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Bande à part (film)
Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 French New Wave heist film starring Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur, famous for its Madison dance and Louvre run; not the restaurant or band of the same name.
Black Test Car (黒の試走車)
Black Test Car (黒の試走車, Kuro no shisōsha) is a 1962 Daiei black-and-white industrial-espionage thriller directed by Yasuzo Masumura from Sueyuki Kajiyama's novel, starring Jiro Tamiya; first of Daiei's Black series.
Bullitt
Bullitt (1968), Peter Yates crime thriller starring Steve McQueen as SFPD lieutenant Frank Bullitt, based on Robert L. Pike's Mute Witness; won the 1969 Oscar for Best Film Editing and is famous for its San Francisco Mustang-versus-Charger car chase.
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Bunny Lake Is Missing, also known by its source novel title, is Otto Preminger's 1965 British black-and-white psychological thriller starring Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, and Keir Dullea, about a mother whose daughter's existence cannot be proven.
Cape Fear (1962 film)
Cape Fear (1962), also known from The Executioners, is J. Lee Thompson's black-and-white thriller starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, adapted from John D. MacDonald's 1958 novel, with a Bernard Herrmann score and a 1991 Scorsese remake.
Charade (1963 film)
Charade (1963) is an American romantic comedy-thriller, also called a Hitchcockian caper, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Paris, with music by Henry Mancini and a 2022 National Film Registry selection.
Cruel Story of Youth (青春残酷物語)
Cruel Story of Youth (青春残酷物語, Seishun zankoku monogatari) is Nagisa Oshima's 1960 Shochiku film about a delinquent schoolgirl and student whose affair ends in ruin; its hit status coined the term Shochiku Nouvelle Vague.
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (Japanese title 現金作戦) is a 1966 Columbia comedy crime caper directed by Bernard Girard, starring James Coburn as con man Eli Kotch plotting an LAX bank robbery; it marks Harrison Ford's film debut as a bellboy.
Duffy (1968 film)
Duffy is a 1968 comedy crime caper directed by Robert Parrish, starring James Coburn, James Mason, James Fox, Susannah York, and John Alderton, about half-brothers hiring an adventurer to hijack their father's $2,000,000 shipment from Tangiers to France; an early Donald Cammell screenplay, panned by critics.
Fail Safe (1964 film)
Fail Safe (1964) is Sidney Lumet's Columbia Pictures Cold War thriller, written by Walter Bernstein from Burdick and Wheeler's novel, starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau, eclipsed by Dr. Strangelove.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) is Russ Meyer's 83-minute exploitation film about three go-go dancers, starring Tura Satana, later reappraised as a feminist cult classic and often called the greatest B-movie.
Funeral in Berlin
Funeral in Berlin (1966) is a British Cold War spy film, the second Harry Palmer film, directed by Guy Hamilton with Michael Caine, Oskar Homolka, and Eva Renzi, adapting Len Deighton's third novel about a mock-funeral defection across the Berlin Wall.
Gate of Flesh (肉体の門)
Gate of Flesh (肉体の門, Nikutai no mon) is Seijun Suzuki's 1964 Nikkatsu color drama adapted from Taijiro Tamura's 1947 bestseller, starring Joe Shishido and Yumiko Nogawa as postwar Tokyo prostitutes bound by a no-free-sex code.
Harper (film)
Harper (1966) is a Jack Smight neo-noir mystery starring Paul Newman as Lew Harper, William Goldman's adaptation of Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target, with Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh, and Julie Harris; released 1966 by Warner Bros.
High and Low (天国と地獄) (1963 film)
High and Low (天国と地獄, Tengoku to jigoku) is Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Toho crime thriller starring Toshiro Mifune, adapted from Ed McBain's King's Ransom: a Yokohama executive pays a 30-million-yen ransom for his chauffeur's mistakenly kidnapped son.
How to Steal a Million
How to Steal a Million is a 1966 William Wyler romantic heist comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, based on George Bradshaw's story "Venus Rising", about stealing a forged Cellini Venus from a Paris museum.
Ice Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 John Sturges Cold War thriller from Alistair MacLean's novel, starring Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, and Patrick McGoohan; a US nuclear submarine races Soviets to recover a downed spy satellite at the North Pole.
In Cold Blood (film)
In Cold Blood (1967), Richard Brooks's black-and-white crime drama adapted from Truman Capote's nonfiction novel, stars Robert Blake and Scott Wilson as Clutter family killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock; four Oscar nominations.
In the Heat of the Night (film)
In the Heat of the Night (1967), Norman Jewison's Oscar-winning crime drama starring Sidney Poitier as detective Virgil Tibbs and Rod Steiger as Chief Gillespie, adapted from John Ball's novel; won five Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Intentions of Murder
Intentions of Murder (赤い殺意, Akai Satsui; also Unholy Desire) is Shohei Imamura's 1964 Nikkatsu film in which housewife Sadako, raped by a burglar, transforms into a strong woman; 150 minutes, black and white, starring Masumi Harukawa.
Le Samouraï
Le Samouraï (1967) is a French-Italian film noir by Jean-Pierre Melville starring Alain Delon as hitman Jef Costello; released 25 October 1967, it shaped the modern solitary-hitman film and influenced Woo, Jarmusch, and Tarantino.
Made in U.S.A.
Made in U.S.A. (1966) is Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave crime film, loosely based on Richard Stark's The Jugger, starring Anna Karina as investigator Paula Nelson; his last feature with Karina, long unavailable in the U.S.
Madigan
Madigan (1968) is Don Siegel's crime drama starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda, adapted from Richard Dougherty's novel The Commissioner, about NYPD detectives given 72 hours to recapture a killer who stole their guns.
Marnie (film)
Marnie (1964) is Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery, adapted by Jay Presson Allen from Winston Graham's 1961 novel; a critical and box office failure on release, later reassessed, with a Bernard Herrmann score and a controversial wedding-night rape scene.
Mickey One
Mickey One (1965) is Arthur Penn's black-and-white French New Wave-influenced drama starring Warren Beatty as a Detroit comic fleeing the mob to Chicago; a 1965 box-office flop, first Penn-Beatty film before Bonnie and Clyde.
Mirage (1965 film)
Mirage (1965) is a Universal black-and-white psychological thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by Peter Stone from Howard Fast's novel Fallen Angel, starring Gregory Peck as an amnesiac accountant, with Diane Baker and Walter Matthau, released 26 May 1965.
Ocean's 11
Ocean's 11 (Ocean's Eleven) is the 1960 Rat Pack heist film directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Sinatra, Martin, Davis Jr., Lawford and Bishop robbing five Las Vegas casinos on New Year's Eve.
Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦)
Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦, Buta to gunkan; Hogs and Warships) is Shohei Imamura's 1961 Nikkatsu black-and-white drama, set around the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, about a yakuza gang's pig-farming scheme and a young hustler's downfall.
Point Blank (1967 film)
Point Blank (1967) is John Boorman's neo-noir revenge thriller starring Lee Marvin as Walker, left for dead on Alcatraz; adapted from Westlake's The Hunter, 92 minutes, MGM, released 30 August 1967.
Purple Noon
Purple Noon (Plein soleil) is René Clément's 1960 French-Italian crime thriller adapting Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Alain Delon as Tom Ripley in his star-making role, with Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Henri Decaë's cinematography, and Nino Rota's score.