Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Big Job, The (1965)
- Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. Sid James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery
- Classic comedy in the tradition of the 'CARRY ON' films centered around a group of arrested bankrobbers, who, after being released from prison, try…
Blindfold (1965)
- Dir. Philip Dunne
Feat. Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden…
- Rock Hudson stars in this wry thriller as a psycho–analyst caught up in an international spy plot after one of his patients knows more than…
Boeing, Boeing (1965)
- Dir. John Rich
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Thelma Ritter
- Comedy with Tony Curtis playing a philanderer who is secretly engaged to three different air stewardesses, and Jerry Lewis as the surprise house…
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier…
- Deeply eccentric chiller centred on the hunt for a missing child who the police begin to suspect may never have existed at all.
Both a finely…
Cast a Giant Shadow (1965)
- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson…
- Spectacular epic concerning the Israeli War of Independence in 1947–8, that like EXODUS somewhat romanticises events. Weaves a romance around…
Cat Ballou (1965)
- Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin
- Amusing spoof of the genre with Jane Fonda as a school–teacher who becomes an outlaw after her father's untimely death. Lee Marvin won an Oscar…
Catch Us If You Can (1965)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Dave Clark, Barbara Ferris, Lenny Davidson
- Surprisingly downbeat comedy vehicle for pop band the Dave Clark Five sees a stuntman (Clark) for a pro–meat commercial run away with its star…
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud…
- Orson Welles' late–career masterpiece in which one of the Bard's great supporting characters Falstaff is given his due through a series of…
Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Tuesday Weld…
- Memorable visit to the shady world of card–sharking in Depression–era America, with some excellent character acting from a great cast.
Collector, The (1965)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar
- Terence Stamp plays a disturbed butterfly collector who kidnaps a girl in the hope that she will grow to love him. Truly memorable chiller maintains…