Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Marketa Lazarova (1967)
- Dir. František Vláčil
Feat. Josef Kemr, František Velecký, Magda Vášáryová
- A revelation of the Czech new wave, this dark medieval tale of feuding family clans beautifully evokes the historical tensions between Christianity…
Mouchette (1967)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Maria Cardinal
- An impoverished young girl in rural France bears the brunt of hard times in this perfectly formed study, taken from the novel by George Bernanos.…
Oedipus Rex (1967)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli
- Striking visual achievement, filmed amidst the Moroccan desert and Bologna, describes the Oedipal tale of a tortured soul who murders his father and…
Poor Cow (1967)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Carol White, Terence Stamp, Malcolm McDowell
- Striking the tone of much of his subsequent work, Ken Loach's debut film gives a semi–documentary edge to the story of 'poor cow' Carol White,…
Red and the White, The (Csillagosok, katonak) (1967)
- Dir. Miklos Jancso
Feat. Jozsef Madaras
- Russia’s bloody civil war of 1918 is lamented in this visionary war movie from influential Hungarian auteur Miklos Jancso. A formally stunning…
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith…
- Adaptation of Carson McCuller's novel. Taking place on a peacetime army base, a career officer finds his personal and professional life compromised…
Thief of Paris, The (Le Voleur) (1967)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Genevieve Bujold, Marie Dubois
- Enjoyable comedy with Belmondo as a young man cheated of his inheritance who in turn develops a taste for thieving. Set in Paris at the turn of the…
Trip, The (1967)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg…
- One of several collaborations between director Roger Corman and Jack Nicholson, who wrote the screenplay. A director of TV commercials gradually…
Two of Us, The (Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant) (1967)
- Dir. Claude Berri
Feat. Alain Cohen, Michel Simon
- Touching wartime nostalgia, with Michel Simon as a grizzly anti–Semite who befriends a Jewish boy sent to countryside during occupied France.…
Ulysses (1967)
- Dir. Joseph Strick
Feat. Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roeves…
- A brave stab at filming James Joyce's sprawling novel, but it's better known for the stir it caused over its seminal use of the f–word and…