Directed by John Frankenheimer • 1962 • United States
Starring Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey

The name John Frankenheimer became forever synonymous with heart-in-the-throat filmmaking when this quintessential sixties political thriller was released. Set in the early fifties, ...

Directed by Samuel Fuller • 1963 • United States
Starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans

In SHOCK CORRIDOR, the great American writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and madness. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Pe...

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich • 1968 • United States
Starring Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Peter Bogdanovich

Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescie...

Directed by Robert Aldrich • 1962 • United States
Starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono

Two icons of Hollywood’s golden age, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, take their famous feud on-screen in Robert Aldrich’s no-holds-barred classic of Grande Dame Guignol. In fierce, fearless perform...

Directed by Robert Rossen • 1964 • United States
Starring Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda

The final film directed by Robert Rossen (THE HUSTLER) is a fascinating anomaly: a psychodrama influenced by European art cinema and awash in a mood of otherworldly mystery. Upon returning to his sm...

Directed by Mike Nichols • 1966 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal

Mike Nichols’s taboo-shattering adaptation of Edward Albee’s groundbreaking Broadway play rips the façade of civility off the dysfunctional marriage between an alcoholic college professor (Ric...

Directed by Richard Brooks • 1967 • United States
Starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe

Truman Capote’s best seller, a breakthrough narrative account of real-life crime and punishment, became an equally chilling film in the hands of writer-director Richard Brooks. Cast for their uns...

Directed by John Frankenheimer • 1966 • United States
Starring Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph

Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. SECONDS, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged banker who, dissatisfi...

Directed by John Boorman • 1967 • United States
Starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn

With this fractured, coolly minimalist thriller, director John Boorman reimagined the film noir for a new era of Hollywood filmmaking. Lee Marvin stars as Walker, a gangster shot “point blank” and l...

Directed by Timothy Carey • 1962 • United States
Starring Timothy Carey, Gil Barreto, Betty Rowland

Timothy Carey—the unforgettable character actor whose weird, wiggy energy brought a manic edge to classics like THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY—wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this outrag...

Directed by Hubert Cornfield • 1962 • United States
Starring Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk

A young psychiatrist (Peter Falk), exasperated by his failed attempts to help a Black patient who hates whites, asks to be reassigned. In a story told in flashback, his seasoned superior (Sidney ...

Directed by Noel Black • 1968 • United States
Starring Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland

“I met you on Monday, fell in love with you on Tuesday, Wednesday I was unfaithful, Thursday we killed a guy together. How about that for a crazy week?” Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld make for...

Directed by William Conrad • 1965 • United States
Starring Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews

This tense, moody noir thriller opens with a bang as young scientist Jim Grayam (Jeffrey Hunter) comes upon a woman (Anne Francis) passed out in a car on the railroad tracks as a train hurtles t...

Directed by Arthur Penn • 1966 • United States
Starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford

One year before his BONNIE AND CLYDE ushered in a new era of adventurous Hollywood filmmaking, Arthur Penn directed this all-star melodrama about a Southern town in the clutches of corruption, adapt...

Directed by Jules Dassin • 1968 • United States
Starring Julian Mayfield, Ruby Dee

In the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, a band of black activists in Cleveland begin arming themselves for revolution. But when the unstable Tank (Julian Mayfield), increasingly uncomfortable wit...

Directed by John Cassavetes • 1968 • United States
Starring John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Gena Rowlands

John Cassavetes puts a disintegrating marriage under the microscope in the searing FACES. Shot in high-contrast 16 mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of the captain of indust...