two sisters and brother by taking on a series of small jobs.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Yasunori Irikawa, Ruriko Asaoka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young man who’s about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams and desires unfold simultaneously.

Director: Aleksandar Petrovic
Stars: Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Ali Raner, Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Three stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.

Director: Fred Coe
Stars: Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: András Bálint, Ilona Béres, Judit Halász
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Jancsi Oláh is in the transitional phase between adolescence and adultness. He is born in 1938, and is now getting his first employment as an electronic engineer. On some TV-screens he happens to see a young lawyer, Éva Halk, who arrests his attention. In his imagination she is the most interesting woman he ever saw. Jansci is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk.

Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Keve Hjelm, Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, Inger Taube
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

In Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | India

The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bolliwood movies.

Director: Bruce Conner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An advertisement for the New York Film Festival which the Festival rejected as being “too fast”

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Takahiro Tamura, Mikio Narita
Genre: Action, Crime, War
Country: Japan

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: don Andrea Carraro, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

While scouting locations for his classic “The Gospel According to St. Matthew”, director Pier Paolo Pasolini noticed that filming in the actual site of the story, in Palestine, wouldn’t be much of a great choice due to the modern invasion which completely altered the biblical settings. Here, the director explained his reasons of why his search in the Middle East end up being wrong – though somewhat fruitful and rewarding in other ways – and why his native Italy surprised him and became the scenario for his religious epic.

Director: René Laloux
Stars: Roland Dubillard
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: France

What is man ? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Annie Girardot, Maurice Ronet, O.E. Hasse
Genre: Drama
Country: France

When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Director: Bruce Conner
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

“A film portrait cut to the tune of Conway Twitty’s version of ‘Mona Lisa.’ Filmed in part at a 1964 show of Conner’s artwork in San Francisco, the film is also a witty statement about forces that take the life out of art.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are killed one by one. The last two must solve the case themselves before they become the next victims.

Director: Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini
Stars: Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone, Valentina Cortese
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A popular writer visits his favorite holiday destination during the off season looking for the woman he is secretly infatuated with, only to find out that she has committed suicide, but did she really?

Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

In the early 20th century, two rivals, the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate, engage in an epic automobile race from New York to Paris.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Ranch owner Katie Elder’s four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.

Director: Elliot Silverstein
Stars: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.

Director: Cornel Wilde
Stars: Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa | USA

During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.

Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Oliver Reed, Clifford David, Ann Lynn
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

An American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish “beatniks”. Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Boguslaw Kierc, Piotr Wysocki
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the 19th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon’s side with the hopes of Poland’s revival.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, Sô Yamamura
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia

A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Mario Montez
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A transvestite, Mario, eats a banana.

Director: Renato Castellani, Marco Ferreri, Franco Rossi
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Ugo Tognazzi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.

Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Single and alone, Evie Jackson (Geraldine Page) arrives in New York City for the annual Postmasters’ convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanizing salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. When his path crosses Evie’s, she wonders if this is finally the man for her, while her ways just seem to annoy him. At least to start with

Director: Arthur Hiller
Stars: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An American Naval Officer’s talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Marie-José Nat, Jacques Charrier, Michel Subor
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with “Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale”, that tells the same story from another perspective.

Director: René Clément
Stars: Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

French filmmaker Rene Clement presents Alain Delon as a petty criminal on the run from the underground. On the Rivera, he seeks refuge in a flophouse whose soup line is served by Jane Fonda and Lola Albright. The two women move him to a Gothic mansion owned by Albright, a millionairess with a Salvation Army complex.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Walter Chiari, Michèle Mercier, Roberto Ciccolini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

It’s the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

Famous Spanish bandit Artiguez returns to his native Spanish village after 20 years in French exile but Spanish cop Vinolas is setting a trap for him.

Director: Jacques Rozier
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Jacques Rozier filmed this documentary on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Contempt” (Le Mépris) during location shooting on the island of Capri, and he interviews Godard, star Brigitte Bardot, and the other stars, and captures the making of the film. Most of the footage shot focused on the annoyances of the then-new phenomenon of paparazzi, who tried anything they could to sneak onto the set to take pictures of Bardot; that footage, which included interviews with an annoyed Godard and a perplexed Bardot, was removed to be made into a separate documentary called “Paparazzi”.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Antoine Vitez
Country: France

A documentary account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece | USA

An uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Director: Christian-Jaque
Stars: Francis Blanche, Boy Gobert, Antonella Lualdi
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Spain | Italy

Also known in English as “Champagne for Savages”. Set in World War Two occupied France. Several people gather at a house to celebrate a woman’s birthday. Some German soldiers are killed outside. The Gestapo inform the group that they must select two of their party to be executed for the crime. It then becomes a matter of everyone trying to save themselves.

Director: Irvin Kershner
Stars: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Liam Redmond
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada | USA

An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.

Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czech teenager when he starts work.

Director: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Director: Dinos Dimopoulos
Stars: Jenny Karezi, Nikos Kourkoulos, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

Betrayed by his accomplices, Aris, the fastest knife in Troumba, reunites with his true love, Lola. Now, a mean cabaret owner wants him dead, and he must tie up all the loose ends. But, is there an easy way out from the port of lost souls?

Director: Bill Colleran, John Gielgud
Stars: Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The highly successful 1964 Richard Burton Broadway production of “Hamlet”, deliberately staged in the style of a “dress rehearsal”, but performed in front of a live audience.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger.

Director: Jacques Rozier
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jean Lescot, David Tonelli
Genre: Short
Country: France

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi.

Director: Larry Peerce
Stars: Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960’s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: John Giorno
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A man sleeps for five hours.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden

A critic blackmails a famous musician with his biography filled with the revelations of many of his women.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually incredibly inexperienced when it comes to the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Mario Montez
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Quirky girl eating a “banana.”

Director: Alain Cavalier
Stars: Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Georges Géret
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

1961. Luxemburger Thomas Vlassenroot deserted the French Foreign Legion during the Algiers Putsch. His lieutenant, Fraser, initiated the desertion for the two of them, Fraser believing he could do more for the French working for an underground organization. However, Thomas readily admits that he no longer has any political motivations or affiliations, and thus is hiding out from the authorities in Algiers.

Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow, Barbara Ferris
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling photographer, aims to conquer a fashion model from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. The tables thus turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it’s not the tourists who are being used in these sexual games.

Director: George Seaton
Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA

Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

Director: Anton Leader
Stars: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

Six impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
Genre: Horror
Country: USA | UK

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Genre: Documentary, Music, News
Country: USA

A documentary following the Fab Four for five days in 1964. A humorous and freewheeling account of their first trip to America.

Director: Alain Jessua
Stars: Charles Denner, Anna Gaylor, Guy Saint-Jean
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Real estate agent Jacques Valin records his life story on a tape recorder when he loses job.

Director: Philip Saville
Stars: Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw, Alec Clunes
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Denmark

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet’s mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

Director: Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa, Roman Polanski
Stars: Mie Hama, Ken Mitsuda, Yatsuko Tan’ami
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France | Italy | Japan | Netherlands

Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo – Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam – The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris – France (L’homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband’s relationship with his best friend.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Following the death of his friend, an Italian youth grows increasingly closer to his young aunt.

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, John Gielgud
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God’s divine will rather than the King’s.

Director: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland, Constance Cummings
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK

Ten year old Sammy travels 4500 miles on his own from the Suez Canal to Durban, South Africa.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Jô Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawaji
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.

Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Mai Zetterling
Stars: Ian Ellis, Joseph Robinson
Genre: Drama, Short, War
Country: UK

Two boys quarrel about a toy pistol. The game becomes serious. On the roof in a skyskraper district they risk their lives for the toy pistol.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm, Emy Storm
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

An aspiring young writer lives in a bleak working class block in the late 1930s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Metin Erksan
Stars: Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

A tobacco farmer tries to ruin his competitors crops by diverting water to his property.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Hubert Deschamps, Claude Berri, Evelyne Ker
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France

Two men are disappointed by women and united by a whore.

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.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jean Bobet
Genre: Documentary, Short, Sport
Country: France

Chronicles the cyclists of the Tour de France and their daily trails along the race.

Director: Hubert Cornfield, Stanley Kramer
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Henryk Kluba, Michal Zolnierkiewicz, Voytek Frykowski
Genre: Comedy, Short
Country: Poland

“Waiting for Godot” on ice and snow, without words.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Robert Benson
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An early experimental black and white animated film from artist Stan Brakhage.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Karel Zeman
Stars: Milos Kopecký, Rudolf Jelínek, Jana Brejchová
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century – including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

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.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Michiko Saga, Teruyo Yamagami
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Michiko Saga, Teruyo Yamagami
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A D.A. investigates 3 white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan

A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: William Redfield, Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A director tries to film a group of junkies in Leach’s room while they are waiting for Cowboy to bring their heroin connection.

Director: Peter Glenville
Stars: Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it’s too late.

Director: Allen Baron
Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Having been ‘away’ for some time, professional killer Frankie Bono returns to New York to do another job: assassinate some mid-level mobster. Although intending to avoid unnecessary ‘contact’ while carefully stalking his victim, Bono is recognized by an old fellow from the orphanage, whose calm and unambitious citizen’s life and happy marriage contrast heavily with Bono’s solitary and haunted existence.

Director: David Swift
Stars: Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Stars: Brad Harris, Sergio Ciani, Mara Berni
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Country: Italy | France

While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power.

Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in the gang start to turn on each other.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Sensitive story of a British girl’s awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend’s party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend Juan, a Spanish activist who had recently broken up with Terry.

Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Anna Magnani, Totò, Ben Gazzara
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

On New Year’s Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year’s party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally she runs into an old acting acquaintance (Toto), who is helping a professional pickpocket (Ben Gazzara) steal from people during the hustle-bustle of New Year’s Eve festivities.

Director: Robert Day
Stars: Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days’ sentence left, and the perfect alibi, what could possibly go wrong?

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Jean-Loup Reynold
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: France

A social commentary on post-war France’s urban developments.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

The World War II story of the Royal Navy’s effort to defeat Nazi Germany’s most powerful warship.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when they are married. When the town learns about his trouble they start laughing at him.

Director: Zivorad ‘Zika’ Mitrovic
Stars: Aleksandar Gavric, Petar Prlicko, Dimitar Kostarov
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Lesi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a ruthless, German-trained soldier Kosta and by Ahmet, the brother of the famous Captain.

Director: Francesco Maselli
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Gérard Blain, Anna Maria Ferrero
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Richard Quine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

A businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Yûsuke Kawazu, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jun Fujimaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle’s family – wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer – and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bullied/ fights with local boys, goes to the baths, plays basketball, is befriended by his male cousin and becomes friendly with grade 4 girl who’s the daughter of the innkeeper, who employs his mum and is the longterm mistress of a businessman from another town, who’s the girl’s father and who brings her half sister and brother to meet her but they’re mean to her.

Director: Erwin Leiser
Stars: Paul Klinger, Claude Stephenson, Louis Arbessier
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: Sweden | West Germany

“Mein Kampf” presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life Hitler, which is told since he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of artist living in slums in Austria and Germany, until his suicide in 1945 after being the responsible for the death of million of people, and the destruction of Europe. All the footage is real and belonged to a secret file of Goebbels, inclusive with many very strong scenes filmed by Goebbels himself.

Director: Guy Green
Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.

Director: James Algar
Stars: Winston Hibler
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA

This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In this sequel to “Knock On Any Door”, the residents of a Chicago tenement building band together to insure that the son of Nick Romano does not follow in his father’s footsteps…to the electric chair.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Danièle Gaubert, Roland Lesaffre, Maurice Caffarelli
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Young Danny, better known as Tomb, is the toughest in a street gang in Paris. She dresses as a boy and fights like a man.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Jean Sorel, Lea Massari, Jeanne Valérie
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

The ironic study of a young man’s poignant and sensual adventures based on “Roman Tales” by Alberto Moravia.

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

At the height of his fame, Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is (correctly) believed to be a romantic relationship with Queensberry’s son Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”), who is twenty years Wilde’s junior. When Queensberry slanders Wilde, the artist decides to take the matter to court and brings about his own downfall.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy | France

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yôko Tani, Peter O’Toole
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France | UK

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

In UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer’s field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and for the money.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it’s carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France

Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists’ movement in Japan.

Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Samoylova, Vasiliy Livanov
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: José Isbert, Pedro Porcel, José Luis López Vázquez
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Ali, Père Gauthier, Monsieur Klein
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel | France

A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, Bradford Dillman
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Three performers for six roles: this is the game of the film. A melodrama about two love triangles.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.

Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kayoko Honoo, Kôji Nakahara, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

In Osaka’s slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, while being married, is experiencing domestic problems and has moved back in. The latter woman’s husband soon dies however making the move permanent.

Director: Robert Montgomery
Stars: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA

A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.

Director: John Gilling
Stars: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK

In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.

Director: Stanley Donen
Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.

Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie (Shirley Knight) is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden (Lee Kinsolving), and his son is a mama’s boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt (Dame Angela Lansbury).

Director: Robert Drew
Stars: Robert Drew, Hubert H. Humphrey, Muriel Buck Humphrey
Genre: Documentary, History, News
Country: USA

Cinéma vérité feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.

Director: Harry Keller
Stars: Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, Venetia Stevenson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

In World War II, during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the lost remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ, led by the ruthless Captain Alan Langford, escapes through the jungle toward the British lines.

Director: Clifford Odets
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) and hard drinking photographer Delmas (Pierre Grasset) on an assignment to find him. Their only lead is a picture of three women.

Director: Bernhard Wicki
Stars: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany

In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.

Director: Basil Dearden
Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

The turn of the seasons in the forest is depicted in relation to a decomposing dog corpse.

Director: Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK | USA

The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi (Franca Valeri) who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis, Sylviane Margollé
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France

Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier’s lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people’s behavior can be adjusted at will.

Director: Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

As a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang’s rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.

Director: Jean Delannoy
Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigret does not believe in this.

Director: Valerio Zurlini
Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lilla Brignone
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy | France

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child.

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys’ room. Spence’s crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father’s attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.’s Civil Rights Era.

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Noriko Kitazawa, Katsuko Wakasugi
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan

The ghost of a samurai’s wife takes revenge on her husband.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.

Director: Margot Benacerraf
Stars: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff
Genre: Documentary
Country: Venezuela | France

“Araya” is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the “salineros” and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.

Director: Bert Stern
Stars: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town’s folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

Director: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden
Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, realizing that he can exploit his secret.

Director: Michael Gordon
Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A man and a woman who share a party line cannot stand each other, but he has fun romancing her with his voice disguised.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Myrrena Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Stan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: West Germany

A miniature epic set in Ancient Rome and “inspired” by the then popular television series 77 Sunset Strip (1958).

Director: Frank Wisbar
Stars: Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss
Genre: War, Drama
Country: West Germany

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Gérard Philipe, María Félix, Jean Servais
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Mexico

Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor’s post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | USA

A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Kim Novak, Glenda Farrell, Jan Norris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.

Director: André De Toth
Stars: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise
Genre: Western
Country: USA

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Laura Adani, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Barbara Lass, Roman Polanski, Henryk Kluba
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland

A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men’s lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out — of illness, assignation, and routine — a few tips her only acknowledgment.

Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Ireland | USA

In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being lead by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.

Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An aspiring journalist’s story of his aged uncle doctor leads to the uncle’s life being profiled on TV.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
Genre: Adventure, Romance, War
Country: USA

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit’s doctor cause frictions within ranks.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A flashback story of a young man, from his disgraced birth ,his harsh life and his forbidden love, until when broken-hearted, can break out in search of a place where to live means more than being alive.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Roman Polanski
Genre: Short, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland

In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday’s end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop’s seemingly lifeless denizens?

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital owned by Dr. Varmont, a supporter of traditional treatments, in constant conflict with Dr. Emery, whose therapy takes the psychology of patients into account.

Director: Renato Castellani
Stars: Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Cristina Gaioni
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Story concerns a young girl who comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.

Director: Henry Barakat
Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt

This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family’s honor.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK

In British India, a young prince must be taken to safey across rebel-held territory, and an old train is the only way to do it.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: UK

In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
Stars: Ligia Branice
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Poland

A short film in which a woman living alone in an apartment has a series of bizarre hallucinations.

Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Stars: Jacques Charrier, Charles Aznavour, Dany Robin
Genre: Drama
Country: France