Set in the Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic Welsh hotel owner Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Sono yo wa wasurenai / A Night to Remember (1962) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Keizô Kawasaki
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter embarks Read More »
The Hustlers (1962) Ruy Guerra, Per Aabel, Norma Bengell, Hugo Carvana
This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the “cafajestes”). Read More »
Parias de la gloire (1964) Henri Decoin, Curd Jürgens, Maurice Ronet, Folco Lulli
Ferrier’s brother was killed in WW2, and since he has taken a violent dislike to German people. Read More »
Mazel Tov ou le mariage (1968) Claude Berri, Elisabeth Wiener, Prudence Harrington
Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. Read More »
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) Delbert Mann, Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. Read More »
La vérité / The Truth (1960) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. Read More »
The Tragedy of Bushido / Bushidô muzan (1960) Eitarô Morikawa, Miki Mori, Mutsuko Sakura, Hizuru Takachiho
Iori, a 16-year-old boy, is forced to commit “seppuku” (ritual suicide) to follow his late sovereign Read More »
Three Daughters / Teen Kanya (1961) Satyajit Ray, Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Banerjee, Aparna Sen
Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore Read More »
A Cold Blooded Affair / Die Rechnung – eiskalt serviert (1966) Helmuth Ashley, George Nader, Yvonne Monlaur, Horst Tappert
Even Jerry Cotton, the scourge of the underworld, needs a vacation every now and then. Read More »