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The Pawnbroker
The Pawnbroker is Sidney Lumet's 1964 American drama, released 1965, starring Rod Steiger as Holocaust survivor Sol Nazerman running an East Harlem pawnshop; adapted from Wallant's 1961 novel, it broke the Production Code and joined the National Film Registry in 2008.
The Queen's Guards
The Queen's Guards is Michael Powell's 1961 British drama about a Grenadier Guards officer (Daniel Massey) preparing for the Trooping of the Colour; his last major British feature, made for £280,000 with Fox funding and a commercial failure.
The Rabbit Is Me
The Rabbit Is Me (Das Kaninchen bin ich) is a 1965 East German film by Kurt Maetzig, banned by the SED until 1989 and 1990.
The Sandpiper
The Sandpiper is a 1965 MGM romantic drama directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, and Charles Bronson; a Big Sur artist and married clergyman affair, remembered for the Oscar-winning song "The Shadow of Your Smile".
The Servant (1963 film)
The Servant (1963) is a British psychological drama directed by Joseph Losey, scripted by Harold Pinter from Robin Maugham's novella, starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox in a class-power struggle in a London house.
The Silence (1963 film)
The Silence (Tystnaden) is Ingmar Bergman's 1963 Swedish black-and-white drama, third in his Silence of God trilogy, about two sisters and a boy stranded in a hotel in an unnamed city; its explicit sex scenes caused a major 1963 censorship scandal.
The Soft Skin
The Soft Skin (La Peau douce) is François Truffaut's 1964 French black-and-white adultery drama starring Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, and Nelly Benedetti, inspired by the Pierre Jaccoud case, a Cannes selection that flopped on release and was later reevaluated.
The System (1964 film)
The System (The Girl-Getters) is a 1964 British drama directed by Michael Winner, starring Oliver Reed as a seaside photographer who seduces tourists until he falls for Jane Merrow's model; shot in Devon by Nicolas Roeg.
The Tale of Zatoichi (座頭市物語)
The Tale of Zatoichi (座頭市物語, Zatoichi Monogatari) is a 1962 Daiei black-and-white samurai film directed by Kenji Misumi, starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind swordsman-gambler Zatoichi, first of a 26-film series.
The Trial (1962 film)
The Trial (Le Procès) is Orson Welles' 1962 black-and-white adaptation of Kafka's novel, starring Anthony Perkins as Josef K., shot partly in the disused Gare d'Orsay, a French-Italian-West German co-production that flopped on release but which Welles called his best film.
The Ugly American (film)
The Ugly American, 1963 Universal International Pictures political drama directed by George Englund, starring Marlon Brando as U.S. Ambassador MacWhite in fictional Sarkhan, adapted loosely from the 1958 Lederer-Burdick novel.
The Virgin Spring
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) is Ingmar Bergman's 1960 Swedish black-and-white drama, scripted by Ulla Isaksson from the ballad Töres dotter i Wänge, starring Max von Sydow; it won the 1961 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and inspired The Last House on the Left.
The War Lord
The War Lord (1965) is a Franklin J. Schaffner medieval drama starring Charlton Heston as Norman knight Chrysagon, adapted from Leslie Stevens's play The Lovers, in which the droit du seigneur custom triggers a siege; 123 minutes, Universal, 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Warped Ones (狂熱の季節)
The Warped Ones (狂熱の季節, Kyonetsu no kisetsu) is Koreyoshi Kurahara's 1960 Nikkatsu crime drama about delinquent Akira (Tamio Kawachi) taking revenge on the journalist who jailed him, a jazz-scored early Japanese New Wave landmark.
The Wild and the Willing
The Wild and the Willing, also released as Young and Willing, is Ralph Thomas's 1962 British university drama starring Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar, and John Hurt, the last three in film debuts.
The Young One
The Young One (La joven) is Luis Buñuel's 1960 Mexico/USA English-language drama, his only US-set film, about Black musician Traver fleeing a false rape accusation to an island with racist warden Miller and orphan Evvie; a Cannes 1960 entry, later reevaluated.
This Sporting Life
This Sporting Life (1963) is Lindsay Anderson's debut feature, adapted by David Storey from his novel, starring Richard Harris as rugby league player Frank Machin and Rachel Roberts; Cannes Best Actor, two Oscar nominations, box-office failure.
Through a Glass Darkly (film)
Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel) is Ingmar Bergman's 1961 Swedish chamber drama about a family on an island and a daughter's schizophrenia; it won the 1962 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and opens his faith trilogy.
Tiburoneros
Tiburoneros (The Shark Hunters) is a 1962 Mexican black-and-white drama directed by Luis Alcoriza, starring Julio Aldama as shark fisherman Aurelio Gómez on the Tabasco coast; it won Best Cinedrama at Mar del Plata 1963 and was restored in 4K by Filmoteca UNAM.
Viridiana
Viridiana (1961) is Luis Buñuel's Spanish-Mexican drama about a novice nun, her lecherous uncle, and a household of beggars; it won the 1961 Cannes Palme d'Or, was denounced by the Vatican, and banned in Franco's Spain until 1977.
Vivre sa vie
Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux (My Life to Live) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1962 French black-and-white drama in twelve tableaux, starring Anna Karina as Nana, a record-shop clerk who drifts into prostitution; it won the Special Jury Prize at Venice 1962.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (女が階段を上る時)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o noboru toki, 女が階段を上る時) is a 1960 Toho drama directed by Mikio Naruse, starring Hideko Takamine as widowed Ginza bar hostess Keiko, released 15 January 1960, 111 minutes.
Whistle Down the Wind
Whistle Down the Wind: 1961 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, produced by Richard Attenborough, from Mary Hayley Bell's story, in which Lancashire children mistake fugitive Alan Bates for Jesus; also a 1996 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Winter Light
Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna, 1963) is Ingmar Bergman's black-and-white Swedish drama, middle film of the faith trilogy with Through a Glass Darkly and The Silence, starring Gunnar Björnstrand as a doubting pastor, shot by Sven Nykvist in natural winter light.
Woman in the Dunes (砂の女)
Woman in the Dunes (砂の女, Suna no onna) is a 1964 Japanese black-and-white film by Hiroshi Teshigahara, scripted by Kobo Abe from his 1962 novel, starring Eiji Okada and Kyoko Kishida; it won the Cannes Special Jury Prize and earned Academy Award nominations.
Young Cassidy
Young Cassidy is a 1965 biographical film about Sean O'Casey's early life, begun by John Ford, completed by Jack Cardiff after Ford fell ill, starring Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, and Maggie Smith.
Zorba the Greek (Αλέξης Ζορμπάς) (film)
Zorba the Greek (Αλέξης Ζορμπάς), 1964 drama by Michael Cacoyannis from Kazantzakis's novel, starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates; 7 Oscar nominations, 3 wins, filmed in Crete, with Theodorakis's sirtaki score.