Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
Le Trou (The Hole; The Night Watch) (1960)
- Dir. Jacques Becker
Feat. Marc Michel
- Classic, noir–ish prison suspense in the mould of A MAN ESCAPED and RIFIFI chronicles an ambitious tunnel escape. Sparse and tense.
League of Gentlemen, The (1960)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes…
- A high–class league of British actor gents – Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Roger Livesy and others – conspire…
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stephane Audran
- An early comedy from French new wave director Claude Chabrol (LE BOUCHER), following four single Parisian women as they encounter the romantic…
Let's Make Love (1960)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand
- An under–rated Marilyn Monroe comedy with Yves Montand as a millionaire who joins her theatre company, then hires a host of real–life…
Light Up the Sky! (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Benny Hill, Dick Emery…
- Ian Carmichael leads an inept searchlight unit during in this bumbling and occasionally tragic wartime comedy. Larrikins Benny Hill and Tommy Steele…
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson
- Hammy black comedy about that ferocious, carnivorous plant named Audrey. A Corman quickie, shot in two days, still remains one of his best, plus it…
Lola (1960)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel
- Irresistible 'New Wave' confection breezily spins its romantic tale around the alluring presence of Anouk Aimee, here a cheery cabaret–dancer…
Long and the Short and the Tall, The (1960)
- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris…
- A taut WW2 drama, based on a stageplay, set around a dysfunctional British patrol caught out behind enemy lines in Burma.
Hinging on the treatment…
Lost World, The (1960)
- Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison…
- Fantasy adventure based loosely on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel in which an expedition of scientists and adventurers explore a remote plateau in the…
Magnificent Seven, The (1960)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson…
- Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson head other famous faces–to–be in this popular remake of Kurosawa's THE SEVEN SAMURAI.