121. Two Women ( ciociara, La )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi, Pupella Maggio
Plot: An Italian woman and her teenage daughter are alone in the waning days of WWII. They are trying to survive; trying to find a safe place. They are both raped by allied Moroccan soldiers and left to die.
122. Ride the High Country
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Warren Oates, John Anderson
Plot: The Western that showcases some of the best work of the Director (Peckinpah), and its two stars (Scott and MacRea). Two aging former lawmen are hired to transport gold from the minefields to a city bank. One of them has a plan to steal the gold and when he can't convince his partner that they take the gold as payment for a lifetime of thankless duty, he takes it himself. His redemption and the wonderful details that show the men trying to confront their growing irrelevance in a changing world make for a moving film. This is a good primer for the director's masterpiece with the same theme, The Wild Bunch.
123. The Hill
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear
Plot: In a British disciplinary camp in the middle of the Libyan desert, Staff
Sergeant Williams delights in persecuting his prisoners by constantly
making them climb a man-made hill in the middle of the camp. Five new
prisoners arrive and will deal with authority in their own ways.
124. In Cold Blood
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, Paul Stewart
Plot: Two poverty stricken men set a plan to murder a rich Kansas family to take their money and escape to Mexico as the law catches up with them. Based on a true story.
125. Last Year at Marienbad ( année dernière à Marienbad, L' )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville, Héléna Kornel
126. Oliver!
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Carol Reed
Actors: Oliver Reed, Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Harry Secombe
Plot: A group of orphans learn to be pick pockets to survive in the slums of
inner city London.
127. Through a Glass Darkly ( Såsom i en spegel )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård
Plot: A story revolves around four characters namely Karin, a schizophrenic, her loving husband Martin, sexuality depraved brother Minus and self-absorbed, callous David.
128. The Train
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Albert Rémy
Plot: A railroad boss and the French Resistance join forces in Paris during the
German occupation, to thwart the Germans' plan.
129. Music Room, The ( Jalsaghar )
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Chhabi Biswas, Padmadevi, Pinaki Sengupta, Gangapada Basu, Tulsi Chakraborty , Kali Sarkar
Plot: Biswambhar Roy is the last of a dying breed of zamindar - a landlord whose diminishing returns will spell doom. But despite his dwindling money, he still enjoys lavish parties and spectacles, especially in his music room and if he has to go out, he will do so in the most imaginative way possible.
130. Advise & Consent
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Otto Preminger
Actors: Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Gene Tierney, Franchot Tone, Walter Pidgeon
