Subgenre Sampler
      Foreign Cinema > Classics: 272 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
Masculin Feminin (1966) 
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Chantal Goya, Brigitte Bardot 
- Godard steers toward the political with this bittersweet social comment about the Parisian youth culture of '65 through a series of oddly connected…
 
Patriotism (Yûkoku) (1966) 
- Dir. Yukio Mishima
Feat. Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka 
- Short film directed by Japanese writer and revolutionary Yukio Mishima, based on his short story of the same name published in 1961. Set in February…
 
Persona (1966)
 
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson 
- Perhaps dir. Bergman's most renowned and haunting work, a study of the psychological processes between a mute patient and her repressed nurse.
Liv…
 
Trace of Stones (Spur der Steine) (1966) 
- Dir. Frank Beyer
Feat. Manfred Krug, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Eberhard Esche 
- An East German film which was censored by the ruling communist party for years before being finally released in 1989, depicting the working…
 
War and Peace (1966)
 
- Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova 
- The definitive version of Leo Tolstoy's gargantuan novel, set during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in the early 19th century. Nothing else quite…
 
A Blonde in Love (1965)
 
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik 
- This early film from the director of AMADEUS tells the simple story of a young girl's search for a pianist with whom she spent the night. Forman…
 
Alphaville (1965) 
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff… 
- A private eye is sent to a futuristic city run by a computer to rescue a trapped scientist. Amalgam of film noir and science fiction illustrates the…
 
Battle of Algiers, The (1965)
 
- Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Brahim Haggiag 
- Gripping account of the Muslim uprising which led to the withdrawal of France from Algeria was shot merely four years after the revolution, and as…
 
Fists in the Pocket (1965) 
- Dir. Marco Bellochio
Feat. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Mase 
- A ferocious intensity pervades this bitter yet utterly startling tale of a family afflicted with epilepsy, blindness and frustration, unafforded the…
 
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
 
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina 
- Perhaps the female flipside of Fellini's 8 1/2, he again infuses stylised flashbacks and fantasies into the real world of a gregarious housewife who…