Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Kuroneko (1968)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi
- Visually exquisite black and white horror film from Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA). An adaptation of a supernatural folktale set during…
Lady in Cement (1968)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker…
- Second–tier detective flick with Ol' Blue Eyes as a private dick hired to find the murderer of a beautiful young woman found underwater,…
Land of the Giants (TV Series) (1968-1970)
- Feat. Gary Conway, Don Marshall
- Irwin Allen's long lost sci–fi adventure for the ages finally comes to DVD! In the future (1983), a spaceship of travellers crash lands on a…
Lion in Winter, The (1968)
- Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn
- An acting feast for Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn (who won an Oscar) as tempestuous King Henry II and his estranged wife who fiercely…
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, Rudy Vallee
- Another musical comedy pairing director Norman Taurog with The King. Elvis plays a playboy pin–up photographer whose carefree life is…
Long Ride From Hell, A (Vivo per la tua Morte) (1968)
- Dir. Camillo Bazzoni
Feat. Steve Reeves, Wayde Preston
- An overlooked, tough–minded Spaghetti Western featuring the legendary Steve "Hercules" Reeves in his final screen performance, this tells the…
Magus, The (1968)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen…
- A difficult, if beguiling adaptation of John Fowles’ supposedly unfilmable novel about a troubled schoolteacher (Caine) who arrives on a Greek…
Mandabi (The Money Order) (1968)
- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
- The first significant film to be made in an African language (Wolof), directed by the 'father of African cinema', Ousmane Sembène.
The title…
Mayerling (1968)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason…
- Austrian Crown–Prince Omar Sharif neglects the business of running the 19th Century Hapsburg empire, to have a secretive and ill–fated…
Milky Way, The (1968)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny…
- Bunuel experiments with narrative in relating theories of traditional Catholicism to the encounters of two wandering vagrants.