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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.
Red Beard (赤ひげ) (1965 film)
Red Beard (赤ひげ, Akahige) is Akira Kurosawa's 1965 black-and-white drama, his last of 16 films with Toshiro Mifune, adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto's Akahige Shinryotan about an Edo-period clinic doctor training a young physician; it won Mifune his second Venice Volpi Cup.
Red Desert
Red Desert (Il deserto rosso, 1964) is Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film, starring Monica Vitti as Giuliana, an anxious industrialist's wife in Ravenna's industrial zone; it won the 1964 Venice Golden Lion.
Reflections in a Golden Eye (film)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) is John Huston's film of Carson McCullers's 1941 novel, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, and Julie Harris as officers and spouses on a Georgia army post; shot in a distinctive sepia-golden Technicolor, it flopped on release and was later reappraised as Southern Gothic.
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Requiem for a Heavyweight: 1962 American boxing drama directed by Ralph Nelson, written by Rod Serling from his 1956 Playhouse 90 teleplay, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris, and Muhammad Ali as Cassius Clay.
Rocco and His Brothers
Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) is Luchino Visconti's 1960 Italian-French drama about five brothers and their mother migrating from Basilicata to Milan, starring Alain Delon, with the Venice Special Jury Prize and censored scenes later restored.
Samurai Rebellion (上意討ち 拝領妻始末)
Samurai Rebellion (上意討ち 拝領妻始末, Joi-uchi: Hairyo tsuma shimatsu) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1967 black-and-white Toho jidaigeki starring Toshiro Mifune as samurai Isaburo Sasahara, who defies his clan lord to protect his son's marriage to Lady Ichi; FIPRESCI Prize winner at Venice 1967.
São Paulo S.A.
São Paulo S.A. (São Paulo Sociedade Anônima), 1965 Brazilian black-and-white drama, Luiz Sérgio Person's debut feature starring Walmor Chagas; a Cinema Novo landmark about a middle-class manager amid São Paulo's automobile-industry boom, restored in 4K in 2025.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 1960 British kitchen sink drama directed by Karel Reisz from Alan Sillitoe's 1958 novel, starring Albert Finney as Nottingham factory worker Arthur Seaton; a defining British New Wave film, BAFTA-winning.
Secret Ceremony
Secret Ceremony (1968) is a Joseph Losey psychological drama, scripted by George Tabori from Marco Denevi's novella Ceremonia secreta, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, and Robert Mitchum in a surrogate mother-daughter story set in a Kensington art nouveau mansion.
Seong Chunhyang (성춘향)
Seong Chunhyang (성춘향) is Shin Sang-ok's 1961 Korean color CinemaScope film adapted from Chunhyangjeon, starring Choi Eun-hee; it beat Hong Seong-gi's rival version, set a 380,000-admission record, and was Korea's first postwar film exported to Japan.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Тени забытых предков)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Тени забытых предков; Ukrainian: Тіні забутих предків), also released as Wild Horses of Fire, is Sergei Parajanov's 1964 Dovzhenko Studio film adapted from Kotsiubynskyi's 1911 Hutsul novella, famed for its poetic style, dissident 1965 Kyiv premiere, and blacklisting of its director.
Ship of Fools (film)
Ship of Fools (1965) is Stanley Kramer's drama adapted from Katherine Anne Porter's novel, set on a 1933 German liner bound for Bremerhaven; it starred Vivien Leigh in her final film and won two Oscars from eight nominations.
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass (1961) is Elia Kazan's drama from William Inge's Oscar-winning original screenplay, starring Natalie Wood and a debuting Warren Beatty as 1920s Kansas teens destroyed by sexual repression.
Stage Sisters
Stage Sisters (舞台姐妹, Wutai jiemei), also Two Stage Sisters, is Xie Jin's 1964 color drama from Shanghai Tianma Film Studio about two Yue opera performers, suppressed in the Cultural Revolution and restored in 4K in 2013.
Terra em Transe
Terra em Transe (Land in Anguish) is a 1967 Brazilian Cinema Novo drama written and directed by Glauber Rocha, set in fictional Eldorado, starring Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, and José Lewgoy, winner of the Cannes critics' prize and censored by the military dictatorship.
The Affair (1964 film)
The Affair (Japanese: Joen) is a 1964 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, starring Mariko Okada and associated with the Japanese New Wave.
The Aimless Bullet (오발탄)
The Aimless Bullet (오발탄, Obaltan; also The Stray Bullet) is Yu Hyun-mok's 1961 Korean drama based on Yi Beom-seon's novel, depicting a destitute postwar Seoul family; banned after the 1961 coup, restored by KOFA in 2015, now a canonical Korean realist masterpiece.
The Angry Silence
The Angry Silence (1960) is a British drama directed by Guy Green, Beaver Films' first release, in which Richard Attenborough's factory worker is ostracized for refusing an unofficial strike; it won the BAFTA for Best British Screenplay and earned an Oscar nomination.
The Arrangement (1969 film)
The Arrangement (1969) is Elia Kazan's drama, adapted from his own novel, starring Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, and Deborah Kerr; a Los Angeles adman's breakdown and suicide attempt, a critical and box-office failure.
The Assassin (大刺客) (1967 film)
The Assassin (大刺客, Da Ci Ke) is Chang Cheh's 1967 Shaw Brothers wuxia film starring Jimmy Wang Yu as the assassin Nie Zheng, adapted from Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and shot during the 1967 Hong Kong riots.
The Cardinal
The Cardinal (1963) is Otto Preminger's 175-minute drama, adapted from Henry Morton Robinson's 1950 novel, following Boston priest Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) to the cardinalate; six Oscar nominations, John Huston supporting nominee.
The Chase (1966 film)
The Chase (1966) is an Arthur Penn drama, scripted by Lillian Hellman from Horton Foote's play and novel, produced by Sam Spiegel, starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford in a Texas mob-justice story.
The Cincinnati Kid
The Cincinnati Kid (1965) is a Norman Jewison poker drama starring Steve McQueen and Edward G. Robinson, adapted from Richard Jessup's novel, with Sam Peckinpah fired early in production and a famous final five-card stud hand.
The Coachman (마부)
The Coachman (마부, Mabu), also called A Coachman, is a 1961 Korean drama by Kang Dae-jin starring Kim Seung-ho as a widowed cart driver; it won the 1961 Berlin Silver Bear, the first major international award for a Korean film.
The Comedians
The Comedians is a 1967 MGM political drama directed by Peter Glenville from Graham Greene's novel, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alec Guinness in Duvalier's Haiti, filmed in Dahomey and released 31 October 1967.
The Cow (گاو)
The Cow (گاو, Gāv) is Dariush Mehrjui's 1969 Iranian New Wave drama, adapted from Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi, in which farmer Mash Hassan (Ezzatollah Entezami) goes mad when his cow dies; banned at home, it won the FIPRESCI Prize at Venice 1971.
The End of Summer (小早川家の秋)
The End of Summer (小早川家の秋, Kohayagawa-ke no Aki) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1961 color family drama, his only Toho film, about a Kyoto sake-brewing family whose patriarch secretly visits a former mistress before dying suddenly.
The Fire Within
The Fire Within (Le feu follet) is Louis Malle's 1963 French drama about Alain Leroy's last day before suicide, adapted from Drieu la Rochelle; the title also names Werner Herzog's 2022 Krafft documentary.
The Fixer
The Fixer (1968) is John Frankenheimer's drama adapted by Dalton Trumbo from Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer Prize novel, starring Alan Bates as Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman wrongly imprisoned in Czarist Russia on ritual-murder charges based on the Mendel Beilis case.