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8.3
8
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo
Story: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
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La Dolce Vita (1960)
Log Lady's rating:
1217
8.3
8.3
The Apartment (1960)
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Story: A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Log Lady's rating:
1560
7.7
7.7
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Story: A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.
Log Lady's rating:
313
7.7
7.8
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Mimi Gibson
Story: A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.
Log Lady's rating:
326
7.8
7.8
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Director: Agnès Varda
Cast: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck
Story: We follow singer Cléo for two hours while she cruises through the streets of Paris, and waits for the test results from her doctor.
Log Lady's rating:
171
7.9
7.9
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
Story: An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Log Lady's rating:
1378
7.5
7.3
Director: Dennis Hopper
Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Phil Spector
Story: Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.
Log Lady's rating:
542
7.8
7.6
Director: Georges Franju
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob
Story: A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter Christiane, whose face has been entirely spoiled in a car crash.
Log Lady's rating:
532
7.4
7.4
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Story: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke, who stands to inherit the house, the mysterious and clairvoyant Theodora and the insecure Eleanor, whose psychic abilities make her feel somehow attuned to whatever spirits inhabit the old mansion.
Log Lady's rating:
561
7.8
7.6
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg
Story: An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.
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The Silence (1963)
Log Lady's rating:
346
8.1
7.9
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart
Story: After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Log Lady's rating:
221
7.9
8.1
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York
Story: Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Log Lady's rating:
458
7.8
7.8
The Innocents (1961)
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave
Story: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Log Lady's rating:
447
8
7.8
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Francoise Bertin
Story: Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Log Lady's rating:
640
8.1
8.1
Le Samourai (1967)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Périer, Cathy Rosier
Story: Things suddenly go badly for a successful French assassin.
Log Lady's rating:
666
7.8
7.9
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
Story: A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him.
Log Lady's rating:
1775
7.9
7.9
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman
Story: A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.
Log Lady's rating:
831
7.8
7.4
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Roger Dutoit
Story: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
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Band of Outsiders (1964), Breathless (1960), Contempt (1963), A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Log Lady's rating:
4207
8.3
8.5
Psycho (1960)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh
Story: A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.
Log Lady's rating:
185
7.8
7.7
Purple Noon (1960)
Director: René Clément
Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa
Story: Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
Log Lady's rating:
1056
8
7.7
Repulsion (1965)
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux
Story: Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a young beauty finds herself besieged on all sides by the demons of her past.
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Log Lady's rating:
121
7.3
7.2
Director: Jean Cocteau
Cast: Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Yul Brynner, María Casares
Story: The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.
Log Lady's rating:
828
8.1
8
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Maidie Norman
Story: In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.
Log Lady's rating:
910
8.1
8
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Story: A bitter aging couple with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
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