Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1774 Films to Buy & Rent
Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini
- Acted entirely by non–professionals, this is a startlingly visual rendering of the biblical text, blending breath–taking photography with…
Hamlet (1964)
- Dir. Grigori Kozintsev
Feat. Innokenti Smoktunovsky
- The legendary Russian version of Shakespeare's play, which visually at least, stands as the greatest yet.
Staged amidst the massive battlements of…
Intentions of Murder (Akai satsui, Unholy Desire) (1964)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Masumi Harukawa, Ko Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi…
- Unsentimental drama from Japanese director Shohei Imamura (THE INSECT WOMAN), depicting a rape survivor's determination to overcome her pitiless…
Le Bonheur (Happiness) (1964)
- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer
- Agnes Varda's sly subversion of romantic norms courted controversy with its frank depiction of the infidelity of a happily married man and the…
My Way Home (Igy jottem) (1964)
- Dir. Miklos Jancso
Feat. Andras Kozak, Sergei Nikonyenko, Janos Gorbe
- In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and…
Onibaba (the Hole) (1964)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
- An eerie, brazenly sensual medieval folk tale about a mother and daughter–in–law who kill just to survive and eventually turn on each…
Red Desert (il Deserto Rosso) (1964)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Monica Vitti, Richard Harris
- Housewife Monica Vitti embarks on a casual affair with Richard Harris following a nervous breakdown. Set amidst an oppressive industrial landscape,…
Soft Skin, The (La Peau Douce) (1964)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Francois Dorleac, Jean Desailly
- Moving New Wave drama from Francois Truffaut tells the story of a scholar pursuing a torrid affair with a stewardess while attempting to juggle his…
Une Femme Mariee (A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White) (1964)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Bernard Noël, Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy
- Key work from the first phase of Godard's career which deconstructs the life of a married woman in a series of complex and humorous portraits. Over a…
Woman of the Dunes (1964)
- Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
- From a simple premise – a man becomes trapped in a valley of sand in which a solitary woman lives – the director is able to draw out…