Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (A Study In Scarlet, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four, The Blue Carbuncle) (1968)
- Feat. Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock
- One of the best to ever play Sherlock Holmes (formerly, in Hammer's HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES), Peter Cushing steps back into the shoes of the famed…
Shoes of the Fisherman, The (1968)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud…
- Anthony Quinn plays a Russian bishop who is elected Pope after twenty years in political asylum. Beautifully adorned best–seller adaptation.
Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo (TV Series) (1968)
- Iconic TV Series that put Australia on the map in the late 60s, featuring Skippy, the super–versatile kangaroo (who also cropped up on a…
Stanley Kubrick Collection (1968-1999)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
- An 10–disc collection of five iconic Stanley Kubrick pictures: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980),…
Star! (1968)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig…
- A commendably lavish biopic of the stage–comedienne Gertude Lawrence, who wooed the British stage in the first half of the 20th…
Stolen Kisses (Baisers Voles) (1968)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig
- Third film in the director's Antoine Doinel series (see also THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS) starring Jean–Pierre Leaud, here as a careless young man…
Sweet Charity (1968)
- Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Ricardo Montalban, John McMartin…
- Neil Simon's Broadway version of Fellini's NIGHTS OF CABIRIA makes a smashing musical film thanks to the director's razzamatazz, late 60's chic, and…
Theorem (Teorema) (1968)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti…
- A mysterious stranger seduces and corrupts each member of a bourgeois family. Pasolini stitches religious, social and political metaphors into his…
This Man Can't Die (1968)
- Dir. Gianfranco Baldanello
Feat. Guy Madison, Lucienne Bridou, Rik Battaglia
- Mean and gritty spaghetti western following a government agent hot on the trial of the rich boss who murdered his family.
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway
- Split–screen pyrotechnics accord this 60s–chic pastiche of exotic crime thriller and steamy romance. Steve McQueen is the…