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A Blonde in Love
A Blonde in Love (Lásky jedné plavovlásky, Loves of a Blonde) is Miloš Forman's 1965 Czechoslovak New Wave comedy-drama about factory girl Andula, sixteen women per man, an Oscar nomination, and a 2019 4K restoration.
A Countess from Hong Kong
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) is Charlie Chaplin's final film as director and his only one in color, a Universal romantic comedy starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, adapted from his 1936 scenario Stowaway, with the Petula Clark hit This Is My Song.
A Man and a Woman
A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) is Claude Lelouch's 1966 French romance starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant as widowed parents; it won the 1966 Cannes Grand Prix and 1967 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay.
A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)
A Shot in the Dark (1964) is Blake Edwards's comedy, the second Pink Panther film and the first centered on Peter Sellers's Inspector Clouseau, adapted from Achard's L'Idiote, introducing Herbert Lom's Dreyfus and Burt Kwouk's Cato.
Arabesque (1966 film)
Arabesque (1966) is a Stanley Donen comic spy thriller from Alex Gordon's novel The Cipher, starring Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, and Alan Badel in a London-set hieroglyphic-code and assassination plot, noted for its pop-art style, Mancini score, and $5 million rentals.
Bedazzled (1967 film)
Bedazzled (1967) is a British Faustian fantasy comedy directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Cook, starring Cook as the Devil (George Spiggott) and Dudley Moore as Stanley Moon, who trades his soul for seven wishes; remade by Harold Ramis in 2000.
Big Li, Little Li and Old Li
Big Li, Little Li and Old Li (大李小李和老李), a 1962 Shanghai sports comedy directed by Xie Jin at Tianma Film Studio, his only comedy, about three workers named Li at a meat plant embracing calisthenics, restored with Shanghainese dubbing in 2018.
Billy Liar
Billy Liar (1963) is a British New Wave comedy-drama directed by John Schlesinger, starring Tom Courtenay as daydreaming Yorkshire undertaker's clerk Billy Fisher and Julie Christie as Liz, adapted from Keith Waterhouse's 1959 novel.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a 1969 American comedy directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, and Dyan Cannon.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Japanese title ティファニーで朝食を, is Blake Edwards's Paramount comedy-drama starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, adapted from Capote's novella, Oscar-winning for Mancini's 'Moon River,' and criticized for Rooney's yellowface role.
Cactus Flower (film)
Cactus Flower (1969) is a Columbia Pictures romantic comedy directed by Gene Saks, starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn, adapted from Abe Burrows's Broadway play based on the French Fleur de cactus; Hawn won a supporting-actress Oscar for her film debut.
Capricious Summer
Capricious Summer (Rozmarné léto) is Jiří Menzel's 1968 Czechoslovak New Wave comedy, adapted from Vladislav Vančura's novel, about three middle-aged men at a riverside bathhouse; it won the 1968 Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe.
Casino Royale (1967 film)
Casino Royale (1967) is an unofficial Columbia Pictures spy-comedy parody of James Bond, outside the Eon canon, directed by five credited directors, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, and Woody Allen, with a famously troubled production and runaway budget.
Daisies (1966 film)
Daisies (Sedmikrásky) is Věra Chytilová's 1966 Czechoslovak New Wave surrealist comedy about two Maries rebelling through pranks and food orgies; censored, banned after 1968, later ranked 28th in Sight and Sound's 2022 greatest-films poll.
Donovan's Reef
Donovan's Reef (ドノバン珊瑚礁) is a 1963 Paramount comedy directed by John Ford, his final collaboration with John Wayne, set on a French Polynesian island and filmed on Kauai, Hawaii.
Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy satirizing nuclear deterrence, based on Peter George's Red Alert, with Peter Sellers in three roles and a Doomsday Device plot.
El Padrecito
El Padrecito (The Little Priest) is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Cantinflas as Padre Sebastián, a young priest winning over the town of San Jerónimo el Alto.
Father Goose
Father Goose (1964) is a Cary Grant romantic comedy directed by Ralph Nelson, co-starring Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard, about a WWII coast-watcher; it won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
For Love of the title
For Love of Ivy (1968) is an American romantic comedy directed by Daniel Mann, starring Sidney Poitier and Abbey Lincoln, from Poitier's only story credit; the first mainstream Hollywood film depicting a mature black romance, with a Quincy Jones score and an Oscar-nominated title song.
Georgy Girl
Georgy Girl is a 1966 British comedy-drama directed by Silvio Narizzano, adapted from Margaret Forster's novel, starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates, and Charlotte Rampling; a Swinging London film with four Oscar nominations and The Seekers' hit title song.
Goodbye, Columbus
Goodbye, Columbus (1969) is a Paramount comedy-drama directed by Larry Peerce, adapted by Arnold Schulman from Philip Roth's National Book Award-winning novella, starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw as class-divided lovers; ninth top-grossing film of 1969.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is Stanley Kramer's 1967 Columbia comedy-drama starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton, about a liberal couple facing their daughter's engagement to a Black doctor; it won two Oscars and was Tracy's final film.
Help! (film)
Help! (1965) is the Beatles' second feature film, a Richard Lester musical comedy in which Ringo's stuck sacred ruby ring sends the band fleeing a Thuggee-style cult across the Alps, Bahamas, and London, with seven songs including the chart-topping title track.
Intimate Lighting
Intimate Lighting (Intimní osvětlení), 1965 Czechoslovak New Wave comedy-drama, Ivan Passer's only Czech feature, about two conservatory friends reuniting; banned for two decades, restored in 2016.
Irma la Douce
Irma la Douce: 1956 French musical by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot about a Parisian streetwalker and Nestor; hit in London and Broadway, filmed non-musically by Billy Wilder in 1963 with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy directed by Stanley Kramer, in which motorists race across California for $350,000 in buried loot.
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика)
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика) is a 1967 Leonid Gaidai Mosfilm comedy sequel to Operation Y, starring Demyanenko, Varley, and the trio; 76.5 million Soviet viewers, 1967 box-office leader.
Le Corniaud
Le Corniaud (The Sucker) is a 1965 French-Italian comedy road movie by Gérard Oury starring Bourvil and Louis de Funès; a gangster has a naive merchant drive a Cadillac of contraband from Naples to Bordeaux. It topped the 1965 French box office with 11.7 million admissions.
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez) is a 1964 French-Italian comedy by Jean Girault, starring Louis de Funès as gendarme Ludovic Cruchot. France's biggest 1964 hit and first of a six-film series (1964-1982), it launched de Funès as a star.
Le Grand Restaurant
Le Grand Restaurant (1966) is a French comedy by Jacques Besnard starring Louis de Funès as restaurateur Monsieur Septime, suspected when a South American head of state vanishes; 3.9 million French admissions, Gaumont, visa 31211.