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Top Films of the 1960s (Calculated)

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The Endless Summer (1966) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
The Endless Summer
director: Bruce Brown actor: Michael Hynson / Robert August
other title: L'estate infinita
Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.
Cathy Come Home (1966) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB
Cathy Come Home
director: Ken Loach actor: Carol White / Ray Brooks
Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, Cathy Come Home remains a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with social issues, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children.
Bandits of Orgosolo (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Banditi a Orgosolo
director: Vittorio De Seta actor: Michele Cossu / Peppeddu Cuccu
other title: Banditi a Orgosolo / Die Banditen von Orgosolo
A Sardinian peasant is implicated in the murder of a policeman and, although innocent, he doesn’t give himself up, lacking faith in the judicial system and fearing that he may lose his sheep while awaiting trial.
The Insect Woman (1963) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
にっぽん昆虫記
other title: Cronache entomologiche del Giappone / A Mulher Inseto
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Love Meetings (1965) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Comizi d'amore
other title: Comizi d'amore / Comícios de Amor
Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.
Assault on the Pay Train (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
O Assalto ao Trem Pagador
director: Roberto Farias actor: Eliezer Gomes / Reginaldo Faria
other title: O Assalto ao Trem Pagador / Assalto ao Trem Pagador
Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
other title: Crisis
During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, Alabama governor George Wallace, deputy attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach and the students Vivian Malone and James Hood. As Wallace has promised to personally block the two black students from enrolling in the university, the JFK administration discusses the best way to react to it, without rousing the crowd or making Wallace a martyr for the segregationist cause.

Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1999.
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
三匹の侍
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Isamu Nagato
other title: Tre samurai fuorilegge / Trois Samouraïs hors-la-loi
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
This Man Must Die (1969) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData
Que la bête meure
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Michel Duchaussoy / Caroline Cellier
other title: Ucciderò un uomo / Das Biest muß sterben
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
Beware of the Car! (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Берегись автомобиля
director: Eldar Ryazanov actor: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy / Oleg Efremov
other title: Incredibile signor Detockin / Vorsicht, Autodieb!
An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.
The Pawnbroker (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Pawnbroker
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Rod Steiger / Geraldine Fitzgerald
other title: L'uomo del banco dei pegni / Pantelåneren
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
The Dirty Dozen (1967) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Dirty Dozen
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Lee Marvin / Ernest Borgnine
other title: Quella sporca dozzina / Det beskidte dusin
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Marat/Sade (1967) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Marat/Sade
director: Peter Brook actor: Patrick Magee / Ian Richardson
other title: Marat-Sade / Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean-Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter der Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
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