1960s

  • Ebrahim Golestan – Khesht va Ayeneh AKA Brick and Mirror (1965) (HD)

    Drama1961-1970Ebrahim GolestanIran

    Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him.Read More »

  • Bo Widerberg – Heja Roland! AKA Come on, Roland! (1966)

    1961-1970Bo WiderbergComedySweden

    Bo Widerberg’s one and only comedy!

    Young Roland wants to write. In desperate need for money, he takes job at an advertising agency. He ends up in a department that advertise cosmetics. He is commissioned to do market research of a new remedy for pimples.Read More »

  • Andrzej Zakrzewski – Szach i mat! (1967)

    1961-1970Andrzej ZakrzewskiFantasyHorrorPoland

    Short polish TV film made in 1967 by Andrzej Zakrzewski upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title. It was a part of the “Opowiesci niezwykle” (Incredible Stories).
    It tells a story of Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.Read More »

  • Yilmaz Atadeniz – Kilink uçan adama karsi aka Kilink Vs. Flying Man (1967)

    1961-1970CampCultTurkeyYilmaz Atadeniz

    Superman manages to locate Kilink’s hideout on a remote island in Turkey where his fiancé and her father are being held behind bars. Meanwhile, Kilink’s scientists finally manufacture a lethal destructive canon-like weapon that can blast away mountains. Superman arrives there as an ordinary man but is captured by Kilink and locked up with his woman and his future dad-in-law. Will Superman ever managed to escape and defeat the evil Kilink? Sadly, the second half of this film was destroyed decades ago so we only have various stills left with a narration for the viewers. Still, it is really worth it to see this film.Read More »

  • John Hayes – The Farmer’s Other Daughter (1965)

    1961-1970ComedyJohn HayesUSA

    IMDB wrote:
    Farmer Brown wants to sell his daughter, June, to the dastardly Cyrus P. Barksnapper in order to save his farm. But, Jim Huckleberry would like to to do some plowing with June himself. To help, he applies for financial aid, but the government screws up thinking he requested foreign aid.Read More »

  • Mervyn LeRoy – A Majority of One (1961)

    1961-1970ClassicsDramaMervyn LeRoyUSA

    Mrs. Jacoby, a Brooklyn widow whose only son was killed by the Japanese in World
    War II, reluctantly agrees to accompany her daughter, Alice, and her son-in-law, Jerry
    Black, on a trip to Japan, where Jerry is to help negotiate a trade agreement. En route by
    ship, Mrs. Jacoby’s resentment of the Japanese subsides when she meets Mr. Asano, a
    Japanese industrialist whose family also was struck by tragedy during the war. Their
    friendship ends, however, when Jerry suspects that Mr. Asano, who is also a
    negotiating member of the trade committee, is ingratiating himself with his mother-in-law
    for political gain.Read More »

  • Borivoj Zeman – Fantom Morrisvillu AKA The Phantom of Morrisville (1966)

    1961-1970Borivoj ZemanCzech RepublicMusicalMystery

    The Phantom of Morrisville is parody upon cheap crime mystery books. The story takes place on old mysterious english mansion. Its filled with typical pulp fiction characters who are grotesque just by themselves. The Movie starts in theatre where one of the musicians with easy part of Bizets Carmen opera reads crime story and identifies himself with noble Lord Hanibal Morris and his adventure. He is going to be married to beautiful Clarence but she has a terrible secret. Notorious villain Manuel Diaz is about to be executed but with help from his criminal buddys Dixi and Miki he is able to escape at the very last moment. Now he is on his way to Morrisville.Read More »

  • Carlos Enrique Taboada – El libro de piedra AKA The Book of Stone (1969)

    1961-1970Carlos Enrique TaboadaHorrorMexico

    Julia is hired to be the governess of a young girl, Sylvia, who has an emotionally distant father, Eugenio, and a new stepmother, Mariana. Sylvia insists that she plays with a little boy named Hugo – whom the adults all see is a stone statue in the courtyard. When strange things begin to happen (such as Mariana, whom Sylvia dislikes, experiencing strange pains) the adults begin to wonder if Hugo may be more than just an imaginary playmate.Read More »

  • Robert Stevenson – That Darn Cat! (1965)

    USA1961-1970ComedyMysteryRobert Stevenson

    Quote:
    When the irrepressible and always hungry D.C. (Darn Cat) turns up with a wristwatch for a collar, it becomes a tip-off to an unsolved robbery and kidnapping. You don’t know who’s tailing who as nosy neighbors, jealous boyfriends, and a highly allergic FBI agent play a game of cat and mouse to crack the baffling case.Read More »

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