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Breathless (1960) film poster

Breathless (1960)

Godard's 1960 French New Wave debut. Belmondo and Seberg in Paris.

Le Samouraï (1967) film poster

Le Samouraï (1967)

Melville's 1967 French crime film. Alain Delon as the hitman in trench coat and fedora.

Yojimbo (1961) film poster

Yojimbo (1961)

Kurosawa's 1961 samurai-noir. Mifune as the masterless ronin who plays two factions against each other.

High and Low (1963) film poster

High and Low (1963)

Kurosawa's 1963 kidnapping procedural. Mifune as the shoe executive.

Harakiri (1962) film poster

Harakiri (1962)

Kobayashi's 1962 anti-samurai film. The most ruthless dismantling of bushido ever committed to film.

Dr. Strangelove (1964) film poster

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire. Sellers in three roles, Scott as Buck Turgidson.

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) film poster

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Leone's 1968 spaghetti western. Bronson, Fonda as the villain, Cardinale.

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) film poster

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Frankenheimer's 1962 prison biopic. Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud.

Cool Hand Luke (1967) film poster

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Rosenberg's 1967 prison drama. The chain gang sequence, the egg-eating contest, the broken man at the end.

The Exterminating Angel (1962) film poster

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

Buñuel's 1962 surrealist drama. The Catholic Church, capitalism, ritual.

The Day of the Triffids (1962) film poster

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

The Day of the Triffids is the British apocalypse film about ambulatory carnivorous plants invading a world that has been blinded by a comet. Steve Sekely directed most of the film, with Freddie Francis uncredited for the lighthouse subplot.

Barbarella (1968) film poster

Barbarella (1968)

Barbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, a forty-first-century astronaut sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose Positronic Ray weapon…