Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur
- The shipwrecked family prove as resourceful as the eponymous army–knife in their fight for survival against Mother Nature and dastardly…
Tall Story (1960)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins
- A young Jane Fonda makes her screen debut in this candy–coated comedy as a bubbly co–ed with romantic yearnings for basketballer Anthony…
Testament of Orpheus (Testament D'orphee) (1960)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Cocteau, Yul Brynner, Jean-Pierre Leaud…
- Cocteau's swansong is an intensely personal odyssey, with the director himself immersed in a world of his cumulative creation. Like a moving…
Thirteen Ghosts (1960)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow
- A nuclear family inherit a house haunted by a dozen ghosts of various colourful guises and some hidden stash. Trademark William Castle…
Tunes of Glory (1960)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price…
- Two colonels of a Scottish regiment – one convivial, one disciplinarian – face off in a battle of wills in this drama of peacetime…
Two Way Stretch (1960)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bernard Cribbins…
- Peter Sellers leads a jailbird trio whose plans for the ultimate heist are scuppered by the arrival of a staunch prison warden.
Unforgiven, The (1960)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster
- Audrey Hepburn plays an adopted ranchers daughter who becomes the focus of a racist furore when her Indian roots are discovered.
Village of the Damned (1960)
- Dir. Wolf Rilla
Feat. George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn…
- The original, superior version of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about a brood of malevolent blue–eyed kiddies born in an English…
Virgin Spring, The (1960)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow
- Bergman won his first Oscar for this brooding yet gripping medieval tale about a peasant couple who avenge the savage murderers of their daughter.
Wasp Woman, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark
- A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…