Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Appaloosa, The (Southwest to Senora) (1966)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon…
- Minor, though well–crafted and photographed Western set around Brando's attempts to recover his prized horse from a Mexican bandit (Saxon).
Arabesque (1966)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Sophia Loren, Gregory Peck
- Whimsical spy shenanigans in London, with Anglo–Arab relations straining over the custody of a hieroglyphic code. Sophia Loren's extraordinary…
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Anne Wiazemsky, Francois Lafarge, Philippe Asselin
- Robert Bresson's immediately recognisable minimalist style is here lent to one of the few films whose central character is a donkey.
Batman (TV Series) (1966-1968)
- Feat. Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith…
- Batman and Robin, as many would best remember them, take on a succession of colourful Gotham City villains – Catwoman, The Joker, The Penguin,…
Batman: The Movie (1966)
- Dir. Leslie Martinson
Feat. Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether…
- Spawned from the original sixties TV series, this feature–length adventure pitting the caper crusader against his fiercest adversaries was the…
Before the Revolution (1966)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Adriana Asti, Francisco Barilli
- Bertolucci's second film – made at the age of 22! – demonstrates his bravura visual style fully formed around this coming of age in the…
Bible, The (1966)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, John Huston…
- A sincere, if not entirely successful, attempt to transpose the Old Testament to the screen – from Adam to Isaac. Appropriately grand and…
Black Girl (La Noire de...) (1966)
- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
- A French–Senegalese drama film and the directorial debut of Ousmane Sembene, often considered to be the first Sub–Saharan African film by…
Blue Max, The (1966)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. George Peppard, Anton Diffring, James Mason…
- Impressively staged, this WW1 actioner concerns the career of ace German combat pilot Bruno Stachel (Peppard). Although the human drama is fairly…
Catacombs (The Woman Who Wouldn't Die) (1966)
- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow
- A minor British thriller in which a domineering woman (Merrow), whose existence becomes inconvenient for her husband (Merrill) and a blackmailed…