Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Mirage (1965)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau…
- An excellent example of the Hitchcockian thriller with Peck an amnesiac caught up in the murder of a philanthropist.
Nanny, The (1965)
- Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
- Bette Davis' stoney ambivalence is well employed in this Hammer production as the malevolent/misunderstood minder of a disturbed child who has been…
Once Before I Die (1965)
- Dir. John Derek
Feat. John Derek, Ursula Andress, Richard Jaeckel…
- Fairly substandard drama with a good premise set in the Philippines in 1941, where a column of Americans retreats before the advancing Japanese.…
Othello (1965)
- Dir. Stuart Burge
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith…
- Laurence Olivier transposes his stage performance of Othello for the screen with able supporting cast.
Outlaws Is Coming, The (1965)
- Dir. Norman Maurer
Feat. Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe De Rita
- In their last comic feature, the Three Stooges don cowboy hats for a slapstick romp in the Wild West.
Patch of Blue, A (1965)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
- Near flawless film about the friendship between a blind, uneducated girl and a black man she meets in the park, who becomes determined to help her…
Pawnbroker, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Rod Steiger
- Rod Steiger gives a career–best performance as a Jewish pawnbroker whose new life in Spanish Harlem conjures haunting images of his Nazi prison…
Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) (1965)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina
- A striking example of the French New Wave. It's kiss, kiss, bang, bang all the way with Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as maverick intellectual…
Rage to Live, A (1965)
- Dir. Walter Grauman
Feat. Suzanne Pleshette, Ben Gazzara
- Soapy melodrama starring Suzanne Pleshette as a young heiress who has a series of steamy relationships, undermining her wealthy family's reputation.…
Ride In the Whirlwind (1965)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell
- A low–budget western shot back–to–back with THE SHOOTING and although the lesser of the two, has a few gritty moments. The VHS tape…