Movies: 2833

The American biographical neo-noir crime film, Bonnie and Clyde (1967), directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, follows the story of Texas natives Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. During the Great Depression, their paths cross when Clyde attempts to steal Bonnie’s mother’s car. Intrigued by him, Bonnie leaves her mundane job as a waitress to join him in a life of crime. Despite their initial excitement, their small-time heists do not bring in much profit. So they turn to robbing banks ...

Directed by Gordon Douglas, In Like Flint (1967) is an American spy fi comedy film. After witnessing the launch of a new space platform, Z.O.W.I.E. Chief Lloyd C. Cramden and President Trent take a break from their golf game. However, their leisure is cut short by the Fabulous Face organization, who attack Cramden and capture the president. The group’s plan is to control the world with a team of women in charge, starting with taking over a US space facility in the Virgin Islands. To do so, they set up a spa as a front for their activities. Using hair dryers equipped with tape recorders, they aim to brainwash their ...

Billion Dollar Brain (1967), a British spy film helmed by Ken Russell, is based on Len Deighton’s novel of the same name published in 1966. The protagonist, Harry Palmer, has recently left MI5 to take up work as a private detective. He receives a call from an artificial voice instructing him to deliver a package to Helsinki. Inside are six virus-infected eggs which have been stolen from a top-secret research facility in Porton Down. In Helsinki, he is greeted by Anya who then introduces him to Leo Newbigen, an old friend of Harry’s and Anya’s handler. ...

The film The Deadly Affair (1967) is a British spy movie based on John le Carré’s debut novel, Call for the Dead. Set in 1960s London, it follows MI5 agent Charles Dobbs as he investigates the supposed suicide of Samuel Fennan, a former Communist working for the Foreign Office. After Fennan’s death, Dobbs visits his widow and becomes suspicious about the circumstances of her husband’s passing. While at their home, Dobbs uncovers that Elsa lied about a wake-up call meant for her. As a Holocaust survivor, Elsa may hold valuable information about her husband’s death. Despite pressure from ...

You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth installment in the James Bond series, produced by Eon Productions. Starring Sean Connery as the iconic MI6 agent, this film marks the directorial debut of Lewis Gilbert. When an unidentified spaceship hijacks American NASA spacecraft Jupiter 16 from orbit, tensions rise between the United States and Soviet Union. However, due to the spacecraft’s landing in the Sea of Japan, British intelligence suspects Japanese involvement. To further investigate, James Bond is sent to Tokyo under a new identity after faking his own ...

Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967) is an American independent drama film written and directed by Martin Scorsese. The story follows J.R., a typical Catholic Italian-American young man navigating the streets of New York City. Even in adulthood, he remains close to a core group of friends with whom he enjoys drinking and partying. Things change when he meets a local girl on the Staten Island Ferry and decides he wants to settle down with her. However, despite their deepening relationship, he declines her advances for sex because he believes she is a virgin and wants to wait instead of ‘spoiling’ ...

Line of Demarcation (1966) is a war drama film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. It is based on the memoir Mémoires d’un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault. A small village in the Jura is divided by the river Loue, which serves as the boundary between occupied France and the free zone. A French officer named Pierre finds his chateau transformed into a German command center after being released by Nazi soldiers. While he must cooperate with the enemy, his wife Mary is ...

A Fine Madness (1966) is a Technicolor comedy-drama film directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Elliott Baker in 1964. The story centers around Samson Shillitoe, a poet living in Greenwich Village with his supportive wife Rhoda, who works as a waitress. However, Samson’s struggles with writer’s block lead to outbursts of aggression and sadness. On top of this, he is constantly pursued by a debt collector for unpaid alimony to his ex-wife and faces potential arrest if he does not pay up. His troubles escalate when he ...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is an Italian epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. Set in 1862 during the Civil War in the American Southwest, three bounty-hunters ambush Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez. Tuco manages to escape after shooting them all. Meanwhile, mercenary ‘Angel Eyes’ interrogates former Confederate soldier Stevens for information on a stolen cache of Confederate gold. After receiving a bribe and killing Stevens, Angel Eyes becomes intrigued by the gold and kills his own employer. In need of help, Tuco is rescued by an unnamed drifter, who he affectionately calls ...

Grand Prix (1966), an American sports drama film, was directed by John Frankenheimer and written by Robert Alan Aurthur. Set in the world of Formula One racing, it follows the journeys of four drivers as they navigate the high-stakes and danger of their profession. Alongside their racing exploits, we see the complicated relationships they have with the women in their lives. For example, Sarti engages in an affair with American journalist Louise Frederickson, who initially shows little interest in motorsports. Meanwhile, Aron has a fling with Stoddard’s unhappy wife ...

The French crime-thriller film, Second Wind (1966), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Lino Ventura, follows incarcerated gangster Gustave ‘Gu’ Minda. Known for his loyalty to the French underworld and refusal to give up his accomplices to the police, Gu escapes from prison and travels to Paris to visit his sister Manouche and her bodyguard Alban. Meanwhile, Manouche’s current boyfriend Jacques Ribaldi is killed in her restaurant by rival gangster Paul Ricci’s henchmen. Concerned for her safety, Paul’s brother Jo sends two men to ...

You’re a Big Boy Now (1966) is an American comedy film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on David Benedictus’ 1963 novel of the same name. Nineteen-year-old Bernard Chanticleer, known as ‘Big Boy’ to his parents, resides in Great Neck, New York with his overbearing mother and disapproving father, who is the curator of incunabula at the New York Public Library. Employed as a low-level assistant at the library, Bernard’s father decides it’s time for him to move into his own Manhattan apartment. His mother reluctantly ...

What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) is an American comedy film, marking Woody Allen’s first time directing a feature-length film. Using footage from the Japanese spy movie International Secret Police: Key of Keys (1965), Allen dubbed it with entirely new dialogue unrelated to the original plot. Along with adding new scenes, he also reorganized the sequence of existing scenes, creating a condensed version that ran for an hour instead of 93 minutes. The result was a complete transformation of the film’s tone – shifting it from a James ...

The American spy political thriller film, Torn Curtain (1966), was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It follows the story of Michael Armstrong, a US physicist and rocket scientist, as he travels to Copenhagen for a conference with his assistant and fiancée, Sarah Sherman. During the trip, Armstrong receives a radiogram instructing him to pick up a book in Copenhagen. The book contains a message that reads ‘Contact π in case of emergency’. Despite telling Sherman he is heading to Stockholm, she discovers he is actually flying to East Berlin and decides to follow him. When they arrive, Armstrong is greeted by ...

Our Man Flint (1966) is a humorous take on the popular James Bond film series. The director behind this spy-fi comedy was Daniel Mann. The protagonist, Derek Flint, is a former member of Z.O.W.I.E., or the Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage. He is called back into action when a global organization known as Galaxy, led by three deranged scientists (Doctor Krupov, Doctor Wu, and Doctor Schneider), threatens the world. These scientists are fed up with the state of world governments and demand that all nations surrender to Galaxy. In order to make their point clear, they use their climate-control technology to ...

Funeral in Berlin (1966), a British spy film directed by Guy Hamilton, is based on the novel of the same name by Len Deighton. It follows British secret agent Harry Palmer, who is sent to Berlin by his superior Colonel Ross to facilitate the defection of Colonel Stok, a prominent Soviet intelligence officer. To aid him in his mission, Palmer reconnects with an old friend and former criminal associate Johnny Vulkan, who now works for British intelligence in Berlin. Despite his initial skepticism, Palmer finds Stok to be eccentric and likeable when they meet in the Soviet ...

Moment to Moment (1966) is an American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Jean Seberg. Kay Stanton resides on the French Riviera with her husband Neil, a psychiatrist, and their son Tommy. During Neil’s absence, Kay meets Mark, an American naval ensign, and they engage in a secret relationship. Although Kay initially falls for Mark, she ultimately realizes that her true love is her husband. In a tragic twist of fate, Kay accidentally shoots Mark during an argument and with the assistance of her friend Daphne, disposes of his ...

For a Few Dollars More (1965) is a Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Leone. The notorious ‘Manco’ is a bounty hunter, much like his counterpart Colonel Douglas Mortimer, a former army officer. They each discover that the infamous ‘El Indio’ and his gang have escaped from prison after brutally murdering most of their jailers. Meanwhile, Indio is seen carrying a musical pocket watch that once belonged to a woman he raped and then killed her husband before she took her own life. This haunting incident leads him to smoke drugs in attempts to dull his memories. Planning to rob the Bank of El Paso ...

The psychological horror film, The Collector (1965), follows a socially-awkward young man named Freddie who purchases a 17th-century farmhouse with his football pools winnings. Amateur entomologist Freddie spends his time capturing butterflies and has amassed quite the collection. His obsession leads him to stalk Miranda Grey, a bourgeois London art student. One day, he follows her into a pub in Hampstead and abducts her on the street using chloroform. When Miranda wakes up, she finds herself in Freddie’s stone cellar, which he has furnished with a bed, clothing, painting tools, and an electric heater. Confused and fearful, she assumes she has been taken for ...

The British spy film, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), is based on John le Carré’s novel of the same name. MI6’s West Berlin office, headed by station chief Alec Leamas, has decreased in effectiveness. After one of his operatives dies, Leamas is called back to London and appears to be rejected from the agency. However, Control, the chief of MI6, has carefully orchestrated a transformation for Leamas. He takes on a new identity as an assistant at a local library and develops a relationship with Nan Perry, his co-worker and a member of the British Communist Party. Due to spending most of his salary on ...