91. trou, Le
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Becker
Actors: Marc Michel, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Michel Constantin, André Bervil
Plot: A group of four prisoners have been planning an elaborate escape when a young detainee is transferred in while another cell block is repaired. The men must decide whether this fresh face can be trusted with their carefully-constructed plan.
92. Birdman of Alcatraz
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Telly Savalas, Edmond O'Brien
Plot: As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother's impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.
93. Jules and Jim ( Jules et Jim )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Anny Nelsen, Vanna Urbino, Boris Bassiak
Plot: The tragicomic story of two best friends in love with the same enigmatic
woman plays out over the years from the early 1900s to post-WWI.
94. Zulu
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cy Endfield
Actors: Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Nigel Green
Plot: Zulu is the story of Rorkes Drift which was a small British mission post which was held by less than 150 soldiers against overwhelming numbers of Zulus in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.
95. Eclipse ( eclisse, L' )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Louis Seigner, Lilla Brignone, Rosanna Rory
Plot: Vittoria breaks away from her engagement following a troubled night. Meeting with her mother, who is obsessed with the stock market, she finds the broker Piero and they connect, but his materialistic nature means the relationship will never succeed.
96. The Sword in the Stone
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Sebastian Cabot, Rickie Sorensen, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews, Ginny Tyler, Martha Wentworth
Plot: A humble young squire named Arthur allies himself with the powerful magician Merlin and discovers his destiny. No one would have guessed that a sword trapped in a churchyard stone would transform Arthur into England's next king.
97. Shame ( Skammen )
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Sigge Fürst, Gunnar Björnstrand, Birgitta Valberg, Hans Alfredson
Plot: Ingmar Bergman's reflection on war and how the psychological impact affects a couple trying to live their lives on a rural island.
98. The Sons of Katie Elder
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Dennis Hopper, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr., Earl Holliman
Plot: With their mother gone, the Elder brothers return to Clearwater, TX for the funeral. The eldest boy, a gunfighter, has trouble follow wherever he goes. Yet the boys have a mission - to get back the family farm their father lost in card game (and shortly after, wound up murdered). But the troubles that come with the Elder name are certain to complicate things.
99. Becket
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Glenville
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Paolo Stoppa, Pamela Brown, Siân Phillips
Plot: Based on the historical clash between Henry II and Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, this story shows how badly nepotism can actually go when one can't fire an appointee. Henry needs to appoint a replacement to the recently deceased Archbishop and, in an effort to bring the Church and his monarchy into closer alignment (with his direction, of course), Henry appoints his old friend to the post. Things go wrong when Becket pursues the will of God instead of his King's.
100. Army of Shadows ( armée des ombres, L' )
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Paul Meurisse, Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Mann, André Dewavrin
Plot: A leader of the French resistance is betrayed and captured. After
surviving his tormentors and escaping, he returns to Marseilles to find
and execute the traitor.
