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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eva (1962 film)
Eva is a 1962 French-Italian black-and-white drama by Joseph Losey, adapted from James Hadley Chase's novel Eve, starring Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, and Virna Lisi; set in Venice, it premiered 3 October 1962 and competed for the Golden Lion.
I Am Cuba (Я — Куба)
I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba, Я — Куба) is a 1964 Soviet-Cuban drama by Mikhail Kalatozov with cinematography by Sergei Urusevsky: four vignettes of pre-revolutionary Cuba, shelved by both governments and rediscovered in the 1990s via Scorsese and Coppola.
Knife in the Water
Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie) is Roman Polanski's 1961 Polish feature debut, released 9 March 1962: a yacht-set psychological thriller on the Masurian Lakes that won FIPRESCI at Venice 1962 and the first Polish Oscar nomination.
Late Autumn (秋日和)
Late Autumn (秋日和, Akibiyori) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1960 Shochiku color drama, released November 13, 1960, starring Setsuko Hara as a widow whose remarriage scheme frees her daughter to marry; it reworks Late Spring with a mother-daughter pair.
Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean's 1962 British epic starring Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence, based on Seven Pillars of Wisdom; shot in Super Panavision 70, it won seven Oscars including Best Picture and was restored in 1988 and 2012.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur (Happiness) is Agnès Varda's 1965 French drama about carpenter François, his wife Thérèse, and his mistress Émilie; it won the 1965 Prix Louis-Delluc and Berlin Silver Bear and is read as a feminist visual-irony film.
Le Trou
Le Trou (The Hole) is Jacques Becker's 1960 French-Italian prison-escape film, adapted from José Giovanni's novel about a real 1947 La Santé escape, with escapee Jean Keraudy among the nonprofessional cast; Becker's last film, later hailed by Melville.
Leon Morin, Priest
Léon Morin, prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest) is Jean-Pierre Melville's 1961 French-Italian drama starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva, adapted from Béatrix Beck's Goncourt-winning novel about an atheist widow and a priest in occupied France.
Les Bonnes Femmes
Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Girls) is Claude Chabrol's 1960 French New Wave drama about four Parisian appliance-store shopgirls, Jane, Ginette, Jacqueline, and Rita, whose dreams of love end in disappointment; a flop on release, restored in 2000 and now admired.
Lola (1961 film)
Lola (1961) is Jacques Demy's debut feature, a French-Italian romantic drama set in Nantes starring Anouk Aimée as a cabaret singer waiting for her lost love Michel, with Marc Michel as Roland, music by Michel Legrand and cinematography by Raoul Coutard.
Manji (卍)
Manji (卍, All Mixed Up) is a 1964 Daiei drama directed by Yasuzo Masumura, adapting Junichiro Tanizaki's novel Quicksand; it depicts an explicit lesbian love quadrangle, scripted by Kaneto Shindo and starring Ayako Wakao and Kyoko Kishida.
Muriel
Muriel (Muriel ou le temps d'un retour) is Alain Resnais's 1963 French-Italian drama, written by Jean Cayrol, starring Delphine Seyrig; set in Boulogne-sur-Mer, it confronts the Algerian War through an absent tortured woman and won Seyrig the 1963 Venice Volpi Cup.
Night and Fog in Japan (日本の夜と霧)
Night and Fog in Japan (日本の夜と霧, Nihon no yoru to kiri) is Nagisa Oshima's 1960 Shochiku color drama about student radicals at a wedding, halted by the studio days after its 9 October 1960 release, prompting Oshima's break with the studio system.
Nothing but a Man
Nothing but a Man (1964) is an independent American drama directed by Michael Roemer and written with Robert M. Young, starring Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln; a National Film Registry landmark of Black-cast, integrated-audience cinema.