Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Tintin and the Calculus Affair (1964)
- Dir. Raymond LeBlanc
- Full length animated feature sees Tintin, Captain Haddock and the gang go on a rescue mission to save Professor Calculus, who has been kidnapped for…
Topkapi (1964)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell…
- A classy comic–romantic spin on the director’s RIFIFI shot on location in Turkey and Greece, that climaxes with another brilliantly exacted…
Train, The (1964)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau…
- Burt Lancaster leads the French Resistance in stopping (or at least diverting) a train used by the Nazis to steal precious French art treasures in…
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo
- Gorgeous French musical with Catherine Deneuve, in her acting debut, one of its many pleasures. A bittersweet romantic story is allied to a lush…
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964)
- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Ed Begley, Harve Presnell
- Rags to riches musical based on the eventful life of Margaret Brown who survived flooding, snobbery and a trip on a boat called the Titanic. One of…
Visit, The (1964)
- Dir. Bernhard Wicki
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa
- Ms. Bergman is hypnotic as always in this revenge tale about a millionaire who returns to the village that drove her out as a pregnant teenager,…
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret
- Elvis Presley is paired with Ann–Margret in this rumbunctious Vegas–set musical.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) (1964)
- Feat. Richard Basehart, David Hedison
- A spin–off of Irwin Allen's 1961 underwater adventure movie about top–secret team sent below waters to battle enemies of…
What a Way to Go! (1964)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum…
- Stacked, big–budget comedy has fun at the expense of a cursed Shirley MacLaine: she plays a wealthy widow whose $200 million fortune has been…
What's Happening: The Beatles in the USA (The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit) (1964)
- Dir. David Maysles, Albert Maysles
Feat. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr…
- First aired for television, this all access fly–on–the–wall account of the Beatles first trip through the USA in February 1964 is a…