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American cinema: 1960s

The Pink Panther (1963)
Blake Edwards

For the past 15 years, Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the Sûreté has been on the trail of a notorious jewel thief, The Phantom, and is blissfully unaware that the man he is after is the elegant British playboy Sir Charles Lytton...   [More...]

Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Roger Corman

16th Century Spain. When he learns of the death of his beloved sister Elizabeth, Francis Barnard travels to the remote castle where she lived with her husband, Nicholas Medina, hoping to discover how she died...   [More...]

Planet of the Apes (1968)
Franklin J. Schaffner

Towards the end of the 20th Century, a party of astronauts, led by George Taylor, is sent into space to test Einstein's theory of time dilation...   [More...]

The Producers (1968)
Mel Brooks

Theatre producer Max Bialystock was once the King of Broadway, but now he is reduced to catering to the whims of over-sexed little old ladies to finance his stage plays...   [More...]

Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock

Arizona secretary Marion Crane is desperate to marry her lover Sam Loomis but the latter's debts and hefty alimony payments to his ex-wife make this impossible...   [More...]

The Raven (1963)
Roger Corman

Living alone in his ancient castle with his daughter Estelle, the sorcerer Dr Erasmus Craven continues to mourn the death of his beloved wife Lenore, who died two years ago...   [More...]

Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Roman Polanski

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, a newlywed couple, move into an old New York apartment, happily ignoring stories of the building's sinister past - tales of murder, witchcraft and ritual cannibalism...   [More...]

Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Norman Jewison

George has everything a man could want. A nice house, a good job and an adoring wife, Judy. Yet every minute of his life is riddled with anxiety about his health...   [More...]

Seven Days in May (1964)
John Frankenheimer

The decision of U.S. President Jordan Lyman to sign a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union does not go down well...   [More...]

The Sound of Music (1965)
Robert Wise

Salzburg, Austria, in the late 1930s. Maria is an idealistic young woman whose only goal in life is to become a nun. Unfortunately, the sisters at the convent where she is preparing to take her vows are unsure whether she is suited for this life and so she is sent away for a period of reflection...   [More...]

Spartacus (1960)
Stanley Kubrick

In 73 BC, Spartacus is an anonymous slave worker, toiling in the mines of Libya, when he is bought by Lentulus Batiatus, a man who trains and sells gladiators for profit...   [More...]

The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Franco Zeffirelli

Not long after his arrival in Padua, Lucentio, the son of a wealthy merchant, falls in love with Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista Minola...   [More...]

The Thrill of It All (1963)
Norman Jewison

The Fraleighs are so ecstatic when they learn they are going to have a baby that they invite their doctor, New York's leading gynaecologist Gerald Boyer, to dinner...   [More...]

The Time Machine (1960)
George Pal

In January 1900, four Victorian gentlemen assemble for a dinner at the house of H. George Wells, an eccentric English inventor who is mysteriously absent...   [More...]

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Robert Mulligan

Atticus Finch is a widowed lawyer living in the small town of Macomb, Alabama, with his two children, ten-year-old Jem and six-year-old Scout...   [More...]

Topaz (1969)
Alfred Hitchcock

The year is 1962 and tensions between East and West are at their height. When a Russian intelligence officer defects to the United States, the CIA make two shocking discoveries...   [More...]

Topkapi (1964)
Jules Dassin

Elizabeth Lipp and her lover Walter Harper plan to steal a priceless emerald-encrusted dagger from the Topkapi museum in Istabul...   [More...]

The Train (1964)
John Frankenheimer

May, 1944. Just as the Allies are beginning their offensive to liberate France from the Germans, the Nazi general Colonel Franz von Waldheim receives orders to transport a large collection of priceless French paintings from a Paris museum to Germany...   [More...]

The Ugly American (1963)
George Englund

When he is appointed United States Ambassador to Sarkan, a small country in Southeast Asia, Harrison Carter MacWhite is confident that he can dampen political tensions in the region and strengthen ties between Sarkan and America...   [More...]

Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Mark Robson

1944. After his plane is shot down over Italy, American airman Colonel Joseph L. Ryan soon finds himself in an Italian prisoner of war camp, which is run with an iron hand by the cruel Major Battaglia...   [More...]

Wait Until Dark (1967)
Terence Young

On his return to New York, photographer Sam Hendrix is met by a woman he has never met before who asks him to take care of an antique doll...   [More...]

West Side Story (1961)
Jerome Robbins

New York City in the late 1950s. Two rival gangs of youths, the Jets and the Sharks, fight an increasingly fierce turf war on the streets of Manhattan...   [More...]

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Robert Aldrich

In 1917, Baby Jane Hudson is a child star of the music hall, but her success is envied by her sister Blanche. By 1935, the tables have been turned: Blanche has found fame and fortune as a film star whilst her sister wallows in alcoholism as her own acting career flounders...   [More...]

Wild River (1960)
Elia Kazan

In the wake of devastating floods in the early 1930s, the Federal Government decides to embark on a programme of dam building on the Tennessee River that will not only preserve the region but will also generate huge quantities of electricity...   [More...]

The Young One (1960)
Luis Buñuel

Accused of raping a white woman, a black jazz musician named Traver flees for his life, taking a boat to an island off the coast of Carolina...   [More...]


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