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American cinema: 1960s

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick

Millions of years ago, a tribe of herbivorous apelike hominids discover a mysterious black monolith which immediately exerts a strange influence over them...   [More...]

Advise and Consent (1962)
Otto Preminger

Aware that his health and power are ebbing away, the President of the United States is determined that Robert A. Leffingwell, a liberally inclined academic, should be appointed Secretary of State...   [More...]

The Apartment (1960)
Billy Wilder

C.C. Baxter is a lowly clerk in one of New York's leading insurance companies, but he has great ambitions. To help his promotion prospects, he lends his apartment to his superiors who use it to entertain their various mistresses...   [More...]

Becket (1964)
Peter Glenville

In 12th Century England, the young King Henry II is more preoccupied with the hedonistic pursuits of youth than with matters of state, and in this he is aided and abetted by his good friend Thomas Becket...   [More...]

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
John Frankenheimer

Whilst serving a 12-year prison stretch for killing a man in a brawl, a wayward adolescent Robert Stroud is transferred to Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas...   [More...]

The Birds (1963)
Alfred Hitchcock

On a whim, bored socialite Melanie Daniels decides to pay a home visit to Mitch Brenner, a lawyer she met by chance in a San Francisco bird shop...   [More...]

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Arthur Penn

In the early 1930s, America is in the grip of the Great Depression. Life is hard, but Clyde Barrow, a young man who has recently been released from prison, manages to scrape along by holding up the odd store and gas station...   [More...]

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Blake Edwards

Moving into his new apartment in New York City, struggling writer Paul Varjak tumbles into the chaotic life of his neighbour, a muddleheaded drifter named Holly Golightly...   [More...]

The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
John Guillermin

March 1945. The war in Europe has entered its final phase, with German troops retreating eastwards, driven back by a relentless Allied assault...   [More...]

Bullitt (1968)
Peter Yates

What starts out as a routine assignment for San Francisco police lieutenant Frank Bullitt soon turns into something far deadlier...   [More...]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
George Roy Hill

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are two seasoned outlaws who are beginning to wish they had taken out a pension plan. On their uppers and not overly optimistic over what the future may hold for them, they join up with their former associates in the Hole-in-the-Wall gang to mount a train robbery...   [More...]

Charade (1963)
Stanley Donen

Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas...   [More...]

The Children's Hour (1961)
William Wyler

Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are two former college friends who run a private school for young girls in New England. Through hard work and self-sacrifice, they have made the school a success and have just begun to turn a profit...   [More...]

El Cid (1961)
Anthony Mann

In the 11th century, Spain is a divided country. The wars between the Christians and the Moors have raged for many years but now Spain faces a greater threat, from the Muslim general Ibn Yusuf, who has amassed an army in readiness to invade the country...   [More...]

The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Norman Jewison

In 1930s New Orleans, Eric Stoner, nicknamed The Kid, has earned a reputation as a formidable poker player. When he learns that Lancey Howard, the reputed king of the game, is in town, Stoner decides to take him on...   [More...]

The Collector (1965)
William Wyler

Having won a fortune on the football pools, Freddie Clegg, a modest bank clerk, decides to buy a solitary house in the middle of the English countryside...   [More...]

Dance of the Vampires (1967)
Roman Polanski

For years, Professor Abronsius has devoted himself to obtaining tangible proof of the existence of vampires, and finally he believes he has found just that...   [More...]

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Robert Aldrich

England, 1944. On the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII, Major John Reisman is offered a most unusual assignment...   [More...]

Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick

Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR...   [More...]

Easy Rider (1969)
Dennis Hopper

Wyatt and Billy are a pair of drug-dealing bikers whose outlandish appearance and easy lifestyle reflect their yearning for freedom...   [More...]

Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Richard Fleischer

American and Soviet scientists have both discovered how to miniaturise matter but the technique is of limited value since shrunken objects return to their full size within sixty minutes...   [More...]

Finian's Rainbow (1968)
Francis Ford Coppola

Finian McLonergan absconds from his native Ireland with a stolen crock of gold, accompanied by his daughter Sharon. He arrives in Rainbow Valley, USA, believing that if he buries the crock near to Fort Knox he will become a wealthy man...   [More...]

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Robert Aldrich

Frank Towns is piloting a small plane laden with passengers and cargo across the Sahara Desert when a sandstorm brews up, knocking the aircraft off course by several hundred miles and bringing it down...   [More...]

The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Billy Wilder

CBS cameraman Henry Hinkle is covering a football game at Cleveland Stadium when one of the players, Boom Boom Jackson, runs into him, rendering him unconscious...   [More...]

The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Sidney Lumet

Having run into trouble with the law in New Orleans, a 30-year-old drifter named Val Xavier leaves town determined to turn over a new leaf...   [More...]

Funny Girl (1968)
William Wyler

New York City, circa 1910. Fanny Brice, a girl from the slums, has ambitions to be a star of vaudeville, and it is her wild enthusiasm that lands her her first stage job with a theatre company...   [More...]

Goodbye Again (1961)
Anatole Litvak

Paula Tessier is an interior designer who lives and works in Paris. Although she is still beautiful, she knows that the flower of her youth is rapidly fading...   [More...]

The Graduate (1967)
Mike Nichols

20 year old Ben returns to his parents' home after graduating and wonders what to do with his life. Before he realises what is happening, he is seduced by Mrs Robinson, the middle-aged wife of his father's business partner and is drawn into a compulsive but passionless love affair...   [More...]

The Great Escape (1963)
John Sturges

During the Second World War, German High Command decides to place all of the most troublesome Allied prisoners of war in a single camp managed by Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger...   [More...]

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Stanley Kramer

Whilst holidaying in Hawaii, Joanna Drayton, a young middleclass Caucasian, meets and falls in love with Dr John Prentice, an Afro-American...   [More...]



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