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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eros + Massacre (エロス+虐殺)
Eros + Massacre (エロス+虐殺, Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) is Yoshida Kiju's 1969 Japanese New Wave masterpiece, intertwining anarchist Ōsugi Sakae and Itō Noe with 1960s students; released by ATG in 1970 after censorship cuts.
Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列)
Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列, Bara no Sōretsu) is Toshio Matsumoto's 1969 black-and-white debut feature, an Oedipus-themed queer melodrama set in Tokyo's gay bar scene, an ATG Japanese New Wave landmark influencing Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
Grand Prix (1966 film)
Grand Prix (1966) is John Frankenheimer's MGM sports drama about four fictional Formula One drivers in the 1966 season, starring James Garner, Yves Montand, Eva Marie Saint, and Toshiro Mifune. Shot at real 1966 F1 races in 70 mm, it won three Oscars and grossed about $20.8 million.
Hawaii (1966 film)
Hawaii (1966 film): George Roy Hill epic drama for United Artists, adapted from Michener's novel, starring Max von Sydow, Julie Andrews, Richard Harris; $15 million budget, $34.5 million gross, seven Oscar nominations.
I Am Curious (Yellow)
I Am Curious (Yellow) (Jag är nyfiken – en film i gult) is Vilgot Sjöman's 1967 Swedish docufiction starring Lena Nyman, whose explicit sex and politics triggered a landmark US obscenity case and huge box office.
La Caza
La caza (The Hunt) is Carlos Saura's 1966 Spanish Civil War drama, written with Angelino Fons and produced by Elías Querejeta, about three veterans whose rabbit hunt on a former battleground ends in violence; it won the 1966 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director.
La Chinoise
La Chinoise is Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 French political film about five students forming a Maoist cell in a Paris apartment, released 30 August 1967, starring Anne Wiazemsky and Jean-Pierre Léaud, Venice Special Jury Prize winner, and a precursor of May 68.
Lucía
Lucía (1968) is Humberto Solás's Cuban black-and-white triptych about three women named Lucía in 1895, 1932, and the 1960s, produced by ICAIC, 160 minutes, Moscow Gold Medal 1969.
Mad Love
Mad Love (L'amour fou) is Jacques Rivette's 1969 French New Wave drama, about 250 minutes long, starring Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon as a couple whose marriage collapses during rehearsals of Racine's Andromaque; restored in 4K in 2023.
Mandabi
Mandabi (Le Mandat, The Money Order) is Ousmane Sembène's 1968 Senegalese-French comedy-drama, the first feature-length film in Wolof, following unemployed Ibrahima Dieng's failed attempt to cash a 25,000-franc money order from Paris; Venice Special Jury Prize winner.
Memories of Underdevelopment
Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del subdesarrollo) is Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 Cuban film, adapted from Edmundo Desnoes' novel, about bourgeois intellectual Sergio who stays in Havana after the Bay of Pigs; a landmark of ICAIC-era cinema.
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy, aka Cowboy de medianoche, is John Schlesinger's 1969 American drama starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as hustler Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo in New York; the only X-rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar, re-rated R in 1971 and added to the National Film Registry in 1994.
More (1969 film)
More (1969) is Barbet Schroeder's debut feature drama, a France-West Germany-Luxembourg co-production starring Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg as lovers drawn into heroin addiction on Ibiza, with Pink Floyd's first film soundtrack and cinematography by Néstor Almendros.
Persona (1966 film)
Persona (1966) is Ingmar Bergman's Swedish black-and-white psychological drama, also known by the working title Kinematografi, starring Liv Ullmann as a mute actress and Bibi Andersson as her nurse, shot on Faro by Sven Nykvist.
Poor Cow
Poor Cow is Ken Loach's 1967 debut feature, a British kitchen-sink drama adapted from Nell Dunn's novel, starring Carol White as Joy, with Terence Stamp and John Bindon; reused in Soderbergh's The Limey.
Queimada
Queimada (Burn!) is Gillo Pontecorvo's 1969 French-Italian political drama starring Marlon Brando as a British agent who instigates and later crushes a slave revolt on a fictional Caribbean sugar island, with Evaristo Márquez and music by Ennio Morricone.