Film Index

American cinema: 1960s

It! (1967)
Herbert J. Leder

The only artefact to survive when the warehouse of a London museum burns down is a crude stone statue dating from the mid-16th century...   [More...]

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Don Chaffey

In ancient Greece, Aristo, the benevolent King of Thessaly, is overthrown by his rival, Pelias, but a prophesy foretells that one day Aristo's son Jason will return to reclaim the throne...   [More...]

The Killing of Sister George (1968)
Robert Aldrich

London, 1968. June Buckridge is a dowdy actress in her early fifties who has become a household name, thanks to her prominent role as Sister George in the popular BBC television soap opera Applehurst...   [More...]

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Billy Wilder

Once his tour of Las Vagas is over, star singer Dino takes to the road and heads for Hollywood, where a film crew anxiously awaits his arrival...   [More...]

Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)
Bernard L. Kowalski

In 1883, Captain Chris Hanson leads a deep sea diving expedition with the objective of recovering a fortune in pearls from a sunken ship off the coast of the volcanic island of Krakatoa...   [More...]

The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Ubaldo Ragona

In 1968, Robert Morgan is the last human being left on Earth. Three years ago, humanity began to succumb to a plague that transformed people into zombie-like vampires...   [More...]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
David Lean

In the early years of the First World War, Oxford-educated archaeologist T.E. Lawrence finds himself in Cairo, a deskbound lieutenant in the British Army...   [More...]

Let's Make Love (1960)
George Cukor

Jean-Marc Clement is one of the wealthiest men in America, as famous for his extravagant lifestyle as he is for his shrewd business acumen...   [More...]

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Roger Corman

Gravis Mushnick is the mean-spirited owner of a cheap florist's shop in Skid Row, New York. He has two assistants, the simple-minded Audrey and the inept Seymour, but even with their combined efforts he has difficulty attracting customers...   [More...]

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Sidney Lumet

Outwardly, the Tyrones are a typical middle-class American family living in New London, Connecticut. The year is 1912 and the father, James, looks back on his long career as an actor with a mixture of pride and dismay...   [More...]

The Longest Day (1962)
Ken Annakin

June, 1944. Thousands of Allied troops assembled in the south of England impatiently await the go-ahead for a full-scale invasion of France, the one military manoeuvre that will decisively crush the resolve of the Axis powers and hasten the end of the war...   [More...]

Lost Command (1966)
Mark Robson

Pierre Raspeguy's dreams of a glittering military career are all but decimated by a disastrous campaign in Indochina. On his return to France, he persuades his military commanders to give him another chance, to take a battalion of hand-picked man to quell a terrorist uprising in Algeria...   [More...]

Lover Come Back (1961)
Delbert Mann

Carol Templeton works for a New York advertising agency and prides herself on the honesty and professionalism with which she conducts her business...   [More...]

Madame X (1966)
David Lowell Rich

Not everyone is pleased when social climber Holly Parker marries up-and-coming statesman John Forsythe. The latter's mother takes an immediate dislike to her new daughter-in-law, considering that her son has married beneath him...   [More...]

The Magnificent Seven (1960)
John Sturges

When a Mexican village is raided by a party of bandits led by the ruthless Calvera, its inhabitants have no choice but to hand over their hard-earned harvest...   [More...]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
John Ford

Senator Ransom Stoddard arrives in the small Midwest town of Shinbone to attend the funeral of a renowned local hobo, Tom Doniphon...   [More...]

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
John Frankenheimer

During the Korean War, a platoon of American soldiers are captured by Soviets and flown to Manchuria in Communist China. Several months later, the same soldiers return to their home country, to receive a hero's welcome...   [More...]

Marnie (1964)
Alfred Hitchcock

Marnie is a young woman with a troubled past who despises men and who tries desperately to buy her mother's love. Her personal demons compel her to adopt various aliases and steal from her employers...   [More...]

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Roger Corman

12th Century Europe is being scourged by many plagues, the most fearsome of which is the Red Death. When Prince Prospero learns that this plague has reached the villages surrounding his castle, he orders his men to burn them to the ground...   [More...]

Le Meraviglie di Aladino (1961)
Mario Bava

Aladdin is surprised when his mother makes him a present of an old lamp which she bought in the marketplace. Caught red-handed whilst committing a robbery, the young man takes flight and hides himself in a grotto...   [More...]

Midnight Lace (1960)
David Miller

American heiress Kit Preston has recently moved into a London apartment with her husband Tony, a financier. Whilst walking home through the fog one evening, Kit hears a strange voice calling out to her, threatening to kill her...   [More...]

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Henry Koster

One summer, Mr Hobbs, a hardworking banker, is looking forward to a relaxing holiday with his wife in some exotic clime. What he gets is something very different - the holiday from Hell with his huge extended family...   [More...]

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Lewis Milestone

In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets sail from Portsmouth, England, bound for the island of Tahiti. There, specimens of breadfruit plant are to be gathered and transported to Jamaica, to provide a cheap food supply for plantation slaves...   [More...]

My Fair Lady (1964)
George Cukor

London in the late 1800s. One evening, phonetics professor Henry Higgins encounters a flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, and is amused by her strong cockney accent...   [More...]

Mysterious Island (1961)
Cy Endfield

During the American Civil War, a party of Union soldiers manage to escape from a Confederate prison via a hot air balloon...   [More...]

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
George A. Romero

Barbara and her brother Johnny drive out to a rural cemetery in Pennsylvania to put flowers on their father's grave. Barbara is not amused when her brother does his zombie act in a childish attempt to scare her...   [More...]

The Nutty Professor (1963)
Jerry Lewis

Professor Julius Kelp is an accident-prone and socially inept chemistry professor at an American university. When he is picked upon by one of his more muscular students, Kelp makes up his mind to build himself up, but his visits to the gym prove disastrous...   [More...]

The Odd Couple (1968)
Gene Saks

Felix Ungar is a New York newswriter who decides that life is no longer worth living after his wife tells him she wants a divorce...   [More...]

The Old Dark House (1963)
William Castle

American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day...   [More...]

One, Two, Three (1961)
Billy Wilder

C.P. MacNamara is the head of Coca-Cola's operation in West Berlin and has a reputation for ruthless efficiency. His well-ordered world begins to crumble when his boss lands his 17-year old daughter, Scarlett, on him during her visit to Germany...   [More...]



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