1960s
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Mothra (1961) TMDB WikiData IMDb
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
1960s WatchParty Western LeeVanCleef WestWed
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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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Fail Safe (1964) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fail Safe
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Henry Fonda / Walter Matthau …
other title: A prova di errore / Fejl-sikker …
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
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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
Japan SciFi WatchParty Kaiju 1960s
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The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
獨臂刀
director: Chang Cheh actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Lisa Chiao Chiao …
other title: Mantieni l'odio per la tua vendetta / A Raiva do Tigre …
A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.
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Night and Fog in Japan (1960) NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
日本の夜と霧
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
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The Producers (1968) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
The Producers
director: Mel Brooks actor: Zero Mostel / Gene Wilder …
other title: Per favore, non toccate le vecchiette! / Forår for Hitler …
Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
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The War Game (1966) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The War Game
director: Peter Watkins actor: Michael Aspel / Kathy Staff …
other title: La Bombe / El juego de la guerra
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Birdman of Alcatraz
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Burt Lancaster / Karl Malden …
other title: L'uomo di Alcatraz / Manden fra Alcatraz …
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) IMDb TMDB Douban DeaDvey's Reviews NeoDB WikiData
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.1 (14 ratings) director: Stanley Kubrick actor: Peter Sellers / George C. Scott …
other title: Il dottor Stranamore, ovvero: come ho imparato a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bomba / Dr. Strangelove - eller Hvordan jeg lærte at glemme mine bekymringer og elske bomben …
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
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One-Eyed Jacks (1961) TMDB IMDb WikiData
One-Eyed Jacks
director: Marlon Brando actor: Marlon Brando / Karl Malden …
other title: I due volti della vendetta / Når mænd hader …
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
6.2 (5 ratings) director: Jacques Demy actor: Catherine Deneuve / Nino Castelnuovo …
other title: Pigen med paraplyerne / Os Chapéus de Chuva de Cherburgo …
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
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Magnet of Doom (1963) TMDB IMDb
L'Aîné des Ferchaux
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / Charles Vanel …
other title: Lo sciacallo / L'Aîné des Ferchaux …
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.