Film Index

American cinema: 1960s

Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Joshua Logan

California, during the Gold Rush. When he sees a wagon go crashing over a ravine, curmudgeonly old prospector Ben Rumson hurries to its aid...   [More...]

The Parent Trap (1961)
David Swift

During a stay at a summer camp, Susan Evers is surprised when she meets a girl, Sharon McKendrick, who is physically identical to her...   [More...]

Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Richard Quine

Richard Benson has just two days to complete a screenplay which he has been commissioned to write by producer Alexander Meyerheim...   [More...]

The Party (1968)
Blake Edwards

Hrundi V. Bakshi is an Indian actor who has high hopes of making his fortune in Hollywood. Unfortunately, on his first day at work he accidentally blows up the set and is summarily dismissed...   [More...]

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...]

Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Gordon Douglas

Having put Chicago mob boss Big Jim Stevens out of the way, Guy Gisborne elects himself his replacement and attempts a merger with all the other gangs in the city...   [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 Terror (1963)
Roger Corman

Lieutenant André Duvalier is an officer in the French Foreign Legion. Having been separated from his regiment, he finds himself alone on a deserted beach...   [More...]

That Touch of Mink (1962)
Delbert Mann

Cathy Timberlake is furious when, on the day she has to go for a job interview, a passing Rolls-Royce splashes mud on her coat and dress...   [More...]

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Norman Jewison

Millionaire financier Thomas Crown is bored with his life and so decides to mastermind the perfect bank robbery. Hiring a team of complete strangers to help him in his heist, he succeeds in stealing $2.6 million from an American bank...   [More...]

Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
George Roy Hill

New York, 1922. Millie Dillmount is a thoroughly modern Miss who intends to find wealth by marrying a filthily rich employer...   [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...]

Torn Curtain (1966)
Alfred Hitchcock

On his arrival in East Berlin, American physicist Michael Armstrong announces his decision to defect, offering his scientific expertise to the Soviet Bloc...   [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...]

Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Sidney Salkow

Three tales of terror. In Dr Heidegger's Experiment, an elderly scientist named Carl Heidegger discovers that his fiancée, who died 38 years previously on the eve of her wedding, is perfectly preserved in her vault...   [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...]



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