Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
- Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
- Possibly the finest film of the British New Wave, Albert Finney burns up the screen as an ‘angry young man’ who grasps at weekend freedom from…
Savage Innocents, The (1960)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, Yoko Tani
- Curiously compelling ethnological drama from dir. Ray in which an eskimo (Quinn) wages an ongoing battle for survival in the Arctic environment and…
Shoot the Pianist (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger…
- Part homage to Hollywood film noir, part love story and part and parcel of the new wave, a down–on–his–luck pianist is drawn into…
Sink the Bismarck (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith…
- A no–nonsense depiction of the WW2 hunt by the British navy to destroy the German super–warship Bismarck.
Conveying both the allied…
Song Without End (1960)
- Dir. Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Genevieve Page, Capucine…
- Pleasant biopic of the great composer Franz Liszt which despite focusing mostly on his love affairs does boast a terrific score. This was Charles…
Sons and Lovers (1960)
- Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Trevor Howard, Dame Wendy Hiller…
- Richly photographed rendition of D.H. Lawrence's classic novel, in which the son of a coal–miner (Stockwell) struggles to find his path in the…
Spartacus (1960)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton…
- First–rate epic details the revolt of the ancient Roman slaves as led by Kirk Douglas in the title role. Production spares little expense but…
Strange World of Gurney Slade, The (TV Series) (1960)
- Feat. Anthony Newley
- An unpredictable, wildly inventive comedy where an actor (Anthony Newley) walks off the set of a banal sit–com and into an absurd fantasy world…
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
- Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs…
- Romantic drama adapted by Evan Hunter from his novel of the same name, about two married neighbours who have an affair.
Kirk Douglas plays the…
Sundowners, The (1960)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov…
- Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr play a devoted couple in 1920s Australia who come to a crossroads over their gypsy lifestyle. Affectionate saga about…