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Qeysar (قیصر)
Qeysar (قیصر, Gheisar/Qaysar) is Masoud Kimiai's 1969 Iranian black-and-white crime drama starring Behrouz Vossoughi, about a man avenging his sister's rape-suicide and brother's murder; a Sepas award winner and, with The Cow, a founding film of the Iranian New Wave.
Que la bête meure
Que la bête meure (This Man Must Die, The Beast Must Die) is Claude Chabrol's 1969 France-Italy thriller, adapted from Nicholas Blake's 1938 novel, starring Michel Duchaussoy, Jean Yanne, and Caroline Cellier, released 5 September 1969.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Seance on a Wet Afternoon is Bryan Forbes' 1964 British psychological thriller starring Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough, based on Mark McShane's novel about a medium's kidnapping scheme.
Take the Money and Run
Take the Money and Run (1969) is Woody Allen's directorial debut, a mockumentary comedy about inept bank robber Virgil Starkwell, shot in San Francisco, rescued in editing by Ralph Rosenblum, scored by Marvin Hamlisch, grossing $6,080,000.
Ten Little Indians (1965 film)
Ten Little Indians (1965) is a British black-and-white whodunit directed by George Pollock, produced by Harry Alan Towers, adapting Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in an Alpine chalet, with a Whodunit Break gimmick.
The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る)
The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) is Akira Kurosawa's 1960 black-and-white corporate revenge thriller, the debut film of Kurosawa Productions, loosely adapting Hamlet with Toshiro Mifune as Koichi Nishi.
The Blood of the Condor
Yawar Mallku (The Blood of the Condor, Sangre de Cóndor) is Jorge Sanjinés's 1969 Bolivian film about Peace Corps sterilization of Quechua women; its release led to protests and the Peace Corps' 1971 expulsion from Bolivia.
The Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler is Richard Fleischer's 1968 20th Century-Fox crime drama, also known as El estrangulador de Boston, starring Tony Curtis as confessed killer Albert DeSalvo and Henry Fonda; noted for split-screen technique and mixed reviews.
The Criminal
The Criminal (1960, aka The Concrete Jungle) is a British black-and-white prison crime drama by blacklisted director Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker as Johnny Bannion, a racetrack robber pressured inside and outside prison to reveal hidden loot.
The Deadly Affair
The Deadly Affair is Sidney Lumet's 1966/1967 Columbia cold war spy thriller adapting John le Carré's Call for the Dead, with James Mason as Charles Dobbs, the renamed George Smiley, alongside Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell, and Harriet Andersson.
The Detective
The Detective (1968) is a Gordon Douglas crime drama starring Frank Sinatra as NYPD detective Joe Leland, adapted from Roderick Thorp's novel; its sequel novel became Die Hard.
The Diamond Arm (Бриллиантовая рука)
The Diamond Arm (Бриллиантовая рука) is a 1968 Mosfilm comedy by Leonid Gaidai starring Yuri Nikulin as Gorbunkov, an innocent tourist who unknowingly carries smuggled diamonds in a plaster cast; 76.7 million Soviet viewers saw it in 1969.
The Incident
The Incident (1967) is Larry Peerce's subway-terror drama, from Nicholas E. Baehr's teleplay Ride with Terror, starring Tony Musante, Martin Sheen (film debut), Beau Bridges, and Ed McMahon, rescued by Fox financing.
The Ipcress File (film)
The Ipcress File (1965) is a British spy thriller directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, adapted from Len Deighton's 1962 novel, produced by Harry Saltzman as an anti-Bond film with a John Barry score and brainwashing plot.
The Killers (1964 film)
The Killers (1964) is Don Siegel's color remake of the 1946 film noir, from Hemingway's 1927 story, starring Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson, and Ronald Reagan; made for NBC but released theatrically as too violent for TV.
The League of Gentlemen (1960 film)
The League of Gentlemen is a 1960 British crime caper directed by Basil Dearden, in which a retired colonel recruits seven disgraced ex-army officers for a London bank robbery.
The Magus (1968 film)
The Magus (1968) is a British film directed by Guy Green from John Fowles's screenplay of his own 1966 novel, starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen, and Anna Karina; a critical failure disowned by its author.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is John Frankenheimer's Cold War political thriller, adapted by George Axelrod from Richard Condon's 1959 novel, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury as the mother-villain of a brainwashed Korean War sleeper assassin, released during the Cuban Missile Crisis and withdrawn after the Kennedy assassination.
The Sleeping Beast Within
The Sleeping Beast Within (Kemono no nemuri, けものの眠り) is a 1960 Seijun Suzuki Nikkatsu crime thriller in which a retired salaryman's disappearance leads his daughter and reporter boyfriend into heroin smuggling and a Sun God cult.
The Split (1968 film)
The Split (1968) is an American heist film directed by Gordon Flemyng, starring Jim Brown as thief McClain, adapted from Donald E. Westlake's Parker novel The Seventh; first theatrical release to receive an R rating, about a $500,000 Los Angeles Coliseum robbery.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965 film)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) is a British espionage film directed by Martin Ritt, adapted from John le Carré's 1963 novel, starring Richard Burton as agent Alec Leamas, with Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner; it won four BAFTAs and three Oscar nominations.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967 film)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) is Roger Corman's docu-drama for 20th Century-Fox on the 1929 Chicago gang killings, starring Jason Robards as Al Capone, with Howard Browne's factual screenplay and a $2.5 million budget.
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) is Norman Jewison's heist-romance starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, famous for Pablo Ferro's split screens, Michel Legrand's score, and "The Windmills of Your Mind," later remade in 1999 and again in 2027.
The Unfaithful Wife
La Femme infidèle (The Unfaithful Wife) is Claude Chabrol's 1969 French thriller starring Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, and Maurice Ronet, in which a husband murders his wife's lover; remade as Unfaithful (2002).
The Young Savages
The Young Savages is a 1961 John Frankenheimer courtroom drama starring Burt Lancaster as an assistant DA prosecuting three Italian-American teens for killing a blind Puerto Rican boy in East Harlem, adapted from Evan Hunter's novel A Matter of Conviction.
Tokyo Drifter (東京流れ者)
Tokyo Drifter (東京流れ者, Tokyo Nagaremono) is a 1966 Nikkatsu yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki, starring Tetsuya Watari as a gangster trying to go straight, famed for pop-art color and a 2024 4K restoration.
Topaz (1969 film)
Topaz (1969) is Alfred Hitchcock's Cold War espionage thriller for Universal, adapted from Leon Uris's novel, starring Frederick Stafford; notable for its $4 million budget, three filmed endings, and box office failure.
Topkapi
Topkapi (1964) is Jules Dassin's comedy-heist film, adapted from Eric Ambler's The Light of Day, about thieves stealing an emerald dagger from Istanbul's Topkapi Palace; Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Two Way Stretch
Two Way Stretch (Two-Way Stretch) is a 1960 British black-and-white prison caper comedy directed by Robert Day, starring Peter Sellers as Dodger Lane, who breaks out of jail to steal diamonds and breaks back in for an alibi.
Victim
Victim (1961) is a British Basil Dearden thriller starring Dirk Bogarde as a closeted barrister fighting a blackmail ring; the first commercial British film to address homosexuality and legal reform, preceding the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.