Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Classics: 260 Films to Buy & Rent
- Guerre Est Finie, La (1966)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Genevieve Bujold…
- (The War is Over). Deeply romantic film in which Spanish Civil War refugee Yves Montand tries in vain to keep alive the memory of his struggle.
- Le Deuxieme Souffle (Second Breath) (1966)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
- A gangster escapes from prison and returns to his criminal ways, but a determined inspector is on his tail. Has all the style and restraint we can…
- Man and a Woman, A (1966)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh
- Classic love story is one of the most popular foreign films of all time. Intelligent, sensitive script is ignited with exotic locations and Francis…
- 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…