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The Fox (1967 film)
The Fox (1967) is a Canadian drama directed by Mark Rydell, adapted from D.H. Lawrence's 1922 novella, starring Sandy Dennis, Anne Heywood, and Keir Dullea. Released February 1968, it won a Golden Globe and earned an Oscar nomination for Lalo Schifrin's score.
The Group
The Group is Sidney Lumet's 1966 American ensemble drama, adapted by Sidney Buchman from Mary McCarthy's 1963 novel, following eight Vassar class of 1933 graduates from 1933 to 1940; 150 minutes, starring Candice Bergen, Shirley Knight, and Joan Hackett.
The Guest and My Mother (손님과 어머니)
The Guest and My Mother (사랑방 손님과 어머니, Mother and a Guest) is Shin Sang-ok's 1961 Korean classic drama adapted from Ju Yo-seop's 1935 story, starring Choi Eun-hee; it won the 1962 Asia Film Festival Best Picture and was Korea's first Oscar submission.
The Hands in the Trap
The Hands in the Trap (La mano en la trampa) is a 1961 Argentine-Spanish drama by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, starring Elsa Daniel, Francisco Rabal, and Leonardo Favio, based on Beatriz Guido's novel; it won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes 1961.
The Hunt (1966 film)
The Hunt (La caza) is Carlos Saura's 1966 Spanish black-and-white drama in which three Civil War veterans and a young companion on a rabbit hunt turn on each other; it won the 1966 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director.
The Hustler
The Hustler (1961) is Robert Rossen's black-and-white CinemaScope drama adapted from Walter Tevis's 1959 novel, starring Paul Newman as pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson; nine Oscar nominations, two wins, and a 1986 sequel.
The Insect Woman (にっぽん昆虫記)
The Insect Woman (にっぽん昆虫記, Nippon konchūki) is Shohei Imamura's 1963 Nikkatsu drama about Tomé, born in 1918, who survives poverty and prostitution to run a call-girl ring; Kinema Junpo first place, Berlin best actress for Sachiko Hidari.
The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British kitchen-sink drama directed by Bryan Forbes, adapted from Lynne Reid Banks's 1960 novel, starring Leslie Caron as pregnant Jane in a Notting Hill boarding house; Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning role.
The Lion
The Lion (1962) is a Jack Cardiff adventure drama starring William Holden, Capucine, Trevor Howard, and Pamela Franklin, adapted from Joseph Kessel's novel Le Lion, filmed entirely in East Africa about a girl and her lion King.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: 1962 British New Wave drama by Tony Richardson, adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his 1959 short story; borstal inmate Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay, BAFTA-winning debut) runs for Governor Michael Redgrave.
The Lost Man
The Lost Man (1969) is an American crime drama, Robert Alan Aurthur's only film as director, loosely adapted from F.L. Green's novel Odd Man Out, starring Sidney Poitier as militant Jason Higgs and Joanna Shimkus, with a Quincy Jones score.
The Miracle Worker (1962 film)
The Miracle Worker (1962) is Arthur Penn's biographical drama, adapted by William Gibson from his Broadway play, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke as Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller; both won 1963 Oscars, and the film entered the National Film Registry in 2024.
The Organizer
The Organizer (I compagni) is Mario Monicelli's 1963 Italian-French-Yugoslav drama starring Marcello Mastroianni as Professor Sinigaglia, leader of an 1890 Turin textile strike; Oscar-nominated screenplay. Also a 2017 documentary on ACORN founder Wade Rathke.
The Party's Over
The Party's Over is a 1965 British drama directed by Guy Hamilton, written by Marc Behm, starring Oliver Reed, Ann Lynn, Clifford David, and Louise Sorel; banned by censors, cut by 18 minutes, and released uncredited, later restored by the BFI.
The Passion of Anna
The Passion of Anna (En passion) is Ingmar Bergman's 1969 Swedish color drama, third of his Fårö island trilogy with Hour of the Wolf and Shame, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, with documentary-style actor interviews and an animal-killer subplot.
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 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama directed by Ronald Neame, adapted by Jay Presson Allen from her play based on Muriel Spark's 1961 novel. Maggie Smith won the Best Actress Oscar as an unconventional 1930s Edinburgh schoolteacher; the film also won BAFTAs and a Golden Globe for the song "Jean."
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 Shoes of the Fisherman (film)
The Shoes of the Fisherman is a 1968 MGM drama directed by Michael Anderson, adapted from Morris West's novel, starring Anthony Quinn as Kiril Lakota, a Siberia-released archbishop who becomes the first non-Italian pope in 400 years.
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 Swimmer (1968 film)
The Swimmer (1968) is Frank Perry's drama adapting John Cheever's New Yorker story, starring Burt Lancaster as Ned Merrill, who swims home pool by pool through suburban Connecticut; a troubled production and box-office flop later reappraised.
The Sword of Doom (大菩薩峠)
The Sword of Doom (大菩薩峠, Daibosatsu Toge) is Kihachi Okamoto's 1966 Toho samurai film, the fifth adaptation of Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished novel, starring Tatsuya Nakadai as the nihilistic swordsman Ryunosuke Tsukue, released 25 February 1966.
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 Trace of Stones
Trace of Stones (Spur der Steine) is Frank Beyer's 1966 DEFA film after Erik Neutsch's novel, starring Manfred Krug as foreman Hannes Balla; banned days after its June 1966 premiere after the SED's 11th Plenum, it was re-released in November 1989.
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.