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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Obaltan (오발탄)
Obaltan (오발탄, Aimless Bullet) is Yu Hyun-mok's 1961 Korean realist drama adapted from Yi Beomseon's story about a postwar Seoul family; banned after the 1961 coup, ranked Korea's best film in 1984, digitally restored in 2016.
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.