Subgenre Sampler
A Man Called La Rocca (Un nommé La Rocca) (1961)- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Christine Kaufmann, Nico - French thriller with Jean Paul Belmondo playing an ex–gangster tracking down the man responsible for putting his friend in prison. Based on the…
Accattone (1961)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Franco Citti - The debut feature of Italian filmmaker–novelist–poet–provocateur Pasolini, which depicts the underbelly of Roman street life in a…
Antigone (1961)- Dir. Yorgos Javellas
Feat. Irene Papas - An impressive Irene Papas heads this black and white epic adapted from Sophocles' Greek tragedy, about the twisted family legacy left behind by…
Daredevil in the Castle (Osaka jo monogatari) (1961)- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi… - Another solid genre excursion from seasoned dir. Hiroshi Inagaki (THE SAMURAI TRILOGY), with Toshiro Mifune again taking the lead as a despondent,…
End of Summer, The (Kohayagawa-ke no aki) (1961)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara - Another intimate portrayal of Japanese family life from the dir. of TOKYO STORY that explores the breakdown of traditional family values in the face…
Femme Est Une Femme, Une (A Woman is a Woman) (1961)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo… - Godard flirts with the Hollywood musical, and any other idea that takes his fancy to tell his buoyant tale of a free–spirited stripper who…
Il Posto (1961)- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Loredana Detto, Sandro Panseri - This Italian neo–realist classic is a simply told yet beautiful depiction of a small–town boy whose employment search in Milan lands him…
Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1961)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre… - Jeanne Moreau stars in this famous New Wave melodrama caught up in the spirit of its swinging times. A twenty–year love triangle, lightening…
Last Year at Marienbad (L'Annee Dernier a Marienbad) (1961)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi - All the rules of film–making are broken in this notorious question mark of a film in which a past event plagues the occupants of a grand…
Mother Joan of Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniolow) (1961)- Dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- A landmark of post–WW2 Polish cinema recounts in stunningly composed b&w images the disturbing true–story of a 17th century French…
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