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Tag Archives: 1960s
The Sorrow and the Pity / Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) Marcel Ophüls, Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave
From 1940 to 1944, France’s Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Read More »
Patriotism / Yûkoku (1966) Masaki Dômoto, Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka
Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. Read More »
Never a Dull Moment (1968) Jerry Paris, Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. Read More »
Man of the Cursed Valley / L’uomo della valle maledetta (1964) Siro Marcellini, Primo Zeglio, Ty Hardin, Irán Eory, Piero Leri
Gwen, who is married to Torito, an Indian, escapes from a rape attempt Read More »
Suleiman the Conqueror / Solimano il conquistatore (1961) Vatroslav Mimica, Mario Tota, Edmund Purdom, Giorgia Moll, Alberto Farnese
Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman’s attempts to conquer Vienna. Read More »
What a Crazy World (1963) Michael Carreras, Joe Brown, Susan Maughan, Marty Wilde
Unemployed East End lad Alf Hitchens has an on-off relationship with his girlfriend Marilyn Read More »
Sandra / Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa… (1965) Luchino Visconti, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig
Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. Read More »
Hate Thy Neighbor / Odia il prossimo tuo (1968) Ferdinando Baldi, Spiros Focás, George Eastman, Nicoletta Machiavelli
Ken wants justice for his brother Bill, who was killed by a notorious gunman named Stevens for a goldmine map. Read More »
The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
“If they move, kill ’em!” Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history Read More »