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The Hero (1966) IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
নায়ক
director: Satyajit Ray actor: Uttam Kumar / Sharmila Tagore …
other title: Nayak: The Hero / Le Héros …
Arindam, a matinee idol, is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by Aditi, a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.
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Strongroom (1962) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Strongroom
director: Vernon Sewell actor: Colin Gordon / John Chappell …
other title: La camera blindata
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.
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When one of Nick's old friends, Mariano Montoya, comes through town on his way to sell his cattle, trouble hits in the form of deadly anthrax. The man's cattle begin to die off and it seems as though they will have to shoot them all, killing as well Mariano's dreams for the money. Until Eugene tells them of something called immunization, which he believes will work. Mariano isn't so sure however and tells them that to prove it works, the Barkleys must first try it on their own prize bull!The bull collapses and it looks as though it has been killed but then it moves and gets up, it works!! Mariano's herd is saved!
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Two-Way Stretch (1960) IMDb WikiData
Two-Way Stretch
director: Robert Day actor: Peter Sellers / Wilfrid Hyde-White …
other title: Un alibi (troppo) perfetto / Spjældet tur-retur …
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
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Mothra (1961) TMDB IMDb WikiData
モスラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Frankie Sakai / Hiroshi Koizumi …
other title: Mothra bedroht die Welt / MOTHRA …
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
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The Big Valley - S01E10 - The Murdered Party

Jarrod defends a man accused of murder, even though the only witness is his own brother, Heath!!
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The Rifleman - S05E05 - Death Never Rides Alone

A gunslinger rides into North Fork for a meeting with Lucas.
Jan. 8, 2026 watched
Tense episode as old acquaintance/notorious gunslinger Johnny Draco (Lee Van Cleef) comes into town

Watched in #WestWed watch party on Mastodon
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Ship of the Monsters (1960) IMDb WikiData TMDB
La nave de los monstruos
director: Rogelio A. González actor: Eulalio González / Ana Bertha Lepe …
other title: La nave dei mostri / La nave de los monstruos
A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) IMDb Douban NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB NeoDB Test 兜伴 WikiData
2001: A Space Odyssey
8.8 (47 ratings) director: 斯坦利·库布里克 actor: 凯尔·杜拉 / Gary Lockwood …
other title: 2001: Odissea nello spazio / Rumrejsen år 2001 …
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
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The X from Outer Space (1967) TMDB IMDb WikiData
宇宙大怪獣ギララ
director: Kazui Nihonmatsu actor: Shunya Wazaki / Itoko Harada …
other title: Odissea sulla Terra / Guila - Frankensteins Teufelsei …
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
Nov. 24, 2025 watched
Space gorditas, space spores, space bossa nova: this movie's got it all!

Watched in #MonsterMiru #WatchParty on Mastodon after #Monsterdon
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Night and Fog in Japan (1960) NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
日本の夜と霧
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Miyuki Kuwano / Fumio Watanabe …
other title: Notte e nebbia in Giappone / Nacht und Nebel über Japan …
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Nov. 22, 2025 to watch "A film about the failure of left-wing anti-imperialists. '16 years later, nothing much had changed,' to quote a more recent one on the same theme... Highly theatrical and innovative." 4/5
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Japan 1960s Drama