Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Wings (Krylya) (1966)
- Dir. Larisa Shepitko
Feat. Maya Bulgakova, Zhanna Bolotova
- Elegant black and white drama about an ex–WWII Soviet fighter pilot, the directorial debut of Ukrainian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko.
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Young Torless (Der junge Törless) (1966)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Mathieu Carriere
- Early film in the career of German director Volker Schlondorff (THE TIN DRUM), set in an Austrain military academy in the early 20th century which is…
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…
Alfie (1965)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Michael Caine, Shelley Winters
- The film that made Michael Caine a household name. His eponymous anti–hero is that of a likely lad who likes to 'ave a go wiv the birds. They…
Baby The Rain Must Fall (1965)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Steve McQueen, Lee Remick, Don Murray…
- Lyrical Southern gothic drama from the production team that made TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, about a working class mother (Lee Remick) who reunites with…
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…
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud…
- Orson Welles' late–career masterpiece in which one of the Bard's great supporting characters Falstaff is given his due through a series of…
Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Tuesday Weld…
- Memorable visit to the shady world of card–sharking in Depression–era America, with some excellent character acting from a great cast.
Darling (1965)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde
- Oscar–winning, watershed film of British sexual mores is a fashionably flashy and cynical moral fable. Julie Christie social climbs to a…
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…