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La Dolce Vita (1960) film poster

La Dolce Vita (1960)

Fellini's 1960 Rome decadence drama. Three hours of Marcello Mastroianni drifting through high society.

8½ (1963) film poster

8½ (1963)

Fellini's 1963 self-portrait. Mastroianni as a director who can't make his next film.

Le Samouraï (1967) film poster

Le Samouraï (1967)

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

Breathless (1960) film poster

Breathless (1960)

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

Harakiri (1962) film poster

Harakiri (1962)

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

High and Low (1963) film poster

High and Low (1963)

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

Yojimbo (1961) film poster

Yojimbo (1961)

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

The Exterminating Angel (1962) film poster

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

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

Dr. Strangelove (1964) film poster

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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

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.

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) film poster

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

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

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.