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Platinum High SchoolPlatinum High School (1960)
Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, Dan Duryea
Mickey Rooney overheats in investigating his son's death at a military academy. Casting quirks includes singer Conway Twitty.
PsychoPsycho (1960) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
Only Mr. Hitchcock could plunder B–movie conventions and turn in the biggest box–office success of his career. A plethora of…
Rocco and His BrothersRocco and His Brothers (1960)
Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot
An uncompromising, richly detailed portrait of an impoverished family who travel to Milan where they are beset by violent misfortune.
Saturday Night and Sunday MorningSaturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Aro Favourite
Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Possibly the finest film of the British New Wave, Albert Finney burns up the screen as an ‘angry young man’ who grasps at weekend freedom from…
Savage Innocents, TheSavage Innocents, The (1960)
Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, Yoko Tani
Curiously compelling ethnological drama from dir. Ray in which an eskimo (Quinn) wages an ongoing battle for survival in the Arctic environment and…
Sons and LoversSons and Lovers (1960)
Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Trevor Howard, Dame Wendy Hiller
Richly photographed rendition of D.H. Lawrence's classic novel, in which the son of a coal–miner (Stockwell) struggles to find his path in the…
Strangers When We MeetStrangers When We Meet (1960)
Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs
Romantic drama adapted by Evan Hunter from his novel of the same name, about two married neighbours who have an affair. Kirk Douglas plays the…
Testament of OrpheusTestament of Orpheus (Testament D'orphee) (1960)
Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Cocteau, Yul Brynner, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Cocteau's swansong is an intensely personal odyssey, with the director himself immersed in a world of his cumulative creation. Like a moving…
Tunes of GloryTunes of Glory (1960) Recommended
Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price
Two colonels of a Scottish regiment – one convivial, one disciplinarian – face off in a battle of wills in this drama of peacetime…
Virgin Spring, TheVirgin Spring, The (1960) Aro Favourite
Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow
Bergman won his first Oscar for this brooding yet gripping medieval tale about a peasant couple who avenge the savage murderers of their daughter.

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