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7 Women
7 Women (also Seven Women, 1966) is John Ford's final feature film, an American drama set in 1935 at a China-Mongolia mission besieged by bandits, starring Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, and Margaret Leighton.
A Falecida
A Falecida (The Deceased) is a 1965 Brazilian Cinema Novo drama, Leon Hirszman's first feature, adapted from Nelson Rodrigues' 1953 play, starring Fernanda Montenegro as death-obsessed Zulmira in her film debut.
A Kind of Loving
A Kind of Loving is a 1962 British kitchen-sink drama, John Schlesinger's feature debut, adapted from Stan Barstow's novel. Alan Bates and June Ritchie star as a couple married by pregnancy; it won the 1962 Berlin Golden Bear.
A Patch of Blue
A Patch of Blue is a 1965 MGM black-and-white melodrama written and directed by Guy Green, adapted from Elizabeth Kata's novel Be Ready With Bells and Drums, starring Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, and Elizabeth Hartman; Winters won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
A Taste of Honey (film)
A Taste of Honey (1961) is a British New Wave drama directed by Tony Richardson, adapted by Shelagh Delaney from her play, starring Rita Tushingham; shot on Salford locations, it won Cannes and BAFTA awards and broke taboos on race, sexuality, and unwed motherhood.
Accident (1967 film)
Accident is a 1967 British drama by Joseph Losey, scripted by Harold Pinter from Nicholas Mosley's novel, starring Dirk Bogarde as an Oxford professor in sexual rivalry over a student; it won the 1967 Cannes Special Jury Prize.
Advise & Consent
Advise & Consent (1962), Otto Preminger's political drama adapted from Allen Drury's Pulitzer-winning 1959 novel, depicts a Senate confirmation battle over Henry Fonda's Secretary of State nominee, filmed with rare access to Capitol Hill.
Age of Consent (1969 film)
Age of Consent is a 1969 Australian drama directed by Michael Powell, produced with James Mason, adapted from Norman Lindsay's 1938 novel, starring Mason and a young Helen Mirren as a painter's muse on the Great Barrier Reef.
Alice's Restaurant (1969 film)
Alice's Restaurant (1969 film): Arthur Penn comedy-drama based on Arlo Guthrie's 18-minute song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree"; Guthrie plays himself, $2 million budget, ~$12 million gross, Oscar-nominated direction.
An Actor's Revenge (雪之丞変化)
An Actor's Revenge (雪之丞変化, Yukinojo henge) is Kon Ichikawa's 1963 Daiei color melodrama in which kabuki onnagata Yukinojo, played by Kazuo Hasegawa in a dual role marking his 300th film, avenges his parents; it remakes Kinugasa's 1935 version.
An Autumn Afternoon (秋刀魚の味)
An Autumn Afternoon (秋刀魚の味, Sanma no aji) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1962 Shochiku color film and final work, about widower Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) arranging daughter Michiko's marriage; released November 18, 1962, 113 minutes.
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв) (film)
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв), aka The Passion According to Andrei, is Andrei Tarkovsky's 1966 Mosfilm drama in eight episodes about the fifteenth-century icon painter, censored in the USSR, released 1971, FIPRESCI winner at Cannes 1969.
Ánimas Trujano
Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante) is a 1961 Mexican drama by Ismael Rodríguez, based on Rogelio Barriga Rivas's novel La mayordomía, starring Toshiro Mifune as an Oaxacan Zapotec seeking the mayordomo honor; Oscar and Golden Globe nominated, dubbed by Narciso Busquets.
Au Hasard Balthazar
Au hasard Balthazar (1966) is Robert Bresson's French-Swedish drama about a donkey passed between owners in rural France, paralleling Marie (Anne Wiazemsky). Ranked joint 25th in the 2022 Sight & Sound critics' poll; inspired by Dostoevsky's The Idiot.
Bay of Angels
Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges) is Jacques Demy's 1963 French black-and-white romantic drama starring Jeanne Moreau as compulsive gambler Jackie and Claude Mann as bank clerk Jean, with Michel Legrand's score, set in the casinos of Nice.
Before the Revolution
Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione) is Bernardo Bertolucci's 1964 Italian drama, his second feature, about a young Parma bourgeois torn between Marxism and an affair with his aunt Gina, ending in resigned marriage to Clelia.
Belle de Jour (film)
Belle de Jour (Belle de jour) is Luis Buñuel's 1967 Franco-Italian drama starring Catherine Deneuve as Séverine, a surgeon's wife secretly working afternoons in a brothel; adapted from Joseph Kessel's 1928 novel, it won the 1967 Venice Golden Lion.
Black Girl (1966 film)
Black Girl (La Noire de…) is Ousmane Sembène's 1966 Senegal-France black-and-white drama, considered the first feature by a sub-Saharan African director, starring Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Diouana, a Senegalese maid driven to suicide in France; Prix Jean Vigo winner.
Black God, White Devil
Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) is Glauber Rocha's 1964 Cinema Novo landmark: a sertão allegory of a fugitive couple torn between a fanatic preacher and a cangaceiro bandit, premiered at Cannes 1964.
Bluebeard (1963 film)
Bluebeard, original French title Landru, is Claude Chabrol's 1963 French-Italian crime drama written with Françoise Sagan, starring Charles Denner as serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered wealthy women in World War I France; released 25 January 1963, 115 minutes, color, 1.66:1.
Boom!
Boom! (1968) is Joseph Losey's drama adapted by Tennessee Williams from The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; a flop that became a John Waters-endorsed camp cult film.
Born Free
Born Free is a 1966 adventure drama directed by James Hill, based on Joy Adamson's 1960 memoir, starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as the Adamsons raising Elsa the lioness; it won two 1967 Oscars for John Barry's music.
Boy (少年) (1969 film)
Boy (少年, Shonen) is Nagisa Oshima's 1969 Japanese film about a family living by staged car-accident scams, based on a real 1966 case; 97 minutes, Sozosha/ATG, Kinema Junpo Best Ten 3rd place, Valladolid Golden Spike winner.
Burn!
Burn! (Queimada) is Gillo Pontecorvo's 1969 Italian-French political film starring Marlon Brando as British agent Sir William Walker, who incites and then suppresses a slave revolt on the fictional Caribbean island of Queimada, with Evaristo Márquez as José Dolores and a score by Ennio Morricone.
BUtterfield 8
BUtterfield 8 (1960) is an MGM drama directed by Daniel Mann, adapted from John O'Hara's 1935 novel about call girl Gloria Wandrous; Elizabeth Taylor won her first Best Actress Oscar for it, and the film cost $2.5 million and grossed $9 million domestically.
Cathy Come Home
Cathy Come Home is a 1966 BBC Wednesday Play drama-documentary on homelessness, written by Jeremy Sandford, directed by Ken Loach, produced by Tony Garnett, starring Carol White; its broadcast helped Shelter and sparked a drama-versus-documentary debate.
Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke (1967) is a Stuart Rosenberg prison drama starring Paul Newman as Luke Jackson, a Florida chain-gang rebel, based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel, with George Kennedy's Oscar-winning Dragline and the famous "failure to communicate" line.
Darling (1965 film)
Darling (1965) is a British black-and-white drama directed by John Schlesinger, starring Julie Christie as model Diana Scott, with Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey; it won three 1966 Oscars including Best Actress.
Days of Wine and Roses (film)
Days of Wine and Roses is a 1962 Warner Bros. drama directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick as a couple destroyed by alcoholism, adapted from J.P. Miller's 1958 Playhouse 90 teleplay; its Mancini-Mercer title song won the Oscar.
Early Spring in February (早春二月)
Early Spring in February (早春二月, Early Spring) is Xie Tieli's 1963 Beijing Film Studio drama adapted from Rou Shi's novella February, starring Sun Daolin, Xie Fang, and Shangguan Yunzhu; criticized as a poison weed in 1964, later a classic.