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Top Films of the 1960s (Calculated)

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Band of Outsiders (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Bande à part
7.7 (6 ratings) director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Anna Karina / Claude Brasseur
other title: Bando à Parte / Die Außenseiterbande
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory — which could be just what they want.
Hamlet (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban
Гамлет
other title: Amleto / Гамлет
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
Oliver! (1968) [Movie] TMDB Douban
Oliver!
director: Carol Reed actor: Ron Moody / Shani Wallis
other title: Oliver ! / Oliver
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
The Hour of the Furnaces (1968) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
La hora de los hornos
director: Fernando E. Solanas / Octavio Getino actor: María de la Paz / Fernando E. Solanas
other title: L'ora dei forni / L'Heure des brasiers
An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent.

• Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographic, and economic analysis of Argentina.
• Part II: An Act For Liberation examines the ten-year reign of Juan Perón (1945-55) and the activities of the Peronist movement after his fall from power.
• Part III: Violence and Liberation studies the role of violence in the national liberation process and constitutes a call for action.
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Memorias del subdesarrollo
other title: Memorie del sottosviluppo / Mémoires du sous-développement
In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana. He finally meets Elena, a young girl he seeks to mould into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
Divorce Italian Style (1961) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban IMDb
Divorzio all'italiana
director: Pietro Germi actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Daniela Rocca
other title: Divorzio all'italiana / Scheidung auf italienisch
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.
Pale Flower (1964) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
乾いた花
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Mariko Kaga
other title: Fiore secco / Fleur pâle
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Salesman (1969) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Salesman
director: David Maysles / Albert Maysles actor: Paul Brennan / Charles McDevitt
This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.
The Great Silence (1968) [Movie] TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
Il grande silenzio
director: Sergio Corbucci actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant / Klaus Kinski
other title: Il grande silenzio / Leichen pflastern seinen Weg
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
Elmer Gantry (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Elmer Gantry
director: Richard Brooks actor: Burt Lancaster / Jean Simmons
other title: Il figlio di Giuda / O Falso Profeta
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Léon Morin, Priest (1961) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Léon Morin, prêtre
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / Emmanuelle Riva
other title: Leon Morin prete / Léon Morin, prêtre
The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to baptize her and chooses priest Léon Morin to do so. After spending some time with him, the relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. 
The Longest Day (1962) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
The Longest Day
director: Ken Annakin / Bernhard Wicki actor: John Wayne / Robert Mitchum
other title: Il giorno più lungo / Den længste dag
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Placido (1962) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban
Plácido
other title: Plácido
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.
Hasta el último aliento (1966) [Movie] TMDB
Le Deuxième Souffle
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Lino Ventura / Paul Meurisse
other title: Tutte le ore feriscono... l'ultima uccide / O Segundo Fôlego
Gustave Manda es un peligroso criminal que, después de escapar de prisión, va a París para reunirse con sus socios y se ve envuelto en una matanza entre bandas rivales. Antes de abandonar el país, Gu necesita dar un último golpe para conseguir dinero, pero es perseguido por el inspector Blot.
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
গুপী গাইন বাঘা বাইন
director: Satyajit Ray actor: Tapan Chatterjee / Rabi Ghosh
other title: Les Aventures de Goopy et Bagha / Las aventuras de Goopy y Bagha
Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne are banished from their respective villages for being bad musicians. However, with their skills, they succeed in pleasing the king of ghosts who grants them three boons. How will they succeed in preventing the war between Halla and Shundi which is looming large?
Mamma Roma (1962) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
Mamma Roma
director: Pier Paolo Pasolini actor: Anna Magnani / Ettore Garofolo
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Funny Girl (1968) [Movie] TMDB
Funny Girl
director: William Wyler actor: Barbra Streisand / Omar Sharif
other title: Funny Girl - A Garota Genial / Una chica divertida (Funny Girl)
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
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